George Anjaparidze NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 16 September 2010

NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview Background Scope General approach Usefulness of outputs Country examples: Jordan and Nigeria Next Steps Agenda

NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview National, Economic, Environment and Development Study (NEEDS) for Climate Change is in response to a mandate from the Subsidiary Body for Implementation 11 countries requested assistance: Costa Rica, Egypt, Ghana, Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Maldives, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines Integration of climate change issues into national development planning Background

NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview The key output of the work in each of the participating countries is an economic and finance policy paper that a)elaborates on the financing needs for adaptation and mitigation activities b)bridges the gap between measures to address climate change and the national development agenda c)Identifies linkages to financial and regulatory instruments on the national and international levels Scope

NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview Select key sectors for climate change mitigation and adaptation measures based on priorities identified in the second national communications and the country’s national development plan(s) to serve as a basis for the financial needs assessments Assess financing needs required to address mitigation and adaptation measures in selected key sectors and to identify appropriate financial and regulatory instruments to support them Facilitate informed consensus among government agencies on policy actions required to mobilize finance and investment General approach

NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview National a)Understand cost implications of climate change and identify measures that have high development impacts b)Identify ways to mobilize resources from the Convention and other related financial sources to support incremental and additional cost of climate change actions Climate Convention a)Provide inputs into the review of the Financial Mechanism and the negotiations on the financial architecture of the Convention Usefulness of outputs

NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview Balanced focused between mitigation and adaptation a)Mitigation: Priority sectors identified: Energy: Up to total cost 8.27 billion USD; incremental cost 3.22 billion USD Waste: Up to 2020 total cost 250 million USD; incremental cost 125 million USD 2050  4.5 billion USD need for incremental costs. b)Adaptation: Priority sectors identified: Agriculture: Up to 2020 – total cost 309 million USD; additional cost million USD Water: Up to 2020 – total cost 3.54 billion USD; additional cost 1.42 billion USD 2050  5 billion USD needed for additional costs. Country example: Jordan – Financial needs assessment

NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview Nationally Strategic Climate Change Trust Fund Objective: Broaden the scope of national interventions Scope: Focus mostly on long-term planned response strategies, policies, and measures (rather than short-term) Intended outcome: Serve as a catalyst to leverage additional resources from bilateral and multilateral channels Source of funding and implementation arrangements: under discussion Country example: Nigeria – Proposed instruments

NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview Individual studies have identified specific next steps on the national level Synthesis report of participating 11 countries will be presented to the Subsidiary Body of Implementation at its next session Parties to the UNFCCC will discuss next steps related to the NEEDS for climate change initiative Next Steps

NEEDS for Climate Change: An Overview Thank you! George Anjaparidze