Events

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

On 7 April 2021, Rosina Bierbaum, STAP Chair, made a presentation to the GEF agencies on "STAP's Perspective on the Way Forward in Knowledge and Learning for the GEF Partnership".  The presentation is available for download under Documents.

On July 9, 2020, Rosina Bierbaum, Chair of STAP, chaired an event entitled, "Webinar: The Journey of the Global Environment Facility: Delivering Transformational Change".  The event took the form of a conversation between Naoko Ishii, outgoing GEF CEO and Chairperson, and her successor, incoming GEF CEO and Chairperson, Carlos Manuel Rodriguez.  Rosina is pictured here with both Naoko Ishii and Carlos Manual Rodriguez.