climate change and achieving the millennium development goals
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Climate Change and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Olav Kjorven Director, Environment and Energy Group. Climate Change and Development. Overview of Presentation. Climate Change, Development and UNDP Achieving the Millennium Development Goals is UNDP’s core commitment - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Climate Change and Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
Olav KjorvenDirector, Environment and Energy Group
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Climate Change, Development and UNDP• Achieving the Millennium Development Goals is UNDP’s
core commitment• Sustainable development is the only path
Overview of UNDP’s Climate Change Strategy• Adaptation and mitigation are equally important
components• Reducing human vulnerability is our main focus
Building Partnerships within the UN System is Essential
Overview of Presentation
Climate Change and Development
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• It can no longer be considered just an environmental issue
• The vulnerability of the poor is increasing and millions are already at risk
• Climate change considerations must be mainstreamed into national development plans and policies – but has yet to feature strongly
• How can we meet the development aspirations of the poor in a carbon constrained world?
The Millennium Development Goals will be compromised • Past development gains will be put in jeopardy
Climate change is a major development issue
Climate Change and Development
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Climate Risks to MDGs
MDGs CLIMATE RISKS
MDG 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Depleted livelihood assets, reduced economic growth, and undermined food security.
MDG 2: Achieve universal primary education Reduced ability of children to participate in full-time education by loss of infrastructure, loss of livelihoods (forcing children to work), and displaced families.
MDG 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Additional burdens on women's health and limited time to participate in decision-making and income-generating activities.
MDGs 4, 5 and 6: Reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases availability of potable water.
Greater prevalence of vector- and water-borne diseases, and heat-related mortality, declining food security, maternal health, and availability of potable water
MDG 7: Ensure environmental sustainability Negatively impacted natural resources and productive ecosystems
Climate Risks
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Climate Exposure of Donor-funded Development
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Bangladesh Egypt Tanzania Uruguay Nepal Fiji
Fiji
Aid flows affected by climate risk in redShaded areas indicate uncertainty.
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27%40%
Exposure of donor-funded development activities
Low estimate(12-50%)
High estimate(26-65%)
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A balanced mix of adaptation and mitigation
Adaptation focus entails a multi-pronged approach •Integrating adaptation into UN programmes •Mainstreaming adaptation into development plans•Piloting adaptation approaches
It is about reducing vulnerability and climate risks
Mitigation focus on achieving low greenhouse gas development pathways through market transformation•Key elements include: energy access for the poor, energy efficiency, land degradation/biocarbon, carbon finance, supporting technology diffusion and demonstration
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Adaptation Enabling Activities
National Communications (NCs)• Report on programmes to facilitate adaptation • Vulnerability and Adaptation assessment a starting point for
formulating strategies, plans, projects
National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) • Respond to vulnerability of LDCs and prioritize adaptation
measuresIntegrating climate change into country programmes in
collaboration with other agencies• Water sector, land management, health, energy policy• In some sector priority areas (health/agriculture) we work with
partners (WHO/FAO/UNEP)
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UN Priority Policy Responses for Adaptation
Water Resources and QualityWater availability and supply maintained
Public HealthPublic health maintained or enhanced
Climate Change-Related Disaster Risk ManagementExposure and vulnerability to climate change-driven risks and hazards reduced
Coastal DevelopmentExposure and vulnerability of population, infrastructure & economic activity reduced
Agriculture and Food SecurityFood security and food production maintained or enhanced
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Mitigation Strategy
Energy access is critical to achieving the MDGs• Two billion people still without access to modern energy • Providing access to modern energy services essential to
reducing land degradation and deforestation• Important to achieving health and education MDGs• Has important adaptation benefits and builds resilience • But we must deliver these services while minimising GHG
emissions
Energy efficiency is essential to sustainable development
• Huge economic development benefits• Enhances energy security• UNDP is delivering a wide range of programs in this area• Energy efficiency standards and labelling a key component
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Mitigation Strategy
Delivering sustainable technologies• UNDP has a large portfolio of projects in renewable
energy technologies and resource management• Building technical and institutional capacities, creating
and enabling environment, regulatory and legal essential to supporting these technologies
• Combining adaptation and mitigation (through community level forestry/land rehabilitation) can have important MDG benefits
• Building a sustainable and reliable energy system is essential to achieving the MDGs
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Mitigation Strategy
Carbon Finance has an important role to play• Traditional ODA funds insufficient to meet the poverty and
environment challenge• Carbon finance could augment financial flows and assist with
technology diffusion• Biosequestration opportunities must be urgently explored
The CDM has grown rapidly and offers much potential• But the benefits are unevenly distributed and sustainable
development has not featured strongly in the project mix• UNDP CDM Assessment Report identified many constraints• Our aim is to broaden the participation base, particularly for the
least developed countries• UNDP MDG Carbon Facility will target high sustainable
development benefit projects – deliver more MDG benefits
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Building Partnerships
UNDP working with other agencies• Delivering a comprehensive and integrated package
of services essential
• UNDP is works in close partnership with UNEP
• We will continue to strengthen cooperation and integration of activities across all UN agencies
• Our global network of country offices provides an important delivery vehicle at the country level
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Conclusion
We must maintain a focus on the MDGs
• Climate change represents an unprecedented development challenge
• Reducing the vulnerability of the poor will be UNDP’s key focus
• The international community must respond to this challenge