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COP21 Paris Conference of UNFCCC has served as the momentum meeting for its adoption of the Paris Agreement which provided clarity over the elements of post-2020 regime. In parallel with mainstream negotiation sessions, Vietnam has organized its national Pavilion at the venue, and has engaged in various communication activities to showcase national response to climate change and domestic efforts. SPI-NAMA has supported organization of, and presenting at 2 mitigation-related sessions (NAMAs Regional Dialogue and NC/BUR Session) to facilitate capacity building and to maximize learning of counterparts.

Regional Dialogue for NAMAs Design and Implementation(4th December, 2015)

This regional dialogue session was jointly organized by DMHCC and JICA SPI-NAMA while inviting policy makers from the Southeast Asian countries (Thailand, Indonesia) and international experts (WRI), to come together to share experiences and lessons from NAMA development and implementation in respective countries from the angle of policy framework development, mobilization of support and effective engagement of sectoral actors.

The Project, through its Long-term Expert, has provided a joint presentation (PDF/146KB) with IMHEN, the research arm of MONRE, to focus on the role of support to NAMAs, by taking stock of current support landscape, identification of areas in need of further support based on findings of the past capacity needs assessments, as well as effective support modalities including enhanced donor coordination. The Project has also participated in the dialogue by providing inputs to the exchange through the perspective of international partner.

The takeaway messages delivered throughout the dialogue included the following:

• The past and on-going domestic effort surrounding NAMAs and associated readiness support activities (serving broadly as pre-2020 mitigation actions) will serve to be the essential basis for INDC/NDC development and its implementation beyond 2021 (including the elements of, inter alia, future emission projection, identifying mitigation potential, setting a mitigation ambition level, mitigation options and measures, cost estimation, policy/legal framework, institutional setup, and capacity building);
• Despite its "voluntary" nature of NAMAs, seizing the opportunities NAMAs provide, and taking early actions to advance as much preparatory works as possible will contribute to effective implementation of NDC under the new regime beyond 2021;
• The inter-agency trust building on the past cooperation for climate mitigation (e.g. CDM development) as well as establishment of domestic legal/policy framework serve as the basis for enabling effective collaboration and coordination among agency serving as the national NAMA focal point, and line ministries in charge of mitigation sectors;
• Each and every developing country required a considerable amount of time and domestic consensus building process in providing national interpretation of NAMAs and setting up an institutional framework to enable its planning and implementation. Sophisticated planning and ambitious target setting were not possible from the start, and technical improvement of future emission projection, target setting and widening of sectoral coverage have been achieved only in a progressive, step-by-step manner.

Those insights and experiences have served as practical inputs for Vietnam to advance its pre-2020 mitigation activities including NAMAs.

National Communications (NC) and Biennial Update Report (BUR) Session, 5th December 2015

This session invited experts from Vietnam and Indonesia to share experiences of developing NC/BUR, in particular MRV and GHG Inventories, and also introduced the support activities provided by the International Partners (UNEP/GEF, JICA). The Project, through its Long-term Expert, has introduced (PDF/225KB) the outcome of the past JICA's support to national GHG inventory development, as well as the mutual learning opportunities provided by Japan, targeting Southeast Asian countries.