Presentation at CCAFS - FAO Workshop on NAMAs: national mitigation planning and implementation in agriculture
 16 - 17 July 2012


1. UNFCCC secretariat, programme
Firstname Lastname, Job Title
NAMAs
What is known so far
Rome, 16-17 July 2012
Claudio Forner, UNFCCC secretariat

2. Contents
•Outlook to negotiations
•What are NAMAs?
•The registry
•What's next?

3. Outlook at negotiations
“Developing country Parties will take nationally appropriate mitigation actions in the context of sustainable development, supported and enabled by technology, financing and capacity-building, aimed at achieving a deviation in emissions relative to ‘business as usual’ emissions in 2020”

4. Outlook at the negotiations: what has been agreed
Bali Action Plan: enhanced action on mitigation, NAMAs
Cancun:
•Developing countries to take on NAMAs (with support)
•Setting up of the registry
•MRV and Enhanced reporting
Durban
•Understanding NAMAs
•Further guidance to the registry
•Guidelines for BUR and ICA

5. Outlook at negotiations: Issues hanging in the air
•Difficult but not impossible
Guidance on support (finance, technology and capacity)
A process to support preparation and implementation of NAMAs
•Highly unlikely
Technical guidelines (e.g. for MRV, baselines, etc.)
Accounting rules

6. What are NAMAs?
Nationally Appropriate
Mitigation Actions
National priorities, development goals
GHGs (direct or indirect)

7. What are NAMAs?: Different countries, different interpretations
•55 Parties have communicated NAMAs:
•No definition likely to arise, interpretation is a national matter:
Targets
Strategies
Programs and policies
Investment projects

8. What are NAMAs?: Different countries, different arrangements
Sectoral target or strategy
Only projects (inc. CDM)
A sectoral or national target or strategy To be achieved through projects
A national target
or strategy
Climate change policy

9. What are NAMAs?: Example of agricultural NAMAs
•Mostly practices, through projects:
Forest management (Argentina)
Forest restoration (Armenia)
No till farming, biological Nitrogen fixation (Brazil)
REDD (Cambodia, Cameroon)
Improved farming seeds (CAR)
Composting, efficiency in farming (Chad, Ethiopia)

10. The registry in a nutshell
• A platform to share information on NAMAs and support
Info on NAMAs Info on support
•“Matching” information
•“Recognition” of NAMAs
•Queries

11. The registry (II)
•A voluntary platform
•Functions:
Facilitate matching (information)
Recognition
•A prototype to be ready by the end of the year
•Access rights to Parties and organizations
•A process of understanding each other?

12. What’s next?
•Mitigation as a development issue
•National governments on the driving seat: What? Where? How? Why?
•Time to formulate/implement
•Key design aspects:
a)Mitigation and other benefits
b)Finance
c)MRV

13. What’s next? Emerging understandings (outside UNFCCC)
•Interest in moving away from a project by project approach
•Ideally, countries to establish a “framework” for action (targets, LEDS, etc) for the efficiency, sustainability and coordination of individual projects:
Institutional arrangements
Criteria for action
Finance and support
MRV
•“Project-type” NAMAs may still be proposed

14. Thank you
cforner@unfccc.int