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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
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PLAN Context related to the convention and PK Problems to implement convention and Kyoto Protocol Needs according to problems
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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, …
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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;
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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) ;
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And your cooperation, … Thank you!
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