Integrating adaptation into national budget processes

1. Integrating Climate Change into National
Budget Processes
UNFCCC LEG Regional Workshop on NAPs for the Pacific
Nadi, Fiji
July 12th, 2017
Kevin Petrini, Regional Climate Change Specialist and Resilience and Sustainable
Development Team Leader
UNDP Pacific Office in Fiji

2. Estimated Average Annual Losses from
Disasters (% of GDP)

3. Photo: Malcolm Ponton
Accumulated impacts of small and
medium-sized events such as local
flooding (as in the picture), high waves
and localized droughts generate losses
that are equivalent to, or exceed, those
of single large disasters.

4. 1. Strengthened integrated
adaption and risk reduction
to enhance resilience to
climate change and
disasters.
2. Low carbon development.
3. Strengthened disaster
preparedness, response and
recovery.
Framework for Resilient Development in
the Pacific

5. Building resilience to climate change and
disasters

6. Development-first approach

7. Risk Governance Building Blocks
• A 'development-first'
approach to managing risk
• Transforming the
development agenda
• Risk Governance Building
Blocks
• Country-led resilient
development

11. Climate Finance Assessments
• Seven national climate finance
assessments in the Pacific
– Climate Public Expenditure and
Institutional Reviews (CPEIRs)
– Pacific Climate Change Finance
Assessment Framework (PCFAF)
• Undertaken in the Pacific region in
partnership with PIFS, SPREP,
USAID, DFAT, UNWOMEN, GIZ, ADB
and others.
• What is a CPEIR/PCFAF?

12. Fiji budget submission
• Develop affordable cyclone insurance cover for homes
• Funds for renewable energy development, including energy conservation and
bio-diesel and bio-gas development, in rural areas to reduce dependence on
traditional fossil fuels
• Environmental and Climate Adaptation Levy (ECAL)
• Improve the forecasting and reporting of weather events in order to make
preparations for natural disasters as effective as possible.
• The Ministry also covers the provisions of immediate relief and rehabilitation
in the aftermath of a natural disaster and funds towards the Disaster Risk and
Climate Adaptation Fund to construct and upgrade evacuation centres and
sea walls in low lying areas, provide water tanks and rain water harvesters to
homes in rural and maritime areas and relocate villages and settlements in
extreme cases.

13. Opportunities for the Pacific to deliberately integrate
Climate Change into budget and planning processes
• Climate Finance Assessments (CPEIR
or PCFAF)
• Climate Change Gender Budgeting
Integration Index (CCBII)
• Climate Finance Fiscal Frameworks
(CFFF)
• Climate Change Budget tagging
(CCBT)
• Cost Benefit Analysis

15. Vinaka Vakalevu
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