World Bank/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the Large Marine Ecosystems of East Asia (Tranche 1 of 3 tranches)

Project Objective: The objective of this proposed World Bank/GEF East Asia Land-Based Pollution Reduction Investment Fund Project (the Partnership Fund) is to reduce local, national and trans-boundary degradation of East Asia’s marine ecosystems due to land-based pollution. It would help implement the action plans that are emerging from the GEF-supported planning efforts for the South China Sea and the Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystems, and the national and local commitments facilitated by the GEF/UNDP/IMO PEMSEA Project (Partnerships for Environmental Management of the Seas of East Asia). Its strategic objective would be to help address the three major gaps in ongoing regional land-based pollution control efforts, which are concentrated in a few large cities and in publicly-owned and managed waste-water treatment facilities.

These gaps are:

• (i) pollution from secondary cities and their industrial complexes,
• (ii) agricultural pollution, and
• (iii) private investment and public/private partnerships for pollution reduction

The project’s development goal would be to promote sustainable development of the coastal areas of the East Asia region by reducing land-based pollution of its rivers and seas. Its global environment goal would be to promote the environmental sustainability of several of East Asia’s large marine ecosystems by reducing land-based pollution of them. The Partnership would establish a World Bank-implemented, GEF-financed Investment Fund to Address Land-Based Pollution of the Large Marine Ecosystems of East Asia, the first five-year phase of which would be capitalized with $70-80 million of GEF resources.

The Fund would co-finance:

• (a) a series of large-scale publicly-managed, World Bank co-financed pollution-reduction investment projects or programs in regional land-based pollution “hot-spots”; and
• (b) a revolving fund or funds to stimulate and co-finance site-specific private and/or public-private land-based pollution investments, particularly in the manufacturing and agro-industrial sectors, also in regional land-based pollution hot spots.

It would be loosely modeled on the World Bank/GEF Nutrient Reduction Investment Fund for the Danube/Black Sea Basin, which was established in 2002 and has catalyzed over $400 million worth of anti-pollution measures."

Documents & Resources

newsletter PEMSEA E-Updates- Issue 01 January 2014 PEMSEA E-Updates- Issue 01 January 2014 project-document East Asia LME Fund-Project brief East Asia LME Fund - Project Concept Paper Project Document for WP (Revised) Annexes (3) Annexes (2) Annexes (1) Executive Summary (Revised) PDF-B Document (Revised) Endorsement Letter from Government-Indonesia Endorsement Letter from Government-Philippines Project Concept (Revised) Endorsement Letter from Government-Cambodia project-identification-form Fund Executive Summary: World Bank/GEF Partnership Investment Fund for Pollution Reduction in the Large Marine Ecosystems of East Asia (Tranche 1 of 3 tranches) 3025 Partnership Investment Fund Brief Project document TC July 2000 Back Cover TC July 2005 Back Cover TC July 2006 Back Cover TC Dec 2001 Back Cover TC July 2012 Back Cover TC July 2004 Back Cover TC Dec 2002 Back Cover Image Coastal Biodiversity in the East Asian Seas Container Traffic in East Asian Seas Distribution of People Affected by Natural Disasters, by Country and Type of Phenomena in Asia (1975-2001) Water Supply and Sanitation Coverage in East Asian Countires Water Supply and Sanitation Coverage in East Asian Countires map East-China Sea East-China Sea