The project will promote the adoption of renewable energy by privately-owned and operated solar photovoltaic equipment supply and service operations. Barrier removal activities will address: insufficient information about the real PV market; high risk for rural credit providers; limited technological know-how and institutional capacity; and inadequate regulations.

The GEF will finance the incremental costs of programs and investments needed to conserve biodiversity in Caucasus forest ecosystems.

The project will promote conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, and more equitable sharing of benefits accruing from forest resources in one of the world’s last remaining extensive tracts of tropical rainforest. The project will improve forest management, promote the environmental sustainability of forest harvests and implement a strategy to promote conservation and small-scale sustainable-use enterprises in biodiversity-rich areas.

The proposed project deals with understanding the role of coastal seas in the carbon cycle and the impact of eutrophication in carbon sequestration. The emphasis of the project is on gathering a significant number of empiric estimates through workshops and training on the use of simple models in developing countries. This effort will produce preliminary conclusions on the role of anthropogenic impacts on the carbon source/sink characteristics using exemplary cases.

This project will assist the national Government to meet its obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity.

This project will assist the national Government to meet its obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity.

This project will assist the national Government to meet its obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity.

The project will assist Indonesia and its neighboring countries in coordinating their regional efforts to mitigate the short-term impacts of forest fires. It aims to develop a national and regional strategy and adopt appropriate concrete measures to combat forest fires, including the establishment of an early warning system, building on existing capacities.

Advances in lighting technology have created new products (such as compact fluorescent lamps or CFLs) which promise significant economic and environmental benefits through large increases in energy efficiency. In many developing countries, these new, efficient lighting products still face significant barriers to wide-spread acceptance.

Tunisia’s Agency for Energy Management (AME) has estimated that total energy consumption in Tunisia will increase from 4.3 Mtoe in 1996 to 14.2 Mtoe in 2020. Due to a shift in sectorial demand, the service and residential sectors will together represent the largest energy consumer by 2020, the main source of increased energy demand being the building sector. The Government of Tunisia has therefore decided to adopt regulatory measures introducing energy efficient building standards for new buildings.