Special Climate Change Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF)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 CoP9 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