The overall development objective of the Project is to increase agricultural production sustainably, while reducing pollution of natural resources. It represents the first phase of a ten-year Program, to be implemented in three phases, for the reform of on-farm agricultural and environmental practices.

The overall objective of this project is to conserve the Gulf of Mannar’s globally significant assemblage of coastal biodiversity and to demonstrate, in a large biosphere reserve with various multiple uses, how to integrate biodiversity conservation into coastal zone management plans. To this end, the Government of Tamil Nadu will establish the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve Trust (a Foundation) to ensure effective inter-sectoral coordination and facilitate mainstreaming of biodiversity conservation issues into the productive sector and policy development.

The project is located on and around four biologically-rich islands in the province of Maluku in eastern Indonesia. Home to a rich mixture of flora, fauna and marine species, Maluku has just one terrestrial and one marine protected area, which are poorly managed and under threat.

The goal of this project is to reduce GHG emissions in Lebanon by improving demand side energy efficiency through the creation of a multi-purpose Lebanese Centre for Energy Conservation and Planning. The Centre, which is expected to be a “soft” and flexible institutional set-up, will simultaneously undertake barrier removal activities and provide energy efficiency services to the public and private sector industries as a set in becoming an independent, commercially viable private corporation.

This project will assist the national Government to comply with the provisions of the UNFCCC.

This project will assist the national Government to comply with the provisions of the UNFCCC.

The project will promote conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity , and the more equitable sharing of benefits accruing from forest resources in the globally significant and unique ecosystems of the Mulanje massif. Specifically, GEF funds would support activities to incorporate biodiversity conservation objectives effectively into Reserve management.

The project will help to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by addressing institutional, information, know-how, perceived risk and other investment barriers to increased use of photovoltaic energy sources by households, institutions, commercial entities and agro industries. Specifically the project will: Assist local stakeholders in building local capacities to promote, install and service PV applications; help to develop and implement favorable regulatory frameworks, facilitate the establishment of viable financial mechanisms (micro lending).

The project’s goal is to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of globally significant biodiversity within Malaysia’s PSF areas through the pursuit of three objectives, namely demonstration of inter-sectoral planning, application of these plans, and institutional strengthening. The global biodiversity values found in Malaysia’s tropical PSF ecosystems are exemplified by the three sites selected for the present project, each of which represents a distinct PSF ecosystem complex in Malaysia.

The project will address initial investment cost barriers, information and institutional constraints currently preventing their widespread use. Specifically the project will support the following activities: Development of a market promotion strategy, promotion campaigns, innovative vendor financing/leasing programs (demonstrations), product certification. The investment demonstration component of the GEF project will address initial investment cost barriers and related risk perceptions both at the vendor and the rural client level.