1. 18 December, 2017, Webinar on NAP under the UNFCCC Process, Slycan Trust
Rohini Kohli
Lead Technical Specialist – NAP Portfolio
UNDP Global Environment Finance
Climate finance for the National
Adaptation Plans process

2. Key messages
- National Adaptation plans are an instrument to identify and prioritize
investment needs for climate change adaptation and reduction of
vulnerability in the medium to long term
- Access to climate finance both for formulation and implementation of
national adaptation plans is required
- The scale of adaptation finance needs are unlikely to be met by any
single source of finance. Tapping and blending public, private,
international and domestic finance will be important to address
scaled up adaptation investments
- The Green Climate Fund readiness window for NAPs/other
adaptation planning instruments is an opportunity for countries to
advance their NAPs process. This will support the development of
adaptation investment pipelines and financing strategies to be
supported by GCF and other international and domestic sources.

3. What is the NAP process?
 The national adaptation plan (NAP) process was
established under the Cancun Adaptation Framework
(2010).
 It enables Parties to formulate and implement national
adaptation plans (NAPs) as a means of identifying
medium- and long-term adaptation needs and developing
and implementing strategies and programmes to address
those needs.
 It is a continuous, progressive and iterative process which
follows country-driven, gender-sensitive, participatory and
fully transparent approach.
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Under the Paris Agreement, the Global Adaptation Goal, Adaptation Communications
are key milestones. NAP process is well recognized in Article 7

4. Objectives
The Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC have agreed on the
following objectives of the NAP process:
• To reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change,
by building adaptive capacity and resilience; and
• To facilitate the integration of climate change
adaptation, in a coherent manner, into relevant new and
existing policies, programmes and activities; in particular
development planning processes and strategies, within
all relevant sectors and at different levels, as appropriate.
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5. D. Reporting, Monitoring
and Review
1. Monitoring the NAP process
2. Reviewing the NAP process to assess
progress, effectiveness and gaps
3. Iteratively updating the national
adaptation plans
4. Outreach on the NAP process and
reporting on progress and effectiveness
C. Implementation
Strategy
1. Prioritizing climate change adaptation
in national planning
2. Developing a (long-term) national
adaptation implementation strategy
3. Enhancing capacity for planning and
implementing adaptation
4. Promoting coordination and synergy at
the regional level and with other
multilateral environmental
agreements
A. Laying the groundwork
and addressing gaps
1. Initiating and launching of the NAP process
2. Stocktaking: identifying available
information on climate change impacts,
vulnerability and adaptation and assessing
gaps and needs of the enabling environment
for the NAP process
3. Addressing capacity gaps and weaknesses
in undertaking the NAP process
4. Comprehensively and iteratively assessing
development needs and climate
vulnerabilities
B. Preparatory Elements
1. Analysing current climate and future
climate
change scenarios
2. Assessing climate vulnerabilities and
identifying adaptation options at the sector,
subnational, national and other levels
3. Reviewing and appraising adaptation
options
4. Compiling and communicating national
adaptation plans
5. Integrating climate change adaptation into
national and subnational development and
planning

6. Catalyzing adaptation finance

7. Slide 7NAP country-level training
Sector Example activities
Enabling
activities
Supporting the development of climate change adaptation-specific
policies, programs and plans
Policy and
legislation
Strengthening capacities of national institutions responsible for
adaptation
Agriculture Promoting diversified agricultural production to reduce climate risk
Energy Strengthening of energy transmission and distribution
infrastructure to cope with the expected impacts of climate change
Health Strengthening food safety regulations; developing or enhancing
monitoring systems
Transport Building protection from climate hazards into existing transport
infrastructures (e.g. Disaster Risk Reduction measures)
Water and
sanitation
Monitoring and management of hydrological and meteorological
data
What needs to be financed in adaptation?
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8. Analysing impacts of climate over
development as usual
Agricul
ture
Water
Health Housin
g
Five-year plan
budget outlay is
“business as
usual”
development
Additional
financing
Climate
Climate
Climate
Climate
Climate
- Identifying development priorities
- Prioritizing programmes/projects and capacity building activities to support these
activities

9. Catalyzing
Adaptatio
n
Finance
Adaptation Finance is unlikely to be at the scale required without an
effort to remove a few key barriers
 Need to create conditions that attract finance without
compromising development goals and sharing cost burden
on end-users.
 Multiple stakeholders (investors, end-users, policy makers,
supply chains, etc)
 Broad spectrum of policies, incentives and support
mechanisms to
(a) reduce risks (i.e. lower cost of capital)
(b) increase rewards (i.e. premium prices, credits, etc)
Catalyzing Adaptation Finance

10. Recipient countries face climate finance challenges despite increased
financial flows from public, private, domestic & international
sources:
Responding to country needs & demand: Emerging lessons from
UNDPs readiness support
• Lack of national capacities to navigate complex financial landscape
to access, manage, deliver, track & report on different forms of
finance
• Barriers to catalyse private finance to address the climate challenge
as public finance alone cannot provide the “clean trillion” necessary
to avoid 2°C rise
• Limited alignment between climate & development inhibits
economy-wide transformation; climate finance must be
mainstreamed into business, planning & development policy

11. Financial
Planning
• Understand
current climate
expenditures
• Assess needs &
priorities, identify
barriers to
investment
• Identify policy mix
& sources of
financing
Accessing
Finance
•Directly access
finance
• Blend & combine
finance
• Formulate
project,
progamme,
sector-wide
approaches to
access finance
Delivering
Finance
• Implement &
execute project,
programme,
sector-wide
approaches
• Build local supply
of expertise &
skills
• Coordinate
implementation
Monitor &
Report
• Track
progress
• Monitor &
report flows
• Performanc
e-based
payments
Elements of Climate Finance Readiness
• National systems must be “ready” for climate finance so that countries
can access public & private, domestic & international finance
• Strengthening planning, access, delivery, and M&E capacities ensures
climate finance is available & effective in all countries
Elements of Climate Finance Readiness
• National systems must be “ready” for climate finance so that countries can
access public & private, domestic & international finance
• Strengthening planning, access, delivery, and M&E capacities ensures climate
finance is available & effective in all countries

12. A Defining Framework for Medium and Long-Term
Climate Change Adaptation Challenge
Catalyzing
Adaptation
Finance
Integrated Model “Blended Finance

13. Capital
Market
Private
Sector
Source: UN-MPTF, 2014
Blend
FSources
Integrated Model “Blended Finance”

14. GCF perspectives on the impact of
adaptation planning
Understanding
climate
impacts and
vulnerabilities
Designing
strategies
and actions
to address
these
impacts
Achieving
ownership and
investment by
key actors
(private/public,
sub-national,
etc.)
Creating
adaptation
financing
strategy
(including
GCF project
pipeline)

15. Adaptation planning
Scope
• National adaptation
planning (NAPs)
• Other adaptation
planning processes
Modalities
• Readiness Programme up
to $3M/country
• Funding proposals under
Adaptation window
Governing
instrument
Paris
agreement
Board
Adaptation
planning
processes

16. Key messages
- National Adaptation plans are an instrument to identify and prioritize
investment needs for climate change adaptation and reduction of
vulnerability in the medium to long term
- Access to climate finance both for formulation and implementation of
national adaptation plans is required
- The scale of adaptation finance needs are unlikely to be met by any
single source of finance. Tapping and blending public, private,
international and domestic finance will be important to address
scaled up adaptation investments
- The Green Climate Fund readiness window for NAPs/other
adaptation planning instruments is an opportunity for countries to
advance their NAPs process. This will support the development of
adaptation investment pipelines and financing strategies to be
supported by GCF and other international and domestic sources.

17. • Low Emission Capacity Building Programme (LECB)
 EC, Germany - BMU/ICI, Australia
• National Adaptation Plan Support Programme (with UNEP)
 LDCF, SCCF, Govt of Japan (Caribbean and Pacific region)
 Integrating Agriculture into NAPs (with FAO)
 Germany BMUB
• GCF Readiness Programme (with UNEP, WRI)
 Germany BMUB
• National Communications Support Programme (with UNEP)
 GEF
• Climate Public Expenditures & Institutional Reviews (CPEIRs)
 Canada-SIDA, multiple partners, LDCF, SCCF
• Climate Finance Options Platform (with World Bank)
 World Bank, UNDP
• National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs)
 LDCF
UNDP & Partners’ Readiness Initiatives

18. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
ROHINI KOHLI
UNDP Lead Technical Specialist, NAP Portfolio
Rohini.kohli@undp.org
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTENTION