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UNDP’S WORK IN GREEN LOW-EMISSIONS
AND CLIMATE-RESILIENT DEVELOPMENT
STRATEGIES (GREEN LECRDS)
Climate and Development
Knowledge Brokers Workshop
Eschborn, Germany
3-5 June 2011
KNOWLEDGE MATERIALS & PLATFORMS
• Background
� About Green Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Development Strategies
(Green LECRDS)
� UNDP’s Approach to Supporting Countries to Develop Green LECRDS
� UNDP’s Experience in Contributing to Green LECRDS
• Knowledge Materials and Platforms
� UNDP’s Green LECRDS website
Outline
� UNDP’s Green LECRDS website
� UNDP’s LECRDS Guidance Manuals & Toolkits
� FOCUS ON: UNDP’s Work in Adaptation
� Adaptation Learning Mechanism (ALM)
o Overview: Objective, Vision & Mission, Partners, How the ALM works, ALM
website
o Explore: What type of knowledge the ALM is managing, Available resources
o Participate: Become a member of the ALM, Scaling up local action, Site visits,
Participation, Usage
o Innovative Features: Outreach, Interactive abilities, Multimedia
Background
� About Green Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Development Strategies � About Green Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Development Strategies
(Green LECRDS)
� UNDP’s Approach to Supporting Countries to Develop Green LECRDS
� UNDP’s Experience in Contributing to Green LECRDS
About Green Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient
Development Strategies (GREEN LECRDS)
• Long-term climate change management requires a shift from sectoral
perspectives to a holistic approach that incorporates climate change
mitigation and adaptation across sectors and national development
panning and budgeting processes
• UNDP’s assistance to countries to formulate and implement Green• UNDP’s assistance to countries to formulate and implement Green
LECRDS, builds upon existing development plans and draws upon
experience and information generated by UNDP’s support in some
140 countries for:
• Adaptation, Mitigation, National Communications to the UNFCCC, Sub-
national Strategies, Capacity Development, Ecosystems & Biodiversity,
Water Governance
• Building upon existing development
frameworks, the Green LECRDS
UNDP’s Approach to Supporting Countries to Develop
Green LECRDS
UNDP supports national and sub-national governments to catalyze public and
private financing for realizing low-emission and climate-resilient development
that are also pro-poor and equitable
Broad Key Steps in Preparing
a Green LECRDSpreparation process involves
multiple sectors, stakeholders, and
levels of government, including
high-level public and private
decision-makers.
• Planning activities and scientific
assessments are fully coordinated
and systematic
STEP 1
Design multi-
stakeholder
participatory
climate
planning and
coordination
process
based on
existing
structures
STEP 2
Prepare
climate
change
profiles and
vulnerability
scenarios
STEP 3
Identify
strategic
options
leading to
Green
LECRD
trajectories
STEP 4
Prioritize
strategic
options
through
technological,
social, and
financial
feasibility and
cost-benefit
analysis
STEP 5
Prepare
Green
LECRD
roadmap
a Green LECRDS
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UNDP Environment & Energy
Group ‘s support services
Develop
LECRD
Strategies
UNDP’s Approach to Supporting Countries to Develop
Green LECRDS
• Technical and Policy Advice
• Developing and Applying
Methodologies
• Oversight and Financial
Management
• Training
• Multi-stakeholder Dialogues
• Convening and Coordination
Establish
Enabling
Environment
Catalyse Finance
Generate and
Share
Knowledge
UNDP’s Experience in Contributing to Green LECRDS
• UNDP has decades of successful project development and implementation expertise
that can be leveraged in assisting developing countries to prepare and implement
Green LECRDS).
• UNDP’s experience in over 140 countries demonstrates that the most cost effective
climate change investments and initiatives are those that provide multiple
development benefits along with adaptation and mitigation, including job creation,
sustainable livelihoods, and greater access rights to energy and environmental sustainable livelihoods, and greater access rights to energy and environmental
services.
• UNDP’s current portfolio of projects that contribute to the development of Green
LECRDS are financed by multiple sources of funds, including but not limited to:
• Adaptation Fund, AusAID, DANIDA, Global Environment Facility Trust Fund,
Government of Japan, Government of Switzerland, Least Developed Countries
Fund, Special Climate Change Fund, UN Volunteers
Knowledge Materials and Platforms
� UNDP’s Green LECRDS website
� UNDP’s LECRDS Guidance Manuals & Toolkits
� FOCUS ON: UNDP’s Work in Adaptation� FOCUS ON: UNDP’s Work in Adaptation
� Adaptation Learning Mechanism (ALM)
o Overview: Objective, Vision & Mission, Partners, How the ALM works, ALM
website
o Explore: What type of knowledge the ALM is managing, Available resources
o Participate: Become a member of the ALM, Scaling up local action, Site visits,
Participation, Usage
o Innovative Features: Outreach, Interactive abilities, Multimedia
UNDP’s Green LECRDS website
http://www.undp.org/energyandenvironment/climatestrategies
• About Green LECRDS
• UNDP’s Approach to Supporting
Countries to Develop Green LECRDS
• UNDP Technical Advisory Infrastructure
to Support Green LECRDS
• UNDP’s Green LECRDS Guidance
Manuals and Toolkits
• UNDP Projects that Contribute to Green
LECRDS
• Adaptation, Mitigation, National/Sub-
national Strategies, Capacity
Development, Water and Ocean
Governance, Ecosystems and
Biodiversity
UNDP Green LECRDS Guidance Manuals & Toolkits
Preparing Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Development Strategies
LECRDS Approach
These materials are intended to enable developing country government
decision-makers and project managers to acquaint themselves with a variety of
methodologies most appropriate to their development contexts in support of
the preparation of LECRDS.
www.undp.org/energyandenvironment/climatestrategies_toolkits.shtml
Preparing Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Development Strategies
(LECRDS) – Executive Summary
Step 1: Design multi-stakeholder participatory climate planning and coordination process
based on existing structures
Charting a New Carbon Route to Development
Establishing a Multi-stakeholder Decision-making Process for LECRDS (Aug 2011)
(continued)
UNDP Green LECRDS Guidance Manuals & Toolkits
Step 2: Prepare Climate Change Profiles and Vulnerability Scenarios
Formulating Climate Change Scenarios to Inform Climate-Resilient
Development Strategies
Managing the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Process
www.undp.org/energyandenvironment/climatestrategies_toolkits.shtml
Managing the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Process
Mapping Climate Change Vulnerability and Impact Scenarios – A Guidebook
for Sub-national Planners
Applying Climate Information for Adaptation Decision-Making: A Guidance
and Resource Document
Guidebook on Preparing a GHG Emissions Inventory at the Sub-National Level (Sep 2011)
Step 3: Identify Strategic Options Leading to Low-Emission Climate-Resilient Development
Trajectories
Technology Needs Assessment Handbook
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UNDP Green LECRDS Guidance Manuals & Toolkitswww.undp.org/energyandenvironment/climatestrategies_toolkits.shtml
Toolkit for Designing Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives
Proceedings on Internalizing Climate Risks into Infrastructure Design (June 2011)
LECRDS and Green Employment (Sep 2011)
Step 4: Prioritize strategic options through technological, social, and financial feasibility
and cost-benefit analysis
Catalyzing Climate Finance – A Guidebook on Policy and Financing Solutions
to Support Green, Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Development
(continued)
UNDP Green LECRDS Guidance Manuals & Toolkitswww.undp.org/energyandenvironment/climatestrategies_toolkits.shtml
Policy and Financial Instruments Toolkit for Low-Emission Climate-Resilient
Development (June 2011)
Climate Finance Options website (jointly with World Bank)
http://www.climatefinanceoptions.org/
International Guidebook for Environmental Finance Tools (Oct 2011)
Step 5: Prepare Low-Emission and Climate-Resilient Roadmap
National Climate Fund Guidebook (June 2011)
Guidebook on Project Management for National and Sub-national Institutions (July 2011)
(continued)
UNDP Green LECRDS Guidance Manuals & Toolkitswww.undp.org/energyandenvironment/climatestrategies_toolkits.shtml
A Guidebook on Climate Change Measurement, Reporting and Verification (Oct 2011)
A Guidebook on Legal Climate Instruments (Oct 2011)
UNDP’s Work in Adaptation
• For UNDP, adaptation to climate change means climate-resilient economic
development and sustainable livelihoods, especially for vulnerable
populations – the poor, women, and indigenous peoples.
• UNDP supports these goals by assisting over 75 countries to integrate current
and future climate risks and uncertainties into national and sub-national
development efforts.
• UNDP works with governments, the private sector, communities, and other
partners to build responsive state institutions and public policies; strengthen
public and private sector capacities to manage climate change risks and
uncertainties; and formulate, finance and implement climate-resilient
initiatives
UNDP’s Work in Adaptation
• Together with partners, UNDP supports climate change risk management in
the context of: agriculture and food security, water resources, coastal zone
development, public health, and climate change-related disaster risks
• To finance this work at the national, sub-national and community levels, UNDP
helps countries secure climate change adaptation finance that is available
through vertical funds such as the Adaptation Fund, Least Developed
Countries Fund, Special Climate Change Fund, as well as other multilateral and
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Countries Fund, Special Climate Change Fund, as well as other multilateral and
bilateral sources.
• Countries are supported to optimize the use of these public funds by also
leveraging and catalyzing private finance for adaptation
• To support building adaptive capacity in countries, UNDP, in partnership with
various organizations, facilitates the Adaptation Learning Mechanism, a
knowledge platform that allows direct access to and the exchange of
adaptation information
The ALM is a UN Inter-agency
knowledge platform on
climate change adaptation.
Overview: The Adaptation Learning Mechanism
www.adaptationlearning.net
The ALM provides a platform
for sharing and learning and
complements the wide range
of adaptation knowledge
networks and initiatives
already underway.
Our Vision �
To provide good practice and
operational guidance for
adaptation
Our Mission �
Overview: Objective, Vision & Mission
ALM Objective:
To create and sustain a
knowledge platform that will
build adaptive capacity
through direct access to Our Mission �
To share knowledge and build
partnerships to realise the
catalytic power of knowledge,
communication
adaptation information,
allow information to cross
boundaries & sectors, reduce
vulnerability by integrating
adaptation within
development planning.
Overview: Partners
The ALM is facilitated by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), in close partnership with the World Bank (WB), United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and specialized UN agencies including FAO and UNICEF. Original
funding was provided by the Global Environment Facility.funding was provided by the Global Environment Facility.
The ALM is also establishing additional partnerships with the private sector, public institutions and academia.
• ALM is a participatory mechanism – allowing users to explore
and participate.
• ALM provides multiple points of entry tailored to the needs of
the many stakeholders and end-users.
• ALM ensures that information is easy to access and relevant.
Overview: How the ALM works
Overview: How the ALM works
The ALM website offers:
• A dynamic and user-friendly structure
• Unique inter-agency access
• Cross-sector information
• Information on good adaptation • Information on good adaptation
practices
• Exposure to lessons learned from
community-based adaptation, and
• Country- and regional-level
information.
Explore: Available Resources
Currently hosting over 1,200 resources the ALM ensures that
information is easy to access and relevant
Explore: What type of knowledge the ALM is managing
� 170 Adaptation
Country Profiles
� 400+ Adaptation
Project Profiles
� 200+ Publications on
Knowledge gaps: Determining what type
of knowledge and in what areas
knowledge is lacking or needed
Innovative approaches: Sharing
innovative approaches based on new
research & experiences � 200+ Publications on
Adaptation
� 150 Adaptation
Assessments
� 50+ Guidance & Tools
� News, Events, &
Adaptation Resources
research & experiences
Lessons learned: Exchanging lessons
(what worked, what did not & why) from
existing adaptation projects
Good practices: Disseminating good
practice in approaching adaptation and
designing projects
Participate: Become a member of the ALM
�As an open source platform the ALM has established a global
consortium for the support and facilitation of adaptation learning
and information sharing
�ALM users can post their own resources to the knowledge
platform with easy-to-follow instructions and user-friendly
templates (project profiles, case studies, experiences)templates (project profiles, case studies, experiences)
� Currently, there is a functional, active network of adaptation
stakeholders: 2,000+ users
Participate: Site Visits
In the past year, ALM site visits increased by 864%
with 114,090 total site visits, 137,286 page views,
and over 77,960 unique visitors.
All 192 UN-Member States participate in ALM. Equatorial Guinea,
North Korea, Nauru, Sierra Leone, Palau and Cuba are some of the
top new ALM users in 2010-2011 according to Google Analytics.
Participate: ALM Usage
Innovative Features: Outreach
Discussion ForumsUser GroupsMember Search
Social Networking Sites
Interactive Member SpaceInteractive Member Space
Events Calendar
The ALM recently created
Discussion Forums and User
Groups where stakeholders
(UNFCCC NWP, FAO and UNICEF)
can share & learn about
adaptation in an interactive
Innovative Features: Interactive abilities
adaptation in an interactive
fashion
• Discussion Forums
• User Groups
• Member Search
Thematic pages coming soon �
Innovative Features: Multimedia
� ALM Video Gallery
� ALM Photo Gallery
� Events with Calendar
� Radio documentaries coming soon…
Become a member of the Adaptation Learning Mechanism today
� Receive updates
www.adaptationlearning.net
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