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Integration of Climatic Variability and Change Into Natio PROJECT DOCUMENT Section 1: Project Identification 1.1 Project title: Integration of climatic variability and change into national strategies to implement the ICZM Protocol in the Mediterranean 1.2 Project number: GFL/ PMS: 1.3 Project type: FSP 1.4 Trust Fund: GEF 1.5 Strategic objectives: GEF strategic long‐term objective: 1. To foster international multi‐state cooperation on priority transboundary water concerns. 2. To catalyse transboundary action addressing water concerns. Strategic programme for GEF IV: SP1 SP3 1.6 UNEP priority: Resource efficiency ‐ sust. consumption/production 1.7 Geographical scope: Regional multi‐country: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Montenegro, Syria and Tunisia. The Palestinian Authority also participates. 1.8 Mode of execution: Internal 1.9 Project executing organization: UNEP/MAP Coordinating Unit 1.10 Duration of project: 30 months Commencing: 1 January 2012 Completion: 30 June 2014 1.11 Cost of project US$ % Cost to the GEF Trust Fund 2,298,545 27.1 Co‐financing Cash Sub­total 0 0 In‐kind Executing Agencies: United Nations 714,000 8.5 Environment Programme / Mediterranean Action Plan (UNEP/MAP) In 1 kind UNEP/MAP Priority 1,164,000 13.7 Actions Programme/Regional Activity Centre (PAP/RAC) In Kind Global Water 612,000 7.2 Partnership‐ Mediterranean (GWP‐Med) Cash/In Kind UNEP/MAP Plan Bleu 1,306,400 15.4 – Regional Activity Centre (In kind) Sub Total 3,796,400 44.8 Participating Countries: The Kingdom of 60,000 0.7 Morocco, Ministry of Energy, Mining, Water and Environment Albania, Ministry of 400,000 4.7 Environment , Forest and Water Administration Arab Republic of 400,000 4.7 Egypt, Ministry of State for Environment Affairs, Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency Republic of Croatia, 400,000 4.7 Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical planning and Construction (in kind) Montenegro, Ministry 350,000 4.1 of Sustainable Development and Tourism (In kind) Palestinian National 120,000 1.4 Authority, Environment Quality Authority (In kind) Republic of Tunisia, 400,000 4.7 Ministry of Agriculture and Environment 2 Bosnia and 250,000 3.1 Herzegovina, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations (In kind) Sub­total 2,380,000 28.1 Total 8,474,945 100.0 1.12 Project summary The countries of the Mediterranean recognize that with current projections there will be a number of climate impacts, including increased summer temperatures and decreased annual precipitation, increased water‐related extreme phenomena like floods and persistent droughts, enhanced water scarcity and increased desertification, the loss of, or shift in vegetation zones, threatened food production as a result of increased irrigation demands and more numerous incidents of plant diseases, human health hazards, particularly with regard to infectious diseases and increased heat‐related mortality. It is critically important that research work advances our understanding of how climate variability will impact the coastal zone communities, natural resources and marine and coastal biodiversity of the Mediterranean. However, it is equally as important to ensure that scientific information, thus generated, be made accessible to decision makers, and that actions be taken to integrate them within the context of ICZM as well as into current land use and water policies and practices, in order to improve sustainability in view of future climatic scenarios. ICZM is a long established management approach in Mediterranean coastal regions. Its importance for the regional countries has been strengthened by the entry into force of the ICZM Protocol to the Barcelona Convention (March 2011). The Mediterranean ICZM protocol is intended to reap development benefits through implementation of a management approach that will facilitate sustainable economic growth; help conserve natural habitats and species; assist in controlling pollution of coastal waters; contribute to the more efficient use of coastal resources; help rehabilitate degraded resources; provide mechanism and tools for rational resource allocation based on appropriate valuation of ecosystem services; and help mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate variability and change. The ICZM protocol is the first regional ICZM legal instrument that deals extensively with the issue of climate change, both at the strategic level (by requesting countries to mainstream climate change issues into national ICZM strategies and plans) and local levels (by requesting countries to define, inter alia, the coastal setback zone). This project – complementary to the overall GEF/UNEP/World Bank Strategic Partnership for the Mediterranean Sea Large Marine Ecosystem (the MedPartnership) initiative ‐ will support the implementation of the ICZM Protocol through the development of the region wide capacity, enabling environment, and tools needed to address climate variability and change in the Mediterranean Region. It is expected that the project will result in an updated TDA of the Mediterranean Sea LME integrating Climate Variability and Change (CV&C) issues, in the establishment of effectively functioning mechanisms for capacity building, sharing of data on CV&C impacts in coastal areas and experiences in coping strategies, and in the development of a pilot ICZM plan integrating measures related to climate variability and change ready for implementation. The project will include four components and 15 main outputs. 3 Project Framework Component Outcome Output Component 1: Outcome 1.1 Output 1.1.1: Regional consensus Establishment of a CV&C achieved on mechanism for CV&C Multi‐country data platform information sharing platform indicators, data collection and data on climate research sharing protocols. supports ICZM planning and This component will strengthen the management coordination for a long term regional Output 1.1.2: Regional consensus climate variability monitoring achieved on mechanism for CV&C program with consensus on objectives, data sharing. targets, impact indicators and implementation modalities. This will Output 1.1.3: Online Multi‐country be supported by a web‐based regional Information Sharing Platform on data platform on climate research with CV&C monitoring data in coastal particular focus on the environmental areas developed and economic impacts of climate change in the coastal zone. The monitoring program and database will be integrated into national and regional ICZM monitoring processes and in doing so will contribute to on‐ going work within the ICZM protocol to the Barcelona Convention. Outcome 2.1 2.1.1: Regional analyses of sea‐level Component 2: rise and storm surges, of changes in Strengthening the knowledge base Improved understanding of water characteristics and marine on regional climate variability and CV&C in the Mediterranean acidification, and with special focus change region, enables countries to on river deltas and on the assess impacts on the identification of vulnerable In order to enrich our understanding coastal environment. areas/hotspots. of climate variability in the Mediterranean, this component will ensure that current models assessing 2.1.2: Assessment of environmental scenarios and impacts of climate and socio‐economic impacts in two variability are applied to the region, critically vulnerable sites, and and will assist countries to more evaluation of response options. precisely calculate the impacts of climate variability to their marine and 2.1.3: Regional assessment of socio‐ coastal zone. In partnership with other economic impacts of CV&C and regional programmes (such as coping strategies in coastal zones MedClivar), it will include latest for various scenarios. results on the regional and global processes influencing climate variability such as the influence of the 2.1.4: TDA for the Mediterranean North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Basin revised with consideration of Indian monsoon, predicted changes in climate change and variability. marine salinity and marine acidification. It will focus on the coastal watersheds, with emphasis on risks to water availability and quality and marine ecosystems (including agriculture and fisheries), and other risks to be further defined, likely to include coastal erosion and landslides. 4 Based on the findings of these studies, the TDA for the Mediterranean Basin will be updated with respect to climate change and climate variability. Outcome 3.1 3.1.1: Methodology and tools for Component 3: Science based mainstreaming climate variability Support to ICZM Protocol methodological approach considerations into national ICZM implementation and capacity enables countries to planning and practices developed building integrate climate variability considering synergy with other and change issues into ICZM related national plans (IWRM, policies, plans and NSSD, CCA, etc) Increased capacity, strengthened programs. partnerships and joint actions will 3.1.2: Integrated management plan create an enabling environment for developed in one of the locations implementation of the ICZM protocol. 2.1.2 At the national level, inter‐ministerial committees will contribute to multi‐ 3.2.1.: Existing inter‐ministerial sectoral dialogues on policy and Outcome 3.2 coordination mechanisms management processes in the Increased knowledge, enhanced to mainstream climate Mediterranean, and facilitate the capacity, and awareness variability and change issues into mainstreaming of the ICZM protocol improve inter‐sectoral ICZM planning processes. into national plans. Targeted capacity coordination in building
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