This Project will organize and provide marketing, development and financing services to commercial, industrial, and municipal sector energy users to implement energy efficiency (EE) equipment installations (“sub-projects”), including those using high efficiency natural gas equipment.

The objective of the proposed project is to achieve a sustained increase in energy efficiency of electricity and natural gas use for most sectors, and in the process lower the trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions from Argentina.

[From Oct 2004 submission: China uses DDT as intermediate for the production of Dicofol, an organochlorine used as miticide for a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and crops. This usage of DDT - an accepted specific exemption under the SC - presently leads to Dicofol with 10% DDT as "impurity". Clearly unacceptably high, and not in line with the international standard adopted by China in 2003 of 0.1 %. Dicofol itself is not without risk. Its close structural relationship with DDT explains that it is toxic, rather persistent and bioaccumulative, and a suspected endocrine disruptor.

The project aims to build on the results and significant tradition of scientific work in the Lake Balaton region, recently initiated research in Hungary focused on adaptation to climate change, as well as innovative approaches to integrated assessment of vulnerability to global change and the formulation of adaptive measures. The ultimate goal is to facilitate the development and implementation of effective adaptive strategies.

Jordan's natural resources are very limited since only 5% of the land is arable and it is one of the most water deficit countries in the world. The primary objective of the baseline project is to increase food security and income levels of resource poor households, to be achieved by an integrated program comprising soil and water conservation activities to arrest soil degradation, restore soil fertility and improve sustainable agricultural production, and credit program to provide alternative income sources, mostly for women.

The developmental objective of the baseline project is to protect pastoral resources in the arid and semi arid high plateaus of Morocco while improving the rural livelihoods of the poor. The global objective is to combat desertification, mitigate the impacts of land degradation, and conserve natural ecosystem integrity of Rangelands of the Eastern Region of Morocco.

The GoC is seeking pipeline entry for the current Concept to complete the sequentially phased intervention, in recognition of the critical role that GEF support and technical assistance from UNDP can provide in enabling them to advance these sectoral reforms. The proposed FSP would promote operational changes within the tourism, fisheries and agriculture sectors to ensure biodiversity conservation across the sea and landscape that make up 80% of the archipelago.

This project would address the closely inter-linked threats to Guangxi’s natural forests, watersheds and biodiversity through an integrated approach to managing all these natural resources at the landscape level. Its development and global environment outcomes will be to improve the supply, management, sustainability, and environmental condition of the forest resources in Guangxi Autonomous Region and to conserve its globally significant biodiversity.

The objective of the proposed project-a pilot-is to consolidate two priority protected areas in El Salvador thereby contributing to the rationalization and long-term sustainability of the protected areas system. Specifically, the project would develop and pilot-test mechanisms for the regularization of communities in and near two priority environmentally sensitive lands (as long as those residents abide by use limitations established in broadly consulted management plans) as part of a long-term comprehensive and sustainable development plan for those pilot areas.

This project seeks to strengthen Turkmenistan’s national system of protected areas by demonstrating effective biodiversity conservation in Turkmenistan’s Khazar Nature Reserve (Khazar) on the Caspian Sea coast. The strategy proposed in this project is intended to demonstrate state-of-the-art methods and practices aimed at addressing these issues at the country’s largest protected area Khazar Natures Reserve assess the effectiveness of their application and identify best practices, and then replicate these practices and methods at other sites within the National System of Protected Areas.