2016-11-14
Regional Dialogue on Domestic Preparation for NDC Development and Implementation
-Stocktaking of current national efforts to transform mitigation aspirations into actions and the role of international support-
Date: 14th November 2016, 10:00-12:00
Venue: COP22 Marrakech / Japan Pavilion
This Regional Dialogue had two-folded objectives:
Part I Country Experiences on Preparation of NDC Implementation
Co-Facilitators | |
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Edwin Manansang | Advisor, CMEA(Indonesia) |
Masato Kawanishi | Senior Advisor for Climate Change, JICA |
Panelists | |
Medrilzam Medrilzam | Director, BAPPENAS (Indonesia) |
Pham Van Tan | Deputy Director General, DMHCC/MONRE (Vietnam) |
Rongphet Bunchuaidee | Manager, Technical Support Section, TGO (Thailand) |
Part 1 of the Dialogue focused on country experiences to update country status and shared lessons surrounding domestic NDC preparation and implementation among the invited SEA countries.
Presentations by Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia tapped on various essential conditions and requirements to effectively move forward towards NDC implementation, including, inter alia, establishing robust monitoring/tracking system of measures taken, high-level political buy-in, striking mitigation-economy-poverty reduction nexus and integration of NDC into national development plan. In the meantime, practical challenges were shared by the participating countries, including limited private sector engagement, price competitiveness/high cost of low carbon technologies, institutionalization of MRV, cross-cutting coordination for domestic NDC mainstreaming process.
In the dialogue, countries exchanged views over how regional cooperation could accelerate in-country efforts. Remarks included possible replication of mitigation measures associated with common regional geographical endowments/features as part of south-south cooperation, while application of lessons from the achievement process of the Kyoto Protocol could be part of North-South cooperation. In view of domestic internal capacity within the participating country, support by the region to operationalization of domestic mechanisms (e.g. in-country climate change trust fund) was also suggested as another mode of regional cooperation to nurture and country ownership.
The interaction with the floor tapped on "the role of the market in NDC" and "domestic finance strategy" – for the former, while three countries were open to the concept of the market-based approaches, divergent responses were made including putting more priority on achievement of energy and transport policy serving as the basis for NDC, need for identifying appropriate means (e.g. carbon tax vs emission trading), while the need to interpret current provisions of the Paris Agreement and to align with the progress of the international negotiation was called for. As for the latter, responses included preference of using public finance including domestic resources to adaptation while inviting private finance to address mitigation, and mainstreaming of NDC into development plan as the pre-requisite for acquisition of domestic finance.
Take-Home Messages
Part 2 Role of International Support in Best Leveraging Country Efforts
Co-Facilitators | |
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Pham Van Tan | Deputy Director General, DMHCC/MONRE (Vietnam) |
Ichiro Sato | Deputy Director, Office for Climate Change, JICA |
Panelists | |
Satoshi Iemoto | former JICA Chief Technical Advisor (Thailand) |
Jun Ichihara | JICA Chief Advisor (Indonesia) |
Koji Fukuda | JICA Chief Technical Advisor (Vietnam) |
Sven Egbers | GIZ Advisor / Mitigation Partnership |
Pankaj Bhatia | WRI Deputy Director, Climate Change Program / NDC Partnership |
Makoto Kato | Principal Researcher, OECC Japan |
Part 2 of the Dialogue focused on exchange over the role of international support and its mode of cooperation/coordination to best support NDC implementation among country advisors of JICA climate change technical assistance projects in the region, relevant global Partnerships and a global think-tank.
Participants shared practical challenges including, inter alia, access to financial resources, synchronization between political-technical processes, ensuring genuine engagement beyond climate change focal point agency and department. It was also emphasized the need to adopt build-in flexibility among support modality of international partners by applying tiered approach for different country status for NDC preparation, as well as possible change of project design to better align with the dynamic circumstances surrounding mitigation especially after the adoption of the Paris Agreement. Also, anticipation for the newly established NDC partnership to assume coordination of existing on-going relevant partnerships and initiatives was stated.
During the Dialogue session, co-organization of relevant events, co-financing of activities with mutual interests were suggested as potential means of coordination/synergies towards NDC implementation, as well as highlighting the global partnership to streamline knowledge management.
Take-Home Messages