Transcript Achieving Sustainable Development with Low Carbon Action

Achieving Sustainable Development
with Low Carbon Action
Asia Pacific Carbon Forum
Rakshya Thapa
Regional Technical Specialist, UNDP Global Environment Finance
7 Sep 2016, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea
2015 – An Important Year for our Planet!
Paris Agreement
December
2030
Agenda
and SDGs
Sendai
Framework
on DRR
September
March
Addis Agenda on
Financing for
Development
July
Delivering Sustainable Development Goals
• National Leadership is Paramount to global change. Increased efforts and
continued leadership to ensure climate action is implemented at an accelerated pace
and at scale
• Partnership is Critical to Success on both climate change and sustainable
development
• Climate Action is Development Action
Implementation of the Paris Agreement not only about achieving affordable clean
energy (SDG #7) and climate action (SDG #13), but also about economic and social
development and protecting the environment.
The UNDP work on Climate
Change supports all 17 SDGs
In Asia and the Pacific
benefiting
Over
100
Low carbon
Projects
1.73
Million people
in
27
Countries
leading to
impacting
422
million
tCO2eq
directly reduced
933
Communities
Sustainable Development Tool
• SD benefits of mitigation action central element for climate
finance and encouraging country ownership. An important
impact on the long-term sustainability of the mitigation actions.
• Allow policy makers to track and highlight the effects of a
mitigation action on environmental conservation, economic
growth, poverty reduction and public welfare.
• It is currently one of its kind tool that quantifies SD impacts
through carefully identified parameters.
• Link between the SDGs as integrated, indivisible set of global SD
priorities and low carbon indicators chosen with corresponding
targets.
Measuring Sustainable Development
• Improve quantitative and qualitative measurement of SD outcomes - enhancing understanding of
impacts of mitigation actions on overall national development
• Evaluate SD performance indicators and SD results achieved over the lifetime of the interventions;
real and transparently measured and reported SD impacts linked to national SDG goals.
• Improved knowledge of SD impacts of mitigation actions and contribution to global and national SDGs
5 domains:
(i) Environment,
(ii) Economic,
(iii) Social,
(iv) Growth & Development;
(v) Institutional
Domains
Indicators
Parameters
Each Domain consists of indicators. Each indicator is defined through parameters
relevant for the specific action
http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/environment-energy/mdgcarbon/NAMA-sustainable-development-evaluation-tool/
Conclusion
• New systems to report against the SDGs being rolled out in 2016.
• Committed to help countries meet their post-Paris ambitions by supporting their economies
transition toward low carbon development and implementing Nationally Determined
Contributions (NDCs).
• Integrating low carbon action into development planning across key sectors at the national
and sub-national levels.
• Delivering Sustainable Energy. Closing the energy access gap including through on and off
grid electricity access, promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation.
Energy market transformation and de-risking investment -> conducive to private sector
investment climate.
• Reducing Emissions through Protecting Forests while also promoting sustainable livelihoods.
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