What has been the effect of Climate change an what are the state action plans to deal with it!

1. State Action Plans on Climate
Change (SAPCCs)
Preeti Soni
15 October 2014

2. Climate Change
• Warming of climate system is unequivocal
– Last 3 decades has been successively warmer (since 1850).
– Observed warming 1951−2010 is 0.6°C- 0.7°C.
• Human influence on climate system is clear
– CO2 concentrations increased 40% since pre-industrial
• Limiting climate change will require substantial &
sustained reductions of GHG emissions

3. Threats
• Human development tipping points
– Reduced agricultural productivity
– Heightened water insecurity
– Stressed ecosystems (forests & biodiversity)
– Increased health risks
• Increased exposure to extreme weather events
– Low human development traps
• Climate related risks force people into downward spirals of
disadvantage that undermine future opportunities

4. At the national level ….

5. 5
National Action Plan on Climate
Change (NAPCC)
• Inclusive & sustainable development strategy
sensitive to climate change
– Directional shift in the development pathway
• Enhancing current and planned programmes
• Appropriate institutional mechanisms
• Building effective linkages with civil society, local govt.
institutions & public-private partnerships
• Effective and sustained implementation
– Involvement at all level of decision making and actions

6. The need for SAPCC
Translating national policy into action esp.
at local levels
Decentralizing NAPCC objectives into local
context
In line with NAPCC, SAPCC can help state/
U.T. to address climate change issues
A common framework for SAPCC would
harmonize national & state level actions

7. At the state level …

8. SAPCC – Principles
• Understand climate data & its limitations
• Assess climate change interaction with existing vulnerabilities
• Go beyond risk management
• Consider both top-down & bottom-up approaches
• Build broader stakeholder engagement : Reach out to a large
number of sectors and actors
• Address state priorities while creating enabling environment
for implementation of NAPCC
• Set effective institutional mechanism for implementation
(monitor, review & refine)

9. Logical Framework
Partnership &
coordination
mechanism
• Identify key players
• Set up a
coordination and
collaboration
structure
Climate profiles
•State profile
•GHG emissions
inventories &
scenarios
•Assessments of
vulnerabilities
(sectors, groups)
Climate Change
strategies
•Regional & sectoral
analysis
•Identification &
assessment of
options (mitigation
& adaptation)
•List of prioritized
options (time
horizon, resources)
Financial & policy
requirements
•Assessment of cost
implications
•Identify, sequence
& combine policy &
financial options
Climate Change
Action Plan
•List of measures
with time frame &
allocation
•Climate change
policy and
investment
roadmap
•M&E system
•Integrating in state
policy

10. Methodology
• Focus is both on process & product
• Coordination and consultative meetings:
• Policy makers, regulators and PRIs
• Line agencies of government at state, sectoral and district level
• Workshops: districts/agro-climatic zones levels
• Industrial and other productive sectors
• Civil society
• Marginalized and user communities directly dependent on natural
resources (farmers, pastoralists, fisher folk, forest dwellers)
• Inputs from experts and organizations
• scientists, academicians, activists, cultural leaders.

11. The Process
Steering Committee (SC)
Chair: Chief Secretary
Advisory Group &/or Core Groups
NODAL Agency
Sectoral and Stakeholder Consultations
Formulation of draft SAPCC
* Incorporating comments
Finalization of SAPCC by Advisory Group
*Validation by Steering Committee
*Adoption of the SAPCC

12. Draft SAPCC Department
Endorsement
Review by
Expert panel
Submission to
GoMP and
MoEF&CC
Departmental
Consultations
Regional
Consultations
Policy and
Program
Review
Review of
NAPCC Mission
Documents
Associating
Institutions/
Experts
SAPCC – Process (MP)
Source: EPCO

13. SAPCC: Structure
Overview of the state and statement on principles, issues and problems
Identification of key sectors, their vulnerabilities and the major gaps
in existing initiative
Delineation of sectoral strategies, proposed plans and linkages with
NAPCC
Prioritized list of actions (short & long term) to implement
strategies
Listing of key elements needed: institutional structures, funds,
expertise, policy/legal measures, monitoring, etc.
Specific project proposals and time frame for implementation

14. Approval Process at the national
level
• Expert Committee
– Chair: AS/JS (CC), Advisor (CC) + experts
– Technical review
• National Steering Committee
– Chair: Secretary (MOEF)
– Secretary of relevant Ministries, Chair Expert
Committee and AS/JS (CC)
– Approve SAPCCs based on advice by Expert
Committee and Monitor

15. Status and the way forward ….

16. Status on approval of SAPCCs
• Twenty SAPCCs have been approved by the
National Steering Committee of the Ministry
of Environment, Forests and Climate Change
(MoEF&CC).
• Nine SAPCCs are approved or are being
considered by the Expert Committee on
Climate Change of the MoEF&CC.
• UNDP has supported nine States and Union
Territories in the preparation of the SAPCC.

17. Challenges for implementation
• Technical and institutional capacities for
sustained action incl. scientific knowledge
• Monitoring frameworks
• Technologies and financial issues
• Coordination and synergies with the
NAPCC

18. SAPCC- Possible Sources of Funding
• Possible sources of funding for implementation
of SAPCCs
o Line Ministries
o State Budget
o MoEF&CC
o Carbon markets, international mechanisms and
Multilaterals and Bi-laterals
o Climate Change Action Programme

19. Way Forward
• Institutional mechanism for implementation
and monitoring
• De-bundling and analyzing the strategies for
“additionality”
• Exploring financial and technological options
• Preparation of project for funding from
various sources
• State implementation of climate change
activities

20. THANK YOU