To achieve polar bear conservation and protection, the TDA and SAP can allow for the development and implementation of a plan for assessment and management of polar bears in Arctic LMEs. A TDA focusing on polar bear assessment and sustainability during climate change would necessarily create a call of investments from the five nations responsible for polar bear subpopulations. Through the TDA and SAP processes, agreed-upon funding priorities may be created to relate to the key issue: declining and unknown polar bear subpopulations facing further losses. While the SAP would identify the thematic and target areas of intervention, the NAPs would require specific metrics for assessing, monitoring, and adaptively managing the status of polar bears. Currently, one GEF-supported project mentions polar bear habitats and subpopulations from a conservation perspective but the project does not examine the varying conditions and contexts of different Arctic LMEs needed to implement management actions for sustaining polar bears during climate warming across all LMEs. For example, a comparative analysis across the LME regions of polar bear subpopulations would assist governments, donor agencies and policy makers to promote ecosystem-based polar bear management in Arctic LMEs. Specifically, analytical objectives of a GEF-funded project could include: