The document outlines the GEF-6 proposed Sustainable Cities Integrated Approach Program (IAP). The IAP aims to integrate global environmental considerations into city management through planning, design, and actions to support sustainability goals. It proposes a common platform using consistent metrics, tools, and sustainability plans to connect urban actions to global impacts across multiple cities and partners. The framework would provide integrated policy support, priority initiative demonstrations, financial mechanisms, and partnerships at the country/city level, coordinated at a global level. The total proposed resource is $55 million from GEF trust funds to support global/regional programs and matched country programs.
Participants will be invited to reflect on the 2nd November WP-STAT meeting outcomes and implications for future reporting, including:
What supplementary guidance material and tools could be made available to support the application of the Rio markers?
Should an online user-friendly format for the guidance table be developed?
In the context of continual developments across the international community on climate finance definitions, is there need for further harmonisation?
Ms. Sarah Hashem - Sustainability of the three main aspects of the ( economic...Talal Al-Shammari
This sustainability report was prepared according to GRI guidelines for the period of April 2014 to March 2015. Data was collected from audited reports, HSE reports, and logbooks by specified data collectors. The report aims to inform stakeholders on KNPC's performance, initiatives, and challenges during the reporting period in a transparent manner. KNPC's current process involves training data collectors, distributing questionnaires, consolidating data, and engaging third party auditors. Stakeholder engagement is also a priority, with stakeholders mapped on a grid through a brainstorming session.
Session 5.1: Programatic approach in building resilienceNAP Events
The document summarizes the key findings of an evaluation of the Climate Investment Funds' programmatic approach to delivering climate finance. Some of the main points are:
1) The programmatic approach helped ensure programs supported transformational change by facilitating inclusive strategic planning linked to predictable funding. This contributed to increased government ownership and awareness of climate issues.
2) The approach was most effective in the investment planning phase, but less so in project implementation. The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience sustained the approach best through monitoring and coordination mechanisms.
3) Effective government leadership and capacity, as well as coordination mechanisms, were important for applying the programmatic approach successfully in both planning and implementation.
The document outlines the GEF-6 proposed Sustainable Cities Integrated Approach Program (IAP). The IAP aims to integrate global environmental considerations into city management through planning, design, and actions to support sustainability goals. It proposes a common platform using consistent metrics, tools, and sustainability plans to connect urban actions to global impacts across multiple cities and partners. The framework would provide integrated policy support, priority initiative demonstrations, financial mechanisms, and partnerships at the country/city level, coordinated at a global level. The total proposed resource is $55 million from GEF trust funds to support global/regional programs and matched country programs.
Participants will be invited to reflect on the 2nd November WP-STAT meeting outcomes and implications for future reporting, including:
What supplementary guidance material and tools could be made available to support the application of the Rio markers?
Should an online user-friendly format for the guidance table be developed?
In the context of continual developments across the international community on climate finance definitions, is there need for further harmonisation?
Ms. Sarah Hashem - Sustainability of the three main aspects of the ( economic...Talal Al-Shammari
This sustainability report was prepared according to GRI guidelines for the period of April 2014 to March 2015. Data was collected from audited reports, HSE reports, and logbooks by specified data collectors. The report aims to inform stakeholders on KNPC's performance, initiatives, and challenges during the reporting period in a transparent manner. KNPC's current process involves training data collectors, distributing questionnaires, consolidating data, and engaging third party auditors. Stakeholder engagement is also a priority, with stakeholders mapped on a grid through a brainstorming session.
Session 5.1: Programatic approach in building resilienceNAP Events
The document summarizes the key findings of an evaluation of the Climate Investment Funds' programmatic approach to delivering climate finance. Some of the main points are:
1) The programmatic approach helped ensure programs supported transformational change by facilitating inclusive strategic planning linked to predictable funding. This contributed to increased government ownership and awareness of climate issues.
2) The approach was most effective in the investment planning phase, but less so in project implementation. The Pilot Program for Climate Resilience sustained the approach best through monitoring and coordination mechanisms.
3) Effective government leadership and capacity, as well as coordination mechanisms, were important for applying the programmatic approach successfully in both planning and implementation.
This document discusses a guidance table created by KfW Development Bank to help assign climate change Rio Markers to development projects.
The guidance table provides examples of project types in various sectors and recommends Rio Marker scores for climate change mitigation and adaptation. It aims to standardize the assignment of Rio Markers and complement existing guidelines.
The table is intended as an orientation tool for project developers, and is not officially binding. It is used by KfW and BMZ to advise on and quality check Rio Marker assignments. Benefits include improved consistency in scoring, less need for advice, faster quality control, and increased understanding of how projects can qualify for climate change financing.
The document summarizes key discussions from a climate change expert group meeting on developing common reporting tables for greenhouse gas inventories and ensuring a sustainable COVID-19 economic recovery. Some of the main points discussed include: using the existing reporting framework as a starting point but ensuring all countries can engage; developing the reporting tables and software together; allowing flexibility in reporting for developing countries; and monitoring economic recovery plans to support measures that meet both short-term economic and long-term climate and sustainability goals.
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Uganda - Addressing agricultural resilience in long term climate planning ins...UNDP Climate
The landscape of climate planning instruments available to countries under the UNFCCC process includes National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and Long Term Strategies (LTS). These instruments have emerged at different milestones such as the Cancun Adaptation Framework and the Paris Agreement and have specific characteristics and objectives which can contribute to and reinforce each other if leveraged effectively. Despite their very distinctive nature, these national instruments can be harnessed to scale up climate change adaptation by fostering linkages depending upon country context.
Addressing climate resilience in sectors and across sectors is a vital part of climate planning. Adaptation in agriculture is a crucial component of building resilient economies and societies and is national priority for a significant number of countries. It is well established that agricultural sectors are amongst the most climate sensitive. Over 90 percent of developing countries’ NDCs refer to agriculture as a major priority.
The juxtaposition of the range of climate planning instruments on one hand, and the sensitivity of agriculture on the other requires that all instruments be linked, sequenced and aligned appropriately by countries to best fit their national circumstances.
The webinar will draw upon country-level experiences from NAP-Ag partner countries to highlight entry points for alignment and strategies to trigger this conversation.
Webinar highlights
Unpacking the characteristics of NAPs, NDCs and LTS.
Exploring steps being taken by ministries of agriculture, ministries of environment, water and finance to leverage these instruments to scale up climate adaptation in agriculture.
Identifying what linkages are already being fostered between NAPs, NDCs and LTS and the key considerations in advancing climate change adaptation in agriculture.
Dan Nicholls, Cornwall CC - Localising the benefitsPAS_Team
This document discusses policies for sustainable energy and community involvement in energy projects. It notes that planning policies must support the transition to low carbon economies. Benefits of renewable energy projects do not automatically outweigh all planning concerns. There has been an increased emphasis on renewable energy and community benefits through initiatives like allowing communities to invest in and profit from local energy infrastructure projects. Neighborhood plans can help communities shape energy agendas and support community-owned renewable projects and local energy markets.
Regional Review of UNDP-UNEP Partnership on SAP Implementation in the South C...Iwl Pcu
Presentation by Mr. John Pernetta, Consultant & Former UNEP/GEF South China Sea Project Director, at the 6th GEF Biennial International Waters Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia in October 2011. The presentation covers a regional review of UNDP-UNEP Partnership on SAP Implementation in the South China Sea.
The document discusses key takeaways from a virtual forum on the environment and climate change hosted by the Climate Change Expert Group. It notes that common tabular formats can help track progress towards nationally determined contributions in a transparent way while balancing usability and machine readability. It also stresses the importance of ensuring economic stimulus packages in response to COVID-19 facilitate a clean energy transition and do not cause emissions or policies to backslide. Several countries are already integrating climate ambitions into their recovery plans.
Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, UNDP-GEF: Mainstreaming climate change into planningNAPExpo 2014
1. Countries have established foundations for integrating climate change into medium- and long-term planning through processes like NAPAs and poverty reduction strategies.
2. Adaptation finance will come from multiple sources, including public domestic and international sources, as well as private sources. Blended finance can be used to attract more funding.
3. A "whole of government" approach is needed that supports iterative climate-informed planning and budgeting across sectors to ensure climate change is fully addressed. This includes assessing financial needs and identifying barriers to investment.
This document outlines the Results Based Management (RBM) framework used by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The GEF uses RBM to focus on achieving high-level goals and measurable targets. Key aspects of the GEF's RBM include developing a corporate results framework with replenishment targets, monitoring project and portfolio performance, reviewing and reporting results to stakeholders, and using performance information for management and decision-making. The document also reviews plans to further strengthen the GEF's RBM system.
The document discusses prioritizing adaptation activities and options. It notes that prioritization is important given constraints like resources, capacities, and authority. Some options can be maladaptive if they foreclose other options. The document then provides examples of prioritization methods like ranking vulnerabilities, scoring consequences, and multi-criteria analysis. It emphasizes selecting an approach that suits available data and involving stakeholders in deciding criteria and rankings. Overall, the summary highlights that prioritization of climate adaptation requires considering constraints, potential unintended impacts, appropriate methods, and stakeholder participation.
The UNEP/MAP-GEF MedPartnership project aims to continue efforts to reduce pollution in the Mediterranean Sea and protect biodiversity through implementing strategic action programs. It involves 12 countries working with UNEP/MAP and the World Bank over multiple components including regional projects, investment funds, and demonstration projects. The project seeks to advance policy and legal reforms, fill knowledge gaps, and help implement integrated coastal zone management plans. Initial results include workshops training over 200 practitioners and reductions in water use and pollution loads at demonstration sites.
The document discusses two perspectives in reporting on development finance statistics by the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC): the recipient and provider perspectives. It explains how bilateral flows and multilateral outflows are considered from the recipient perspective, while the provider perspective includes bilateral flows and imputed multilateral contributions. The document also provides an update on proposals to include several additional multilateral institutions in the DAC's Annex 2, which lists organizations for which member countries report core contributions.