ADP – Background

Siddharth Pathak

Ad Hoc working group on DurbanPlatform for enhanced actions

• Agreed to at Durban, COP 17 • decides to launch a process to develop a protocol,

another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the Convention applicable to all Parties

• Decides that [the ADP] shall complete its work as early as possible but no later than 2015 …at the twenty first session of the Conference of the Parties and for it to come into effect and be implemented from 2020

Background ADP

• Informal and roundtable discussions have been held throughout 2012 and 2013 to help bring Parties to a common level of understanding and to provide assistance where needed

• Over the past two years, productive discussions have allowed Parties to cover a number of topics such as: principles of equity, common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, historical responsibilities, technology transfer and capacity building, intellectual property rights, etc.

WS 1

• Work stream 1 : decides that [the ADP] shall plan its work …, including, inter alia, on mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology development and transfer, transparency of action and support, and capacity-building, drawing upon submissions from Parties and relevant technical, social and economic information and expertise – Post 2020

Under WS 1

• Must be based on science and equity;• Participation by all Parties is key;• Must be flexible and sensitive to national

circumstances;• Must be environmentally effective;• Must strengthen international rules-based system;• Must address all elements of paragraph 5 of 1/CP.17

(Mitigation, Adaptation, Finance, Technology, Transparency of Actions and Support, Capacity Building)

COP 19 - Warsaw

• Commitment deadlines were set and Parties agreed to initiate or intensify domestic preparations to determine their contributions so as to be “communicated well in advance” to 2015;

• Elements of the 2015 agreement were not defined but Parties submissions made it clear most countries see it important to include mitigation and adaptation efforts in the new agreement;

• The creation of the Mechanism on loss and damage could potentially have financial implications on a new agreement

WS 2

• Work stream 2 : Further decides that the process shall raise the level of ambition and shall be informed, inter alia, by the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the outcomes of the 2013– 2015 review and the work of the subsidiary bodies

• Decides to launch a work plan on enhancing mitigation ambition to identify and to explore options for a range of actions that can close the ambition gap with a view to ensuring the highest possible mitigation efforts by all Parties – Pre 2020

Under WS 2 • Areas of discussions:○ Increasing ambition of emission reduction pledges○ Emissions gaps○ Mitigation actions at national level○ Catalysing action the international level○ Enablement and support

• Process needs to be informed by IPCC AR5, 2013-15 Review, relevant work in the SB’s

• Submissions are requested on 3 areas:○ Mitigation and adaptation benefits○ Barriers and ways to overcome them, incentives,○ Finance, technology, capacity building

COP 19 – Warsaw • Organize workshops as appropriate; Improve the visibility of quantified

economy-wide emission reduction targets, quantified emission limitation and reduction commitments and nationally appropriate mitigation actions on the UNFCCC website;

• Organize technical expert meetings to provide a venue for sharing policies, practices and technologies during ADP sessions in 2014 to share policies, practices and technologies, especially on actions with high mitigation potential, update the technical paper on actions initiatives and options for enhancing mitigation ambition regularly and enhance the visibility on the UNFCCC website of actions with high mitigation potential; and

• Convene a forum for sharing the mitigation and adaptation experience and best practices of cities and subnational authorities at the 40th session of the SBI (UNFCCC, 2014).

Goals by the ADP Co-chairs are to:

a) Make significant progress as to the content of the 2015 agreement in order to create a negotiating draft text by COP 20 in Lima, Peru;

b) Initiate discussions to help Parties prepare for nationally-determinedcontributions;

c) Help countries realize the importance for raising pre-2020 ambitions

Thank you for your attention.