Sustainable Development and Transition in Eastern Partnership Countries: Environment, Energy and Climate
1. Martin Krause
Team Leader - ECIS
Environment, Energy, Climate
UNDP
2. State of Affairs
Common Root Causes &
Obstacles
Governance and
Institutions
Capacities and Skills
Policies, Regulations Drained peatlands extracted for fuel
Financing and
Incentives
3. State of Affairs (2)
The Issues
Ecosystems and Natural
BEFORE
Resources
• Land
Degradation, Water, Biodiver
sity Loss
Energy and Climate Mitigation
• Renewable Energy and
Energy Efficiency
AFTER
Chemicals
• HCFCs and other ODS
Vulnerability to Climate
Impacts, Disaster Risk Reduction
4. Approach and Positioning
Sustainable Human Development;
Inclusive Green Growth; MDGs
Environment, Energy, Climate
Removing
Barriers, Pressures, Threats
(policies, regulations, capacities, in
stitutions, behavior, finance)
Creating a favorable environment
for investments from public and
private sector – ODA is not
sufficient
5. Approach and Positioning (2)
Policy dialogue, knowledge sharing
Projects, access to financing
6.
7. International
Waters
Energy
Chemicals
Ecosystems/
Biodiversity
Climate
Adaptation
8. Belarus - Peatlands
• 1960: 14.2% of the country
2012: 6.4% of the country
71% drained for
agriculture, forestry, fuel Before
extraction
• Ecosystem restoration - hydro-
technical works in the field to
raise the ground-water table to
soil level
• 28,000ha restored. In addition to
environmental
benefits, development dividends
for local communities:
cranberries, fish After
grounds, ecotourism + policy
changes
9. Regional (Belarus, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan) - Accelerated
HCFC Phase Out
• Phase out for HCFCs under
Montreal Protocol
Curtail HCFC consumption
• Legislative measures to control
HCFC import/use; supply of
analytical and servicing
equipment/tools for the
Environmental Inspectorate and
Customs Departments and
refrigeration technicians;
technological conversions for
solvents and rigid foams
• Protecting human health and the
environment by assisting
countries to phase out
consumption and
production, and prevent releases
of ODS
10. Armenia - Energy Efficient District Heating
• New legal and regulatory
framework for rehabilitation of
DH systems, including feed-in
tariff for power generation
• USD 10m direct foreign (private)
investments leveraged into new
DH system (Avan district of
Yerevan, 213 buildings, 30.000 Multi-apartment panel building with
residents) exhaust chimney from gas heater
installed in one apartment
• System features combined heat
and electricity and introduced
apartment level metering
• 640 new contracts signed
between customers and heat
supply companies in the pilot Heat meter installed at the entrance to an apartment in
areas Avan district of Yerevan
11. Promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency
programmes - SE4ALL
Management of Ecosystems and Natural Resources -
including sust. agriculture, forests, peatlands, pastures
Climate adaptation – Crisis and Disasters
Transboundary water programmes such as the Black Sea
Sound chemicals
management
Poverty-Environment
Initiative