Transcript SOME MAJOR PROBLEMS TO IMPLEMENTING THE UNFCCC AND ITS KP

SOME MAJOR PROBLEMS TO
IMPLEMENTING THE UNFCCC AND
ITS KP
C. MOUSSOUNDA
Gabon Climate Change Focal Point
ECBI, OXFORD Wadham College
1 – 8 September 2007
PLAN
• Context related to the convention and PK
• Problems to implement convention and
Kyoto Protocol
• Needs according to problems
CONTEXT RELATED TO
THE CONVENTION AND PK
• Convention signed (mainly at Rio de Janeiro) and ratified
later;
• KP ratified;
• Usually 1 delegate can participate to the UNFCCC
meeting when it is possible, even the Secretariat funds it ;
• When participate to UNFCCC meeting, this is reported
back to the country at a high level accompanied by some
proposals;
• Initial National Communication elaborated and contained
also proposals;
• Some other protocol (bilateral) has been signed ;
• Usually many texts of law in environment remain even ther
are out of convention and KP, …
PROBLEMS
• Climate change appeared to be new :
– for certain people, it is only a mess concept (it is mostly for international
or developed countries?), it is not a high priority inside some developing
countries;
– for others, their attitude is due to a lack of deep understanding, there is
a need to explaining them (CC is urgent to be tackled);
• Almost all proposal had no feed back from high decision
makers;
• Very few capacity building on the issue is made:
– Some others process linked has had no progress (GHG project)
or has been blocked (SCN, other GEF funded projects);
• Lack of capacity to work in team together within and
between institutions;
• Environmental issue is still being badly perceived;
• Lack of finance, human resources and materials to be
affected to the CC unit if it exists or to the National
Climate Focal Point to build organisation;
URGENT NEEDS
Real needs to start solving problems are :
– Awareness for people, mostly decision
makers’ ;
– Strengthening institutional capacity building ;
– Enforcement of capacity building (policy,
scientific, technical, …) ;
– Development of technology transfer;
– Development of finance mechanisms, …;
• For mitigation: (high potential of mitigation :forest,
petroleum production and industry, waste, …);
• For adaptation (assessment of vulnerability on
health, flood, costal zone, water supply at certain
season, agriculture has been done) ;
And your cooperation, …
Thank you!