Project Title: Global capacity building towards enhanced transparency in the AFOLU sector (CBIT-AFOLU)
Executive Summary
The Paris Agreement aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by limiting a global temperature rise this century to a maximum of two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts further to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. It also seeks to strengthen the ability of countries to respond and adapt to climate change.
It will be critical for countries to establish robust MRV and M&E systems to track the implementation of their NDCs transparently and, more broadly, to assess the impact of climate change actions and policies. To this end, Article 13 of the Paris Agreement provides for the establishment of “an enhanced transparency framework [ETF] for action and support, with built-in flexibility which takes into account Parties’ different capacities and builds upon collective experience…”.
The agriculture sectors play an important role in climate change mitigation and adaptation. Effective reporting of emissions and removals from the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) sector, and monitoring and evaluation of adaptation actions will thus be critical to ensuring the success of tracking NDC progress by developing countries under the ETF.
Despite the provisions stipulated under Article 13 of the Paris Agreement and the existence of various baseline support, challenges are expected to persist in applying ETF requirements within the agriculture sectors. Emissions and removals are more difficult to quantify and report than in other sectors due to unavailable data; low levels of methodological sophistication; low technical capacities; and weak institutional arrangements, particularly in developing countries. Additional barriers include: (i) Lack of awareness regarding the ETF and the need for enhanced transparency in monitoring and tracking of mitigation and adaptation activities; (ii) Lack of coordination amongst relevant Ministries and other entities in the gathering of data and information; (iii) weak technical capacity and inadequate data to establish systems for tracking mitigation and adaptation contributions in the AFOLU sector; (iv) inadequate knowledge sharing and coordination of ETF-compliant activities amongst practitioners.
The present CBIT project will deliver a combination of: 1) stand-alone tools—referred to herein as ‘ETF- enhanced’ Global Products— designed to help countries build their capacity to comply with ETF in the agriculture sectors; 2) pilot actions aimed at validating and refining the tools while stimulating country- level capacities, and; 3) coordinated dissemination of knowledge and tools across a wide range of platforms and networks to ensure a broad outreach. The project components and outcomes are:
Component 1: Supporting developing countries to strengthen their capacity to establish and sustain the institutional arrangements required to respond to ETF requirements and improve decision-making processes
Outcome 1.1: ‘ETF-enhanced’ IA Global Products, in line with ETF requirements and enhanced with county experiences, are available to support the creation and/or the sustainability of institutional arrangements for developing countries.
Outcome 1.2: Enhanced institutional and knowledge management capacity established in selected pilot and project countries.
Component 2: Building developing countries’ technical capacity of to establish robust systems to measure, report and verify emissions, and to monitor and evaluate adaptation actions, in the AFOLU sector in accordance with ETF.
Outcome 2.1: Potential for practitioners to enhance technical capacity through greater access to and adoption of ‘ETF-enhanced’ MRV and M&E Global Products.
Outcome 2.2: Enhanced technical capacity of selected pilot and project countries to comply with ETF requirements in the agriculture sectors through greater access to and adoption of new set of MRV and M&E tools.
Component 3: Sharing knowledge and improving coordination amongst global transparency practitioners to sustain and scale up institutional and technical capacity improvements in the AFOLU sector.
Outcome 3.1: Knowledge shared through platforms and networks.
Outcome 3.2: Coordination amongst agencies improved to ensure a coherent framework of discussion on transparency-related issues.
Dados do Projecto
FAO Project symbol: GCP /GLO/880/CBT
GEF Project ID: 9864
Executing partners: FAO
Starting Date): April 2019
Expected (End Date): 30 Sept 2022
Environmental and Social Risk Classification: low risk
Recipient Country(ies): Global: Burundi, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Namibia, Benin, Guinea, Mali, Senegal, Haiti, Belize, Brazil, Indonesia, VietNam, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Armenia.
Global Project FP: Ms. Mirella Salvatore
National Focal Point: Claudio Quenhe –DMC
Financing Plan: GEF
Total budget: US$ 4,776,484