Current Projects

cities pursue integrated urban planning and implementation and increase their ambitions, to deliver impactful sustainable development outcomes with global environmental benefits (GEBs)

Provide participating countries targeted financial and technical support to prepare new or updated and improved TNAs, including TAPs, for prioritized technologies that reduce GHG emissions, support adaptation to climate change, and are consistent with Nationally Determined Contributions and national sustainable development objectives.

To support eighteen (18) developing countries prepare and submit National Communications (NCs) and Biennial Update Reports (BURs) that comply with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reporting requirements while responding to national development goals. Participating Countries at CEO Endorsement Phase are: - Afghanistan; Azerbaijan; Benin; Burundi; Guinea-Bissau; Kuwait; Mauritania; Pakistan; Rwanda, St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Sao Tome and Principe; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Somalia; Suriname; Uganda; Viet Nam; and Yemen

Community-based management of forests and the promotion of sustainable development alternatives support and enhance biodiversity conservation, and strengthen livelihoods in the Monkoto Corridor and Salonga National Park

To develop and strengthen national policy and institutional capacity for sustainable land management (SLM) and to contribute to achieving the national land degradation neutrality target with integrated landscape management in north-western mountainous ecos

The objective of the project is to increase the capacity of government and local communities in Uganda to implement EbA in wetland and forest ecosystems to reduce vulnerability to climate change.

Assist Mexico in the development of its National Action Plan, raise national awareness on the Minamata Convention and build initial national capacity for the early implementation of the National Action Plan

To optimise sustainable land use management, biodiversity conservation, and access of local communities to renewable household energy security and climate change mitigation in Madagascar.

To decrease the vulnerability of local communities living in the Barind Tract and Haor Area to the negative impacts of climate change, using Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) approaches.

Facilitate the early implementation of the Minamata Convention through the use of scientific and technical knowledge and tools by national stakeholders in Tuvalu

Develop technical and logistical capacities for creation and operation of and integrated monitoring system of Climate Change

Facilitate the early implementation of the Minamata Convention through the use of scientific and technical knowledge and tools by national stakeholders in The Bahamas

Developing capacities of Togolese stakeholders to set up and run a national information system for climate transparency

Strengthen institutional and human capacities in Azerbaijan to meet the reporting requirements of the enhanced transparency framework of the Paris Agreement by establishing a tracking system to support reliable domestic MRV arrangements

To assist Togo in the development of its National Action Plan for the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) sector, raise national awareness on the Minamata Convention and build initial national capacity for the early implementation of the National Action Plan and the Minamata Convention

Assist Cote d’Ivoire in the development of its National Action Plan, raise national awareness on the Minamata Convention and build initial national capacity for the early implementation of the National Action Plan

Improved biodiversity conservation and community livelihoods in three landscapes in the Western Highlands (WHC) and South Region of Cameroon, through participatory community-based landscape management in the WHC and the development of enterprises based on responsible resource use.

To build and strengthen Sierra Leone’s national capacity to implement the transparency elements of the Paris Climate Agreement.

FACILITATE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STOCKHOLM CONVENTION IN NIUE AND VANUATU THROUGH THE REVIEW AND UPDATE, IN A MANNER HARMONIZED WITH THE REPORTING UNDER ARTICLE 15 OF THE STOCKHOLM CONVENTION, AND SUBMISSION OF THE NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION PLAN (NIP) TO THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES OF THE STOCKHOLM CONVENTION (COP).

Ecosystem services in productive and protected land/seascapes conserved by improved land use and marine spatial planning policies and land/seascape level management in Gambia.

To transform degraded forest landscapes into biodiversity and climate-friendly areas of sustainable agricultural / agroforestry production

Accelerate the decarbonisation of the heating sector in Chile by fostering the deployment of district energy systems

To ensure scaling up and the sustainability of REDD+ financing mechanisms at the national level in order to address deforestation and forest degradation and support effective protected areas management.

To provide global streamlined support, capacity building and coordination to help developing countries meet enhanced transparency requirements under Article 13 of the Paris Agreement.

Improving water security, human and ecosystem health, and climate resilience in coastal hot spots.