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    The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global authority on the environment. It works closely with 193 member states and stakeholders to address environmental challenges through the UN Environment Assembly. UNEP's mission is to find solutions to the planetary crisis of climate change, loss of nature, and pollution. It has regional offices around the world and supports countries in meeting their obligations under multilateral environmental agreements.

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    The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global authority on the environment. It works closely with 193 member states and stakeholders to address environmental challenges through the UN Environment Assembly. UNEP's mission is to find solutions to the planetary crisis of climate change, loss of nature, and pollution. It has regional offices around the world and supports countries in meeting their obligations under multilateral environmental agreements.

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    The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global authority on the environment. It works closely with 193 member states and stakeholders to address environmental challenges through the UN Environment Assembly. UNEP's mission is to find solutions to the planetary crisis of climate change, loss of nature, and pollution. It has regional offices around the world and supports countries in meeting their obligations under multilateral environmental agreements.

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    The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global authority

    on the environment.

    • UNEP works closely with its 193 Member States and representatives from civil society, businesses, and other major groups and stakeholders to
    address environmental challenges through the UN Environment Assembly, the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment.

    • UNEP’s core mission is to find solutions to the triple planetary crisis. As the leading global authority on the environment, the institution helps its
    Member States to foster climate stability, live in harmony with nature and forge a pollution-free future, supporting the achievement of all 17 SDGs.

    • Headquarter in Nairobi and regional offices in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, New York, North America and West
    Asia.

    • Several sub-regional and country offices for coordination.


    ✓ As one of its founding agencies, we have been with the GEF on every step of its journey since 1992.
    ✓ UNEP has been working hand-in-hand with the Global Environment Facility to create a greener world for almost 30 years.
    ✓ Implemented 1,000 projects, inspiring, informing, and enabling the public and policymakers across more than 160 countries to improve their quality of life
    without compromising that of future generations.
    ✓ Today, UNEP continues to support the GEF to achieve its mandate of tackling our planet’s most pressing environmental problems and is currently one of 18
    GEF Agencies that can assist partners in accessing GEF finance.
    ✓ Working across all GEF focal areas, our dedicated GEF technical teams bring together the best in environmental science and policy expertise with the
    unique convening power of the United Nations to design and deliver high-impact projects that enable lasting change.

    From flagship global GEF programmes to full-sized projects, medium-sized projects and enabling activities, UNEP works
    across all Global Environment Facility focal areas, with dedicated GEF technical teams in Biodiversity, Capacity
    Development, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change Mitigation, Chemicals & Waste, International Waters and Land
    Degradation.
    ✓ The GEF is a financial mechanism for number of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEA)
    ✓ CW focal area: Stockholm Convention, Minamata Convention and SAICM
    ✓ Also supports projects on Montreal Protocol
    ✓ The main aim of this financial support is to help countries in meeting their obligations under MEAs
    ✓ UNEP is one of the Implementing Agency for GEF
    SAICM

    6%

    FARM

    Mercury
    37%
    POPs
    57%

    POPs Mercury SAICM


    Monitoring through GMP
    Agriculture,
    Public Health..
    Process
    Plastics, Utility byproducts
    products

    Pesticides (DDT, uPOPs (dioxins, furans


    Endosulfan, Lindane etc.) etc.)
    Industrial Chemicals (PCBs, PFAS,
    PBDEs, SCCP etc.)

    Textiles,
    Aviation

    Regulatory support- IVM strategies and training, PCB/POPs legislations, capacity


    building of stakeholders

    POPs reduction- DDT use reduction in Afro and Asia (over 5000 tonnes),
    Disposal of DDT in Ethiopia (200+ disposed), PCB disposal initiated (disposal of
    ~ 450 tonnes contracted),

    Support to Convention- GMP results for EE, BRS toolkit for NIP submission
    •

    •
    Investment in energy-efficient transformers as a cost-effective way
    to phaseout PCB containing or contaminated transformers

    Example from GEF-funded “Disposal of PCB oils contained in transformers and disposal of capacitors containing PCB in Southern Africa” (GEF ID 5532)
    Photo sources: SADC PCB
    •

    •
    https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/chemicals-waste/what-we-do/persistent-organic-pollutants/toward-
    https://www.unep.org/resources/toolkits-manuals-and-guides/polychlorinated-biphenyls-phase-out-plan
    elimination-pcbs

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