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Supporting climate adaptation and
increasing resilience in SIDS:
experience with the Global Climate
Change Alliance (GCCA)
Bangkok 14/3/2012
Walter Kennes
DEVCO H2
European Commission
DG DEVCO
GCCA: Scope and Objective
 Objective: to step up cooperation and dialogue
between the EU and developing countries that
are hit earliest and hardest by climate change
and have the least capacity to react, in
particular LDCs and SIDS
 Two pillars:
 Deepen climate policy dialogue
 Increase financial cooperation in climate
change area
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GCCA: An opportunity for Dialogue
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Dialogue under the Alliance aims to:
 Promote a converging of visions on a post-2012
climate change regime between the EU and the
targeted countries and regions :
 Caribbean, Pacific, Africa, ACP, Asian LDC 
Political Declarations
 Promote dialogue on climate change at national level:
 Advance the integration of climate change into
poverty reduction objectives, strategies and plans
 Define needs and opportunities for cooperation
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GCCA : increased cooperation
 support focuses on five areas:
 Priority for adaptation (NAPA estimates: 40%
agriculture, 20% water)
 disaster risk reduction (DRR) (NAPA
estimates: 15%)
 Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and
Degradation (REDD)
 participation in the Clean Development
Mechanism (CDM)
 integration of climate change in national
poverty reduction strategies
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GCCA Finance
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€185million additional funds 2008-2012 from EU budget under
Environment and Natural Resources Thematic Programme
(ENRTP); plus Member States contributions: €4.4 million from
Sweden, €0.2 million from Czech Republic; €31 from Ireland;
€1.8 from Cyprus; €0.8 from Estonia.
Intra-ACP funding (2008-13):
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€40 m regional GCCA activities
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€180 m disaster risk reduction (partial)
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€ 4.4 support for CDM (part of MEA programme)
ENRTP: call for proposals for REDD projects (2010)
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€24 m reducing deforestation and sustainable forest management
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Criteria to establish priorities
 Combining three elements
 Poverty (GNP per capita)
 Climate related vulnerability
 Frequency of floods, drought, storms
 share of agriculture in GDP
 share of population in low lying areas
 vulnerable coral reefs or glaciers
 Climate change policy dialogue (NAPAs)
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The GCCA Implementation Framework
 GCCA Support Facility (€3.2 m) for
preparatory activities/capacity building
 Support started with 4 pilot countries in
2009: Vanuatu, Maldives, Cambodia and
Tanzania
 In 2009-2010 selection of further countries:
list of further beneficiaries: Bangladesh,
Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Mali,
Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique,
Rwanda, Senegal and Seychelles
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The GCCA implementation framework
 In 2011: Benin, Bhutan, Gambia,
Ethiopia, Laos, Nepal, Samoa, Sierra
Leone, Solomon Islands; plus regional
action with 9 Pacific States and 4
Mekong Region States;
 Planned under 2012 budget: PNG,
Timor Leste, Uganda, Malawi,
Organisation for Eastern Caribbean
States.
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Achievements so far
 Deepened dialogue with majority of SIDS
(Caribbean, Pacific, ACP and African joint
declarations with the EU)
 Agreement on the Durban Platform for Enhanced
Action at COP 17 last December also thanks to
the alliance between EU, SIDS and LDC
 Increased cooperation with SIDS
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The next steps
 Making the GCCA more an EU initiative;
 Continue the political dialogue with partner countries
building on the agreed declarations;
 Support mainstreaming of climate change in development
strategies;
 Demonstrating successful implementation;
 Exchange experience, coordination for example with WB,
UNDP, CDKN …
 Promote the integration of development issues in
international negotiations process (bring the experience
of the aid effectiveness principles).
 THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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