The EU-UNDP Low Emission Capacity Building Programme aims to build capacities for designing and implementing national mitigation actions in public and private sectors. It has components for GHG inventories, NAMAs, LEDS, and MRV. It is funded by the European Commission, German, and Australian governments. The program supports 14 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Arab States. Examples provided are Colombia developing a low-carbon development strategy through sectoral plans and scenarios building. Chile is starting with a mitigation vision and building on national climate actions. Kenya is mainstreaming climate change and promoting low emission development through sectoral NAMAs, GHG inventory, and technology actions linked to development priorities.

1. EU-UNDP LOW EMISSION
CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME:
A global initiative to support mitigation actions
Yamil Bonduki
Developing Knowledge on Building Blocks of a Global
MitigationArchitecture – Follow-up Workshop
29 November 2011, Durban

2. Programme scope: Designing a low-
carbon future…
Objective: Build capacities to design and implement and national
mitigation actions in the public and/or industry sectors
Programme components:
GHG inventory management systems
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs)
Low-Emission Development Strategies (LEDS)
Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV)
Mitigation actions in selected industries
Funding:
European Commission
German Government (BMU)
Australian Government (to be formalized)

3. Participating countries
Programme Components Africa Asia
Latin
America
Arab States
Component1: Public
Sector Capacity Building
on MRV, NAMAs and
LEDS
DRC Philippines Chile Egypt
Kenya Colombia Morocco
Uganda Ecuador
Zambia Peru
Component2: Private
sector capacity building
for mitigation actions
(cement, iron and steel,
petro-chemicals,
fertilizers)
China Argentina Egypt
Mexico
14 countries – to be expanded to 25-30 countries

4. Global Support Component
Brief examples:
• Colombia
• Chile
• Kenya

5. Colombia (Low-carbon dev – a political
decision
National Development Context
The National Development Plan. 2010-2014 (PND) :
Identificationand prioritization of mitigation options under the
framework for a low carbon development strategy
• The Policy Document (CONPES) – an Institutional coordination
strategy for policy and actions in climate change
1. Climate Change National Adaptation Plan –
2. Colombian Low Carbon Development Strategy
3. National Strategy for Reduction Emissions from Deforestation
and Forest Degradation

6. Colombia (focused on public sector but
participation of private sector
Project Objectives
Build capacity in six sectors to reach their potential for
low carbon and economic development and develop an
MRV system in Colombia.
Thematic Areas
•LEDS / NAMA framed in the National Strategy for Low
Carbon Development
• MRV
•Mitigation action plans in selected sectors (sectoral
plans).

7. Colombia (scenarios building)
Building on previous and on-going work:
•Abatement cost curves for Industrial sector
•Investment cash flows and funding for mitigation actions
in some agricultural subsectors
•abatement cost curves for specific alternatives (“low-
hanging fruits"
•Development of abatement cost curves in six sectors
(industries, energy, mining, waste, agriculture, transport),
including the definition of reference scenarios

8. Chile (starting with a vision)
Chile presented to the UNFCCC (2010) a voluntary
contribution to global mitigation under the
Copenhagen Accord:
• “nationally appropriate mitigation actions to achieve a
20% deviation below the “Business as Usual” emissions
growth trajectory by 2020, as projected from year 2007”.
• Energy efficiency, renewable energy, and Land Use
Land Use Change and Forestry measures will be the
main focus of Chile’s nationally appropriate mitigation
actions.”

9. Chile (building on national climate
action)
The NCCAP (2008) key lines of action:
1) CC as a key issue in Chilean public policies and
national environmental regulations
2)Mitigation as a way to improve economic growth,
reduce overall GHG emissions and decrease adaptation
costs
3) Innovation in the financial and private sector as a
key strategy to increase opportunities for investment in
projects related to mitigation and CC adaptation
4) A strategic long term perspective based on the
assessment of future commitments on CC and their
likely effects on Chile´s international trade.

10. Chile (public/private sector)
Project Objectives
Support the implementation of Chile´s National GHG
inventory system
Improve transparency of initiatives on GHG
inventories and mitigation actions from the private
sector
Develop Chile’s capacity on MRV systems
Contribute to support the MRV of mitigation actions
for energy efficiency and fossil fuels combustion
Contribute to the development of Chile´s LEDS

11. Kenya (CC mainstreaming)
1. Long Term Low Carbon Development
Pathway
Procuring
2. Policy and Regulatory Environment Underway
3. National Adaptation Plan Underway
4. Nationally Appropriate Mitigation
Actions (& REDD+)
Underway
5. National Technology Action Plan Pending
6. National Performance & Benefit
Measurement (MRV)
Pending
7. Knowledge Management and
Capacity Building
Procuring
8. Finance Underway
9. Coordination and Management Underway
NCCRS Action Plan subcomponents:

12. Kenya (development linkages)
Objectives: To promote/support low emission
development in Kenya, in context of national
development needs
(i)To develop a GHG inventory management
system
(ii) To prioritize and develop identified NAMAs
from 4 in key sectors with in-built MRV system,
linkages with development priorities
(iii) Support technology actions in the context of
the climate change action plan

13. Key Challenges
•In spite of strong interest by government, institutional
coordination among many key stakeholders is very
difficult (roles, responsibilities, mandates, budget)
•Technical capacity to conduct some of the more
complex aspects of analysis (e.g. baselines, mitigation
scenarios, cost analysis, etc).
•Effective integration in national/sectoral policies
•Incentives for participation of private sector
•Lack of agreements under the negotiations (guidance,
template)
•Political buy-in of high level officials if perceived as
potential commitments (MRV)
•Institutional capacity to adopt NAMA, LEDS, MRV
related work on a sustainable basis

14. Kenya (building of existing
arrangements
Thematic Working
Groups/Other Relevant
Stakeholders
From the NCCRS Action
Plan’s Thematic Technical
Working Groups based
on MTEF (TGs on
NAMAs, LTLCD, NTAP,
MRV, KM&CB, Finance)
CC Secretariat at
MEMR
Inter-Ministerial Taskforce
TWG on
NAMAs
TWG on
LTLCD
TWG on
NTAP
TWG on
MRV
TWG on
KM&CB
TWG on
Finance
National Project Steering Committee Process to be informed by existing
structures, e.g. the Inter-Ministerial Taskforce on NCCRS Action Plan
(composition: OPM, MoF, MoNP and Vision 2030, MoDNKALs, MoA, Vision
2030 Delivery Secretariat)