Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility

STAP Meeting, 29-30 March 2012, London, England

The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility recently held its meeting in London, England, on the 29th and 30th of March 2012, in the margins of the Planet Under Pressure 2012 International Conference.  A Briefing Note about the PuP and STAP Meetings was prepared by IISD Reporting Services.  More information and documentation from STAP's meeting can be found at Events/STAP Meeting, London.

Planet Under Pressure International Conference 2012

The STAP participated in the global Conference “Planet Under Pressure 2012: New Knowledge Towards Solutions” (PuP) London, March 26-29, 2012. The purpose of the conference was to provide a snapshot of the pressures on the earth's system, and discuss options and opportunities for reducing pressure on the planet. It gathered the world’s scientific community, senior policy-makers, industry leaders, NGOs, the media, health specialists and academia to focus on sustainable solutions in response to such stressors as climate, ecological degradation, human well-being, planetary thresholds, food security, energy, governance across scales and poverty alleviation. It also, inter alia, provided scientific leadership towards the UN Rio+20 conference, 20-22 June, 2012. 

STAP's Panel members were actively engaged in the PuP Programme, with notable contributions from the Biodiversity Panel Member, Professor Sandra Diaz, who led the session entitled “State of the planet: ecosystems”, and participated as the Natural Science Representative on the Panel for the session “From Planet Under Pressure to Rio +20: key messages from science to Rio”. She also co-convened a session with the STAP Chair,  Dr. Tom Lovejoy and the STAP Secretary, Thomas Hammond, entitled “Tragedies and hopes of the global commons: biodiversity, climate and the oceans as global benefits”. The outputs of the “From Planet Under Pressure to Rio+20” session in particular fed into the STAP Meeting which immediately followed the PuP from 29-30 March. 

The culmination of the Planet Under Pressure 2012 Conference was the release of a State of the Planet Declaration.

STAP Workshop: Developing GHG emission reduction methodology for GEF energy efficiency projects (Washington DC, February 14, 2012)

On February 14^th 2012, STAP organized a workshop that brought together representatives of the GEF Secretariat, GEF Evaluation Office, four GEF Agencies, including World Bank, UNDP, UNEP, and UNIDO, and IDB, and several national and international experts working on energy efficiency projects (United States Department of Energy and United Nations Foundation). The workshop aimed to share experiences of GEF agencies and other partners in accounting for GHG emission reduction of EE projects in different sectors as well as discuss the proposed framework for a new GEF EE methodology.

For more information, please visit Events/Science Panel Workshops/EE Workshop.