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UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan.
Within the GPN, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan. BPPS’s staff provides technical advice to Country Offices; advocates for UNDP corporate messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government and civil society dialogues, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. BPPS ensures that issues of risk are fully integrated into UNDP’s development programmes and assists UNDP and partners to achieve higher quality development results through an integrated approach that links results-based management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of working. BPPS supports UNDP and partners to be more innovative, knowledge and data driven including in its programme support efforts.
Climate change mitigation – or reducing greenhouse gas emissions – is essential to fulfilling commitments to the Paris Agreement and limiting the global mean temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. UNDP, with more than 280 climate change mitigation projects and programs in over 110 countries, is a key actor supporting countries in their emission reduction plans, contributing to ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions. Activities in energy, as well as forests and agriculture, will be critical to meeting global mitigation objectives.
UNDP’s approach to forestry aligns with the SDG 15 and contributes to UNDP’s ‘signature solution’ on environment and nature-based solutions for development. Deforestation and forest degradation accounts for more than 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and it is clear that the stabilization of global temperatures cannot be achieved without reducing emissions from the forest sector. UNDP’s Climate and Forests programme supports countries to conserve and sustainably manage forests and ensure sustainable and equitable development paths that lead towards carbon neutrality. More information here: www.climateandforests-undp.org
Forests support up to 80% of terrestrial biodiversity and can offset up to one-third of the carbon emissions to reach the climate commitments. However, forest sector receive about 1% of total climate finance. The engagement of private sector companies with ambitious mitigation targets related to forests can contribute to cover this gap.
On 24th September 2018, a global Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Eni s.P.a and UNDP. The MoU provides a framework of cooperation and facilitates and strengthens collaboration between the two institutions. Stemming from this global MoU and following a meeting between the CEO of Eni and the President of the Republic of Ghana on October 3rd, 2018, Ghana became the first country to operationalize the MoU and initiate concrete collaborations.
Through a Development Services Agreement with Eni, the UNDP’s Climate and Forests Programme Team based on its expertise garnered over the last 10 years with REDD+ will develop, for Eni, a large climate mitigation programme in the AFOLU (Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use) and energy sectors in Ghana. This integrated REDD+ programme will address the drivers of deforestation, forest degradation and the barriers to the conservation and enhancement of forest carbon stocks while also promoting energy efficiency in Ghana.
Financial planning should be part of the Jurisdictional REDD+ Programme development process. Before the financial planning can start in earnest, a clear understanding of what is required to address the drivers of deforestation and degradation at multiple scales and across multiple agents will be required. This information will be available including the activities that will change behaviors to protect and enhance forests and support other sustainable sand productive land uses.
Once completed the financing plan will reflect the economics of what is required to implement the jurisdictional REDD+ Programme. The financing plan will be developed alongside the process of designing what is needed to implement the REDD+ Strategy and make it operational at this subsidiary level.
An Operations Plan will accompany the Financial Plan and any new requirements from the perspective of the governments and principal land managers will be clearly identified.
The jurisdictional programme will be implemented in the context of the National REDD+ Strategy which has set in motion a set of policies and measures for REDD+. Gaps will be identified at the activity level related to unfavorable market and industry conditions, policies, regulations, and competitive factors for production and livelihood needs. It is in this context that these gaps will create incremental budgetary needs to business-as-usual operations and should be incorporated into the financial and operational plan.