Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility

STAP Council documents can be accessed below. Additional STAP Council documents can be found at the GEF website.

GEF Council Meeting, 5-8 December 2006

• Draft Statement by Yolanda Kakabadse, STAP Chair to the GEF Council,  5th December 2006
• Report of the GEF-STAP Workshop on Liquid Biofuels
• Land Degradation as a Global Environmental Issue: A Synthesis of Three Studies Commissioned by The Global Environment Facility to Strengthen the Knowledge Base to Support The Land Degradation Focal Area
• Report on the 1st Meeting of STAP IV, 16-19 October, 2006

GEF Council Meeting, 6-9 June 2006

• Statement by Yolanda Kakabadse, STAP Chair to the GEF Council, 6th June 2006
• Proposal by the Executive Director of UNEP on the Composition of STAP 4
• Revised Procedures for the STAP Roster Review
• STAP/UNESCO Workshop Managing the Subsurface Environment: Integrated       Managed Aquifer Recharge
• Report on the STAP Transgenic Fish Biosafety Book-Writing Workshop
• Report of the 8th Meeting of STAP III, April, 2-6, 2006

GEF Council Meeting, 8-10 November 2005

• Statement by Yolanda Kakabadse, STAP Chair, to the GEF Council 8 November 2005
• Improving the Effectiveness of STAP
  Decisions by STAP, the GEF Secretariat and the Implementing Agencies
• Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel to the Global Environment Facility: land management and its benefits - the challenge, and the rationale for sustainable management of drylands
• Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Production Landscapes
• Council Documentation

3-8 June 2005 GEF Council Meeting

• Minutes of the meeting of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel to the Global Environment Facility (GEF) 7-9 March 2005, Washington DC
• Council Documentation

17-19 November 2004 GEF Council Meeting

• STAP Interlinkages Document
• STAP Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Production Landscapes and Sectors Interim Report
• STAP Mainstreaming Biodiversity in Production Landscapes and Sectors Discussion Paper
• Strategic Options and Priorities in Groundwater Resources
• Minutes of the Fifth Meeting of STAP, 6-8 October 2004
• STAP Work Programme FY05-06
• Council Documentation

19-21 May 2004 GEF Council Meeting

• Executive Summary: Reducing the long term costs of low greenhouse gas-emitting energy technologies
• Report of the STAP Brainstorming Session on Operational Programme 7  
• Non-Combustion Technologies for the Destruction of POPs Stockpiles  
• The Use of Bioindicators, Biomarkers, and Analytical Methods for the Analysis of POPs in Developing Countries  
• Minutes of the Fourth Meeting of STAP, 2-5 March 2004
• Council Documentation

19-21 November 2003 GEF Council Meeting

• Planned deliverables by end June 2004
• Minutes of the Third Meeting of STAP III to the GEF
• STAP Roster of Experts
• Council Documentation

14-16 May 2003 GEF Council Meeting

• Report of the first meeting of STAP III 
• Report of the second meeting of STAP III 
• Annual review of the STAP Roster of Experts, FY02 
• Council Documentation

15-17 May 2002 GEF Council Meeting 

• Proposals by STAP for Improving STAP´s Efficiency 
• Report of the Tenth Meeting of STAP II, March 27-29, 2002, Nairobi, Kenya 
• Report of the STAP Expert Group Workshop on Adaptation and Vulnerability 
• Priority Issues which STAP should address in GEF Phase III 
• Report of the STAP Brainstorming on Transport
• Council Documentation