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The Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP), Dr. Rosina Bierbaum, presented the report of the Panel to the 66th meeting of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) on February 7, 2024.

Information Note

Global demand for sustainable development finance exceeds available public funding many times over, placing increasing expectations on the GEF to attract private capital for global environmental benefits. Early GEF investments focused on climate change mitigation areas, including renewable energy and energy efficiency.

This report to the GEF Council was presented by Rosina Bierbaum, STAP Chair. It provides an update on STAP's work since the last Council Meeting.

Background Note

The rapid pace of global change requires a “whole-of-society” approach to harness scientific understanding to anticipate, adapt, and innovate in addressing environmental degradation, which can often be achieved more effectively if done in partnership with those outside professional and scientific circles.

Background Note

AL approaches have been used in GEF projects mostly to reduce environmental harms associated with livelihood practices or, to a lesser extent, to encourage shifts to livelihoods that are more resilient to climate change.

Policy Briefs

Many of the places facing the greatest environmental problems also confront challenges related to conflict and/or state fragility, so called fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS), with implications for GEF project operations and outcomes.

Advisory Documents

The STAP paper on agrivoltaics (AV) provides background information on an emerging innovative and effective solution for addressing issues of land competition between food and energy.

Information Note

STAP prepared this note summarizing definitions and guidelines on ecosystem-based management to support consistent understanding and implementation of the term. The note responds to a recommendation to STAP by the Independent Evaluation Office of the GEF to provide this summary.

The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) to the Global Environment Facility (GEF) organized a Science Day event at the Seventh GEF Assembly in Vancouver, Canada, on 22 August 2023.

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At the 39th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, and Energy being held in Amherst, MA, Dr. Rosina Bierbaum, STAP Chair, is being presented with the Association for Environmental Health and Science (AEHS) Foundation Achievement Award. She was selected to receive this award due her contributions to environmental science and stewardship.

Dr. Susanne Schmeier is an Associate Professor of Water Law and Diplomacy and the Head of the Water Governance Department at the Institute for Water Education (IHE) in Delft, The Netherlands.

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Rosina Bierbaum, STAP Chair, was elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS) in its biological sciences class - an honor for only 33 people in the world each year.

News

Dr. Sunday Leonard has been appointed as the new Secretary of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), effective 1 October 2023. In this capacity, he will be responsible for coordinating the work of the STAP staff and the Panel members in support of the GEF Council.

Rosina Bierbaum, STAP Chair reported to the 7th GEF Assembly that was held 22-26 August 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Bierbaum focused her report on some of the emerging signals and trends that STAP thinks will be important drivers, both positive and negative, which will affect us as we go forward.

Conference

At the request of the Government of Canada, STAP hosted the Science Day at the Seventh GEF Assembly in Vancouver, BC, on Tuesday, 22 August 2023.

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Conference

At the request of the Government of Canada, STAP hosted the Science Day at the Seventh GEF Assembly in Vancouver, BC, on Tuesday, 22 August 2023.

Categorized Under: Canada

Working Group Meeting

Rosina Bierbaum, STAP Chair, reported to the 64th GEF Council Meeting on STAP's work over the past six months.  As you can see in the full Chair's Report, it had four main topics:

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This report to the GEF Council was presented by Rosina Bierbaum, STAP Chair. It provides an update on STAP's work since the last Council Meeting in December 2022.

News

At the recent gala of The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), Rosina Bierbaum, Chair of STAP, had the privilege of introducing Carlos Manuel Rodríguez, the CEO and Chair of the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

Policy Briefs

On 4 May 2023, a STAP/GEF virtual workshop to learn from GEF agencies’ experience with knowledge management and learning (KM&L) platforms developed for the Integrated Approach Pilots (IAPs) and Impact Programs (IPs), and to see how this experience could benefit the deve

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