Climate change NREG sector review - SD July 2008

ENR annual sector review, 2 July 2008

Sean Doolan, DFID

Climate change

– Ghana has a stake & influence

1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HEAbercrombie House, Eaglesham Road, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 8EA

Child born in drought year in Kenya

50% increased probability of being malnourished

Climate change is central to development

Why are we here?

Climate change developments

• International negotiations

•Government & DP commitments

•EPA & FC work

•What implications for ENR & NREG?

•EPA, FC, MoFEP, civil society, other partners

Economics of adaptation study

Climate change is happening

Post-2012 framework negotiations -UNFCCC

•Bali 2007 to Copenhagen 2009

•Fast-moving, fragmented, overload

Implications of CC for development

•Action at country & regional levels

•Adaptation (how cope & reduce risk?)

•Mitigation (how prevent? adapt energy? link to carbon markets)

Context & priorities

• African voice – national & negotiations

• Additional resources for Africa

• Cost-effective adaptation

• Knowledge base

• Encourage “low carbon development” & mitigation (e.g. REDD)

Ghana & negotiations

•Ghana hosting UNFCCC meeting in August

•Adaptation Financing Board, REDD, technology transfer

•Adaptation measures

• Interest in carbon markets

•Need informed ability to engage on C markets

NREG & climate change

Opportunity for comprehensive response

• common funding mechanisms & dialogue

Significant governance challenges

• How climate strategies are crafted

• Who is involved

• National & sector levels

• Facilitate bottom-up action

Multiple stakeholders

• NREG MDAs, MoFEP, other MDAs

• Different sector groups

• Civil society, academia, industry

Economics of adaptation study 1

• WB-managed, NL & DFID funding

• Multi-country

• national budgets & plans

• international adaptation financing in negotiations

Robin Mearns, Thi Linh Phu (WB)

www.worldbank.org/environment/EACC


• Expected impacts under different CC scenarios – GDP %?

• Good practice – what is adaptation?

• Plausible adaptation pathways, assessing social & economic returns

• Integrate adaptation into broader development policies & planning

• Inform development of international financial mechanisms for adaptation


• Combining bottom-up & top-down approaches

• Key economic sectors & most vulnerable groups

•Sector issues: agriculture, cocoa, health, infrastructure, energy …

•Regional disparities & impacts

• Economic modelling

•Allocations & trade-offs across sectors


• Link to national budget & policy cycles

• Return September - national institutions & consultants, ToRs

• Preliminary findings end 2008 – NREG draft adaptation strategy

• Brief to new Government

• Results Aug 2009 (budget cycle)

• Dec 2009 Copenhagen UNFCCC meeting

www.worldbank.org/environment/EACC

Climate change NREG sector review - SD July 2008

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