Global Environment
The Second Asia Pacific Seminar on Climate Change - Annex
Annex
1. Introduction
- Why a regional strategy?
- Linkage with the Framework Convention
2. Research Needs
- Assessment of research needs
- Identification of gaps
- Information exchange
- Capacity building
3. Emissions Inventories and Assessment
- Uncertainty
- How to improve?
- Institutional Support Requirements (IPCC, UN agencies, regional institutions)
4. Data and Monitoring Requirements
- Global vs. regional vs. national needs
- Intercalibration
- Assessment of needs
- Capacity building
5. Impact Assessment
- Identify development sectors
- Most likely impacts and need for further assessment
- Promoting methodologies
- Quantification in monetary terms, as far as possible
6. Tools and Methodologies
- Use of models at regional/sub-regional/national levels
- Capacity building for both human resources and equipment requirements
- Development of scenarios
7. Reduction and Mitigation Strategy (national and sub-regional)
- Identification of major development sectors and impacts
- Technology and policy options for mitigating and reducing impacts
- Selection of options based on cost-benefit etc.
- Technology transfer (types and modalities)
8. Financial Requirements and Options
- Assessing total financial requirements
- Assessment of external financing/other capital flow
- Enhancing domestic resources for the program through possible reallocation of existing resources
- Generating additional resources including the use of innovative and economic instruments such as incentive mechanisms, PPP, charges for effluent, user charges, carbon tax, etc.
- Improving efficiency of resource use
- Multilateral funding such as GEF for financing incremental costs which re not justifiable on an economic basis but contribute to global environmental improvement
9. Supporting Measures for Implementing Strategy
- Institutional strengthening and networking
- Information sharing
- Regional cooperation
- Training and awareness
- Technical assistance and advisory services