Louangphabang

Bolikhamxai

Viangchan

Oudômxai

Champasak

Xaisômboun

Xaignabouli

Xiangkhouang

Phôngsali

Houaphan

Xékong

Salavan

Khammouan

Attapu

Savannakhét

Louang Namtha

Bokèo

Lao People's Democratic Republic

30% renewable of total energy consumption by 2025

10% transport energy from biofuel by 2025

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The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has one of Southeast Asia's highest forest cover rates. Approximately 70 per cent of the population lives in rural areas, with nearly two-thirds heavily dependent on forests for their livelihoods. However, forests have diminished in the past decades due to deforestation and forest degradation. The primary drivers include land expansion for agriculture, livelihood needs seemingly dependent on uncontrolled cultivation, infrastructure development and unsustainable logging.

Lao PDR has been establishing national policies, strategies, and institutional frameworks to guide forest management and sustainable use, with REDD+ initiatives being an important part of the process since 2008. Following an independent technical assessment under UNFCCC guidelines, Lao PDR’s reported results of verified emission reductions of 14,391,897 tCO₂e from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2018 were confirmed as credible and transparent. With this verification, the country became eligible to access results-based payments under GCF’s REDD+ Pilot Programme.

The GCF proceeds from the REDD+ RBP will be reinvested in implementing the Governance, Forest Landscapes and Livelihoods – Southern Laos Project (GFLL-SL), which will promote the sustainable management of Lao PDR's forests to enhance climate change mitigation and adaptation capacities, ecosystems conservation, and equitable and sustainable green growth of rural communities. GFLL-SL targets four critical forest landscapes across five southern regions of Savannakhet, Salavan, Champasak, Attapeu and Sekong. By integrating conservation, restoration, and livelihood measures at scale, GFLL-SL reduces emissions, enhances carbon stocks, and builds resilience for local communities. This makes the use of proceeds both climate-critical and highly cost-effective.

Enhancing resilience and sustainable livelihoods in the watershed areas of the Northern Lao PDR (Nam Phark river basin, Nam Ou river basin, Nam Kor Catchment and Ngeum River) through acceleration of the integration of ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) solutions at the national and subnational levels

Local CSOs and CBOs in landscapes-seascapes around the world access grant financing and technical assistance, including capacity development and knowledge sharing to maintain and enhance their socio-ecological resilience, well-being and socio-economic conditions for global environmental benefits.

Many of the countries in Southeast Asia are among the most vulnerable to climate change. And yet, some of the countries in the region also have the most carbon-intensive growth. To achieve low emission, climate-resilient growth, these countries not only need climate technology transfer but also a regional ecosystem for climate technology incubation and acceleration. However, the Southeast Asian ecosystem for climate technology incubation, acceleration, and growth investment is nascent.

The Collaborative R&DB programme targets five countries in Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Philippines, and Viet Nam. The programme will create an incubation and acceleration platform to support and improve the local ecosystem for climate technology for low emission and climate-resilient development, which are fit-for-purpose for the local market and social conditions. The platform will also enable joint ventures and technology transfer, where appropriate, between local entrepreneurs and global climate technology innovators. These objectives will be achieved through a USD 200 million fund to crowd-in private capital, which will be complemented by technical assistance activities. The technical assistance will build regional and domestic capacity for climate technology, as well as provide enabling policy support. The Climate Techopreneurship Fund, which will be created under this programme, will invest in approximately 40 portfolio companies in the region. The investment in the climate technology and business of the portfolio companies are expected to ultimately reach 2.3 million direct and indirect beneficiaries.

This funding proposal was developed with support provided by the GCF Project Preparation Facility.

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