Current Projects

To support lake ecosystems recovery through phosphorus emissions reductions from land to water to improve the protection and restoration of freshwater and coastal ecosystems, bringing together the global lake management and sustainable phosphorus management communities including developing and testing a sustainable phosphorus management framework in Chile to inform international application.

To enhance national-level institutional and technical capacities for the 2021-2022 UNCCD reporting process in the context of the UNCCD Strategic Framework 2018-2030 and SDG15.3

To improve the conservation of Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE) sites.

Accelerate and scale-up the adoption of low-carbon electric vehicles in Chilean regions.

Accelerate the decarbonisation of the heating sector in Chile by fostering the deployment of district energy systems

Conserve and recover coastal landscapes1 (CL) including wetlands and adjacent watershed territories, integrating them into local development, through their sustainable management and use

To enable country Parties to collect necessary biophysical, socioeconomic data, establish sound reporting and monitoring systems at national level and report against the UNCCD Strategy

Strengthen and improve transparency mechanisms of Chilean national institutions for domestic and UN conventions reporting

Accelerating transformation of Chile’s markets to more energy efficient (EE) residential refrigerators/freezers thereby achieving reduction of GHG emissions and contributing to improved energy access and energy security.

To mitigate climate change by transforming national and regional markets to energy-efficient products.

To Consolidate Public Private Initiatives to Conserve Globally Significant Biodiversity and Multiple Ecosystem Services in the Mountain Areas of Chile’s Mediterranean Ecosystem in the Metropolitan and Valparaiso Regions

Promote the rapid uptake of high energy efficient lighting technologies through the transformation of efficient lighting products markets, thereby reducing electrical demand and consumption and the related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

To Prevent Species Extinctions at Priority Sites Identified Through the Alliance for Zero Extinction (AZE)

To strengthen the capacity for implementation of the updated POPs Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) and to create the conditions for sustainable monitoring of POPs in the Latin American and Caribbean Region

To facilitate access to GEF funding by 20 countries for Enabling Activities to meet their obligations under the UNCCD a) alignment of NAPs with 10 – Year Strategy and b) Reporting and Review process

Reduce threats to globally important biodiversity through integrating the findings and tools of ecosystem service assessments in policy and decision making