23 June 1997
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UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
SUBSIDIARY BODY FOR IMPLEMENTATION
Sixth session
Bonn, 28 July - 5 August 1997
Item 4 (b) of the provisional agenda
1. At its second session, the Conference of the Parties requested
through its decision 10/CP.2 that the Convention secretariat provide
the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) at each of its sessions
details of the financial support made available to Parties not
included in Annex I to the Convention from the interim operating
entity of the financial mechanism for the preparation of their
initial national communications. This should include projects in this
regard proposed by each Party, the funding decisions and the date and
amount of funds made available to the Party
(FCCC/CP/1996/15/Add.1).
2. In response to that decision, the secretariat provided the SBI,
at its fifth session, with document FCCC/SBI/1997/MISC.1 which
contained information supplied by the Secretariat of the Global
Environment Facility (GEF). The SBI took note and requested the
secretariat to provide the SBI, at subsequent sessions, with such
information as it becomes available (FCCC/SBI/1997/6 para. 23
(a)).
3. The attached table contains updated information supplied by the Secretariat of the GEF on the following items: I. Pilot Phase Projects, II. Pre-Expedited Procedure Projects, and
III. Expedited Procedure Projects.
FCCC/SBI/1997/MISC.4
GE.97-
4. Funds are considered available to the Parties from the date
when the project documents are signed by the Parties and the
implementing agencies. Such dates are listed in the column entitled
"Date of Project Document Signature (by Agency)" in this table. In
order to make it possible for Parties to start work without delay on
enabling activity projects approved under expedited procedures, it
was decided in July 1996 that 15 percent of the total funds for such
projects may be made available to Parties as soon as the projects are
approved by the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the GEF. This
would be prior to the signature of the project document by the
implementing agency concerned.
5. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents,
the table is reproduced in the language in which it was received and
without formal editing.