COP19 Outcomes : A Developing Country’s

Perspective

- Vositha WijenayakeOutreach and Advocacy Co-ordinator CANSA

COP19 in Numbers

9000 participants95 countries83 agenda items34 COP and CMP decisions

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Key Demands of the LDCs and the Developing Countries

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1. To address the finance gap by: (i) developing credible pathways for climate finance towards the USD 100 billion goal set for 2020, including clear arrangements to USD 60 billion by 2016 and 50% for adaptation; (ii) detailing a Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification system (MRV) of the financial support provided; (iii) and clarifying the scale, sources and share between public and private sources of finance.

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2. A decision mapping out a work plan to negotiate the new agreement with clear timelines and deliverables to complete the work of the ADP by 2015;

3. A decision mapping out a work plan with clear timelines and deliverables for raising pre-2020 mitigation ambition, with a view to ensure highest possible mitigation efforts by all Parties;

4. A decision establishing an international mechanism to address loss and damage.

A Few Key Decisions:

1. Further advancing the Durban Platform2. Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with climate change impacts 3. Work programme on long-term finance 4. Co-ordination of support for the implementation of

activities in relation to mitigation actions in the forest sector by developing countries, including institutional arrangements

5. Modalities for Measuring, Reporting and Verifying6. National Adaptation Plans7. General Guidelines for domestic MRV of domestically supports Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions by developing parties8. Modalities and Procedures of the Climate Technology Centre and Network9. Second Review of the Adaptation Fund10. Guidance for reporting activities under Article 3

Thematic Areas of Focus

- Outcomes for ADP- Climate Finance- Adaptation Finance- Adaptation- Loss and Damage

The New Climate Deal : A Road Map Leading to a Fair and Binding Deal in 2015

At COP17 in Durban in 2011, governments agreed to develop this comprehensive new agreement by 2015.

It is envisaged to come into force no later than 2020

Next session on ADP to be held in March 2014, to elaborate the framework for the 2015 Deal.

On Mitigation:1. Intensify its examination of ‘mitigationactions with high potential’2. Will identify, by COP20 in Peru in 2014, the information governments will need to provide when putting forward their emissions reduction contributions

3. Mitigation pledges for the period beyond 2020 – should be put on the table by the first quarter of 2015

4. Developing countries insist on support to provide information required : Developed countries and institutions asked to support developing countries for the provision of information

CLIMATE FINANCE: : Have developed countriesprogressed on their promises?

• Developed countries are legally obligated to provide financial and other support for poorer countries

• Finance is a key issue in addressing climate change, and governments took 9 procedural decisions on finance

• Progress reached on the operationalisation of the Green Climate Fund : Ambitious and significant finance pledges are still required

• Agreement on a continuous high-level presence for work on finance with regular reports from developing countries on scaling up finance

• More work allocated for the Standing Committee on Finance

• In spite of decisions, climate finance did not receive substantial amounts during this COP

Adaptation Finance• A number of developed countries, such as the UK,

Germany and Denmark signalled the levels of finance they will provide to developing countries

• Additional funding from other countries such as UK, Germany, France, Norway and Switzerland

• Adaptation finance has been further strengthened by the decision on long term finance

• The decisions fail to provide clarity on the portion of Adaptation Fund within climate finance

• The impact of the work stream on loss and damage and its impacts on Adaptation Fund is also unknown

COP 19 and Adaptation

• The key decisions taken are of procedural nature, without concrete steps

• Countries decided to continue with the existing Nairobi Work Programme (NWP) on Impacts Adaptation and Vulnerability

• National Adaptation Plans : At COP18 in Doha in 2012, governments decided to push the review of the NAP technical guidelines to COP20 in Peru in 2014. Governments were also asked for submissions (by 26 March 2014) to explain how they are using the NAP guidelines.

• There is still a substantial amount of technical work to be addressed in 2014

• To address adaptation in 2015, an agreement to ensure it has a meaningful role, including the development of NAPs and substantial recommendations from the Adaptation Committee, remains a key task in 2014

Loss and Damage• Established the ‘Warsaw International

mechanism on Loss and Damage associated with climate change impacts.’

• Third pillar in the UNFCCC after Adaptation and Mitigation

• Was established due to the strong pressure applied by the G77 and China block and the LDC group

• Although it’s a good start, the substance of the agreement to establish loss and damage mechanism still delivers the bare minimum deemed acceptable by developing countries.

• Established a separate but an interlinked work stream

• The coming years will be allocated the task of negotiating modalities and composition of the mechanism.

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