SOME MAJOR PROBLEMS TO IMPLEMENTING THE UNFCCC AND

ITS KP

C. MOUSSOUNDAGabon Climate Change Focal Point

ECBI, OXFORD Wadham College1 – 8 September 2007

PLAN

• Context related to the convention and PK

• Problems to implement convention and Kyoto Protocol

• Needs according to problems

CONTEXT RELATED TO THE CONVENTION AND PK

• Convention signed (mainly at Rio de Janeiro) and ratified later;

• KP ratified;• Usually 1 delegate can participate to the UNFCCC

meeting when it is possible, even the Secretariat funds it ;• When participate to UNFCCC meeting, this is reported

back to the country at a high level accompanied by some proposals;

• Initial National Communication elaborated and contained also proposals;

• Some other protocol (bilateral) has been signed ;• Usually many texts of law in environment remain even ther

are out of convention and KP, …

PROBLEMS• Climate change appeared to be new :

– for certain people, it is only a mess concept (it is mostly for international or developed countries?), it is not a high priority inside some developing countries;

– for others, their attitude is due to a lack of deep understanding, there is a need to explaining them (CC is urgent to be tackled);

• Almost all proposal had no feed back from high decision makers;

• Very few capacity building on the issue is made:– Some others process linked has had no progress (GHG project)

or has been blocked (SCN, other GEF funded projects);

• Lack of capacity to work in team together within and between institutions;

• Environmental issue is still being badly perceived;• Lack of finance, human resources and materials to be

affected to the CC unit if it exists or to the National Climate Focal Point to build organisation;

URGENT NEEDS

Real needs to start solving problems are :– Awareness for people, mostly decision

makers’ ;– Strengthening institutional capacity building ;– Enforcement of capacity building (policy,

scientific, technical, …) ;– Development of technology transfer;– Development of finance mechanisms, …;

• For mitigation: (high potential of mitigation :forest, petroleum production and industry, waste, …);

• For adaptation (assessment of vulnerability on health, flood, costal zone, water supply at certain season, agriculture has been done) ;

And your cooperation, …

Thank you!