Demonstrating Sustainable Conservation of Biodiversity in Four Protected Areas in Russia's Kamchatka Oblast, Phase 2

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The project goal is to secure the globally significant biodiversity values of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Its immediate objective is to demonstrate approaches for sustainable and replicable conservation of biodiversity in four different existing protected areas as a model for a sustainable system of protected areas in Kamchatka.

Developing Incentives for Community Participation in Forest Conservation through the Use of Commercial Insects in Kenya

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Overall Goal: The national protected area system of forest reserves is strengthened through improved incentives for real collaborative forest management with communities. Objective: To demonstrate in three different forest sites that the biodiversity of Kenya’s forest protected area system can be maintained through collaborative management systems using incentives based on income from commercial insects.

Building the Local Capacity for Promoting Energy Efficiency in Private and Public Buildings

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The objective of the project is to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the energy use of private and public buildings in Bulgaria (including the premises of the local SMEs) by improving the efficiency of their energy use.

Barrier Removal to Namibian Renewable Energy Programme (NAMREP), Phase II

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This is the second phase of the NAMREP program. The project will help to reduce the barriers for the development of the demand for solar technologies and thus mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by addressing institutional, information, human capacity, financial, technical, awareness and other market barriers to increased use of solar energy services by urban and rural households, government institutions, NGO facilities, beverage retailers, communal and commercial farmers.

Demonstration of Fuel Cell Bus Commercialization in China, Phase 2

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The goal of the project is to reduce GHG emissions and air pollution through widespread commercial introduction of FCBs in urban areas of China. The objective of this project is to demonstrate the operational viability of FCBs and their refueling infrastructure under Chinese conditions.

Building Partnerships to Assist Developing Countries to Reduce the Transfer of Harmful Aquatic Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water (GloBallast Partnerships)

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The overall objective of GloBallast Partnerships is to promote the development of regional partnerships that will implement coordinated long-term measures to minimize the adverse impacts of aquatic invasive species transferred through ships’ ballast water on coastal and marine ecosystems, economy, human health and well-being in accordance with the relevant IMO international Convention.

Control of Eutrophication, Hazardous Substances and Related Measures for Rehabilitating the Black Sea Ecosystem: Tranche 2

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The overall objective of the BSERP is to support participating countries in the development of national policies and legislation and the definition of priority actions to avoid that discharge of nitrogen and phosphorus to the Black Sea exceed those levels as observed in 1997. This will require countries to adopt strategies and measures that permit economic development whilst ensuring the rehabilitation of coastal and marine ecosystems through pollution control and reduction of nutrients and hazardous substances.