UNDP’S WORK IN GREEN LOW-EMISSIONS

AND CLIMATE-RESILIENT DEVELOPMENT

STRATEGIES (GREEN LECRDS)

Climate and Development

Knowledge Brokers Workshop

Eschborn, Germany

3-5 June 2011

KNOWLEDGE MATERIALS & PLATFORMS

• Background

� About Green Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Development Strategies

(Green LECRDS)

� UNDP’s Approach to Supporting Countries to Develop Green LECRDS

� UNDP’s Experience in Contributing to Green LECRDS

• Knowledge Materials and Platforms

� UNDP’s Green LECRDS website

Outline

� UNDP’s Green LECRDS website

� UNDP’s LECRDS Guidance Manuals & Toolkits

� FOCUS ON: UNDP’s Work in Adaptation

� Adaptation Learning Mechanism (ALM)

o Overview: Objective, Vision & Mission, Partners, How the ALM works, ALM

website

o Explore: What type of knowledge the ALM is managing, Available resources

o Participate: Become a member of the ALM, Scaling up local action, Site visits,

Participation, Usage

o Innovative Features: Outreach, Interactive abilities, Multimedia

Background

� About Green Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Development Strategies � About Green Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Development Strategies

(Green LECRDS)

� UNDP’s Approach to Supporting Countries to Develop Green LECRDS

� UNDP’s Experience in Contributing to Green LECRDS

About Green Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient

Development Strategies (GREEN LECRDS)

• Long-term climate change management requires a shift from sectoral

perspectives to a holistic approach that incorporates climate change

mitigation and adaptation across sectors and national development

panning and budgeting processes

• UNDP’s assistance to countries to formulate and implement Green• UNDP’s assistance to countries to formulate and implement Green

LECRDS, builds upon existing development plans and draws upon

experience and information generated by UNDP’s support in some

140 countries for:

• Adaptation, Mitigation, National Communications to the UNFCCC, Sub-

national Strategies, Capacity Development, Ecosystems & Biodiversity,

Water Governance

• Building upon existing development

frameworks, the Green LECRDS

UNDP’s Approach to Supporting Countries to Develop

Green LECRDS

UNDP supports national and sub-national governments to catalyze public and

private financing for realizing low-emission and climate-resilient development

that are also pro-poor and equitable

Broad Key Steps in Preparing

a Green LECRDSpreparation process involves

multiple sectors, stakeholders, and

levels of government, including

high-level public and private

decision-makers.

• Planning activities and scientific

assessments are fully coordinated

and systematic

STEP 1

Design multi-

stakeholder

participatory

climate

planning and

coordination

process

based on

existing

structures

STEP 2

Prepare

climate

change

profiles and

vulnerability

scenarios

STEP 3

Identify

strategic

options

leading to

Green

LECRD

trajectories

STEP 4

Prioritize

strategic

options

through

technological,

social, and

financial

feasibility and

cost-benefit

analysis

STEP 5

Prepare

Green

LECRD

roadmap

a Green LECRDS

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UNDP Environment & Energy

Group ‘s support services

Develop

LECRD

Strategies

UNDP’s Approach to Supporting Countries to Develop

Green LECRDS

• Technical and Policy Advice

• Developing and Applying

Methodologies

• Oversight and Financial

Management

• Training

• Multi-stakeholder Dialogues

• Convening and Coordination

Establish

Enabling

Environment

Catalyse Finance

Generate and

Share

Knowledge

UNDP’s Experience in Contributing to Green LECRDS

• UNDP has decades of successful project development and implementation expertise

that can be leveraged in assisting developing countries to prepare and implement

Green LECRDS).

• UNDP’s experience in over 140 countries demonstrates that the most cost effective

climate change investments and initiatives are those that provide multiple

development benefits along with adaptation and mitigation, including job creation,

sustainable livelihoods, and greater access rights to energy and environmental sustainable livelihoods, and greater access rights to energy and environmental

services.

• UNDP’s current portfolio of projects that contribute to the development of Green

LECRDS are financed by multiple sources of funds, including but not limited to:

• Adaptation Fund, AusAID, DANIDA, Global Environment Facility Trust Fund,

Government of Japan, Government of Switzerland, Least Developed Countries

Fund, Special Climate Change Fund, UN Volunteers

Knowledge Materials and Platforms

� UNDP’s Green LECRDS website

� UNDP’s LECRDS Guidance Manuals & Toolkits

� FOCUS ON: UNDP’s Work in Adaptation� FOCUS ON: UNDP’s Work in Adaptation

� Adaptation Learning Mechanism (ALM)

o Overview: Objective, Vision & Mission, Partners, How the ALM works, ALM

website

o Explore: What type of knowledge the ALM is managing, Available resources

o Participate: Become a member of the ALM, Scaling up local action, Site visits,

Participation, Usage

o Innovative Features: Outreach, Interactive abilities, Multimedia

UNDP’s Green LECRDS website

http://www.undp.org/energyandenvironment/climatestrategies

• About Green LECRDS

• UNDP’s Approach to Supporting

Countries to Develop Green LECRDS

• UNDP Technical Advisory Infrastructure

to Support Green LECRDS

• UNDP’s Green LECRDS Guidance

Manuals and Toolkits

• UNDP Projects that Contribute to Green

LECRDS

• Adaptation, Mitigation, National/Sub-

national Strategies, Capacity

Development, Water and Ocean

Governance, Ecosystems and

Biodiversity

UNDP Green LECRDS Guidance Manuals & Toolkits

Preparing Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Development Strategies

LECRDS Approach

These materials are intended to enable developing country government

decision-makers and project managers to acquaint themselves with a variety of

methodologies most appropriate to their development contexts in support of

the preparation of LECRDS.

www.undp.org/energyandenvironment/climatestrategies_toolkits.shtml

Preparing Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Development Strategies

(LECRDS) – Executive Summary

Step 1: Design multi-stakeholder participatory climate planning and coordination process

based on existing structures

Charting a New Carbon Route to Development

Establishing a Multi-stakeholder Decision-making Process for LECRDS (Aug 2011)

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UNDP Green LECRDS Guidance Manuals & Toolkits

Step 2: Prepare Climate Change Profiles and Vulnerability Scenarios

Formulating Climate Change Scenarios to Inform Climate-Resilient

Development Strategies

Managing the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Process

www.undp.org/energyandenvironment/climatestrategies_toolkits.shtml

Managing the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Process

Mapping Climate Change Vulnerability and Impact Scenarios – A Guidebook

for Sub-national Planners

Applying Climate Information for Adaptation Decision-Making: A Guidance

and Resource Document

Guidebook on Preparing a GHG Emissions Inventory at the Sub-National Level (Sep 2011)

Step 3: Identify Strategic Options Leading to Low-Emission Climate-Resilient Development

Trajectories

Technology Needs Assessment Handbook

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UNDP Green LECRDS Guidance Manuals & Toolkitswww.undp.org/energyandenvironment/climatestrategies_toolkits.shtml

Toolkit for Designing Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives

Proceedings on Internalizing Climate Risks into Infrastructure Design (June 2011)

LECRDS and Green Employment (Sep 2011)

Step 4: Prioritize strategic options through technological, social, and financial feasibility

and cost-benefit analysis

Catalyzing Climate Finance – A Guidebook on Policy and Financing Solutions

to Support Green, Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Development

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UNDP Green LECRDS Guidance Manuals & Toolkitswww.undp.org/energyandenvironment/climatestrategies_toolkits.shtml

Policy and Financial Instruments Toolkit for Low-Emission Climate-Resilient

Development (June 2011)

Climate Finance Options website (jointly with World Bank)

http://www.climatefinanceoptions.org/

International Guidebook for Environmental Finance Tools (Oct 2011)

Step 5: Prepare Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Roadmap

National Climate Fund Guidebook (June 2011)

Guidebook on Project Management for National and Sub-national Institutions (July 2011)

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UNDP Green LECRDS Guidance Manuals & Toolkitswww.undp.org/energyandenvironment/climatestrategies_toolkits.shtml

A Guidebook on Climate Change Measurement, Reporting and Verification (Oct 2011)

A Guidebook on Legal Climate Instruments (Oct 2011)

UNDP’s Work in Adaptation

• For UNDP, adaptation to climate change means climate-resilient economic

development and sustainable livelihoods, especially for vulnerable

populations – the poor, women, and indigenous peoples.

• UNDP supports these goals by assisting over 75 countries to integrate current

and future climate risks and uncertainties into national and sub-national

development efforts.

• UNDP works with governments, the private sector, communities, and other

partners to build responsive state institutions and public policies; strengthen

public and private sector capacities to manage climate change risks and

uncertainties; and formulate, finance and implement climate-resilient

initiatives

UNDP’s Work in Adaptation

• Together with partners, UNDP supports climate change risk management in

the context of: agriculture and food security, water resources, coastal zone

development, public health, and climate change-related disaster risks

• To finance this work at the national, sub-national and community levels, UNDP

helps countries secure climate change adaptation finance that is available

through vertical funds such as the Adaptation Fund, Least Developed

Countries Fund, Special Climate Change Fund, as well as other multilateral and

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Countries Fund, Special Climate Change Fund, as well as other multilateral and

bilateral sources.

• Countries are supported to optimize the use of these public funds by also

leveraging and catalyzing private finance for adaptation

• To support building adaptive capacity in countries, UNDP, in partnership with

various organizations, facilitates the Adaptation Learning Mechanism, a

knowledge platform that allows direct access to and the exchange of

adaptation information

The ALM is a UN Inter-agency

knowledge platform on

climate change adaptation.

Overview: The Adaptation Learning Mechanism

www.adaptationlearning.net

The ALM provides a platform

for sharing and learning and

complements the wide range

of adaptation knowledge

networks and initiatives

already underway.

Our Vision �

To provide good practice and

operational guidance for

adaptation

Our Mission �

Overview: Objective, Vision & Mission

ALM Objective:

To create and sustain a

knowledge platform that will

build adaptive capacity

through direct access to Our Mission �

To share knowledge and build

partnerships to realise the

catalytic power of knowledge,

communication

adaptation information,

allow information to cross

boundaries & sectors, reduce

vulnerability by integrating

adaptation within

development planning.

Overview: Partners

The ALM is facilitated by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), in close partnership with the World Bank (WB), United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and the United Nations

Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and specialized UN agencies including FAO and UNICEF. Original

funding was provided by the Global Environment Facility.funding was provided by the Global Environment Facility.

The ALM is also establishing additional partnerships with the private sector, public institutions and academia.

• ALM is a participatory mechanism – allowing users to explore

and participate.

• ALM provides multiple points of entry tailored to the needs of

the many stakeholders and end-users.

• ALM ensures that information is easy to access and relevant.

Overview: How the ALM works

Overview: How the ALM works

The ALM website offers:

• A dynamic and user-friendly structure

• Unique inter-agency access

• Cross-sector information

• Information on good adaptation • Information on good adaptation

practices

• Exposure to lessons learned from

community-based adaptation, and

• Country- and regional-level

information.

Explore: Available Resources

Currently hosting over 1,200 resources the ALM ensures that

information is easy to access and relevant

Explore: What type of knowledge the ALM is managing

� 170 Adaptation

Country Profiles

� 400+ Adaptation

Project Profiles

� 200+ Publications on

Knowledge gaps: Determining what type

of knowledge and in what areas

knowledge is lacking or needed

Innovative approaches: Sharing

innovative approaches based on new

research & experiences � 200+ Publications on

Adaptation

� 150 Adaptation

Assessments

� 50+ Guidance & Tools

� News, Events, &

Adaptation Resources

research & experiences

Lessons learned: Exchanging lessons

(what worked, what did not & why) from

existing adaptation projects

Good practices: Disseminating good

practice in approaching adaptation and

designing projects

Participate: Become a member of the ALM

�As an open source platform the ALM has established a global

consortium for the support and facilitation of adaptation learning

and information sharing

�ALM users can post their own resources to the knowledge

platform with easy-to-follow instructions and user-friendly

templates (project profiles, case studies, experiences)templates (project profiles, case studies, experiences)

� Currently, there is a functional, active network of adaptation

stakeholders: 2,000+ users

Participate: Site Visits

In the past year, ALM site visits increased by 864%

with 114,090 total site visits, 137,286 page views,

and over 77,960 unique visitors.

All 192 UN-Member States participate in ALM. Equatorial Guinea,

North Korea, Nauru, Sierra Leone, Palau and Cuba are some of the

top new ALM users in 2010-2011 according to Google Analytics.

Participate: ALM Usage

Innovative Features: Outreach

Discussion ForumsUser GroupsMember Search

Social Networking Sites

Interactive Member SpaceInteractive Member Space

Events Calendar

The ALM recently created

Discussion Forums and User

Groups where stakeholders

(UNFCCC NWP, FAO and UNICEF)

can share & learn about

adaptation in an interactive

Innovative Features: Interactive abilities

adaptation in an interactive

fashion

• Discussion Forums

• User Groups

• Member Search

Thematic pages coming soon �

Innovative Features: Multimedia

� ALM Video Gallery

� ALM Photo Gallery

� Events with Calendar

� Radio documentaries coming soon…

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www.adaptationlearning.net

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