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NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 16 September 2010
George Anjaparidze
NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview
Agenda
• Background
• Scope
• General approach
• Usefulness of outputs
• Country examples: Jordan and Nigeria
• Next Steps
NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview
Background
• National, Economic, Environment and Development Study
(NEEDS) for Climate Change is in response to a mandate from the
Subsidiary Body for Implementation
• 11 countries requested assistance: Costa Rica, Egypt, Ghana,
Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Maldives, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan and
the Philippines
• Integration of climate change issues into national development
planning
NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview
Scope
• The key output of the work in each of the participating countries is
an economic and finance policy paper that
a) elaborates on the financing needs for adaptation and mitigation
activities
b) bridges the gap between measures to address climate change
and the national development agenda
c) Identifies linkages to financial and regulatory instruments on the
national and international levels
NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview
General approach
• Select key sectors for climate change mitigation and adaptation
measures based on priorities identified in the second national
communications and the country’s national development plan(s) to
serve as a basis for the financial needs assessments
• Assess financing needs required to address mitigation and
adaptation measures in selected key sectors and to identify
appropriate financial and regulatory instruments to support them
• Facilitate informed consensus among government agencies on
policy actions required to mobilize finance and investment
NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview
Usefulness of outputs
• National
a) Understand cost implications of climate change and identify
measures that have high development impacts
b) Identify ways to mobilize resources from the Convention and
other related financial sources to support incremental and
additional cost of climate change actions
• Climate Convention
a) Provide inputs into the review of the Financial Mechanism and
the negotiations on the financial architecture of the Convention
NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview
Country example: Jordan – Financial needs assessment
Balanced focused between mitigation and adaptation
a) Mitigation: Priority sectors identified:
• Energy: Up to 2020 - total cost 8.27 billion USD; incremental cost
3.22 billion USD
• Waste: Up to 2020 total cost 250 million USD; incremental cost 125
million USD
• 2050  4.5 billion USD need for incremental costs.
b) Adaptation: Priority sectors identified:
• Agriculture: Up to 2020 – total cost 309 million USD; additional cost
154.3 million USD
• Water: Up to 2020 – total cost 3.54 billion USD; additional cost 1.42
billion USD
• 2050  5 billion USD needed for additional costs.
NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview
Country example: Nigeria – Proposed instruments
Nationally Strategic Climate Change Trust Fund
• Objective: Broaden the scope of national interventions
• Scope: Focus mostly on long-term planned response strategies,
policies, and measures (rather than short-term)
• Intended outcome: Serve as a catalyst to leverage additional
resources from bilateral and multilateral channels
• Source of funding and implementation arrangements: under
discussion
NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview
Next Steps
• Individual studies have identified specific next steps on the national
level
• Synthesis report of participating 11 countries will be presented to
the Subsidiary Body of Implementation at its next session
• Parties to the UNFCCC will discuss next steps related to the
NEEDS for climate change initiative
NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview
Thank you!
George Anjaparidze
[email protected]