Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs)

H.N.K.T.Dulani

Assistant Director

Climate Change Secretariat

State Ministry of Environment

Outline of the Presentation

Background information on NAMAs

Asia Pacific and Eastern European countries with NAMAs

NAMA Registry

Present status of NAMAs in Sri Lanka

Background

Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs)

Sub-paragraph 1 (b) (ii) of the Bali Action Plan

Developing country Parties will undertake nationally appropriate mitigation actions in the context of “sustainable development” enabled by technology, finance and capacity building support, in a measurable, reportable and verifiable manner

Background

COP 15 requested developing country Parties to submit to the secretariat information on their NAMAs;

55 Parties have submitted their NAMAs. In addition a joint submission from African Group on NAMA in agriculture sector;

All the submissions on NAMAs from Parties can be found at: http://unfccc.int/focus/mitigation/items/7172.php

Asia Pacific and Eastern European countries with NAMAs

Country

Afghanistan Cook Islands Jordan Papua New Guinea

Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia

Armenia Georgia Kyrgyzstan Republic of Korea

Republic of Moldova

Bhutan India Maldives Cambodia Indonesia

China Israel Marshall Islands

Singapore Mongolia

Tajikistan

Types of NAMAs

1. Unilateral NAMA

2. Supported NAMA

3. Credited NAMA

NAMA Registry

Develop a registry as a web-based platform to record mitigation actions and information on support

Facilitate matching of finance, technology and capacity building support to mitigation actions and provide recognition to domestically supported actions

Present status of NAMAs in Sri Lanka

Registered at the UNFCCC NAMA Registry

Established National Coordinating Entity (NCE)for NAMAs in Sri Lanka

A Project Proposal on “Appropriate Mitigation Actions in Energy Generation and End-Use sectors“ has been submitted to the GEF and it will implement in next year.

A technical support project has been started with UNDP-MDG Carbon to Prepare NAMAs for Transport sector

Energy Sector NAMA

Objective: To support appropriate climate change mitigation actions in the energy generation and end-use sectors as part of the initiatives to achieve the GHG mitigation targets of Sri Lanka

Component 1: Business as usual energy generation and end-use sector baselines at national and sub-national level.

Component 2: Mitigation options for the energy generation and end-use sectors

Component 3: Implementation of appropriate mitigation actions in the energy generation and end-use sectors

Component 4: MRV system and a national registry for mitigation actions in the energy generation and end-use sectors

Transport Sector NAMA

Based on the feasibility study done by Ministry of Transport, on Bus Rapid Transit for Colombo Metropolitan area preparation of NAMA proposal for transport sector has been initiated.

Objective of this NAMA proposal is the reduction of GHG emissions through reducing traffic congestion

Thank you…!