The UNFCCC reporting and review guidelines state that Annex II Parties shall indicate what "new and additional" financial resources they have provided pursuant to Article 4.3. The guidelines indicate that Annex II Parties shall use table 3 of Section VIII of part II of the guidelines on reporting and review to communicate this information. Table 3 pertains to financial contributions to the Global Environment Facility and in filling out this table, Parties may wish to refer to contributions related to the implementation of the Convention.
The information presented in the Global Environment Facility (GEF) section of the module has been extracted from fourth and fifth national communication reports of Parties that reported information in a format that was possible to extract. Under this section, some Parties reported their contributions to the GEF Trust Fund, Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF), Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and the Adaptation Fund (AF). For simplicity of presentation and to the extent possible all Party contributions to the mentioned funds have been presented under this section.
The following terms have been used in this section:
Party - Annex II Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change.
Fund - Refers to either the GEF Trust Fund, Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF). Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and the Adaptation Fund (AF).