Special Climate Change Fund SCCF Effendy Sumardja GEF

Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) Effendy Sumardja GEF Focal Point - Ministry of Environment - Indonesia

What is GEF? · An operating entity of the financial mechanism of the Conventions · Provides financing to country-driven projects consistent with guidance approved by the Conference of the Parties on policies, program priorities and eligibility. · Projects are mainly managed through its Implementing Agencies: UNDP, UNEP and the World Bank. · SCCF is among the funds operated by GEF (Decision 7/CP. 7)

The twinning funds Decided at Co. P 9 in Milan, 2003 • Decision 5/CP. 9 – Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) • Decision 6/CP. 9 – Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF)

How the resources are provided? • Through focal areas (biodiversity, land degradation, ozone, persistent organic pollutants, and international waters) · Often have cross-cutting benefits supportive of the objectives of the UNFCCC · Through the development of human resources and institutions · Through activities supporting a range of global environmental goals including carbon sequestration.

What does SCCF assist? · Risk assessment of climate change impacts on development projects · Preparatory work of adaptation measures, constituency building, awareness raising and lessons sharing · Climate-proof development lending

Who will be assisted? · Most vulnerable and those with the greatest need · Climate change impacts fall most heavily on the link between adaptation and poverty reduction/ benefits for the poor · Highlighting this link could help to mobilize resources in the donor community

How to propose activities? · The activities should address the challenges of adaptation · Use SCCF to finance the "adaptation additionality" of project activities; i. e. , the additional costs of achieving sustainable development. · Be simple and pragmatic · Project may be based on a sliding proportional scale of co-financing

SCCF and technology transfer Financing should be used to • address the barriers to the introduction of new technologies • explore the enabling environments, institutional capacity, and availability of information

In summary • SCCF should serve as a catalyst to leverage additional resources from bilateral and other multilateral sources in both the adaptation and technology transfer areas • SCCF is voluntary and that it was important to design the fund in such a way that donor interests in contributing to the fund would be enhanced