Pre-sessional workshop on Response MeasuresBrainstorming. Crystal Ball Gazing

Peter Govindasamy

“The farther back you can look,the farther forward you can see”

Winston Churchill

RM Timelines

2015COP21

2016COP22

2017COP23

2018COP24

2019COP25

Hook in Paris Agreement for RM

COP Decision on Improved Forum

• Technical Expert Group

• Modalities• Functions• Work

Programme

SB44 First meeting of the Improved Forum

FCCC/SB/2015/L.2. para 7 review of work programme and modalities of the improved forum in Nov 2018

May 2016

For Post - 2020

(2016 – 19

Looking Back -

• Paris Agreement: Parties “may be affected not only by climate change, but also by impacts of measures taken in response to it”

• Economic and social implications would become more pronounced with the implementation of NDCs

• Need permanent, responsive, adaptive, effective process; leading to actions to address adverse implications

• Learn from pre-2020 work and experiences, build on existing structures - continuity

• Anchored in, and respect legal instruments; meet mandates

Seeing ForwardLooking Back –

ContactGroup

ForumTechnical

Expert Group

Pre- 2020 Foundation

- Building the Response Measures HouseSeeing Forward

Pre-2020 FoundationAnchored in Legal Instruments

Ad HocTEG

FCCC/SB/2016/L.2 REV.1

Modalities, Work Programme, Functions

Recommendations

SBs

COP

Improved Forum meeting in the form of Contact Group

FCCC/CP/2015/10/Add.2

ContactGroup

ForumTechnical

Expert Group

Pre- 2020 Foundation

Seeing Forward - Building the Response Measures House

Slide 8

Introduction

Strategy 1: Diversify Energy Supplies

Permanent, Continual, Responsive, Adaptive, Actions, Effective

Implementation Negotiations

Modalities,Work

Programme,Functions

ImprovedForum

Contact Groups

Recommendations

SBs

COP

Post-2020 Response Measures HouseModalities for the post-2020 constuct

Technical Experts Group

Technical Expert Group in the Post-2020 Structure

Number of Experts : 12

Composition: 2 each from 5 regional groups of UN; 1 each from SIDs and LDCs

Duration term of Experts: 3 years

Staggered rotation (for continuity)

Flexibility to meet as necessary to be determined by the TEG.

Technical Experts to have relevant qualifications and expertise in scientific, technical and socio-

economic fields related to Work Programme of Forum

Membership of TEG to be nominated and approved by Parties

Co-chairs of the TEG for fixed terms (e.g. 3 years) to be decided by TEG members

Meetings open to attendance by accredited observer organisations and observers from Parties

Secretariat to support activities of the TEG

The Forum in the post-2020 structureModalities to deliver Work Programme

To assess and analyze, and to identify actions to address the impact of the implementation of response measures

Provide platform for Parties to share information, experiences, case studies, best practicesExpert inputs from TEGPrepare technical studies and reportsIn-Forum, and inter-sessional (eg. regional) training workshops to build capacity for countriesInputs from, and cooperate, coordinate with international organizations and inter-

governmental organizationsDraw up inventory of response measuresDevelop guidelines, methodologies, and modelling tools

Forum to meet in conjunction with SB sessionsProvide recommendations on actions to SBs and COP

ContactGroup

ForumTechnical

Expert Group

Pre- 2020 Foundation

Seeing Forward - Building the Response Measures House

We live in a carbon and energy costrained world today. If there is one

natural resource that that the world has left in infinite quantity, that would be

human ingenuity…

Let a hundred ideas bloom