The National Climate Change Policy

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Overview

• Rationale
• Context and Linkages
• Objectives
• Commitments
• Guiding Principles
• Policy Themes, Directives and Strategies

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Rationale

• Recognition that CC is a sustainable development
  issue with challenges and opportunities
• Realisation that Achievement of optimum economic
  growth to support the rapidly growing population
  will require scaling up economic activities and
  utilization of natural capital that will give
  rise to environmental problems and increased GHG
  emissions
• Acknowledges that apart from adaptation, an
  important solution to CC are some of the natural
  environmental settings and the services they
  provide such as in the forest.
• Recognising the need to provide a strategic
  framework to address CC challenges and benefit
  from opportunities that it brings and to position
  the country in the phase of a growing range of
  global innovative financing

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Context and Linkages

• An expression of S.I. Commitment to regional
  international MEAs
• Articulates from and linked to frameworks of
  national, regional and international policies and
  strategies
• Alignment with the NDS (obj. 78)
• Draws from regional frameworks such as the PIFACC
  and the Regional Framework on Disaster Risk
  Reduction and Disaster Management
• Guided by international commitments (e.g UNFCCC,
  KP, Hyogo Framework on DRM)

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Objectives

• To provide a guiding framework to
• Integrate CC consideration and support the
  implementation and achievement of the S.I. NDS
  and other regional and international frameworks
• To guide the government and its development
  partners efforts to ensuring that
• the people, natural environment and economy are
  resilient and able to adapt to adverse impact of
  CC
• the country benefits from renewable energy,
  energy efficiency and clean mitigation
  technologies that improves livelihoods and
  national economy and contributes to global
  efforts to reduce GHG

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Commitments

• Sees mainstreaming as integral part of its
  national development strategy and programs
• Recognises that people, natural environment and
  economy of S.I. are very vulnerable to climate
  variability and the predicted impacts of CC
• Sees the importance of developing capacities to
  reduce risk and raise ability to adapt to the
  impacts of CC and to implement measures to reduce
  GHG emissions
• Important to forge and maintain partnerships and
  seek the support of its development partners
  through programs and projects for the
  implementation of this policy

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Guiding Principles

• Guided by the National Constitution
• Seeks the participation and collaboration of all
  Stakeholders
• Looks at a holistic and multi-disciplinary
  approach
• Emphasis on precautionary principle and
  no-regrets approach
• Calls for the respect for culture and rights of
  indigenous people
• Recognizes gender equity and involvement of
  youth, children and people with special needs

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Policy Themes, Directives and Strategies

1. Enabling environment and institutional
   arrangement to plan, implement and coordinate an
   integrated and multi-stakeholder participatory
   approach to addressing CC
2. Mainstreaming of CC into all development sectors
   and integrated into the work of government
   agencies, national institutions, civil society
   organisations and the private sector
3. Vulnerability and adaptation and disaster risk
   reduction to asses vulnerabilities and risks
   associated with climate variability and change
   and to reduce the risks and adapt to the impacts
   of CC
4. CC Mitigation through appropriate measures and
   actions in its effort to reduce S.I. GHG
   emission.
5. Research and systematic observation to ensure
   better understanding of CC at all levels and
   sections of society for effective planning and
   implementation appropriate adaptation and
   mitigation actions

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Policy Themes, Directives and Strategies ......
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• 6. Technology transfer to enhance the countrys
  capacity to carryout effective adaptation and
  mitigation actions
• 7. Education, awareness and capacity building to
  strengthen the capacity of nationals, provincial
  and community organisations and human resources
  for the effective planning and implementation of
  appropriate CCA and RR and mitigation actions
• 8. Finance and resources mobilisation to support
  CC programs and projects
• 9. Develop and maintain strong partnerships and
  cooperation with national partners, stakeholder,
  regional and international organisations and
  institutions and development partners to address
  CC
• 10. Establishment of monitoring and evaluation
  mechanism to ensure implementation of this policy

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Enabling environment and institutional
arrangement.

• Strengthen capacity of the Climate Change
  Division as the government lead agency overseeing
  climate change to lead, guide and coordinate
  national programs and actions addressing climate
  change, and coordinate preparations and
  participation in international climate change
  negotiations.
• Draft and enact national climate change
  legislation to give legal mandate to the
  government lead agency responsible for climate
  change and its associated coordinating and
  implementation bodies and that shall also include
  provisions for mandatory assessments and
  reporting for purposes of planning, implementing
  and evaluating climate change adaptation and
  mitigation actions.
• Establish a National Climate Change Council to
  oversee the implementation, coordination,
  monitoring and evaluation of national climate
  change policies and strategies.

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Enabling environment and institutional
arrangement.

• Establish a Climate Change Working Group (CCWG)
  to provide inter-agency and inter-stakeholder
  coordination for the implementation of the
  policy. The Membership, scope and role of the
  CCWG is presented in Annex 5.
• Strengthen capacity of the government lead agency
  overseeing climate change to be the Secretariat
  of the National Climate Change Council.
• Enhance the role and capacity of the Environment
  and Conservation Standing Committee of Parliament
  to include oversight over Climate Change.
• Develop national and provincial level climate
  change policies and strategies that is in line
  with the NDS and other national sector policies
  and National Disaster Management Framework.

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Enabling environment and institutional
arrangement.

• Establish national Thematic Working Groups (TWG)
  to provide technical and strategic support and
  advice to the lead agency and National Climate
  Change Council on climate change issues. The
  working groups shall oversee the following
  climate change thematic areas
• Vulnerability, disaster risk reduction and
  adaptation
• Mitigation Green house gas inventory
• Research, Systematic Observation and
  Technology Transfer and
• Education, awareness and capacity building.

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Enabling environment and institutional
arrangement.

• Establish formal climate change coordination
  arrangements within Provincial Governments using
  existing or new coordinating bodies.
• Designate officials as Climate Change Focal
  Points within national and provincial government
  Ministries and Departments as well as national
  institutions and civil society organizations
• Establish community-based or village-based
  climate change coordination arrangements using
  existing or new coordinating bodies.

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Mainstreaming of Climate Change

• a) Support organizations and institutions build
  capacity for mainstreaming climate change.
• b) Review and revise existing relevant
  legislations and regulations to support climate
  change adaptation and mitigation.
• c) Review national and provincial government
  policies strategies and integrate climate
  change considerations.
• d) Integrate climate change considerations into
  the planning and budgeting processes of national
  and provincial governments.
• e) Mainstream climate change considerations in
  country partnership arrangements with regional
  agencies, international agencies and donors
• f) Ensure that the National Development Strategy
  and other national sector strategies are fully
  climate compatible within their stated time
  frames.

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