Mitigation: sector, data, information, financial and technical services and

support(sharing experiences)

Vute Wangwacharakul

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Faculty of Economics, Kasetsart University

fecovww@ku.ac.th

• Preparation (Objectives, Areas, Approaches, Resources)

• Implementation

• Finalization

Basic Steps

Basic issues in preparation stage

• Main purposes (contribution to the Convention, consideration of national needs and priorities)

• Read the Guidelines• Literature review (concept, policies, Convention

etc.)• Decide on

– Main objectives, outputs– Areas (sectors)– Approaches– Resources need

Experiences in preparing INC

• Knew nothing about NCs and Guidelines and political process

• Guidelines was very general and flexible

• Experienced with AI-NC and used as examples

• Learned more during preparation– Capacities building/enhancement– Continued process– Technical/political complexity

Mitigation Study in the Initial NC

• Benefited from various relevant studies from USCSP, ADB, UNEP etc)

• Utilized relevant policy documents (e.g. national, sectoral development plans, economic analysis etc)

• Drew objectives based on national policies on CC and needs and priorities (e.g. win-win policies, sustainable development objectives etc)

• Built upon earlier studies

• Sector– Followed inventory sector, identify technical

options– Prioritized sectors to work more

comprehensively e.g. energy

– Others were more descriptive• Data

– Unexpected constraints– Basic data were available, more detailed data

were needed for detailed analysis

• Information

– Problems of access to information, sources of

information

• Financial and technical resources

– Benefited from earlier bilateral/multilateral financial

support

– Implemented under GEF financial support for NC

preparation

– Benefited from UNDP/NCSP

– Technical resources were available locally, mainly

drew from universities and non-profit institutes

Implementation and Finalization

• No new in-dept analysis

• Prepared the chapter based on various research

studies, highlighted climate change related issues,

national policies on CC, measures taken etc.• Identified research gaps • Went through several reviews and integrated into

the NC

Chapter 6 Policies and Measures

• National Sustainable Development Policy

• Policies and Measures related to Climate Change– International and Regional Cooperation– Mitigation and Adaptation

• Mitigation (Energy, Forest Sector)

• Vulnerability and Adaptation

Second NC: Mitigation Section

• Preparation

– How is the Guidelines: Basically the same as the earlier

one, although more paragraphs are given (Based on

national circumstances, sustainable development

priorities etc)

– Review recent development (stocktaking)

– identify areas of emphasis for further analysis

– Integrate the proposal into the proposal for NC

Issues to be considered

• SARs (Subject to Availability of Resources)• Maximum exploitation of national and regional ca

pacities• Integrate capacity enhancement into the NC prepar

ation process– Combined effort between sectoral and climate change e

xperts

• Strengthen regional cooperation in NC preparation• Improvement of database

More things to be considered

• Technical Resources– Make use of past experiences (NAI-NC synthesis)

– Various technical guidelines to read, choose most appropriate ones

– Using models, should clearly understand the mechanism of the model, conceptual advantages/disadvantages

• Support– Multilateral Agencies, bilateral cooperation

– Aim at local capacity enhancement