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22/10/2009
Addis-Ababa
The PRE-COP HIGH LEVEL EXPERT MEETING ON AFRICAN MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE ON
ENVIRONMENT (AMCEN),
Addis Ababa, 22 October, 2009
Draft Comprehensive Framework for Draft Comprehensive Framework for climate change in Africa: climate change in Africa:
Programmes and InitiativesProgrammes and Initiatives
By Dorothy Amwata
Email: [email protected]
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Outine
• Africa’s context
• Stocktaking exercise
Adaptation
Mitigation
Supporting and enabling measures: Capacity building, finance and technology and development
• Insights
• Sub-regional synthesis
• Final analysis
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Context
Key elements
• Adaptation
• Mitigation
• Enabling measures (capacity building, finances and technology transfer and development)
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African consultation processes• AMCEN 12th special session, 14th -18 June
2009 Outline of comprehensive CC programmes Scoping of CC adaptation Declarations • 2nd Africa Regional Platform for DRR
Consultative Meeting, 5-7 May, Nairobi institutional FWs, observation, monitoring, early
warning; knowledge, innovation, education to build a safety nets and resilience at all levels;
• AMCEN 3rd special session, 25th -30th May 2009
Reaffirmed the comprehensive CC programmes Declarations African common position
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Stocktaking exercise
International institutions/organisations
UN Bodies: UNDP, UNEP, FAO World wide fund for nature (WWF) African wildlife foundation (AWF) International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Stockholm environment institute (SEI) International Development Research Centre IDRC Action Aid, international Centre de coopération internationale en recherché
agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD), Global climate change observation systems (GCOS) Global environmental change and food systems
(GECAFS) GLOWA Hadley Centre International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) World Vision USAID etc…
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Stocktaking cont…
Regional institutions
Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) African Development Bank (AfDB), NEPAD Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel (OSS),
COMESA, ICPAC ATPS, CEEPA, CGIAR, AIACC, ICRAF COMIFAC ECABREN ENDA FAN FANRPAN Oxfam ACMAD, ACTS, AFRICARE, ASARECA, FARA Tyndell Centre etc…
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Adaptation
• Disaster risk reduction; early warning, preparedness, emergency response and post disaster recovery;
• Sectoral planning and implementation: adaptation in key sectors water, agriculture, coastal zones, health, infrastructure, biodiversity and ecosystems, forests, energy, urban management and tourism, including cross sectoral implications; and
• Building economic and social resilience through diversification of economies to reduce dependence on climate sensitive sectors
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Global Global initiativesinitiatives
1. Advancing Capacity for CCA(ACCCA/UNITAR)Build capacity for climate change risks management through pilot actions
2. Climate Change CD (C3D)Innovative training and capacity building
3. CD for Adaptation to CC and GHG Mitigation (C3D+)Support development of adaptation measures and mitigation strategies
4. EuroAfrica-ICT InitiativeStrategic cooperation between European and African ICT organisations
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Regional initiativesRegional initiatives
1. Adaptation Learning Mechanism KS Common platform for climate information
2. EAD DFID CC Adaptive Capacity Building Capacity development through innovations to build
community resilience to CC
3. Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to CC (AIACC) in Multiple Regions and Sectors
Funding, training, mentoring of scientists to undertake multi-sector, multi-country research priorities
4. ClimDev Africa Integrating climate risk into policy decision making
processes
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5. Capacity strengthening in the LDCs for ACC (CLACC)
Capacity strengthening for adaptation to climate change
6. Supporting Integrated & Comprehensive Approaches to CCA in Africa
Incorporate climate change risks into national development plans
7. African Climate Change Policy Centre Base of knowledge to strengthen efforts and
capacities to address Climate Change
Regional initiatives Regional initiatives (cont…)(cont…)
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Regional initiatives cont…
8. Advancing Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Research & capacity development programme
9. CC and Development Adapting by Reducing Vulnerability (CC DARE)
Integrate climate change risks into national development planning and decision-making.
10. Community-based Adaptation (CBA) Programme
New knowledge and capacity to respond to unique community-based adaptation needs
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Insights on Adaptation
1. Disaster risk reduction
• Focuses on preparedness: early warning, vulnerability assessments
• Projects rather than programmes• Poor coordination and networking• Observation and monitoring systems are
inadequate
• Emergency response and post disaster recovery? 2. Sectoral planning &implementation• Projects rather than programmes• Limited coordination, collaboration & interactions• Poor knowledge management: fragmented
information and data
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Insights on adaptation cont…
• Limited cross-sectoral linkages• More on planning than concrete actions
3. Building economic resilience• Projects rather programmes• Limited coordination, collaboration &
interactions
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Preliminaries
• Increased awareness and knowledge on CC
• LiLimited networking, partnership and collaboration
• Inadequate integration into institutional and policy FWs
• Adaptation is a process and location specific
• Coordination and harmonisation by funding agencies
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Mitigation
• Energy sector
• Reduced emissions from deforestation forest degradation
• Land use, land use change and forestry
• Using and maximising opportunities from the international carbon
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Mitigation initiatives• The Nairobi Framework of Action
Building capacity in developing CDM project activities
• UNDP and UNEP Co-operation on Climate Change
Enable countries to access carbon finance and cleaner technologies to stimulate SD
• UNEP – RISOE : Capacity Development for the Clean Development Mechanism (CD4CDM project)
Establish GHG emission reduction projects in the energy sector
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Mitigation initiatives cont…
• UNDP and UNEP Co-operation on Climate Change
• Access to carbon finance and cleaner technologies to stimulate SD.
• UNEP – RISOE : Capacity Development for the Clean Development Mechanism (CD4CDM)
GHG emission reduction projects in the energy sector.
• Francophone Partnership initiative on CDM Global partnership for SD, on carbon markets
initiatives
• Carbon finance for sustainable energy in Africa (CF-SEA)
CDM project and capacity development
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Mitigation programmes cont…
• Support for the Development and Uptake of CDM Projects in the Industrial Sector (UNIDO)
Innovative partnerships to unlock the CDM potential in industrial sector
• Africa-Assist Sub-programme Develop and transact CDM projects
• Carbone finance for Agriculture, Sylviculture, Conservation and Action against Deforestation (CASCADE)
Promote carbon finance transactions in agroforestry and biomass for voluntary carbon markets
• UNEP GHG abatement costing studies Review of the OECD/IPCC guidelines for national GHG
inventories
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• Mitigation remains secondary
• Energy, Industry, Agriculture and Agroforestry remain the focal
• Based on CDM projects which still remain insufficient
• Great potential on REDD+, LULUCF etc
Limited institutional and individual capacity
Insights on mitigation
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Enabling measures
1. Capacity building
• Mobilisation &strengthening of existing capacities (institutional and individual levels)
• Institutional coordination, collaboration and networking
2. Financing • Coordination and harmonisation: funding
agencies
3. Technology development and transfer
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