Financial Mechanism and Resources

Programme priorities

Guidance from the Conference of the Parties

The financial mechanism operates under the guidance of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention. The first set of guidance to the financial mechanism was developed by the Conference of the Parties at its first meeting in 1994, and additional guidance was provided by subsequent meetings of the Conference of the Parties. In October 2010, the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties adopted the consolidated list of guidance to the financial mechanism, including programme priorities, and agreed to retire the previous decisions and elements of decisions, as related to the financial mechanism and limited only to those provisions related to the financial mechanism.

Decision XI/5: The financial mechanism (October 2012)

Decision X/24, annex: Consolidated guidance to the financial mechanism of the Convention (October 2010)

Decision X/25: Additional guidance to the financial mechanism (October 2010)

Opportunities for Streamlining the Guidance Provided to the Global Environment Facility Taking into Account the Framework for Targets and Indicators of the 2010 Target (UNEP/CBD/WG-RI/2/5; 16 May 2007) (ar en es fr ru zh)

Review of the Guidance to the Financial Mechanism (UNEP/CBD/WG-RI/3/9, 6 March 2010) (ar en es fr ru zh)

Four-year outcome-oriented framework of programme priorities
The first meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation requested the Executive Secretary to prepare, in collaboration with the Global Environment Facility, a draft four-year framework of programme priorities for the seventh replenishment of the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund, taking into account, inter alia, the biodiversity strategy for the sixth replenishment period, potential synergies across the biodiversity-related conventions and the conventions for which the Global Environment Facility serves as a financial mechanism, potential synergies between achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the Sustainable Development Goals, the global assessment of progress and the need to prioritize activities to fill gaps, the needs expressed by Parties through the Financial Reporting Framework, and the responses to the questionnaire from the expert team on funding needs for the seventh replenishment period, as well as the report of the expert team.

SOURCE DECISIONS USED FOR THE CONSOLIDATED DECISION ON THE FINANCIAL MECHANISM at COP-13

A. Policy and Strategy
Decision X/24, annex, A

B. Programme priorities
Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4 and decision X/25, paragraph 1

Article 1. Objectives
Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.15
Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.23; decision X/25, paragraphs 21 and 22; and also decision X/33, paragraphs 6 and 16; decision XI/21, paragraph 4
Decision X/24, annex, paragraphs 4.19, 4.20 ; decision X/25, paragraphs 18, 19; decision XI/5, paragraph 17; decision XII/30, paragraph 22; and also decision X/29, paragraphs 20, 38, 74; decision XI/17, paragraph 22; decision XI/18, paragraph 25; decision XII/23, paragraph 17
Decision X/24, annex, paragraphs 4.16, 4.18, 4.21, and 4.22
Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.17

Article 5. Cooperation
Decision X/25, paragraph 16; decision XI/5, paragraph 26; and also decision X/23, paragraph 7; decision XI/8.D, paragraph 2

Article 6. General Measures for Conservation and Sustainable Use
Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.1; decision X/25, paragraphs 2, 3 and 4; decision XI/5, paragraph 27; and also decision X/2, paragraphs 9 and 11; decision X/5, paragraph 4; decision XI/2, paragraph 7; decision XII/2, A, paragraph 2, and B, preamble
Decision X/25, paragraph 5; and also decision X/6, paragraph 10

Article 7. Identification and Monitoring
Decision X/24, annex, paragraphs 4.2 and 4.3; decision X/25, paragraphs 7 and 8; and also decision X/7, paragraph 7; decision X/39, paragraphs 8 and 13; decision XI/3, C, preamble

Article 8. In-situ Conservation
Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.4; decision X/25, paragraphs 10 and 11; decision XI/5, paragraph 18; and also decision X/31, paragraphs 9, 10 and 13; decision XI/24, paragraphs 1 and 3

Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.5; decision X/25, paragraph 9; decision XI/5, paragraphs 16 and 19; and also decision X/17, paragraph 5; decision XII/15, preamble

Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.6; decision X/25, paragraph 12; decision XI/5, paragraph 24; decision XII/30, paragraph 21; and also decision X/42, paragraph 6; decision XI/3, B, paragraph 7; decision XI/14, paragraphs 8 and 9

Article 9. Ex-situ Conservation

Article 10. Sustainable Use of Components of Biological Diversity
Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.7
Decision XII/30, paragraph 23 and also decision X/22, paragraph 13(e)

Article 11. Incentive Measures
Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.8

Article 12. Research and Training
Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.9

Article 13. Public Education and Awareness
Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.10

Article 14. Impact Assessment and Minimizing Adverse Impacts

Article 15. Access to Genetic Resources
Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.11; decision X/25, paragraph 13; decision XI/5, paragraphs 21, 22 and 23, and appendix I; decision XII/30, paragraphs 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and appendix II; and also decision X/1, paragraph 14; decision XI/1, D, paragraph 2 and E, paragraph 2; NP-1/6; NP-1/8, annex I, paragraph 29(a); and NP-1/9, annex, paragraph 34.

Article 16. Access to and Transfer of technology
Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.12; decision X/25, paragraph 14; and also decision X/16, paragraph 3(c)

Article 17. Exchange of Information

Article 18. Technical and Scientific Cooperation
Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.13; decision X/25, paragraph 15; and also decision X/15, paragraph 4

Article 19. Handling of Biotechnology and Distribution of its Benefits
Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.14; decision X/25, paragraph 20; decision XI/5, paragraph 28 and appendix II; decision XII/30, paragraphs 13 and 15, and appendix I; and also BS-V/5; BS-V/2, preamble; BS-V/14, paragraph 6; BS-V/16, annex I, paragraph 15; BS-VI/5; BS-VI/2, preamble; BS-VI/3, annex I, paragraphs 31 and 34; BS-VI/14 preamble; BS-VII/5; BS-VII/2, preamble, paragraphs 5 and 6

Article 20. Financial Resources
Decision X/25, paragraph 6; and also decision X/3, paragraph 4

Article 21. Financial Mechanism
Decision X/24, annex, E, paragraph 2
(a) Decision X/24, annex, E, paragraph 2.8; decision XII/7, annex II, paragraph 7
(b) Decision X/24, annex, E, paragraph 2.1; decision XI/5, paragraphs 3 and 4 and decision XII/30, paragraph 8(b)
(c) Decision X/24, annex, E, paragraph 2.2; decision XI/5, paragraph 5 and decision XII/30, paragraphs 7 and 8(a)
(d) Decision X/24, annex, E, paragraph 2.3
(e) Decision X/24, annex, E, paragraph 2.9
(f) Decision X/24, annex, E, paragraph 2.5
(g) Decision X/24, annex, E, paragraph 2.4
(h) Decision X/24, annex, E, paragraph 2.6
(i) Decision X/24, annex, E, paragraph 2.7

Article 22. Relationship with Other International Conventions
Decision XI/5, paragraph 20; decision XII/30, paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, and 14; and also decision XI/6, paragraph 16

Article 26. Reports
Decision X/24, annex, paragraph 4.24; decision X/25, paragraph 17; decision XI/5, paragraph 25; and also decision X/10, paragraph 5

C. Eligibility criteria
Convention on Biological Diversity
Decision X/24, annex, C, paragraphs 1 and 2
Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Decision X/24, annex, C, paragraphs 3 and 4
Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing
Decision XII/30, paragraphs 19 and 20

D. Reporting from the GEF Council to the Conference of the Parties
Decision X/24, annex, D, paragraph 1
Decision X/24, annex, D, paragraph 2
Decision XI/5, paragraph 1
Decision XII/30, paragraph 8(e)
Decision XII/30, paragraph 8(d)
Decision XII/30, paragraph 12

E. Review of the effectiveness of the financial mechanism
Decision X/24, annex, E, paragraph 1; decision XI/5, paragraph 7

F. Replenishment of the GEF Trust Fund
Decision X/24, annex, F
Decision XI/5, paragraph 6
Decision XI/5, paragraphs 12, 8-11 and 14
Decision XI/5, paragraph 15
Decision XII/30, paragraphs 6 and 11

G. Inter-Secretariat Cooperation
Decision X/24, annex, G, paragraph 1
Decision X/24, annex, G, paragraph 2
Decision X/24, annex, G, paragraph 3; decision XI/5, paragraph 13 and decision XII/30, paragraphs 8(c) and 9

Other matters
Decision X/24, annex, B, paragraph 2
Decision X/24, paragraphs 4-7 and annex, B, paragraph 3; and decision XI/5, paragraph 2
Decision X/24, annex, B, paragraph 1
Decision X/24, paragraphs 1-3; decision XII/30, paragraphs 5 and 10