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UNEP/CBD/COP/6/INF/3

Financial Resources and Mechanism (Articles 20 and 21)<br>Compilation of previous guidance given to the Financial Mechanism by the Conference of the Parties

UNEP/CBD/COP/6/INF/29

Second overall performance study of the Global Environment Facility

GEF Ministerial Roundtable: Financing the Environment and Sustainable Development. A contribution to the World Summit on Sustainable Development

17 March 2002, To be determined, Mexico

UNEP/CBD/COP/6/9/ADD1

Second overall performance study of the Global Environment Facility

UNEP/CBD/COP/6/5/ADD1

Draft strategic plan for the Convention on Biological Diversity: Planned activities, expected products, the timing of activities and products, actors, implementation mechanisms, and financial, human-resource and other capacity requirements

UNEP/CBD/COP/6/13

Progress Report on the Mechanisms for Implementation

Meeting of the OECD Working Group on Economic Aspects of Biodiversity

Statement by Dr. Hamdallah Zedan, Executive Secretary<br>Paris, 16 - 17 May 2002

Document

Information for Participants: Addendum<br>(Site visit to Ciénaga de Zapata)

Reference: SCBD/I&O/AN/sp (2002-109)
To: National Focal Points of the CBD

A searchable database of GEF Council Decisions is now available on the CBD website at: <a href="/financial/gef-decisions.aspx">http://www.biodiv.org/financial/gef-decisions.aspx</a>

Reference: SCBD/I&O/YX/AN/AV/36487 (2003-041)
To: CBD National Focal Points and all relevant stakeholders of the Convention

An Interactive Info-Bulletin has been designed to provide a centralized venue for those involved in funding to exchange biodiversity-related funding information, including experience, views and best practice, with a view to promoting cooperation, coordination, coherence, synergies as well as eff ...

Reference: SCBD/I&O/YX/AN/AV/36028 (2003-047)
To: CBD National Focal Points and relevant funding institutions

The Executive Secretary invites Parties and other relevant funding institutions to verify the project information contained in the draft Biodiversity-related Project Database 2003, and make necessary corrections and additions before the end of July 2003

UNEP/CBD/COP/1/INF/13

Memorandum of Understanding between the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Institutional Structure Operating the Financial Mechanism under the Convention

UNEP/CBD/COP/3/INF/1

Submissions received by the Executive Secretary concerning guidelines for the review of the effectiveness of the Financial Mechanism

UNEP/CBD/COP/3/INF/2

Submissions received by the Executive Secretary concerning the "Draft memorandum of understanding between the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Council of the Global Environment Facility regarding the institutional structure operating the Financial Mecha ...

UNEP/CBD/COP/3/INF/15

Quarterly report of the Global Environment Facility

UNEP/CBD/COP/3/INF/14

Annual report of the Global Environment Facility

UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/3/INF/32

GEF workshop: Removing the taxonomic impediment<br>Submission by the Government of Australia

UNEP FI 2003 Global Roundtable "Sustaining Value - A Meeting on Finance and Sustainability"

20 - 21 October 2003, Tokyo, Japan

UNEP/CBD/COP/7/17/ADD5

Financial resources and mechanism (Articles 20 and 21)<br>Arrangements for the third review of the effectiveness of the financial mechanism

UNEP/CBD/COP/7/18

Financial resources and mechanism (Articles 20 and 21)<br>Additional financial resources

UNEP/CBD/BS/COP-MOP/1/12

Guidance to the financial mechanism

UNEP/CBD/COP/7/17

Progress report on the mechanisms for implementation

UNEP/CBD/COP/7/INF/1

Financial resources and mechanism (Articles 20 and 21)<br>Compilation of previous guidance given to the financial mechanism by the Conference of the Parties

UNEP/CBD/COP/7/9

Report of the Global Environment Facility

GEF NGO Consultation

18 May 2004, Washington D.C., United States of America

Twenty-third GEF Council Meeting

19 - 21 May 2004, Washington D.C., United States of America

Reference: SCBD/I&O/YX/43452 (2004-056)
To: CBD National Focal Points

Third Review of the Effectiveness of the Financial Mechanism (<a href='/decisions/?dec=VII/22'>Decision VII/22 </a>)

GEF NGO Consultation

16 November 2004, Washington D.C., United States of America

Twenty-fourth GEF Council Meeting

17 - 19 November 2004, Washington D.C., United States of America

Reference: SCBD/I&O/YX/45951 (2004-108)
To: CBD National Focal Points Relevant stakeholders involved in project preparation and implementation

I have the pleasure of informing Parties and Governments as well as those who are A compilation of guidance provided to the financial mechanism by the Conference of the Parties from its first to seventh meetings has been posted on the website of the Convention.

Twenty-fifth GEF Council Meeting

6 - 10 June 2005, Washington D.C., United States of America

Recommendation 1/4

Mechanisms for implementation: financial resources and financial mechanism

Twenty-seventh GEF Council Meeting

7 - 10 November 2005, Washington D.C., United States of America

Open-ended WG on the Rules of Procedure and the Financial Rules of the Governing Body, Compliance and the Funding Strategy

14 - 17 December 2005, Rome, Italy

Finance and Biodiversity Working Meeting

28 April 2006, New York, United States of America

Consultations and GEF Council Meeting

5 - 9 June 2006, Washington, D.C., United States of America

The Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity delivers remarks to the Third Assembly of the Global Environment Facility.

Third GEF Assembly

29 - 30 August 2006, Cape Town, South Africa

Decision VIII/18 on Guidance to the Financial Mechanism: Consultation with the Parties on opportunities for streamlining the guidance

Reference: SCBD/AD/YX/55806 (2006-093)
To: National Focal Points of the Convention on Biological Diversity

I would appreciate receiving the views of your government in response to the COP8 decision. As set out in decision VIII/18, the opportunities for streamlining the guidance provided to the Global Environment Facility will be first considered by the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of the ...

Decision VIII/13 on Review of Implementation of Article 20 (Financial resources) and Article 21 (Financial mechanism)

Reference: SCBD/AD/YX/55949 (2006-096)
To: National Focal Points of the CBD and relevant partners

As set out in decision VIII/13, options for resource mobilization including innovative financial mechanisms and a draft strategy for resource mobilization will be first considered by the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention to be held in July 2007, and th ...

Initial GEF-4 indicative allocations for all countries eligible for funding in the biodiversity and climate change focal areas

Reference: SCBD/ITS/AD/YX/55968 (2006-097)
To: National Focal Points of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Please find attached a document listing the initial GEF-4 indicative allocations for all countries eligible for funding in the biodiversity and climate change focal areas, which was issued by the Secretariat of the Global Environment Facility on 15 September 2006.

Decision VIII/13 on Review of Implementation of Article 20 (Financial resources) and Article 21 (Financial mechanism), Paragraph 7

Reference: SCBD/ITS/AD/YX/av/56129 (2006-105)
To: National Focal Points of the Convention on Biological Diversity and relevant partner organizations

I would appreciate receiving submissions from your government/organization in response to COP decision VIII/13, paragraph 7. As set out in decision VIII/13, information on national and regional environmental funds as well as related knowledge transfer and exchange will be submitted to the consid ...

Consultations and GEF Council Meeting

4 - 8 December 2006, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Twenty-eight GEF Council Meeting

4 - 8 December 2006, Washington D.C., United States of America

Questionnaire for the Third Review of the Effectiveness of the Financial Mechanism

Reference: SCBD/ITS/YX/57189 (2007-010)
To: CBD National Focal Points and other stakeholders

At its eighth meeting held in Curitiba, Brazil, the Conference of the Parties decided, in decision VIII/13, paragraph 11, “to make the necessary arrangements for an evaluation of the effectiveness of the financial mechanism to be conducted in time for the ninth meeting of the Conference of the P ...

Call for Tenders: Third Review of the Effectiveness of the Financial Mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity

Recommendation 2/3

Streamlining the guidance provided to the Global Environment Facility as the institutional structure operating the financial mechanism of the convention

Technical Report on National/Regional Environmental Funds: Call for Papers.

Reference: SCBD/ITS/YX/57985 (2007-087)
To: CBD Focal Points and National/Regional Environmental Funds

A Technical Report on National/Regional Environmental Funds is being prepared by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity to facilitate the implementation of Decision VIII/13, paragraph 7, in which the Conference of the Parties recommended to Parties, Governments and funding ins ...

Views and further suggestions on a strategy for resource mobilization to support the implementation of the Convention as well as a message on Biodiversity and Financing for Development.

Reference: SCBD/ITS/YX/59255 (2007-088)
To: All CBD Focal Points and relevant organizations

In Recommendation 2/2, the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention (WGRI-2) requested the Executive Secretary, to seek views and further suggestions from Parties, other Governments, regional economic integration groups, partner organizations, donors, and obs ...

Views on elements for the four-year (2010-2014) framework for programme priorities related to the utilization of GEF resources for biodiversity, as well as ways and means to enhance the process of formulating and consolidating guidance to the financial mechanism.

Reference: SCBD/ITS/YX/59256 (2007-089)
To: All CBD Focal Points and relevant organizations

In Recommendation 2/3, the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review of Implementation of the Convention (WGRI-2) invited Parties and Governments, relevant organizations and the GEF, to submit to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity their views on elements for the four-year ...