1.Notes the reform measures introduced by the Global Environment Facility to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and responsiveness of the financial mechanism;
2.Decides to continue to explore ways and means to improve the effectiveness of providing guidance to the financial mechanism, including the four-year framework for programme priorities related to utilization of GEF resources for biodiversity, coinciding with replenishments of the Trust Fund of the Global Environment Facility;
3.Requests the Council of the Global Environment Facility to take the following actions in order to improve the effectiveness of the financial mechanism:
(a)Improve results-based reporting on the total contribution of the Global Environment Facility to achieving the objectives of the Convention, including the Facility’s contribution to incremental-cost financing and leveraging co-financing
(b)Report on implementation of the four-year framework for programme priorities related to utilization of GEF resources for biodiversity to the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties;
(c)Enhance the role of the Global Environment Facility in providing and leveraging resources for activities to achieve the Convention’s objectives;
(d)Address capacity constraints in developing countries Parties, especially Small Island developing States and least developed countries, as well as countries with economies in transition with regard to the implementation of the Resource Allocation Framework;
(e)Improve the project information system, including through data sets and web-based data tools, to increase the accessibility of project information and allow for better tracking against the guidance from the Conference of the Parties;
(f)Promote exchange of experience and lessons learned in addressing sustainability of funded projects on biological diversity;
(g)Elaborate and transmit to the Conference of the Parties, well-summarized evaluation products and full evaluation reports relevant to biological diversity and to the guidance provided by the Conference of the Parties;
(h)Include in its regular report findings, conclusions and recommendations of all relevant evaluations of the GEF Evaluation Office;
4.Encourages the Executive Secretary, the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Environment Facility and the Director of the GEF Evaluation Office to continue to strengthen inter-secretariat cooperation;
5.Requests the Executive Secretary, for consideration by the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties:
(a)To invite Parties to submit assessments of their future funding needs based on their updated national biodiversity strategies and action plans;
(b)To compile these national submissions;
(c)To prepare, in consultation with the Parties, draft terms of reference for a full assessment of the amount of funds needed for the implementation of the Convention for the sixth replenishment period of the Trust Fund of the Global Environment Facility;
6.Requests the Executive Secretary to prepare, in consultation with the GEF Council, a proposal on the terms of reference including cost options for the fourth review of the effectiveness of the financial mechanism, for consideration by the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties.
1.Encourages the Executive Secretary to maintain and strengthen the dialogue with the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Environment Facility with a view to enhancing the implementation of the guidance adopted by the Conference of the Parties during the fourth replenishment period of the Facility and onwards;
2.Encourages collaboration at national level between national focal points for the Convention, for related environmental agreements and for the Global Environment Facility, including through the projects supported by the Facility, and invites the Global Environment Facility to continue to promote such collaboration, including through regional and national workshops for the focal points;
3.Suggests the the four-year framework of programme priorities, as annexed to the present decision, for consideration during the fifth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund, as related to utilization of Global Environment Facility resources for biodiversity for the period from 2010 to 2014;
4.Acknowledges the GEF-4 strategy for biodiversity is a useful starting point for GEF-5 and requests GEF, for the fifth replenishment period, to build on the GEF-4 strategy based on the the four-year framework of programme priorities in the annex to the present decision
1.Requests the Executive Secretary to identify obsolete, repetitive and overlapping guidance, and prepare an updated compilation of the existing guidance to the financial mechanism, which should incorporate all decisions related to the financial mechanism, as a working document three months prior to the third meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation;
2.Requests the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation at its third meeting:
(a)To review the updated compilation with participation of representatives from relevant thematic areas and cross-cutting issues, as appropriate. This review shall provide recommendations on retirement, streamlining and consolidation of previous guidance;
(b)To propose a system for communicating a coherent, prioritized and clear set of programme priorities during the tenth and eleventh meetings of the Conference of the Parties and leading up to GEF-6 replenishment negotiation.
(c)To submit the results of its consideration to the Conference of the Parties at its tenth meeting;
3.Decides, at its tenth meeting, to:
(a)Consider the recommendations of the Working Group on Review of Implementation at its third meeting;
(b)Consider requests for new guidance in light of the recommendations of the Working Group on Review of Implementation at its third meeting on streamlined guidance;
4.Decides to provide the following additional guidance to the Global Environment Facility in the provision of financial resources, in accordance with Article 20 and Article 21, paragraph 1 of the Convention and in conformity with decisions
I/2,
II/6,
III/5,
IV/13,
V/13,
VI/17,
VII/20 and
VIII/18 of the Conference of the Parties. In this regard, the Global Environment Facility should provide financial resources to developing country Parties, taking into account the special needs of the least developed countries and the small island developing States amongst them, for country-driven activities and programmes, consistent with national priorities and objectives and in accordance with the mandate of the Global Environment Facility, recognizing that economic and social development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding priorities of developing countries, and taking fully into consideration all relevant decisions from the Conference of the Parties;
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
5.Requests the Global Environment Facility, within its mandate, to consider the following guidance, submitted in its entirety in
decision IV/5, paragraph 4, of the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, noting that subparagraph (f) should be considered in the context of the programme priorities in
decision IX/31 of the present decision, and to report back to the Conference of the Parties at its tenth meeting:
(a)Requests the Global Environment Facility Evaluation Office to assess the impact of the Resource Allocation Framework on the implementation of the Protocol, and propose measures that can minimize potential resource limitations that may affect the implementation of the Protocol including measures that facilitate consideration of regional and subregional projects developed by the countries of the region;
(b)Urges the Global Environment Facility to make financial resources available with a view to enable eligible Parties to prepare their national report;
(c)Urges the Global Environment Facility to extend the UNEP-GEF Biosafety Clearing-House project, in its current form as a global project with a view to ensuring sustainability of national Biosafety Clearing-House nodes and providing more capacity-building support, with special attention to targeted stakeholders (e.g., customs departments and phytosanitary inspectors), and to provide additional funding for these activities from sources other than the Resource Allocation Framework (RAF) taking into consideration the global nature of the project;
(d)Invites the Global Environment Facility, at the request of developing countries Governments, to provide financial and other support to enable universities and relevant institutions to develop and/or expand existing biosafety academic programmes and provide scholarships to students from developing country Parties, in particular the least developed and small island developing States among them, and countries with economies in transition;
(e)Requests the Global Environment Facility, to cooperate with and support developing country Parties, in particular the least developed and small island developing States among them, and Parties with economies in transition, in their efforts to build their capacities in the area of sampling and detection of living modified organisms, including the setting up of laboratory facilities and training of local regulatory and scientific personnel;
(f)Requests the Global Environment Facility to consider the following programme funding priority needs for biosafety during the period of its fifth replenishment (2010-2014), where appropriate, using the issue-specific approach and providing longer-term support for building, consolidating and enhancing sustainable human resource capacity:
(i)Implementation of legal and administrative systems for notification procedures;
(ii)Risk assessment and risk management;
(iii)Implementation of enforcement measures including detection of living modified organisms;
(iv)Implementation of liability and redress measures.
Global Biodiversity Outlook
6.Requests the Global Environment Facility to assist with the preparation of the Global Biodiversity Outlook, and invites Parties, other Governments and donors, to make timely financial contributions for the preparation and production of the third edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook and ancillary products. These funds should be provided as early as possible so that the Global Biodiversity Outlook can be finalized in advance of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, in all United Nations languages, and with a draft available for review at the fourteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice;
Technology transfer and cooperation
7.Requests the Global Environment Facility to:
(a)Provide support to developing country Parties in the preparation of national assessments of technology needs for implementation of the Convention;
(b)Continue to support ongoing national programmes for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity through improved access to and transfer of technology and innovation;
(c)Consider possibilities to provide funding under enabling activities for the provision of capacity-building, where needed, on, inter alia:
(i)Technologies for conservation and sustainable use;
(ii)Governance and regulatory frameworks associated with access and transfer of technology and innovation;
Clearing-house mechanism
8.Urges the Global Environment Facility and other donors to continue to provide funding to developing country Parties, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States among them, and countries with economies in transition, for the establishment and updating of their clearing-house mechanisms;
Biodiversity strategies
9.Requests the Global Environment Facility, and urges Governments and other donors to provide funding to developing countries, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States among them, as well as countries with economies in transition, for the revision and implementation, through projects, of national, and where appropriate, regional biodiversity strategies;
Ecosystem approach
10.Invites the Global Environment Facility, in accordance with its mandate, and other funding institutions and development agencies to provide financial support for the implementation of the ecosystem approach by developing countries, particularly the least developed and small island developing States, and countries with economies in transition, and encourages bilateral and multilateral donor agencies to apply the ecosystem approach in providing aid assistance;
Engagement of stakeholders
11.Requests the Global Environment Facility, and invites Parties, other Governments, and relevant organizations to support capacity-building in developing countries, in particular the least developed and the small island developing States and Parties with economies in transition, for engaging the business community in the implementation of the Convention;
Global Invasive Species Programme
12.Reiterates its invitation to the Global Environment Facility, Parties, other Governments and funding organizations to provide adequate and timely financial support to enable the Global Invaseive Species Programme to fulfil the tasks outlined in many of its decisions;
Protected areas
13.Urges Parties, in particular developed country Parties, and invites other Governments and international financial institutions including the Global Environment Facility, the regional development banks and other multilateral financial institutions to provide the adequate, predictable and timely financial support, to developing country Parties, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing states as well as countries with economies in transition, to enable the full implementation of the programme of work on protected areas;
14.Invites the Global Environment Facility to:
(a)Continue to provide, and facilitate easier access to financial resources for protected areas in its biodiversity focal area including projects such as the UNDP/GEF project “Supporting Country Action on the CBD programme of work on protected areas”, so as to extend support to developing countries, in particular the small island developing States and least developed countries among them, and countries with economies in transition, taking into account the goals and targets set in the programme of work;
(b)To consider support for proposals that demonstrate the role-protected areas play in addressing climate change.
(c)To ensure that protected areas remain a priority of the Global Environment Facility for the foreseeable future.
