Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions

NAMAs

Daniela CarringtonClimate change policy advisor

Energy and Environment Practice UNDP BRC

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Charting a course away from dangerous climate change: A window of opportunity of 100 months

• To keep within 2C threshold CO2eqv concentration

should stabilize at 450 ppm

• A sustainable emissions pathway will require the world to cut of 50 percent by 2050

We have witnessed three economic transformations in the past century. First came the industrial revolution, then the technology revolution, then our modern era of globalization. We stand at the threshold of another great change: the age of green economics.” UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon

World population predicted to reach nearly 9 billion by 2050

Entering into new era of green global economic growth, through significant mitigation of GHG emissions and generating funding for mitigation and adaptation actions and thus creating new investment opportunities

UNFCCC on NAMAs• Agreed in Bali in 2007 (COP13), submissions after Cancun 2010

(COP16) and elaborated at subsequent sessions:

– Voluntary mitigation actions by developing countries – domestically implemented or internationally supported in the context of sustainable development

– Any government-supported (prioritized under LEDS) policy, program, project that results in measurable GHG reductions can be a NAMA

• Developments on:

– MRV: domestic and international, biennial update reports, ICA

– NAMA Registry: will record information and facilitate the matching of action and support (operational after Doha)

– Financing: Green Climate Fund to support development and implementation (fast start finance and after it?)

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Formats for NAMAThe Durban Agreements (2011) provide general framework of information that should be provided for NAMAs seeking international support via the NAMA registry:

(a) Description of the mitigation action and the national implementing entity, including contact info;

(b) Expected timeframe for the implementation of the mitigation action;

(c) Estimated full cost of the preparation;

(d) Estimated full cost and/or incremental cost of implementation of the mitigation action;

(e) Amount and type of support (financial, technological and capacity building) required to prepare and/or implement the mitigation action;

(f) Estimated emission reductions;

(g) Other indicators of implementation;

(h) Other relevant information, including the co-benefits for local sustainable development, if information thereon exists.

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UNFCCC Registry: http://unfccc.int/cooperation_support/nama/items/6945.phpUNEP: NAMA Idea Note (NINO) (similar to PIN for the CDM) http://namapipeline.org/Publications/LowCarbonDevelopmentStrategies_NAMAprimer.pdf

Current developments at Bangkok informal meeting

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Proposed elements for Doha decision (not agreed):

• To reiterate invitation to developing countries to submit NAMAs

• Continue the process of understanding the diversity of NAMAs

• To submit additional information on underlying assumptions, methodologies, sectors, gases, GWP, support needed

• Compile information on NAMAs in a structured manner

• Request the relevant body to develop MRV guidance for support

• Work to clarify methodological issues, taking into account national diversity

• Organize regional workshops to build capacity

• Take stock of existing capacity building activities to support NAMAs development and implementation

• Prepare a handbook to support preparation of NAMAs

UNFCCC workshop on NAMAs, Bangkok

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In session workshop on NAMAs (2 September 2012)

Panel 1. Underlying assumptions and methodologies, sectors and gases , and estimated mitigation:

Developing countries - instruments for transparency have been developed already (i.e., ICA and biennial update reports) so no need for additional processes on reporting and transparency; NAMAs are country-driven, diverse and must respect national circumstances; there is no need for their standardization

Developed countries - value of increased transparency on NAMAs by expressing the underlying assumptions, such as GDP growth and baseline emissions

Panel 2. Support for NAMAs:

EU - need for countries to contribute their own finance; NAMAs should fit within country’s broader LEDS. Operationalization of support through the UNFCCC Registry early next year

Developing countries - need for all kind of capacity needs in regards to NAMA development, implementation, and MRV

Informal summary: http://unfccc.int/files/adaptation/application/pdf/wsnamasummary4sep12.pdf

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Thank you!

daniela.stoycheva@undp.org

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UNDP tools

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Supporting the EE and CIS transition to low-emission development: Governments to have an enhanced capacity to design, access finance and implement LEDS/NAMAs

Regional ProjectThe countries will be enabled to make informed policy and investment decisions, that reduce GHG emissions, reduce poverty, create new employment opportunities and green jobs and move societies towards long term sustainability.

Developed:

• How to Guide on Low-emission development strategies and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions: Eastern Europe and CIS – in English and Russian (other UNDP tools)

• LEDS/Plans in Kazakhstan, Moldova, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, initiated in BiH and Croatia

http://europeandcis.undp.org/home/publications/

NAMA Idea Note _ UNEP

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How to organize NAMA development• The linkages to national communications and GHG inventories, as

well as the data needed for designing a NAMA• Integration of NAMAs into broader low-carbon (SD) development,• Setting up a interministerial coordination and assure stakeholders

involvement for identifying and prioritizing (criteria/political) NAMAs and

• Identification of sources

of finance, technology and c.b.

needs• The MRV systems• Roles and responsibilities of different ministries and institutions in

developing, submitting, implementing, and MRVing (double counting)

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