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Climate Change Expert Group

www.oecd.org/env/cc/ccxg.htm

Enhancing increased climate mitigation action by non-state actors

Yoko Nobuoka and Jane Ellis (OECD)

yoko.nobuoka@oecd.org, jane.ellis@oecd.org

Based on a draft discussion document “Enhancing increased climate action by non-state actors” by Yoko Nobuoka, Jane Ellis, Sarah Pyndt Andersen Global Forum on the Environment, CCXG 8 September 2015

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Presentation outline

 Overview of current experience and barriers encountered

by non-state actors (NSAs)

• Focus on sub-national governments, the private sector

and financial institutions

 How 2015 agreement and COP decisions can help to

enhance NSA action for pre and post-2020 periods

 Conclusions  Discussion questions

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Current experience with and barriers to NSA action

 Various barriers to NSA: 1)national policy misalignments,

2)mandate, 3)financial, 4)information and knowledge, 5)capacity and skills

 Some progress in enhancing NSA action: 3) & 4) barriers

partially addressed via..

 … but limited results to date

• Other barriers cannot directly be tackled by the UNFCCC
• Technical Expert Meetings (workstream 2 under ADP)
• Financial Mechanism (GEF, GCF)
• Outside UNFCCC
• NAZCA portal

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Links between UNFCCC and NSAs

UNFCCC

National gov’t Local/ regional gov’t Multilateral financiers Regional, national or sub- national financiers

(no direct link) (some links via Financial Mechanism)

Business and industry

(no direct link)

Supra-national groupings

• f sub-national gov’t

(e.g. ICLEI) Multi-governance initiatives (e.g. CCAC)

(no direct link) (no direct link)

 Mostly limited and indirect, via national governments

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Enhancing NSA action

 Top-down vs bottom-up (autonomous at sub-national

gov’t and private sector level); autonomous vs additional

 Bottom-up actions can catalyse action on a larger scale

National governments Regional governments Local gov’t Local gov’t Local gov’t Regional governments

UNFCCC

• UNFCCC could encourage co-operation and co-ordination

between national gov’t and NSAs

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What can a COP decision on WS2 do for pre-2020 ambition?

 Continue technical examination; enhance FM and co-

• rdination between Technology Mechanism and the

technical examination

 Explicitly encourage co-operation between national

governments and NSAs in development of ambitious and achievable climate responses

 Mention enhanced identification and dissemination of

knowledge and experiences from NSAs

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 Enhance or reiterate the need for a long-term goal

• indirectly reducing national policy barriers

How can 2015 agreement enhance NSA action for post-2020?

 Include text that recognises the role of NSAs

• sending political signal to motivate NSAs

 Continue to enhance information and knowledge sharing  Encourage use of a common accounting and reporting tool

• to increase transparency of NSA action

 Reduce financial barriers (amount, access)

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Conclusions

 NSAs face barriers to enhance climate action  UNFCCC process and institutions increasingly addressing

some of these

 Autonomous NSA action can catalyse action on a larger

scale, and therefore help to raise ambition

 Transparency, recognition of NSA actions currently unclear  Further encouragement of NSA action possible and

desirable – both in 2015 agreement and for pre-2020 action, e.g.

• Explicit mention of the role of NSA in financing and

implementing mitigation actions

• Including text that encourages enhanced links and

knowledge-sharing between governments and NSA

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Thank you!

For more information: www.oecd.org/env/cc/ccxg.htm

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Discussion questions

 How can the UNFCCC help NSAs address various barriers

and encourage their increased climate actions?

 What provisions are needed in the 2015 agreement or

COP decisions to do so?