Transcript Environmental integration in EC development co-operation

European
Commission
EuropeAid
Climate change integration in EC
development
co-operation
Peter Brinn
Environment Helpdesk
for EC development co-operation
Brussels
Presentation Overview
• EC approach to environmental integration
including climate change
• Environment Helpdesk
• EC development co-operation climate change
integration policy
• Some examples
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Environmental integration
in the cycle of operations
• Project cycle
• Sector policy support programme cycle
• General budget support cycle
Programming
Evaluation
Identification
Implementation
Formulation
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Integration tools / approaches
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Programming – Environmental Profile including climate change section
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Project Identification – Environmental impact and climate change screening
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Project Formulation – Environmental impact assessment, climate change risk
assessment
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SPSP Identification – Strategic Environmental Assessment screening
incorporating climate change considerations
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SPSP Formulation – Strategic Environmental Assessment
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General Budget Support – policy/political dialogue, performance assessments?
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Environment Helpdesk
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information
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Regional & Brussels:
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Policy backgound
• 2004: EU Action Plan on climate change and development.
• 2007: review of the Action Plan concluded « integrating
climate change systematically in the context of
development cooperation had not yet been adequately
addressed by EU donors and enhanced efforts were
necessary to make progress in this area »
• 2007, September: Launched Global Climate Change
Alliance (GCCA) between the EU and those developing
countries expected to be hit hardest by climate change.
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Global Climate Change Alliance
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Create space for political dialogue and exchange between the EU,
LDCs and SIDS, to promote a shared vision to advance international
negotiations post 2012.
Provide concrete support primarily in the areas of adaptation and
disaster risk reduction.
Five priority co-operation areas proposed:
1. Support to adaptation: e.g. particularly in water, NR agriculture
sectors
2. Promoting disaster risk reduction: e.g. capacity building
3. Supporting innovative solutions to avoid deforestation: e.g. FLEGT,
Ex.1
4. Enhancing participation in carbon markets: e.g. support to CDM
5. Integrating climate change considerations into poverty reduction
efforts: e.g. screening, assessments, capacity building, Ex. 2
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Example 1 – avoiding deforestation
•FLEGT - Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade
•EC – Indonesia FLEGT Support Project
2006-2011 http://www.eu-indonesia-flegt.org
Project Objectives: to promote the role of forests in the
sustainable and equitable development of Indonesia.
Specifically to support and encourage the Government of
Indonesia (Gol), the private sector and civil society to create
the appropriate enabling conditions that are conducive to
reducing trade in illegal timber and non-sustainable practices
in the Forestry Sector.
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Problem tree- deforestation
Less
Carbon sequ.
Less forest products
More floods
Disappearing forests
Repeated clearings
Overexploitation
Increased
demographic
pressure
Eroded
soils
New roads
built
Strong external
pressures
Legislation not
respected
Social sectors
Agriculture
Transport
Trade
Governance
Rule of law
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Project
Components
• Improved forest law and its enforcement
• Forest sector governance improved through
enhanced accountability and transparency
• Illegal trade in forest products reduced, and legal
trade promoted
• Current silvicultural systems assessed from
existing information and appropriate systems
adopted by stakeholders.
• Co-ordination of FLEGT activities and liaison among
donors, other international organizations (e.g.
ASEAN) and Gol in place.
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Example 2: The UNFCCC, ensuring implementation
and participation in the Asia Pacific
EC funded, implemented by WWF, 2005-7
www.c3d-unitar.org/?q=node/18
Project Purpose: Strengthen the ability of developing
country governments to effectively participate in and foster
the implementation of the UNFCCC by mobilising the
relevant and influential stakeholders in key countries.
To ensure that governments and other relevant and
influential non-government stakeholders are:
– Informed of the key issues concerning participation in
and implementation of the UNFCCC, and
– are empowered to act .
Focused on: Tuvalu, Cook Islands, Indonesia, Nepal
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Achivements – Nepal
• Increased engagement of Nepal government in external climate
change forums.
• Formation of Climate Change Network Nepal – a civil society
network and the development of a civil society climate change
action plan. Joint implementation of national climate change
activities between the Nepal government and civil society.
• Enhanced participation of civil society, through the inclusion of
civil society representatives on the national Nepal delegation to
the UNFCCC.
• Enhanced awareness through the development of formal climate
change education programmes and teacher training
programmes.
• Enhanced capacity of national media through targeted media
climate change training programmes
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