Notification 2025-066

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am pleased to draw your attention to decision 16/33, paragraph 24, in which the Conference of the Parties requested the Executive Secretary to compile and transmit, as soon as practical, the information on funding needs received from all eligible developing country Parties, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, and Parties with economies in transition to the Secretariat of the Global Environment Facility and the participants in the negotiations of the ninth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund.

This request also relates to elements of decision 15/15, including paragraph 15 and annex III, regarding a full assessment of the amount of funds needed for the implementation of the Convention and its Protocols for the ninth replenishment period of the Global Environment Facility Trust Fund.

In response to this request and to facilitate the preparation and submission of identified national funding priorities and needs, the Secretariat has designed a questionnaire and made it available on the Convention website at the following link: https://www.cbd.int/financial/gef9needs.shtml, together with guidance on completing it. 

In preparing their submissions, Parties to the Convention, the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing are encouraged to undertake national consultations, in close collaboration with their operational focal points of the Global Environment Facility.

Parties eligible to receive GEF support are invited to use the questionnaire to submit information on their funding priority needs and related projects that may be envisaged for funding during GEF-9 as soon as possible but no later than 30 June 2025.

Please accept, Sir, Madam, the assurances of my highest consideration.