National Consultation on Adaptation and Resilience in INDC of India

1. Adaptation in INDCs in the
UNFCCC Process
Sanjay Vashist
Climate Action Network South Asia
July 2015

2. Adaptation in UNFCCC
1. Marrakech Accord (COP 7) Year 2001
 Prepare and implement National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA)
for Least Developed Countries (LDC)
 Establishment of Least Developed Country Fund (LDCF)
1. Bali Road Map (COP 13/CMP 3)- Year 2007
 Adaptation as one of the building block of Bali Road Map (BRM)-
Mitigation, finance and technology transfer.
 Prioritize the vulnerable developing countries as LDC, SIDs and Africa.
 Creation of Adaptation Fund it’s Board, Trustee and Secretariat.
1. Copenhagen Accord (COP 15/CMP 5)- Year 2009
 Global Temperature should be below 2oC and should consider the long
tem goal in relation to temperature rise of 1.5oC.
 Establishment of Green Climate Fund (GCF).
 Short tem finance of 30 billion (2010- 2012)
 Long term finance for 100 billion annually by 2020

3. Adaptation in UNFCCC
4. Cancun Conference (COP 16/CMP 6)- Year 2010
 Adopted Cancun Adaptation Framework (CAF)
 National Adaptation Plans (NAPs)
 Establish Adaptation Committee (AC)
 Work Program on Loss and Damage
5. Durban Platform (COP 17/CMP 7)- Year 2011
 Adopt a draft guidelines for the formulation of National Adaptation
Plan (NAPs)
 Decide Composition of and modalities and procedures for the
Adaptation Committee under the authority of and accountable to the
COP.
6. Warsaw Conference (COP 19/CMP 9) – 2013
 Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage.
 Loss and Damage – A new reality, Third pillar of the negotiation.
 Limits to adaptation.

4. Global Negotiations on Adaptation !

5. Post 2020…
Work stream 1 : decides that [the ADP] shall plan its
work …, including, inter alia, on mitigation,
adaptation, finance, technology development
and transfer, transparency of action and support,
and capacity-building, drawing upon submissions from
Parties and relevant technical, social and economic
information and expertise – Post 2020

6. Post 2020…
Must be based on science and equity;
Participation by all Parties is key;
Must be flexible and sensitive to national
circumstances;
Must be environmentally effective;
Must strengthen international rules-based
system;
Must address all elements of paragraph 5 of
1/CP.17 (Mitigation, Adaptation, Finance,
Technology, Transparency of Actions and
Support, Capacity Building)

7. Pre 2020…
• Work stream 2 : Further decides that the process
shall raise the level of ambition and shall be
informed, inter alia, by the Fifth Assessment Report
of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
the outcomes of the 2013– 2015 review and the
work of the subsidiary bodies
• Decides to launch a work plan on enhancing
mitigation ambition to identify and to explore options
for a range of actions that can close the ambition
gap with a view to ensuring the highest possible
mitigation efforts by all Parties – Pre 2020

8. Intended Nationally
Determined Contributions on
Adaptation
To plan and prepare in advance to deal with climate impacts
To define national level actions with respect to policy
development and implementation using own domestic
resources
 To determine what incremental actions are required which
require means of implementation from international sources
To analyse the potential loss and damage due to limits of
adaptation
To share learning and experience within and outside the
country as part of South-South cooperation

9. Sanjay Vashist
Climate Action Network South Asia
sanjay@cansouthasia.net
@sanjayvashist15

10. Sanjay Vashist
Climate Action Network South Asia
sanjay@cansouthasia.net
@sanjayvashist15