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Climatic issues and development
Prudent carbon development and
opportunities for Africa
Emmanuel Seck
Ouagadougou, Oct. 10
Contents
• CONTEXT
• PRUDENT AND CARBON RESILIENT
DEVELOPMENT
• OPPORTUNITIES FOR AFRICA
• CONCLUSION
Context
• A large number of crises feeding off each other: energy,
finance, economics, food, climate.
• Collapse of international climate negotiations: lack of
political will and of historical and financial responsibility
• Limits to decentralisation:
• Transfer of powers (management of land and natural
resources, etc.)
• Basic infrastructures
• Lack of national climate policies. And even of national
development policies which might mitigate vulnerability to CC
In search of a new paradigm…
• The model of the industrialised countries is unsustainable: finite
energy resources and saturation of atmosphere.
• From now on it becomes impossible to think of climate change
and development separately.
• But how can they be reconciled?
• Planning today: documents aplenty, duplicates, lacunae,
contradictions
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• Carbon prudence: a strategic economic choice for states at risk
because of energy
• Adaptation as a tool to combat poverty
The fight against CC: a lever to escape from poverty
In search of a development tool which…
• Can be quickly implemented;
• Meets local development objectives as regards food security,
• Incorporates strategies which are CC resilient, carbon prudent and low
energy consumers in development strategies
• Is based on what already exists: strategies, objectives, documentation
already developed
• Is inspired by local successes
• Is based on local organisation since this is best placed to identify needs
and to understand demands
• Decentralises implementation (factors in the decentralisation process)
• Is incorporated in a national strategy and a multilateral framework
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the PDSCR
Le Plan de Développement Sobre en Carbone et Résilient aux impacts du CC
[the Prudent Carbon Development CC Resilient Plan]
A cohesive approach based on “integrated”
experiences/projects
Why?
• To leverage the experiences of the NGOs and to facilitate the dissemination
of best practices
• To show that successful projects exist which incorporate development
issues, resilience and energy prudent issues
• To take advantage of the micro level as a start point for the integrated
approach
Because…
• Projects are very useful communication tools: illustrated, people-based,
etc.
• Projects are tools which influence the strategic choices of territorial
groupings
• The project operators are the most likely people to identify the hindrances
and opportunities associated with this approach
Opportunities for Africa
To incorporate the basic infrastructures into a
sustainable, low carbon model
To use successful experiences/projects as a basis
- Sustainable land management and local economic
development
- Community management of forest carbon stores
- Promotion of better stoves to combat deforestation
- Ecotourism to combat poverty and protect
biodiversity
- Promotion of alternative energy (biofuels, etc.)
- Construction of anti-salt ditches
- Hydro-agricultural planning, retention ponds
How can we develop and implement a climate and development approach locally and nationally?
Local level:
laboratory
of innovative
ideas
L’ECHELON
LOCAL
and implementation level of the PDSCR
Functions:
• To identify weaknesses, needs and demands within communities
• Development planning
• Implementation of the PDSCR
• Ensuring the participation of all communities
• Ensuring that climate goals are factored into the development actions
Conditions for success
• Diagnosis of weaknesses and opportunities for the zone associated with CC
• Sector-based initiatives/strategies must be consistent
• Stakeholders to be kept fully informed
• Agreement/discussion forums
• Investment framework to mobilise resources
National level
harmonising and facilitating the implementation of the
PDSCR
Functions
• A single vision of the climate and development for the whole region
• Funding framework
• Political strategy
Conditions for success
• Structure
and consolidate economic elements to render political strategies operational
• Develop a financial tool facilitating joint funding and mobilising fresh resources
• Optimise access to and the channelling and allocation of international finance
• Involve civil society
• Buttress inter-ministry coordination
• Reinforce institutional powers
•Ensure that local initiatives have political traction
Conclusion
• A number of local initiatives in Africa and elsewhere show
that policies designed to combat climate change are
inseparable from development policies.
• The powers of local and community authorities must be
upgraded, since it is they who can identify their needs, their
opportunities and their weaknesses with a view to becoming
more resilient.
• Matters associated with climate change must be incorporated
into development strategies
• The PDSCR must be promoted, since it can guarantee a
better use of scarce resources and avoid duplication by
demonstrating convergence between carbon prudence,
adaptation to climate change and the fight against poverty.
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