Project

Transforming the Global maritime Transport Industry towards a Low carbon Future through Improved Energy Efficiency

Lead country

New York - GEF

Participating countries

Regional

Project status

Closure

Implementing period

From June 19, 2015 to December 5, 2020

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 9.b Support development, research, innovation in developing countries
  2. 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
  3. 14.1 Prevent, reduce marine pollution, including debris, nutrients

Project ID: 5201

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Technical team

  • Oceans and Water Programme

Technical area(s)

N/A

Landscape(s)

  • Marine

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Large marine ecosystem

Transformed sector(s)

  • Transportation
  • Shipping
  • Agriculture

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Innovative approaches
  • Institutional mechanism and system building

Strategy

  • Governance
  • Management operation
  • Technology innovation

Sub-strategy

  • Institutional framework
  • Inter-sectoral coordination
  • Laws/ Policy/ Plan formulation
  • Ecosystem-based management
  • Environmental accounting
  • Waste management
  • Transition to safer alternatives

Social inclusion

  • Private sector

Gender equality

N/A

Gender result effectiveness scale

N/A

Pathway(s)

  • Sci-tech pathway
  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Reduce exposure

SDG target(s)

  • 9.b Support development, research, innovation in developing countries
  • 13.2 Integrate climate change into national policies, planning
  • 14.1 Prevent, reduce marine pollution, including debris, nutrients

Conventions and protocols

  • International Maritime Organization Conventions (IME)
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

Private sector(s)

N/A

Hot topic

  • Public-private partnership
  • Food and agricultural commodities strategy

Project objectives

To build capacity in developing countries for implementing the technical and operational measures for energy efficient shipping and to catalyze overall reductions in GHG emissions from global shipping.

USD $2,000,000

Grant amount

USD $11,875,600

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($2,000,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • International Maritime Organisation

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Legal, policy and institutional reforms for GHG reductions through improved energy efficiency within maritime transport sector in developing countries (CC and IW)

 Indicators:

Level of dissemination and knowledge sharing efforts and activities.
Level of engagement of private-public partnership in dealing with shipping energy efficiency activities.
Level of human capacity of the Lead Pilot Countries in dealing with shipping energy efficiency regulations and efficiency measures.
Level of legal, policy and institutional capacity of the Lead Pilot Countries for reducing emissions from international shipping.
Extent of dissemination of national efforts to wider developing countries.
Number of LPCs that have a legislative framework for ratification, implementation and enforcement of MARPOL Annex VI including IMO MEEF.
Number of LPCs that have identified their baselines, polices and future targets
Level of human capacity of the LPCs in area of shipping energy efficiency regulations and operational and technical measures. Number of capacity building workshops successfully executed. Level of dissemination and knowledge sharing activities of the project.
GIA is formed and GIA Fund is secured • EETs database realization. • Number of global activities / international events organised.
Realization of project teams at global and national levels. The project objectives met, and outputs completed in time and within budget All elements of project reporting, M&E are established and have functioned according to plan.
Outcome 2:

Maritime sector energy efficiency capacity-building, awareness raising, knowledge creation and dissemination (CC and IW)
Outcome 3:

Public-private partnerships to catalyse innovation and R&D and technology transfer to meet the needs of developing countries (CC and IW)
Outcome 4:

Monitoring. Learning, adaptive feedback and evaluation
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