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Mountains and climate change adaptation Short update from Carpathian Convention and UNEP EIONET- Meeting, Copenhagen, 14 June 2016 Mr. Matthias Jurek UNEP Regional Office for Europe, Vienna Office – Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention 1 Environmental challenges in mountains Extractive industries Transport Hydropower/ Infrastructure Tourism Climate change Waste 2 UNEP’s portfolio on mountains Climate change Env. Governance EBA Mt. Flagship Project, REGATTA, Cc and adaptation in the Alps, Climate change in the Carpathians etc. Carpathian Convention, transboundary institutional mechanism: Caucasus scientific network, ICSD (Central Asia), Africa Ecosystem Management ECOPOTENTIAL – use of Earth of Observation in Protected Areas, Great Apes Partnership Survival (GRASP) Chemicals and waste Global Mountain Waste Outlook, extractive industries/mining (South East Europe) Environment under Review Assessments, Atlas, policy briefs, UNEP-Live, etc. Global Mt. Partnerschip, SDGs/Post-2015 and mountains, collaboration with global MEAs (UNFCCC,CBD,UNCCD) 3 “Climate change action in developing countries with fragile mountain ecosystem from a sub-regional perspective” Duration: 2014-2017, Total: 1.75 Mio. EUR co-financed by Austria (UNFCCC FSF) Objective: Support to mountainous developing countries to integrate mountain specific climate change adaptation into relevant development policies/plans/strategies from a sub-regional perspective - Understand climate change vulnerabilities and impacts (synthesize information) - Analysis of relevant policies and frameworks and bottlenecks - Trigger policy action from a sub-regional perspective - Inter-regional exchange of experiences with other mountain regions (in particular regional mechanisms: Alpine and Carpathian Convention and HKH/HICAP) Main Outputs: Participatory assessments (synthesis) related to climate change and adaptation Establish (inter)-regional cooperation platforms and support development/review of sub-regional climate change action plans/strategic agendas etc. in context of relevant institutional mechanisms Targeted regions: East Africa, Balkans, Caucasus, Central Asia, Andes 4 Partners (not exhaustive): Launch of “Mountain Adaptation Outlook series” high-level side event COP21, Paris, Int. Mountain Day Current state (synthesized) of knowledge and information related to climate change and adaptation in targeted mountainous sub-regions: 2015: Balkan, Caucasus 2016: (Tropical) Andes, East Africa, Central Asia 2017 (planned): Hindu Kush Himalayas, Carpathians UNEPs inter-regional project “Climate change action in developing countries with fragile mountainous ecosystems from a sub-regional perspective” (funded by Government of Austria) Identified priority action towards promoting/development of mountain agenda on the sub-regional level (implementation of Rio+ 20 outcome!) Participatory governmentally owned approach (East African Community, Interstate Commission for Sustainable Development, etc.) With support of the Government of Austria and further cofinancing support by Government of Norway 5 CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES WITH FRAGILE MOUNTAINOUS ECOSYSTEMS FROM A SUB-REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE METHODOLOGY for producing sub-regional MOUNTAIN RESPONSE ASSESSMENTS 6 Objectives of the Assessments • • • • • State and trends of climate change Vulnerability of mountain ecosystems to climate change Climate change adaptation policies and strategies Policy gap analysis Priority areas for future action 7 Strong visualization products Strengthening the science – policy interface 8 Next steps Building on Series of Regional Mountain Adaptation Outlooks: Interregional Regional Regional/ national o Share of experience and knowledge between mountain regions (following same methodology used for outlooks) o Establish (inter)-regional cooperation and dialogue and foster development of projects based on experience exchange: Mountain cluster within GAN Network? o Support development/review of sub-regional climate change action plans/strategic agendas etc. in context of relevant institutional mechanisms (e.g. High Andean Initiative, EAC, ICSD) to guide further coherent development of activities & initiatives o Catalysing concrete follow-up action (project ideas, etc.) promoting climate change adaptation in mountains using financial and technical assistance programmes and facilities 9 Concrete opportunities/ongoing ideas with mountain focus • Azerbaijan: “Strengthening Capacities to Assess Climate Change Vulnerability and Impacts in Azerbaijan’s Mountain Regions” (CTCN) • Azerbaijan: “Strengthening capacity and practice on climate change vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning in more vulnerable regions of Azerbaijan” (AF) • Georgia: “Technical assistance for assessing the feasibility of and building capacity in Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) in Georgia’s mountain regions” (CTCN) • Georgia: “Safeguarding climate-resilient local tourism and related infrastructure in mountain regions through ecosystem-based adaptation” (GCF) • Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan: “Promoting sustainable livelihoods and green infrastructure in Central Asia mountain regions under climate uncertainties using an Ecosystem-based approach“ (ICI) 10 The Carpathian Convention and cc adaptation • Working Group on climate change adaptation • Towards implementation of Strategic Agenda • “Future imperfect – climate change and adaptation in the Carpathians” • Strong cooperation with EEA: contribution to Platform on adaptation • Future possible revision of Framework Convention: inclusion of Article on climate change adaptation (COP 5, 2017) • Strong cooperation with Alpine Convention based on MoU 11 Some food for thoughts … • Mountains as “sexy” topic and many areas relevant for sustainable mountain development (incl. donors interest) • Within UN system UNEP as recognized leading organization on mountains and climate change • Great potential for expanding activities building on UNEP’ s experience and knowledge (incl. EBA Mountain flagship project) • Strengthening regional/ inter-regional cooperation • Possible inclusion of mountain cluster within GAN? • Potential areas for future work: urban EBA in mountain areas, Food water energy nexus in mountains (agriculture, hydropower) loss and damage, strengthening drr-adaptation linkage, etc. 12 Thank you for your attention Contacts: Mr. Matthias Jurek Programme Manager ROE/UNEP Vienna SCC [email protected] 13