Jitendra Sharma
Jitendra Sharma
Jitendra Sharma
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.
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%
Textiles,
Aviation
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
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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
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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