Integrating mitigation and adaptation climate policies - Lessons learned in Latin America
Building resiliency to the effects of climate change and transforming economies toward low-carbon development requires integrated, cross-cutting solutions. In this way, a new paradigm is emerging toward addressing multiple risks and delivering co-benefits across climate and non-climate drivers. This will entail connecting climate action to long-term sustainable development planning, financing, and budgeting. Effectively integrating sustainable development with climate change adaption and mitigation means evolving from working in silos to working in synergy. And current national efforts to align three key processes — the SDG Agenda, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), and National Adaptation Plans (NAP) formulation and implementation—can be a key lynchpin to achieving that. This was the main message emerging from a breakout discussion on 3 May in Berlin, Germany, at the Global NDC Forum. The event was organized by the Integrating Agriculture in National Adaptation Plans (NAP-Ag) and National Adaptation Plan Global Support (NAP-GSP) programmes. Co-organized by UNDP, the German Environment Ministry-hosted event brought together over 250 climate experts and policymakers from around the world to forge partnerships that can support scaling-up climate action and a prompt start to implementing the Paris Agreement on Climate Change as articulated in countries’ NDCs.
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- 2. We empower transformational leaders by: Creating a meeting space for a regional network of governments, cooperation agencies, non-governmental organizations, academia and the private sector, which are working to develop and implement LEDS, in order Disseminate, tools, case studies, methodologies and other mechanisms for LEDS design and implementation Develop and strengthen capacities and competences, promoting learning and exchange of information and best practices Open opportunities for coordination, collaboration and synergies.
- 5. Towards synergies between mitigation and adaptation Synergy between mitigation and adaptation = That generated if the combined effect of mitigation and adaptation is greater than the sum of its effects when implemented separately (Vallejo et. al, 2015) Source: Duguma et al. (2007) Separate Measures Complementarity Synergy Time and Scope
- 8. INCLUSIVE ACTION CAPACITIES INCENTIVES FRAMEWORK KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT GOVERNANCE REFRAMING THE SYSTEM COMMON LANGUAGE Considerations for the Design and Implementation of Synergies between Adaptation and Mitigation MARCO DE INCENTIVOS GOBERNANZA LENGUAJE COMÚN ¤ System initially focused on mitigation (adaptation considerations come further on) ¤ Adaptation and mitigation treated separately in strategies, institutions and even cooperation ¤ Need to rethink institutional or political frameworks ¤ Pass from a sectorial vision to a systematic one – encouraging that adaptation and mitigation permeate all national development practices
- 9. INCLUSIVE ACTION CAPACITIES INCENTIVES FRAMEWORK KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT GOVERNANCE REFRAMING THE SYSTEM COMMON LANGUAGE Considerations for the Design and Implementation of Synergies between Adaptation and Mitigation MARCO DE INCENTIVOS GOBERNANZA LENGUAJE COMÚN ¤ Availability of appropriate and updated information ¤ Knowledge of the co-benefits ¤ Evaluation and monitoring of the impacts, positive and negative, of mitigation measures on adaptation and vice versa ¤ Creation of indicators for synergies between adaptation and mitigation ¤ Dissemination of existing efforts – national, regional and global levels
- 10. INCLUSIVE ACTION CAPACITIES INCENTIVES FRAMEWORK KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT GOVERNANCE REFRAMING THE SYSTEM COMMON LANGUAGE Considerations for the Design and Implementation of Synergies between Adaptation and Mitigation ACCIÓN INCLUSIVA CAPACIDADESGESTIÓN DE INFORMACIÓN REPLANTEAMIENTO DEL SISTEMA ¤ Long term vision, country policies and objectives aligned with synergies between adaptation and mitigation sought ¤ Design an implementation of encouragement, financial and non financial, that: • Build on what already exists • Encourage integrated results beyond mitigation and adaptation, and • Provide security to local stakeholders for implementation
- 11. Climate Finance in LAC 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% America, regional Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Nicaragua North & Central America, regional Paraguay Peru South America, regional Uruguay Venezuela Mitigation AdaptationBoth Mitigation and Adaptation Source: CAD Statistics, OECD. 2013 Data. (http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/climate-change.htm)