Webinar: Prioritising Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs)

Introduction to the Webinar & the Low Emission Capacity Building Programme

17 January 2013

Yamil Bonduki, Programme Manager Low Emission Capacity Building (LECB) Programme Environment & Energy Group/Bureau for Development Policy United Nations Development Programme

Snapshot: LECB Programme

• • • $40 M (funded by European Commission, Germany – BMU, Australia) Runs to 2016, 25 countries Part of UNDP’s Green Low-Emission, Climate-Resilient Development Unit

Africa

DRC Ghana Kenya Tanzania Uganda Zambia

Asia

Bhutan China Indonesia Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam

Latin America & Caribbean

Argentina Chile Colombia Costa Rica Ecuador Mexico Peru Trinidad & Tobago

Arab States Europe/CIS

Egypt Lebanon Morocco Moldova

Desired outcomes of Programme

 Holistic policies/programmes to address climate change through mitigation action linked to development priorities  Removal of technical and institutional barriers – strengthened capacities to support NAMAs, LEDS  Strategies to direct public and private investments (international and national)  Improved analysis that allow more informed decision making on GHG mitigation  South-south exchange of knowledge, tools, approaches 

Readiness for climate finance

Why this webinar?

• Emerging need in some LECB countries for support on prioritising NAMAs (involving stakeholders, guidance on screening criteria, etc) • Builds on the work for screening mitigation options (either qualitatively or quantitatively) → But with a

stronger emphasis on sustainable development (and thus co-benefits) for NAMAs

• Foster south-south exchange of experience & learning

Key considerations

• Need to ground the NAMA prioritization in national development planning context • Using a low-emission, climate-resilient development strategy as overarching framework to prioritize NAMAs, where applicable, and other broad relevant frameworks • Linkages with relevant processes such as the National Communications • Prioritization will involve political decisions as well as technical ones – when to engage policy makers and other key stakeholders will be important consideration