Integrating climate change into national planning

1. Integrating Climate Change into National
Planning
UNFCCC LEG Regional
Workshop on NAPs for Asia
Manila, 13-16 June 2017
Umberto Labate
UNDP
NAP GSP
umberto.labate@undp.org

2. WHY PLAN FOR CLIMATE CHANGE?

3. 13.b Promote
mechanisms
for raising
capacity for
effective
climate
change-related
planning and
management
in LDC and
SIDS, including
focusing on
women, youth
and local and
marginalized
communities
13.1
Strengthen
resilience and
adaptive
capacity to
climate-related
hazards and
natural
disasters in all
countries
13.2 Integrate
climate
change
measures into
national
policies,
strategies and
planning
13.3 Improve
education,
awareness-
raising and
human and
institutional
capacity on
climate change
mitigation,
adaptation,
impact
reduction and
early warning
13.a
Implement the
commitment
undertaken by
developed-
country parties
to the
UNFCCC to a
goal of
mobilizing
jointly $100
billion annually
by 2020 from
all sources to
address the
needs of
developing
countries

4. INTEGRATING ADAPTATION CONTRIBUTES TO
SDGs

5. OPPORTUNITIES FOR 2030 AGENDA AND NAP
ALIGNMENT
 Institutional arrangements. Stocktaking for NAP can
also consider current arrangements and adapt for
planning and cross-sector policy coordination around
the SDGs related to CC
 Data coherence. Stocktaking, collection of data and
climate information, setting up of information system for
NAP could feed into the SDG monitoring mechanism
 Adaptation options could be proposed as SDG
catalysts
 Budget implications. CPEIR, climate budget tagging,
CCFF support the development of annual and
pluriannual budgetary frameworks & could feed into
SDG budgetary mainstreaming exercise.
 Common messaging. Identifying opportunities for joint
outreach and awareness-raising
 Accessing climate finance

6. NAP – A REMINDER
• Established under the UNFCCC Cancun
Adaptation Framework (2010).
• Means of identifying medium- and long-term
adaptation needs and devaeloping and
implementing strategies and programmes to
address those needs.
• It is a continuous, progressive and iterative
process which follows country-driven, gender-
sensitive, participatory and fully transparent
approach
• Its objectives are to reduce vulnerability to the
impacts of climate change, and to facilitate the
integration of climate change adaptation, into all
levels of development activities

7. Towards integration: National Planning & Budgeting
Process
• Do things differently
because of climate change
- wherever necessary
• Systematically identify
significant (CC) risks and
opportunities for
development
• Modify affected policies,
strategies, plans
• Implement them
• Monitor and reassess
• Repeat

8. HOW TO INTEGRATE CLIMATE RISK IN
PRACTICE?
• How could development goals be affected by climate change?
• Applying risks assessments systematically (based on climate info)
• Updating vulnerability assessments and socio-economic scenarios in a regular
manner
Analyze climate vulnerabilities
• Which policies, plans and budgets need to be modified to reduce the vulnerabilities?
(barriers?)
Identify entry points
• What adaptation options might be relevant to reduce the vulnerabilities?
• Costing measures and developing realistic financing plans
• Assessing and prioritizing programmes for budget allocations
• Assuring the quality/targeting of public expenditures
Amend policies, plans and budgets
• What resources and capacities are required?
• Who is responsible?
• Monitoring, reporting and evaluating outcomes linked to $ resources and learning
lessons
Implement them

9. A STARTING POINT! CLIMATE INFO
• Flood landslide and erosion hazard maps
produced in 6 municipalities
• Flood forecasting and EWS developed
including software, procedures and protocols.
• Existing hydrological network upgraded (+ 5
meteorological stations, 10 hydrological
posts, 20 meteorological posts).
• Climate Info collected and mapping exercises
used to support flood plan development
policy, including zoning and land use
regulations and the drafting of building codes
Georgia hydrological model

10. SOME PLANNING SUPPORT TOOLS
• Prioritization Exercises using MCA
• Checklists based on gender analysis
• Low-cost spatial planning maps
incorporating CC risk, hazards, key
infrastructure, social and demographic
data
• Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys
CPEIRs, Climate Change Integration
Index, CCFF,
• CC budget coding and budget
execution reports
• Properly Costed Action Plans
• Integrated economic appraisal of
projects & programmes
• Centralized planning guidelines for CC
& DRR for inclusion in official templates
used in budget negotiations

11. MENU OF APPRAISAL TOOLS & METHODS

12. IN PRACTICE – SOME EXAMPLES
Pacific Climate Change Policies and Mainstreaming Actions

13. IN PRACTICE – CAMBODIA
Integration of adaptation planning with ongoing development processes
Alignment with Paris Agreement
Whole of Government Approach
Coordination (UNFCCC FP-NDA,
multi-sectoral, multi-agency)
Vertical and Horizontal
integration
Scaling up existing support
mechanisms
Technical capacities to attract,
plan, budget, implement, track
and monitor climate finance

14. IN PRACTICE – THAILAND
Integration of adaptation planning with ongoing development processes
Identifying links between CC
actions/approaches in
Agriculture Strategic Plan on
Climate Change and National
Climate Change Master Plan
(CCMP)
Identifying climate relevance by
using indicators i.e., Climate
change benefit analysis
Source: ONEP, Nov.
2016

15. CLIMATE BUDGETING
WHAT GETS MONITORED GETS
MANAGED
Budgets are how CC funds are often
utilized and are the most important
documents to translate policy into
action
National (and local) budgets are critical
for the implementation of adaptation
plans and objectives, including NAPs
Contributes to better understanding of
the economics of various options and
CCA measures through better costing
& prioritizing
Better management strongly correlates
to more equitable and gender-
responsive spending
Source: ONEP, Nov.
2016
CCA
strategies
integrally
reflected in
policies and
strategies
Finance
Gap &
Priority
CCA
Actions
Costed
Establishing
coherent
institutional
arrangement
s
Planning
and
budgeting
systems
integrate
CCA actions
Clear results
& target
indicators
identified
and effective
M&E
systems in
place
Resource
mobilization
strategies
(funding,
knowledge,
technologie
s)
Generating knowledge about risks,
vulnerability, opportunities, social-economic
impacts and learning from CCA interventions
Core Elements of CC Planning and
Budgeting

16. CLIMATE BUDGETING

17. CLIMATE BUDGETING

18. CLIMATE BUDGETING
• MTEF templates*
• Budget proposals
• Budget tracking
• Expenditure
Analysis
• Expenditure
reporting
EVOLUTION OF INTEGRATING CC FINANCE IN THE
PFM• CPEIR
• Climate Change Integration
Index (CII)
• Policy briefs
• Civil society
• Parliament
• Media
Integrated
Climate Change
Financing
Framework
(CCFF)CPEIR: diagnostic tools to review and assess CC
related public expenditures and the institutional
framework
Includes recommendations on improving integration
of the climate change in the budgets
First completed in Nepal in 2011. And played an
important role in introduction of the Climate Budget
Tagging
(20+ countries Globally)
CCII: diagnostic tool but also can be used for reforms
planning
Systemic approach and more objective validation of
the progress towards CC integrated PFM system in
countries
Setting a baseline, prioritization and helping with
formulation of a reforms agenda for CC integration
Cross-country comparison
CFFF: integrated set of policy and institutional reforms linked to integration of
the climate finance in the PFM systems.
Phase 1: A roadmap to identify, plan, track and report on climate change
related expenditures
Mechanism/ process for recording and tracking climate change related
expenditures and revenues;
Types and formats of financial statements and disclosure requirements for the
ministries.
Phase 2: An integrated CCFF which incorporates CC into the planning and
budgetary system - ultimately Medium Term Expenditure/Budget Framework:
Budget calendar adjusted to fit the CC information flows
CCFF becomes an integral part of MTEF/budget decision making
Performance based approach (PBB) is utilized for CC allocations (including
using KPIs)
Accountability over achieving targets for CC mitigation and adaptation are

19. THANK YOU
Umberto Labate
UNDP GEF
BPPS
NAP GSP
umberto.labate@undp.or
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20. Assisting Countries with their NAP Process
ANNEXES

21. ASSISTING COUNTRIES ON THE NAP
- NAP GSP (LDCF-SCCF)
- BMUB Funded FAO–UNDP “NAP AG” - Integrating
Agriculture into NAPs Programme”
- UNDP Implemented Japan Caribbean Partnership
Complementary Programmes
- SIDA funded UNDP Governance of Climate Finance
Programme – Focus on mainstreaming into budgets
- BMUB funded UNDP-UNEP-WRI GCF Readiness
Programme
- Number of countries that engaged – Over 150
developing countries
- Number of countries receiving more in-depth support
– Over 40 countries

22. LDCs assisted
16 countries @ 2016 = 13 Africa, 2 Asia Pacific, 1 Arab States
Non-LDCs assisted
20 countries = 5 Africa, 5 Europe and Central Asia,
4 Arab States, 3 Asia Pacific, 3 Latin America and Caribbean
Focus on Agriculture (UNDP & FAO financed by BMUB)
11 countries = 4 Africa, 4 Asia Pacific, 3 Latin America
Assisting Countries with their NAP Process (NAP GSP)
Types of assistance:
• One-on-one technical assistance to countries
• Regional training workshops
• Knowledge brokering: Facilitating knowledge
capturing & exchange

23. UNDP READINESS PIPELINE

24. UNDP’s APPROACH TO NAP SUPPORT through access to GCF
Visualizing the OPERATIONAL process
NDA Req
Identification of
Consultant
Consultation &
Desk review
Mini-Stocktake
& consultative
note
Mission
(validation +
training)
Draft Proposal
Technical
Review and Edit
Technical,
Financial and
Legal clearance
Submission to
GCF

25. Assisting Countries with their NAP Process
Request to access GCF finance for NAP
37 countries
14 Africa
6 Asia Pacific
2 Arab States
13 Europe and Central Asia
2 Latin America and Caribbean
14 LDCs

26. UNDP Comparative advantages (…some!)
1
Working across global frameworks to
support the implementation of 2030 Sust
Dev Agenda, Paris Accord, Sendai
Framework – coherence and integrated
approachesContributed to UNFCCC NAP Technical
Guidelines – technical capacity
2
Facilitates coordination between UNFCCC FP
and NDAs
3
Multi-sectoral approaches4
Multi-Agency coordination5
Country presence (formulation and
implementation)
6
Economies of scale and quality assurance
through dedicated, centralized Global team
7
8
Opportunities to scale up Adaptation and
financing strategy options identified,
prioritized and assessed through the NAP
process

27. THANK YOU