Events

The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) team is fully participating in the one weeklong 68th Global Environment Facility's (GEF) Council meeting that kicked off on 16 December.

Drought, intensified by climate change, has become a significant global challenge with profound environmental and socioeconomic consequences. It disrupts ecosystems, deteriorates soil health, accelerates biodiversity loss, and increases greenhouse gas emissions. It also endangers agricultural systems, worsens water scarcity, and threatens food security.

At the request of the Government of Canada, STAP hosted the Science Day at the Seventh GEF Assembly in Vancouver, BC, on Tuesday, 22 August 2023.

At the request of the Government of Canada, STAP hosted the Science Day at the Seventh GEF Assembly in Vancouver, BC, on Tuesday, 22 August 2023.

Rosina Bierbaum, STAP Chair, reported to the 64th GEF Council Meeting on STAP's work over the past six months.  As you can see in the full Chair's Report, it had four main topics:

On May 4, 2023, the STAP and the GEF Secretariat delivered a virtual workshop on knowledge management and learning (KM&L) in the GEF-8 Integrated Program platforms.

Dr. Rosina Bierbaum, the chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) to the GEF, made a presentation on STAP’s guidance and advice on climate change adaptation.  

As the GEF-8 Integrated Programs are established, with a universal ambition to be transformative, it is important to be clear on what transformation is and how to monitor it in ways that can assist with rapid learning and adaptive management.

On May 5-6, 2021, STAP held a virtual workshop on Business and Mainstreaming Biodiversity to examine biodiversity mainstreaming from the business perspective, with a view at how the GEF could promote nature-positive development in concert with the private sector. Rosina Bierbaum, STAP Chair; John Donaldson, STAP Member for biodiversity; and Tom Lovejoy, STAP Senior Advisor, co-chaired this event, which included participants from the private sector, academia, civil society and the GEF partnership. 

27 April 2021: Science Supporting Transformations towards Global Sustainability