Transcript Roadmap for Finalising South Africa`s Intended Nationally

ROADMAP FOR FINALISING SOUTH
AFRICA’S INTENDED NATIONALLY
DETERMINED CONTRIBUTION
PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE
MARCH 2015
UNFCCC DECISION – 1CP20
• Reiterates the invitation to communicate to the Secretariat
its intended nationally determined contribution (INDC)
towards achieving Article 2 of the Convention
• Agrees that each Party’s INDC will represent a progression
beyond the current undertaking of the Party
• Parties to consider communicating their undertakings in
adaptation planning or consider including an adaptaiton
component in their INDC
• Communicate INDCs well in advance of COP 21 (by the first
quarter of 2015 by those Parties ready to do so)
• Information to be provided may include …….
• Requests the secretariat to: (i) publish INDCs on UNFCCC
website; (ii) prepare by 1 Nov 2015 a synthesis report on the
aggregate effect of the INDCs communicated by Parties by 1
Oct 2015
Framework for SA’s INDC
Single submission covering adaptation & mitigation
Table of contents:
• South Africa’s socio-economic and development
context and priorities
• Overview of:
– SA’s vulnerability to the impacts of climate change (based
on the Long Term Adaptation Scenarios)
– SA’s greenhouse gas emissions profile (based on 2000 –
2012 ghg inventory), and an overview of high profile
programmes that have been implemented to reduce
South Africa’s emissions
Adaptation elements of INDC
• Overview of likely impacts in key sectors (water,
agriculture, health, biodiversity, human settlements)
under different global ghg emission scenarios: short,
medium and long term (based on Longterm
Adaptation Scenarios)
• Overview of economic implications of these impacts
• Portfolio of adaptation programmes:5 – 10 years
• Quantified review of adaptation investments made
in the last 5 years
Mitigation elements of the INDC
• Confirmation of South Africa’s commitment to
reduce GHG emissions by 34% and 42%
against BAU emissions by 2020 and 2025
respectively
• Desired emission reduction outcomes and
carbon budgets will be designed so annual
emissions fall within the PPD; Aiming for the
midpoint of the PPD range
• Designing a system to implement the PPD
range, with 5 year cycles of 2016 – 2020; 2021
– 2025; 2026 – 2030; 2031 – 2035;
Technical work – for consultation process
• Concurrent with consultation process on the
design of the emission reduction system
• This requires finalisation of technical work on
design of emission reduction system, including
“design of c-budgets” and alignment with carbon
tax, including agreement with Treasury.
INDC Consultation process
Feb 2015:
• Engagement with Business and other Stakeholders on discussion documents on: (i)
mix of measures / instruments to achieve emission reductions; (ii) design of
desired emission reduction outcomes; (iii) carbon budget design
Mar 2015:
- Briefing with Portfolio Committee on report back from COP 20 (Lima), preparatory
process for COP 21 (Paris) and roadmap for SA’s intended nationally determined
contribution (INDC)
- meeting with National Committee on Climate Change to present: (i) report back
from COP 20 Lima; (ii) overall approach to SA INDC; (iii) preparatory process for
COP 21 Paris
- Discussion with Business on: (i) report from COP 20 Lima; (ii) overall approach to
SA INDC; (iii) preparatory process for COP 21 Paris
- Focused meetings with stakeholder groups on the design of the emission
reduction system (including carbon budgets / carbon tax alignment, regulations on
GHG pollution prevention plans in term of the Air Quality Act (AQA); and
regulations on reporting of GHG emissions ito AQA (continues to May 2015)
INDC Consultation Process (2)
April 2015:
- Finalisation of discussion document on SA intended nationally determined
contribution
- Discussion with key government departments on the emission reduction
system (DTI, DOT, EDD, DMR, DOE)
May 2015:
- Briefing for Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs
- Focused meetings with stakeholder groups on the SA’s INDC
- Presentation of emission reduction system to Economic Cluster
June 2015:
• Further stakeholder engagement (at provincial level) on preparations for
COP 21, status of negotiations; key elements of SA’s position, and SA’s INDC