Transcript Technical Assistance UNFCCC Workshop, Manila Ravi Sharma United Nations Environment Programme – Global Environment Facility.

Technical Assistance
UNFCCC Workshop, Manila
Ravi Sharma
United Nations Environment Programme –
Global Environment Facility
Innovative Mechanism
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Expediting the expedited process
Removing a layer of decision-making
Improved reporting
Framework for
Technical Assistance
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LDC Technical Support Project
Coastal Zone Management support for African Islands:
emphasis on data needed, technical assistance for vulnerability
assistance, regional cooperation and information sharing.
Global Network on Energy for Sustainable Development
Technical support on issues related to carbon sequestration
Tentative plan for regional centres of excellence on climate
impacts and adaptation
NEPAD Climate Change Action Plan
Public Awareness project
Sustainable development & CC
Technology, finance and insurance
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Infformation sources…
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2001:
Synthesis Report – Summary for Policymakers, IPCC, 2001
http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/un/syreng/spm.pdf
National Academy of Sciences, Climate Change Science: An Analysis of
Some Key Questions, National Academy Press, 2001
http://books.nap.edu/html/climatechange/climatechange.pdf
John P. Holdren, “The Energy-Climate Challenge”, Environment, vol. 43,
no. 5, June 2001
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/aspeninstitute/files/Img/pdf/holdren.pdf
U.S. Global Change Research Program, Climate Change Impacts on the
United States, USGCRP, 2001
http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/nationalassessment/foundation.htm
John P. Holdren, “US Climate Policy Post-Kyoto”, Aspen Institute
Congressional Program, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2003
bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/BCSIA_content/documents/ClimatePostKyoto.pdf