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International Expert Workshop

Science-practice interactions for effective climate change adaptation

Identifying new approaches for collaboration between Europe and low-income countries

January 29, 2014


The role of research funding organizations in supporting the knowledge base in low-income countries and in strengthening cooperation• A new approach by the World Bank: Habiba Gitay/ The World

Bank• Views from Brussels: N.N./ EU Commission, DG Research and

Innovation (tbc)• What is the potential role of JPI in supporting the knowledge base

and analytic capacities in lowincome countries in the field of CCA: Kirsten Broich Mathisen/ The Research Council of Norway andJPI

• Regional research programming – Initiatives in Africa: Olaf Pollmann/ German Aerospace Centre (DLR)

Analytical Tools and Knowledge Support to

Partner Countries

Habiba Gitay Climate Policy Team

Imperative to reduce risks from climate variability and change

• The economic impact of weather-related disasters is concentrated in fast-growing, middle-income countries – valuable assets and poulations in areas at risk from climate and

other disasters

• Impacts are particularly crippling in smaller and lower-

income countries that are least able to cope

• Building climate resilience is critical for the WBG’s goals to end extreme poverty and build shared prosperity

• .... integrate risks from climate variability and change into development strategies and investment plans

Supporting low income countries in climate resilient development

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Provide access to information and

expertise to analyze climate trends

Identify climate-related impacts and risks to economies, assets,

livelihoods, communities and areas

Develop specific resilience measures

and facilitate access to predictable and

sustained financing

7 Agree on

development, priorities with

partner countries

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Change development decisions towards climate resilience

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Prioritize major sectors, areas and communities for support within the development

agenda

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• Provide analytical

support,

• Easy access to

information

• Facilitate

knowledge sharing

Assess

non-climate risks

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Agreeing on Development Priorities

• Client engagement - the country partnership framework (CPF) and strategic country diagnostic

• Identify a set of objectives that the Bank will help the country to achieve to help further progress towards reducing poverty and increasing shared prosperity.

• Four to six years plans

• Systematic country diagnostics - a vehicle for identifying key constraints in a particular country and a strong link to country priorities

• As of July 2014 all International Development Assistance (IDA) countries will include climate and disaster risk

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Scaling-up Support to Low Income Countries

As of July 2014 all IDA countries will include climate and disaster risk considerations • At country strategy/engagement level, Development Plans

– Supporting analytical work within country climate strategies – Connecting climate stratgies with development plans – Translating the impacts on development goals and priorities – Builidng on exisitng work – NAPAs, NAPs etc – Going deeper in specific areas/sectors – Drawing on historical records within the country (met departments) – Knowledge and expertise within the academia, NGOs etc – Bringing in non-climate risks – Changing planning process to minimise risks (climate and non-climate) – Analytics and decisions on resilience measures

• Investment projects – Economic analysis to help with decision making – Use of new tools such as robust decision-making to go beyond – Consider medium-long-term time horizons

Sustainability of Effort

• Strengthening instituions – Multi-sectoral agenda – Role for Ministry of Finance - budgetary support

• Bringing Disaster risk management and adaptation together – Facilitate and support access to predictable and sustained

finance – Analysis to help bring different finance streams together – Strengthening specific capacity through knowledge and

analysis • financial management • project management

– Helping move away from emergency management to preparedness and resilient development

– Building more resiliently with good analytical basis

Providing Access to Information and Data

1000 hits/day mainly from

Developing countries

Beyond Access to Data

Put a whole set of climate to adaptation narrative and analysis together

Interpret data for impacts and risks

Climate-smart Planning Platform

To help developing-country practitioners access to quality, tested tools, data, knowledge

products and learning initiatives

Recent Effort

Challenges and the Way Forward

• Overcoming institutional barriers to enhanced coordination

– between different line ministries, climate units and disaster risk management

• Addressing limited data, institutional and technical capacity challenges

– Better understanding of risks from changing climate and disasters to development

– Use of this information to make informed decisions to build resilience

– collecting more consistent information - development, climate and disaster impacts

• Facilitate free flow of information – climate projections and development scenarios

– Provision of accurate and timely warning of weather-related events

• Use innovative financing instruments and strategies more often

• Integrate climate and disaster risk management in targeted poverty alleviation programs

What is the potential role of JPI in supporting the

Knowledge base and analytic capacities in

low-income countries in the field of Climate

Change adaptation?

Kirsten Broch Mathisen, director And member of JPI-Climate Governing Board

Content

JPIs

Belmont Forum/IGFA

The Challenges

There are opportunities

Conclusion

Joint programming

Introduced by the European Commission in 2008

Addressing the great societal challenges

Added value to national and EU R&D

Through pooling of resources and joint activities

Today 10 JPIs – several relevant for CCA

Climate change is a global challenge

Connecting Climate Change knowledge for

Europe - JPI Climate

JPI Climate is a joint programming initiative that integrates European climate and climate change science and connects them to efforts in Europe to be both climate‐friendly (through mitigation) and climate‐proof (through adaptation)

JPI Climate – The topics

• Reliable decadal predictions

• Research for climate service development

• Transformation of society

• Improving tools for decision-making

Europe – Countries

Denmark

Finland

Poland

France

Germany

Spain

Portugal

Greece

Italy Turkey

Switzer/ land

Austria

Czech Republic

Estonia

Latvia

Lithuania

Belarus

Ukraine

Romania Hungary

Slovakia Moldova

Bulgaria

Russia

Ireland

Great Britain

Monte- negro

Serbia

Slovenia

Croatia Bosnia/ Herze- govina

Mace- donia

Albania

Norway

Nether-

lands

Belgium

Luxembourg

Sweden

Member Countries: 13 + EC

Observer Countries: 2

Observer Institutions: 4 CIRCLE2, EEA ECRA NordForsk

JPI Climate Countries

Implementation through:

• Co-alignment of current research

• JPI Climate joint calls

• International calls (e.g. Belmont forum, Russia, USA, other non-EU countries)

• Calls together with EC (ERA-NET+ and ERA-NET)

• EC funded Coordination and Support Action for internal coordination

• Streamlining of research funding policies

• Fast track activities (synthesis, mapping,…)

• Variable geometry

Other JPIs

Healthy and productive Seas and Oceans

(JPI-Ocean)

Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change

(JPI – FACCE)

Urban Europe, Water challenges…

Belmont Forum/IGFA

Funders of Global environmental Change Research and the science Councils

The Belmont Challenge:

To deliver knowledge needed for action to avoid and adapt to detrimental environmental change including extreme hazardous events.

Belmont Forum –foci

Coastal Vulnerability;

Freshwater Security;

Ecosystem ‘services;

Carbon Budgets;

Most vulnerable societies.

Trans-disciplinary

Link – research to policy

Support for capacity building

Challenges – Climate Change adaptation

Understanding the climate issues

The climate - mean and extreme conditions, uncertainties,..

Impacts

Climate adaptation policies

Poor countries are the most vulnerable

Research on the priority list?

Climate Change research on

the priority list?

Large variations

Challenges – cont.

Lack of resources, infrastructure, competence and institutions ?

Capacity to understand and apply the knowledge?

JPIs developed for Europe

The international science agenda might not be relevant and not

on the right scale

Not a conformal group of countries

JPI and BF/IGFA – different funding agencies different rules on

who and what they can fund

Opportunities –

The science agenda is relevant, e.g. climate services

Basis for research cooperation and knowledge transfer to/from South – North

On the climate change issues and science-policy interaction

JPI a platform for cooperation with countries outside Europe

Joint efforts with Belmont Forum

Climate services in Monsoon regions

Food security and land use change

Many members - exchange best practices

Belmont Forum members as a bridge to countries in the region

Opportunities … cont.

JPI-Climate Governing Board to discuss international cooperation in June 2014 and how to contribute to the global programmes

Variable geometry!

Some ERA-Nets with low income countries (e.g. ERAfrica)

Many instruments

Common Platforms

Future Earth –

World Social Science Report

Conclusions

JPI has a role to play

JPIs as platforms for cooperations and support

Involve potential partners from the beginning

ERANET Cofunds s could be an instrument for cooperations with low income countries - must specify which countries

Use all JPI and Belmont Forum instruments

Funding agencies can be involved in many ways – on many levels

Cooperate with aid agencies?

Thank you for the attention

I’ll bring your comments back home

Foto: OMRapp

Dr. Olaf Pollmann, PhD03.02.2014

Regional research programming –Initiatives in Africa

Good Practice of Scientific Cooperation with Africa

Initiatives in Africa

WASCAL (West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use)

SASSCAL (Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Use)

PT-

DLR

WEST: WASCALBenin, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Cost, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo and Germany

Headquarters in Accra (Ghana) WEB: www.wascal.org

SOUTH: SASSCALAngola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Germany

Regional Secretariat in Windhoek (Namibia)WEB: www.sasscal.org

Two Regional Science Service Centers – WASCAL, SASSCAL

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Initiatives in Africa 3

Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management

Research Capacitydevelopment

Provision of service and products

Focus: Adapted utilization of natural resources on Climate Change

Know-How and infrastructure

Aim: Participation and ownership of different groups of interest (policy, decision makers, stakeholder)

Main assignment of SASSCAL:

SASSCAL


Objectives Capacity building in research

adaptation to CC through sustainable land management

Develop stable scientific structures contribution to establishment of long-term institution building

Develop and implement knowledge-based, region-driven solutions empowering regions affected by global change

Install visible, long-term regional infrastructures for knowledge transfer to decision-makers, land users, NGOs, and other stakeholders


Activities

Three major tasks of equal priority

1. Develop and implement new research activitiessustainable land use, resource management and climate change

2. Support joint research and education programmes capacity development of (young) scientists in African countries

3. Act as regional advisory and information serviceinitiate and co-ordinate regional and international research activities


Establishment of Work Plan

Consultations and discussions betweenresearchers, land users and policy makers

Elaboration and specification of work plan assuring the engagement of all interested parties

Proposal for each region: structure, topics, implementation plan, partners etc.

Transparent processes based on equal African-German partnership


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Challenges


Lessons learned

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Automatic weather stations –Installation in Zambia, Botswana, Angola

Thematic workshops –Agriculture, Water, Forestry, Biodiversity, Climate

etc.

Examples


Political results Firm commitment to set up together the

Regional Science Service Centers. The Centers shall be based on 3

pillars: Capacity Building, Research and Services.

WASCAL shall be set up as an intern. organization with HQ in Accra (Ghana).

SASSCAL shall be set up as a Section 21 Company on Namibian law in Windhoek.

Consensus on the governance structure of each Centre.

Regional institutions like ECOWAS and SADC shall be involved in the process.

Scientific results:

Enhance capacity by establishing GRPs and by developing Curricula on priority areas in the regions.

Accreditation of the GRPs. Conduct research work on regional

topics. By 2016 SASSCAL and WASCAL shall

together produce ca. 300 Specialists on Climate Change.

Results of political and scientific Workshops

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Activities by end of 2013

WASCAL A cooperation agreement has been signed Feb 2012

with firm commitment of partners

Constitution of WASCAL as IO has been adopted

A governing Board has been established

The Agreement has been ratified by the majority of the partners

The HQ has been set with the nomination of an ED

Staff has been recruited

WASCAL has been founded as IO

Host country Agreement with BF and GH

Financial agreement with the KfW has been signed

The GRPs have started

Grants agreements to German scientists

Recruitment procedures for new ED and Deputy ED has been launched

SASSCAL Joint Declaration signed in March 2012

Constitution of SASSCAL as Sec. 21 Comp. Adopted

HQ established in Windhoek (Namibia)

A Governing Board has been established since July 2013

Grants agreement to German Scientists

Recruitment of a new CEO

To do:

Recruitment of Staff

Financial agreement with KfW

Host Country agreement with NAM

Financial commitment of partners

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SASSCAL / WASCAL

WWW.SASSCAL.ORG

WWW.WASCAL.ORG

Dr. Olaf Pollmann, PhD

Thanks for your attention!

Dr. Olaf Pollmann, PhD

Project Management AgencyPart of the German Aerospace Center

Department Environment, Culture, SustainabilityTel. : +49 228 / 3821-1535Mail: [email protected]


Identify the way forward:

How can science-practice interaction between low-income and European countries be improved?

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