Climate Change and Air Quality

South Africa’s Climate Change Response M&E System

CCXG meeting – 13th Sept 2016

Thapelo Letete

Climate Finance component

The Response M&E SYSTEM

Climate-resilience analyses

Lower-carbon analyses

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Data & info provision

Data storage & processing, Quality control

Data & information analyses

Monitoring = MRV Evaluation = impact Analyses

The Web-based M&E

System Platform

(QA / QC)

Feedback & learning

Feedback & learning Feedback & learning

Monitoring and Evaluation Guidelines

Data and information coordination network(s)

•Annual Climate Change Report

•UNFCCC Reporting Obligations

•OTHERS

Outputs

Climate Finance analysis

1. Private climate finance 2. Tracking expenditure at a thematic level 3. Emphasis on influencing climate finance flows 4. Assessments of leveraging impacts, catalytic impacts, etc.

WHY Climate Finance tracking?

1. To provide an overview of the landscape of climate finance supporting the country’s transition to a lower-carbon and climate-resilient society

2. To understand the resource needs for funding South Africa’s climate response actions 3. Tracking and monitoring the impact or contribution of funds deployed towards

climate actions – successes and failures 4. To help improve transparency in climate finance inflows by

• Helping to minimise “double-counting” of outcomes (emission reductions, etc.) and

• Helping to identify “double-dipping” on same pool of resources 5. To support the fulfilment of South Africa’s international reporting requirements,

including under the UNFCCC 6. To provide an estimate of the degree to which other funds have been leveraged by

public finance 7. To provide an estimate of the extent to which public climate finance has catalysed

action (e.g. programmes going to scale, triggering more investment by private sector) 8. To help promote a country approach when mobilising and applying for international

finance cooperation

Web-based M&E SYSTEM DATABASE

National Public Fiscus

MoU with NT

Multilateral

Multilateral Databases

Bi-lateral

Requests to Embassies

Private

OECD Research Collaborative project

Programme level – mitigation & adaptation

Requests

Mitigation Indicators: • Mitigation impact • Co-benefits • Effectiveness: = CO2e / Cost

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Capacity building

Research Awareness

Policy / Strat dev.

CONTACTS: THAPELO LETETE Department of Environmental Affairs Climate Change & Air Quality branch tletete@environment.gov.za www. environment.gov.za