Transcript regional society and economy that is resilient to a changing climate

CDEMA: 5th Annual Caribbean Conference
on Comprehensive Disaster Management
CARICOM / Caribbean Community Climate Change
Centre: Regional Framework and Implementation Plan
Summary presentation
John Firth, CEO and co-founder
Acclimatise
Implementation Plan Lead Consultant
CDEMA Conference
Jamaica
7th December 2010
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Introduction
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The CARICOM document:
‘A Regional Framework for Achieving Development Resilient to Climate Change
2009-2015’
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Developing an Implementation Plan:
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Objectives.
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Project programme.
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Your role and involvement.
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Emerging themes.
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CARICOM Regional Framework
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CCCCC prepared a climate change strategy at the
request of CARICOM and undertook an extensive
consultation process.
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The final document ‘A Regional Framework for
Achieving Development Resilient to Climate Change
2009-2015’ was approved by the CARICOM Heads of
Government in 2009
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The Regional Framework sets out five strategic
elements and a number of supporting goals that must
be delivered if the Caribbean is to secure the
transformational change required to build resilience.
“It is absolutely necessary that all our countries identify and implement, in the
shortest possible timeframe, a series of measures designed to minimise and
mitigate the effects of global warming on our countries and populations...”
Hon. Dean Oliver Barrow, Prime Minister of Belize
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CARICOM Regional Framework
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The Regional Framework provides a global and a regional context to the
impacts a changing climate will create and:
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Articulates the strategic direction for the region’s response to climate change risks.
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Provides a long-term vision on climate issues and reflects the political will of the region :
“the achievement of a regional society and economy that is resilient to a changing
climate”
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Is one of the first regional strategies drafted in and by developing nations, joined by a common
purpose to build resilience to a changing climate.
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The document provides a roadmap for action over the period 2009 – 2015 and
builds on the groundwork laid by the Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate
Change (MACC) project.
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It identifies five key strategic elements and associated goals that if delivered will
lead to the creation of a successful and sustainable resilience building
programme.
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CARICOM Regional Framework:
strategic elements
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Strategic Element 1:Mainstream climate change adaptation strategies into the
sustainable development agendas of the CARICOM member states.
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Strategic Element 2: Promote the implementation of specific adaptation
measures to address key vulnerabilities in the region.
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Climate change must only be considered within the context of the existing social, economic and
environmental challenges in the Caribbean.
The Regional Framework specifically refers to the impacts of climate change on water supply,
coastal and marine ecosystems, tourism, coastal infrastructure and health as representing the
greatest threats to the well-being of the CARICOM countries. (Note that the Implementation Plan
has added agriculture, fisheries and food security to this list).
Strategic Element 3: Promote actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
through fossil fuel reduction and conservation, and switching to renewable and
cleaner energy sources.
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Removing the Caribbean’s dependency on high price imported fossil fuels is essential if the
economies of Caribbean countries are to be transformed.
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CARICOM Regional Framework:
strategic elements
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Strategic Element 4: Promote actions to reduce the vulnerability of natural and
human systems in CARICOM countries to the impacts of a changing climate.
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Institutional changes are required to deliver, enforce and maintain required regulatory provisions,
national standards and building codes. Applied research and development is essential, along with
public education and awareness.
Strategic Element 5: Promote actions to derive social, economic and
environmental benefits for the prudent management of standing forests in
CARICOM countries.
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The extensive standing forest resource offers the region significant opportunities to derive
economic benefits regionally, whilst providing benefits globally. (Note that the Implementation Plan
has extended this strategic element to include eco-systems).
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Implementation Plan:
project funding and support
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CARICOM, through the CCCCC, requested financial and technical support from
the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to develop the
Implementation Plan.
DFID has worked with the Climate & Development Knowledge Network (CDKN)
to provide this support.
CDKN was set up and funded by DFID. CDKN is independent from DFID,
although it works closely with DFID and other donor programmes wherever
possible.
CDKN is an alliance of six private and not-for-profit organisations, launched in
March 2010. Led by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the alliance also includes the
Overseas Development Institute, LEAD International, INTRAC, SouthSouthNorth
in Africa and Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano in Latin America and the
Caribbean, bringing together a wide range of experience.
CDKN provides support to decision makers in developing countries to design and
deliver climate compatible development, by combining research, advisory
services, knowledge management and capacity building processes in support of
locally owned and managed policy processes.
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Implementation Plan: objectives
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The Implementation Plan will:
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Identify and prioritize critical activities to be undertaken within the next 5 years under each strategic
element and goal area of the Framework.
Identify responsibilities.
Define functional co-operation between regional and national agencies.
Develop an investment programme.
Propose relevant governance regimes and a monitoring and evaluation system.
The process will be interactive and will involve dialogue and consultation with a
wide range of key stakeholders, building on existing analysis as well as regional
and national development and climate change strategies.
The Implementation Plan will be presented to the CARICOM Heads of
Government in July 2011.
It has the potential to be a mechanism for large scale coordinated climate
change financing in the region, as well as providing the impetus for adaptation
and mitigation actions set out in the Framework.
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Project components and timeline
PLAN
• Project planning
• Early September 2010
TALK
• Dialogue with national governments, regional organisations and international stakeholders
• September – end January 2011
PREPARE
• Prepare draft Implementation Plan
• December – end February 2011
CONSULT
• Formal consultation process and presentation of draft Implementation Plan to CARICOM
• March – April 2011
ADOPT
• Prepare Final Implementation Plan, present to key stakeholders, seek CARICOM approval
• April - July 2011
ACT
• Deliver actions identified in the Implementation Plan, monitoring and evaluation
• 2011 - 2015
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Additional
components
Current actions
database
Research
component
Web based tool:
Implementation
Plan actions
Implementation Plan:
Additional components
Current actions
database
Web based tool:
Implementation
Plan actions
Research
component
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A comprehensive ‘stock-take’ creating a database of climate
change related adaptation and mitigation strategies, policies,
programmes and actions being carried out in the CARICOM
region.
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Each ‘action’ has been coded against the Regional Framework strategic
elements and goals. This provides a review of the actions already underway
and will enable gaps to be identified.
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The database also provides an input into the PPCR process.
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The database will be developed as a web based tool hosted on
the CCCCC web site.
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It will also be used to monitor the success of the Implementation
Plan in building resilience to climate change.
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An additional component has been proposed: a comprehensive
review of the Caribbean’s research needs to support the
Regional Framework and Implementation Plan.
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Discussions are underway to finalise this component.
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Emerging themes
A number of themes are beginning to emerge from the in-country dialogues and
wider consultations, including, for example:
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The plan will provide for commonality rather than harmonisation across the Caribbean.
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The role regional organisations can play in providing expertise on regional issues and supporting
national governments.
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Providing the information and awareness to enable individuals and organisations to make
informed, robust decisions. Access to baseline data. Knowledge transfer (national and regional).
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Funding resilience building: revenue funding and budgetary support will be needed in addition to
capital and project based funding.
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Governance, transparency and institutional changes required to enable organisations to build
resilience.
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Do countries have the capacity to undertake the scale of investment required? Can they absorb
the potential ‘adaptation funding’ that may be available (and the donor M and E obligations)?
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Decision making under uncertainty – are the right tools, techniques and skills available?
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Transforming the energy base of the Caribbean.
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Creating an environment attractive to private investment.
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Summary
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The Regional Framework, approved by CARICOM and the Heads of
Government from each of the Member States, provides a roadmap for building
resilience to climate change.
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The CARICOM Secretariat has asked the CCCCC to develop an
Implementation Plan. This will be presented to the Heads of Government for
approval in July 2011.
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The Implementation Plan will identify actions to deliver resilience.
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Transformational change can only be achieved provided:
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Appropriate levels of finance are provided by international donor agencies, international finance
institutions and the private sector.
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Regional organisations, governments, national organisations, and the private sector recognise the
implications and identify and take action on the critical priorities that need to be undertaken
within the next 5 years.
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Implementation Plan:
Project team contacts
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Project Lead Consultant:
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John Firth
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CEO Acclimatise
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[email protected]
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+44 (0) 7760 706184
Project Coordinator:
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Joseph McGann
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[email protected]
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+5018 221104
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Emerging themes:
drivers, baseline data and thresholds
Important to evaluate impacts
driven by:
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Extreme (acute) events AND
incremental (chronic) changes
How will these changes affect
critical thresholds, safety and
operational headroom.
performance measures etc?
Can the impacts be managed
by business continuity
measures, crisis management,
or are more fundamental
changes required to essential
assets and systems?
Process, operational or capital
investment response?
How will attitudes to risk
influence options? Are you ‘risk
averse’?
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Success criteria
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[Source: Willows & Connell, 2003]
Emerging themes:
internal and external dimensions
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The Implementation Plan will have an internal and an external dimension
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The internal dimension will focus on the actions that Caribbean Countries and
regional organisations should take to build resilience and transform their economies.
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The external dimension recognises that the Implementation Plan is not just for
internal regional consumption alone. The Plan will define the actions that the region
has decided are required to build resilience, setting out the priorities for funding.
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The Plan will provide a basis for engagement with the international donor community
on climate financing.
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One option being considered is the development of a set of principles to accompany
the Implementation Plan acknowledging the priorities contained within the Plan.
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International donors and banks may be invited to formally endorse the principles to ensure
that their funding processes are consistent with the Regional Framework and the
Implementation Plan.
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The principles could cover issues such as harmonisation of donor processes.
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Emerging themes:
financing resilience
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The scale of the impacts and the investment required will be beyond the current
economic capacity of the Caribbean region.
International financial support is required.
Signatories to the Copenhagen Accord agreed in December 2009 to a goal of
jointly mobilising $100billion a year by 2020 from the developed countries to
finance climate change. It is intended that a significant proportion of this funding
will be provided by the private sector.
Caribbean countries will need to ensure that they are in a position to take
advantage of international multi-lateral and bi-lateral funding opportunities with
regard to climate change mitigation and adaptation and undertake the
necessary resilience building actions at the most opportune time.
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Emerging themes:
financing resilience
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An integrated approach is required across all Government Departments and by Regional
Organisations to:
 Assess the risks and opportunities arising from a changing climate.
 Identify solutions to existing social, economic and environmental challenges that will meet future
needs under a changing climate.
 Plan and deliver capital investment and operational management programmes to improve
resilience.
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A transformational change within governments and at political levels to respond to the
scale and nature of the challenges ahead.
An understanding that the scale of the investment required may be greater than the current
capacity of some countries to absorb, manage and deliver the required actions.
Actions to improve the transparency, financial accountability, regulatory enforcement and
governance in public and private institutions.
Creating an investment environment in the Caribbean that is attractive to private investors.
The Caribbean has to improve its investment risk profile if it is to compete with other
developing countries for private investment funds.
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Implementation Plan:
‘Consult’
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PLAN
TALK
PREPARE
CONSULT
Key stakeholders will be formally invited to comment on the draft
Implementation Plan during March and April 2011. Those invited to
comment include:
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National governments and organisations.
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Regional organisations.
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International donors.
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International Finance Institutions.
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International research organisations
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Private sector.
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This component was introduced following a pilot exercise in Belize in
September 2010.
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The draft Implementation Plan will be presented to the CARICOM
Heads of Government in March 2011.
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A communications plan will also be prepared.
ADOPT
ACT
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Implementation Plan:
‘Adopt’
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The draft Implementation Plan will be reviewed during April 2011 in the
light of the comments received during the ‘consult’ component.
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A final draft Implementation Plan will be prepared in May 2011.
TALK
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This will be presented to key stakeholders at a CARICOM seminar in
May. The seminar attendees will be asked to work on final editing.
PREPARE
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The final Implementation Plan will then be presented to the CARICOM
Heads of Government in July 2011 for approval.
CONSULT
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The final Implementation Plan will also include a monitoring and
evaluation component to track progress. This will in part be based on
the web based tool developed during the project.
PLAN
ADOPT
ACT
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Implementation Plan:
‘Act’
PLAN
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The final component of the Implementation Plan is the most important.
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Following the approval by the Heads of Government in July 2011 there
will be just under 5 years to transform the Caribbean, achieve the
Regional Framework’s strategic elements and create a “regional
society and economy that is resilient to a changing climate”.
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The role to be played by international donor agencies and international
finance institutions in securing financial support will be critical.
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However it is clear that funding alone will not build resilience. The
responses of the various Regional organisations, governments, national
organisations, and the private sector are crucial.
TALK
PREPARE
CONSULT
ADOPT
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Integration of climate change as a risk management issue in decision making is needed
to create the required transformations.
ACT
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