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DELIVERING GLOBAL ENVIRONEMNTALENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - STAP report to the 5th gef assembly, MAY 2014. Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel The Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel, administered by UNEP, advises the Global Environment Facility Draft 28 March 2014 Report to the GEF Assembly Delivering Global Environmental Benefits for Sustainable Development STAP’s Report to the 5th GEF Assembly, Mxico, May 2014 1.1 cutive Summary provide scientific support and advice for collective action to sustain the Earth’s life-support systems through targeted investmentsCan we add Investetments in governance, management systems and infrastructure. ; enable improved human well-being, health, livelihoods and social equity as co-benefits to environmental protection; and support innovation and transational change as the ultimate goal for a more secure future. STAP wishes to presentuse this report to the Fifth GEF Assembly to underline the importance of integration and cross-focal area approaches in order to achieve global environmental benefits and to show large-scale, sustained improvement of the Eearth’s ecosystems. In particular, STAP intends Proposes Endeavours to promote scientific knowledge towards the GEF-CEO’s call for “transational change”. STAP believes that now is the right time to bring about more innovation and develop synergies between focal areas and between environment, and development and ending poverty. Environmental security is a necessary pre-condition for the GEF’s operations, and STAP believes an enhanced role for the social sciences, including politics and economics, is necessary to integrate in GEF operations in order to deliverbuild environmentally sustainable development. Currently, the GEF is structured around focal areas – biodiversity, climate change mitigation and adaptation, land degradation, international waters, chemicals and wastes. STAP believes that a more systemic approach should now be pursued vigorously, building on the growing trend now seen inoftoward many more multi-focal area MFA projects but also acknowledging the GEF’s catalytic role to integrate environment and development. At its core, ‘environmentally sustainable development’ describes an approach to change that looks to balance different, and often competing, needs against an awareness of the environmental, social and economic limitations systemseconomic limitations is in my mind not correct terminology in this case.The economy is what delivers value. How can be debated as can equity issues. But that we do not need to go into. we face as a global society. Science and technology are necessary to support innovation. Innovation is an outcome of effective knowledge management, the process by which organizations generate value from their intellectual and knowledge-based assets in an effort to develop solutions and best practices. STAP has the resources to bring together guidance from the Conventions and evidence from the scientific community that will ensure the GEF is utilizing appropriate s, techniques, ideas, frameworks and models in its programs and projects. In support of greater integration, STAP