Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

Supporting LDCs to advance their National Adaptation Plans Asia Regional Training Workshop

Marriott Resort and Spa, Pattaya, Thailand, 17-20 February 2014

Nele BünnerGesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit(GIZ)

Session 6Indicator-based Monitoring for

the German Adaptation Strategy

German Adaptation Strategy (DAS)• Adopted by in December 2008 • Adaptation Action Plan 2011 • Progress report to provide a broad

overview on the advances• Indicator-based monitoring report:

– How does CC affect natural and socio-economic systems? Which impacts of do we already recognize?

→ Impact indicators – How do we act? Which adaptation

measures are being implemented?

→ Response indicators


Session 6Indicator-based Monitoring for the German Adaptation Strategy

Objectives of adaptation M&E• Support learning about what does

and does not work and so help improve adaptation actions

• Monitoring whether a strategy or action plan is being implemented (accountability)

• Monitor whether vulnerability to climate change is being reduced (effectiveness)



Action fields of DAS


• Construction industry• Biological diversity• Soils• Energy sector• Finance and insurance sector• Fishery• Forestry• Industry and commerce• Agriculture• Human health• Tourism• Traffic and transport infrastructure• Water balance, water management, coastal and marine protection

• Cross-sectoral field: Spatial, regional and urban development planning• Cross-sectoral field: Civil protection and disaster control


Requirements on the monitoring report• Report will be structured along the 15

action fields• Linked to objectives • Use existing data & immediately

implementable

• Language should be easy to understand• Diagram, photo• Links to other indicators• Reference to objectives from DAS• In addition: Indicator factsheets



Requirements on the process• Target group: political decision-makers and those

members of the public who are interested and/or affected

• Transparency of the selection process necessary for scientific and political acceptance

Involved actors: Federal Environmental Agency (lead), consultant, governmental agencies on national and federal level, non-governmental organizations, academia, private organizations.



• System is based on existing data collaboration with governmental and non-governmental data providers necessary

• Broad acceptance needed (principle of ownership):• Science: small expert groups focussed on the action fields,

intensive bilateral consultations, workshops elaborating joint products: indicator factsheets and contributions to the report almost 400 people involved

• Political sphere: all the federal ministries and federal states are invited to comment on the detailed indicator proposals

• Non governmental institutions also provide data



Stakeholder involvement

• Collected data– More than 100 indicators (partly including additional sub-

indicators) based on existing data– Indicators ready for implementation, every indicator is agreed

on the scientific level, political level under review

• Most important data gaps- Industrial and banking sector:

Only some singular enquiries carried out, but no regular data collecting activities, often specific measures not yet existing

- Soil: large monitoring projects, but not fully harmonized data- Some indicators only available on the federal level



Results

Indicators by Action Field

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Action fields and cross-sectional fieldsImpact indicators Response

indicators Total

Water regime, water management, coastal and marine protection 10 4 14

Woodland and forestry 7 6 13Biodiversity 3 1 4Human health 8 3 11Agriculture 5 6 11Energy industry 4 4 8Spatial, regional and physical development planning - 7 7Tourism industry 7 7Transport, transport infrastructure 4 2 6Soil 2 3 5Civil protection 1 4 5Fishery 2 3 5Building sector 1 3 4Financial services industry 3 1 4Trade and industry 1 2 3Total 55 48 107




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Response indicatorBAU-R-1 Recreation areas


• In contrast to clearly defined CO2-

reduction targets there are no quantifiable adaptation targets in general

• Monitoring approach on the federal level• At the recent state of the adaptation

process a systematic evaluation of the DAS is not possible



Main challenges

• Main target: avoiding additional operating expenses- No new programs for adaptation M&E system- Strengthening specific data interpretation activities (e.g. erosion risks,

biodiversity) Making additional benefit from already existing data

• Aligning the adaptation reporting with other reporting requirements- E.g. making use of data from EU Habitats Directive, EU Water

Framework Directive,- Common indicators with other nationwide indicator systems (on

sustainability and biodiversity) Difficult due to partly very specific adaptation issues

• Task sharing - Indicator based report as a joint product of all sectors

all make contributions („a problem shared is a problem halved“)- Centralized coordination envisaged



Capacity needs for M&E system

First Monitoring Report foreseen for the end of 2014:• It is indicator-based, including

– Impact indicators: How does CC affect natural and socio-economic systems?– Response indicators: How do we react and how does it develop?

→ Regular reporting on agreed indicators to measure progress of implementation of strategy

→ Evaluation of the DAS



Outlook

Thank you for your interest!


Contact: Nele Bünner, [email protected] or Dr Till Below, [email protected]

This presentation is based on material kindly provided by the Federal Environmental Agency (UBA), Germany. Contact: Dr Petra van Rüth [email protected]


mailto:[email protected]



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Indicator-Factsheet

Technical Documentation


Indicator-Factsheet

• Author (Name and Institution)• Cooperation (Name and Institution)• Last update• Planned update


Indicator-Factsheet

• Number and Title • Short description• Unit• Calculation rules• Facilitate data interpretation


Indicator-Factsheet

• Placement in the monitoring system• Sector• Subject


Indicator-Factsheet

• Explanation and argumentation• Strength and weaknesses• Legal basis• DAS targets•Reporting obligations


Indicator-Factsheet

• Technical information• Spacial and temporal resolution• Geographical coverage


Indicator-Factsheet

• Glossary• Literature


Indicator-Factsheet

• Data sources and converting• Data costs • assign responsibilities


Indicator-Factsheet

• Proposal for the diagram

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