11/14
MON
10:00-12:00
| Title | Regional Dialogue on Country Preparation for NDC Development and Implementation: Taking stock of current national efforts to transform mitigation aspirations into actions and the role of international support |
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| Contents | This regional dialogue invites practitioners from three middle income countries in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia, and Viet Nam) to share country experiences and facilitate the mutual learning of existing efforts and practices for national preparations towards the update and implementation of NDCs. Particular focus will be given to enhancing the participants’ understanding of integrated planning to streamline existing mitigation efforts into NDCs, efforts to generate domestic political will, technical assessments toward refining the NDCs, and setting up appropriate institutional arrangements. The dialogue also invites country advisors from JICA climate change technical assistance projects in the region, relevant global partnerships and a global think tank to jointly consider effective approaches for facilitating preparations to implement the NDC, knowledge management and network building. |
| Organiser / Co-organiser |
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Global Environmental Bureau, Climate Change Office / Vietnam Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) / Thailand Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning (ONEP) |
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| Session Summary |
This Regional Dialogue aimed at fostering sharing of country experiences and mutual learning of existing efforts/practices for domestic preparation towards NDC update and implementation among 3 middle income countries in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam). The Dialogue consisted of two parts – Part 1 focuses on country experiences to update country status and shared lessons surrounding domestic NDC preparation and implementation among the invited SEA countries. Country presentations tapped on various essential conditions/requirements to effectively move forward towards NDC implementation, including, inter alia, establishing robust monitoring/tracking system of measures taken (Thailand), high-level political buy-in (Vietnam), striking mitigation-economy-poverty reduction nexus and integration of NDC into national development plan (Indonesia). In the meantime, practical challenges were shared by the participating countries, including limited private sector engagement, price competitiveness of low carbon technologies, institutionalization of MRV, cross-cutting coordination associated with integration process. During the dialogue, countries exchanged views over regional cooperation, where participating countries indicated mitigation measures associated with common regional geographical endowments/features could be replicated through south-south cooperation, while application of lessons from the achievement process of the Kyoto Protocol could be part of North-South cooperation within the Region. Another mode of regional cooperation In view of domestic internal capacity within the participating country, regional support to operationalization of domestic mechanisms (e.g. in-country climate change trust fund) was also suggested as another mode of regional cooperation which also nurtures 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 and flexible to the concept of the market, divergent responses were made including more priority on achievement of energy and transport policy which serves the basis for NDC (Thailand), potential avenue to contribute to NDC target but its means are still under consideration (Vietnam), and need to taken into account and align with current provisions of the Paris Agreement and the progress of the international negotiation (Indonesia). As for the latter, responses included preference of using public finance including domestic resources to adaptation while inviting private finance to address mitigation (Vietnam), and mainstreaming of NDC into development plan as the pre-requisite for acquisition of domestic finance. 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 build in flexibility to 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 after the adoption of the Paris Agreement. Also, anticipation for the newly established NDC partnership to play coordination of existing on-going relevant partnerships 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 of collective knowledge management. |
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| Materials | Presentation 1(PDF・331KB) Presentation 2(PDF・1,836KB) Presentation 3(PDF・150KB) Presentation 4(PDF・117KB) Presentation 5(PDF・186KB) Presentation 6(PDF・131KB) Presentation 7(PDF・86KB) Presentation 8(PDF・613KB) Presentation 9(PDF・83KB) |
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| Reporters | Koji Fukuda, Chief Technical Advisor, Japan International Coordination Agency (JICA), Support to Planning and Implementation of NAMAs in MRVable Manner (SPI-NAMA) in Vietnam |
