Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility

Biodiversity

Payments for Environmental Services December 2008

This STAP guidance paper provides guidance to the GEF Council, Secretariat, Evaluation Office, and implementing agencies on the development and evaluation of GEF investments in Payments for Environmental Services (PES) programs.

Sustainable Land Management

A global systems approach for healthy soils by Michael Stocking, 2009. Document - pdf file. In Bigas, H. et al  (eds.) Soils, Society and Global Change. Proceedings of the International Forum Celebrating the   Centenary of Conservation and Restoration of Soil and   Vegetation in Iceland, Selfoss, Iceland, September 2007  

Vertical and Horizontal Knowledge Management:  Implications at the local, national, regional, and global levels, by Mary Seely -

• Presentation - pdf. Mary Seely delivered this presentation on "Vertical and Horizontal Knowledge Management" at the 1st Scientific Conference of the UNCCD, September 2009.

Further information on UNCCD's First Scientific Conference held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2009, can be accessed at http://www.unccd.int/

Developing a Global Strategy to Combat Land Degradation and Promote Sustainable Land Management, by Michael Stocking. 

• Conference Paper - pdf  This paper sets out the leading considerations in the strategic review that led to the GEF-4 Land Degradation Focal Area Strategy, as well as the topics that should be taken forward to GEF-5. 

Paper to: Asian Development Bank International Conference on Integrated Ecosystem Management (IEM) Approaches and Application, Beijing, People's Republic of China; 6-7 November 2008 (for more click here)

Persistent Organic Pollutants & Climate Change

Benefits and Trade-Offs Between Energy Conservation and Releases of Unintentionally Produced Persistent Organic Pollutants

• This Technical Report, commissioned by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP), is the Technical Annex to STAP’s Conclusions and Recommendations to the Global Environment Facility regarding the relationship between management of uPOPs and climate change mitigation strategies in GEF operations. This Report also addresses recipient country needs in capturing multiple benefits of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM). Specifically, the report  addresses the question as to whether implementation of best available techniques and best environmental practices (BAT/BEP) in the context of the Stockholm Convention has synergistic effects on GHG emissions or whether there are trade-offs.