To contribute to the restoration and maintenance of critical landscapes to provide global environmental benefits and enhanced resilient economic development and livelihoods, in support of the Bonn Challenge.

The project development objective of this additional financing (AF) is the same as that of the parent project: to enhance tools for climate-smart planning and improve climate resilience of land and water management practices in selected provinces of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. The GEF grant aims to help strengthen research capacity, and innovation to build climate resilience of key livelihoods, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Project provinces.

Promote landscape restoration and mainstream sustainable land management, forestry and biodiversity conservation into land-use planning and agricultural production practices in the Rora Habab Plateau in Eritrea

To enhance rural productivity and ecosystems services in the Central Dry Zone forest reserves through integrated approaches to natural resources management (NRM)

To strengthen national policy and institutional capacity for implementing peatland related strategies and plans and to enhance integrated sustainable peatland management in targeted landscapes

Mainstream species conservation into productive landscapes and sectors

To protect globally significant biodiversity and implement policies to foster sustainable land use and restoration of native vegetation cover

Enabling the application of feasible renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies for achieving greenhouse gas emission reduction in PNG

Assist Lao to prepare and submit iNDCs

Development of National Action Plans to reduce the use of mercury and mercury compounds in, and the emissions and releases to the environment of mercury from, artisanal and small-scale gold mining and processing is facilitated by the use of scientific and technical knowledge and tools by national stakeholders in participating countries.