Environmentally Sound Management and Destruction of PCBs
Project Summary
: Minimize risks of exposure from PCBs to Mexicans, including vulnerable populations (e.g., school children and workers), and to the environment, while promoting Mexico’s timely compliance with the Stockholm Convention requirements for PCB management, including convention decommissioning, and destruction provisions.
Project Details
| GEF Project ID | 3270 |
| Project Type | Full-size Project |
| Status | Completed |
| Country | Mexico |
| Region | |
| Focal Areas | |
| Funding Source | GEF Trust Fund |
| Implementing Agencies | United Nations Development Programme |
| Executing Agencies | Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT) |
| GEF Period: | GEF - 4 |
| Approval Fiscal Year: | 2008 |
Financials
| Project Preparation Grant Amount | 170,000 USD |
| GEF Project Grant | 4,630,000 USD |
| Co-financing Total | 14,060,000 USD |
| GEF Agency Fees | 482,500 USD |
| Total Cost | 18,860,000.00 USD |
Project Timeline
Received by GEF
25 Oct 2006
Preparation Grant Approved
09 Apr 2007
Concept Approved
01 Nov 2007
Project Approved for Implementation
14 Jan 2009
Project closed
19 Oct 2018