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4(2-3) February - May 2013
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3(4)-Volume 4(1) October - January 2013
Volume 3.Issue
1-2-3 January - September 2012
Volume 2.Issue 1-2 January
- June 2011
Volume 1-Issue 1 September
- November 2010
What does the current NAMA-space in South Africa look
like?
A TERI-NFA NAMA Country Report on South Africa. Energy Research
Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. April, 2014
Anya Boyd, Kim Coetzee, and Michael Boulle
Wither multilateralism? Implications of bilateral NAMA
finance for development and sovereignty concerns of developing
countries
Development and Mitigation Forum, Cape Town, 27-29 January
2014
Manish Kumar Shrivastava and Prabhat Upadhyaya
Mainstreaming development imperatives into NAMAs: An
Approach
Development and Mitigation Forum, Cape Town, 27-29 January
2014
Manish Kumar Shrivastava, Neha Pahuja, Ritika Tewari, Nimisha
Pandey and Swati Agarwal
Towards an understanding of the variables that affect implementation of mitigation actions
MAPS/ TERI - NFA Working paper No.10, TERI. 2013.
Boyd, A., Coetzee, K.
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions: An approach
to design, label and Monitor
Policy Brief, November 2013
Manish Kumar Shrivastava, Neha Pahuja, Ritika Tewari, Nimisha
Pandey, and Swati Agarwal.
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Breaking the Climate Deadlock: Analysing the change-in
circumstances
Discussion Paper, The 18th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change, 2012, Doha, Qatar.
Leena Srivastava and Neha Pahuja
Twenty years ago in 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was agreed upon by most Parties to
combat the global challenges posed by climate change. An important
premise of the Convention was differentiation amongst developed
and developing countries. The very same issue of differentiation
is now being regarded as the biggest bottleneck in the climate
negotiations. This paper looks at the relevance of this differentiation
by analysing changes in the 'national circumstances' of the Parties
over the last few decades. The analysis is based on comparing
the indicators of change. The paper, therefore, attempts to validate
the claim that results in the current impasse in climate negotiations
- the notion of change-in circumstances and that of major emerging
economies. The paper concludes that the 'national circumstances'
of developing countries have changed only incrementally. Further,
this incremental progress has not been able to push developing
countries to be comparable to the circumstances that existed in
developed countries in 1992 and even twenty years before that
in 1972. Also, the paper points out that the term 'major emerging
economy' could only be recognized as a misnomer given that the
'circumstances' in one of the so-called major emerging economy,
are not even at par with the average of the developing countries.
The authors, however, note the importance of considering other
indicators of change in a future study to give better understanding
of the change-in 'national circumstances'.
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Nationally appropriate mitigation actions: A vehicle
for green economy
Green Growth and Development Quarterly - Vol 1(2), January
2013
Manish Kumar Shrivastava
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Issues and options for designing and implementing NAMAs:
findings from an online survey
Annual NAMA Status Report 2013 for the 'Mitigation Momentum
Project' of Ecofys and ECN.
Neha Pahuja and Swati Agarwal
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Developing Country Participation in Addressing Climate Change: Analyzing Issues and Options for Implementing NAMAs
Date: 24 July 2014As
part of the long term partnership between TERI and The Royal Norwegian
Embassy in India, the project on 'Developing Country Participation in
Addressing Climate Change: analyzing issues and options for implementing
NAMAs, TERI organized an international event on 24th July 2014, at Jacaranda-I
Hall, India Habitat Center in New Delhi. Dr Prodipto Ghosh, Distinguished
Fellow and Director, TERI invited H E , Eivind S Homme, Ambassador, The
Royal Norwegian Embassy for his remarks on the on the theme of the event.
On the occasion Mr. J. M. Mauskar, Former Special Secretary, MoEF and
Advisor, ORF delivered the keynote address on 'Policies and Measures for
Mitigation in Developing Countries'. He noted that the approach developed
by TERI for assessing appropriateness of NAMAs is an useful contribution
and may help in articulating the intended nationally determined contributions
in the ambiguity of the climate negotiation outcomes.
The event brought together the project partners from BASIC countries including
Dr. Fei Teng, Tsinghua University; Ms Kim Coetzee, ERC, University of
Cape Town; and Prof. Carolina Dubeux, COPPE/Federal University of Rio
de Janeiro who presented the key findings of the project 'Analyzing issues
and options for implementing NAMAs' and deliberated on their country perspective
on the ‘NAMA deliberation tool' designed by TERI. Mr Job Taminiau from
the Join Implementation Network and University of Delaware, and Mr Tobias
Dorr from GIZ-India also shared their perspectives on harmonization of
various mechanisms under the UNFCCC and the perspective of NAMA Facility
respectively in facilitating NAMA implementation. The event witnessed
participation from various experts, funding agencies, corporates, government
organization, and multilaterals working in the field for meaningful deliberation
during the event. H E Ambassador Eivind S Homme said that the study and
continued partnership between TERI and The Royal Norwegian Embassy are
beneficial for global good.
Agenda | Background Note | Presentations
Determining National Appropriateness of a Mitigation Action
Date: 15 November 2012TERI organized a roundtable on “Determining National Appropriateness of a Mitigation Action” on 15th November 2012 in New Delhi at Conference Room, 4th Floor, TERI, India Habitat Centre as part of the study titled "Developing country participation in addressing climate change: Analyzing issues and options for implementing NAMAs and REDD Plus" which aims to develop a framework and criteria to determine 'national appropriateness’ of mitigation actions in developing countries under changing national and international circumstances. In the roundtable, the first draft of the framework and criteria was presented. It was developed on the basis of an analysis of various NAMA proposals in the NAMA-Database, inputs received during the Stakeholder consultation held on 11th August 2011 in New Delhi and a questionnaire survey from different stakeholders from South Asia. Following the presentation, inputs were sought from the invited participants through an open, free-flowing exchange of views towards improving the framework and criteria and making it more rigorous, dynamic and politically acceptable. The exchange of views was moderated by Dr. Arabinda Mishra, Director, Earth Science and Climate Change Division, TERI.
Agenda and Programme | Proceedings | Presentation - Designing Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions An Approach TERI
DNA of NAMAs in Developing Countries
Date: 10 October 2012Session during the Climate Action Network-South Asia’s (CANSA)
Annual Regional Technical Workshop, 10-11 October 2012.
TERI along with Vasudha (Delhi) and Centre for Science and Environment
(Delhi) organized a technical session on NAMAs during the second Annual
Regional Technical Workshop of CANSA. The purpose of the session was to
update the civil society members from the South Asian Region and facilitate
a dialogue on a range of issues related to NAMAs such as, the meaning
and definition of NAMAs, international politics behind NAMAs, relevance
of NAMA registry, potential NAMAs etc. Sudhir Sharma from UNEP Risoe presented
on the evolution and status of NAMA Registry. Srinivas from Vasudha presented
on the larger discourse and negotiations around the issue of NAMAs. Chandra
Bhushan from CSE discussed the history behind the origin of the concept
of NAMAs and potential NAMAs. Manish Shrivastava from TERI presented an
analysis of the proposed/ongoing NAMAs listed in the NAMA Database managed
by Ecofys. It focused on the broader trend and thinking on the type of
policy or projects being considered as NAMAs and the underlying justification
behind such consideration. The session was followed by small break-away
group discussions with about 40 participants from civil society members
and climate policy researchers in South Asia.
COP17 Side Event– Analyzing issues and options for implementing NAMAs
Date: 29 November 2011TERI, along with project collaborators ERC (Energy Research Centre) of the University of Cape Town (South Africa), Vitae Civilis (Brazil) the Tsinghua University (China) together presented the interim findings of research under the project. The presentations reflected on the thinking and action on the NAMAs (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions) in the BASIC (Brazil, South Africa, India, China) countries. The side event focused on bringing the BASIC country perspectives on an international mechanism for NAMAs and analysis of its linkages at national level, building on multi-criteria decision making methods to define 'appropriateness'. While in China there has been considerable effort on laying out a strong monitoring and evaluation plan and links to the twelfth plan, in South Africa it was noted that there has been considerable progress in the identification of NAMAs in some sectors. However, significant amount of work still needs to be undertaken in the select areas and its linkages to MRV (Measurable, Reportable, and Verifiable) processes identified.
Stakeholder consultation on 'Analyzing Issues and Options for implementing
NAMA's - A Developing Country Perspective'
The first Stakeholder consultation on ‘Analyzing Issues and Options for implementing NAMA’s – A Developing Country Perspective’ was organized by TERI in New Delhi on 11th August 2011. The stakeholder workshop was organized as a part of the second phase under a larger project titled “Developing country participation in addressing climate change: Analyzing issues and options for India”, being undertaken by an association between TERI and MFA, Norwegian Embassy. Interim findings of the first work package of the study were presented in front an audience of policy makers, academicians and representatives from the civil society and the business community. The event started with a discussion on understanding the different perspectives from different stakeholders’ i.e. policy, research, civil society and legal on what ‘nationally appropriate’ entails in NAMAs. While it was agreed that the current knowledge on NAMAs is quite inadequate with several open ended questions at present, all the speakers spoke in consensus that NAMAs should be based on national priorities of social and economic development, while discussing the need for clear and common guidelines for methodologies and MRV issues surrounding NAMAs for developing nations Next, the research framework of the study was presented and expert comments of various stakeholders were gathered for further refinement of the work. The BASIC nation representatives then expressed their country perspectives and expectations from the developing NAMA framework. The last session focused on the issues and options in designing and implementing NAMAs for India. The discussions saw a lively dialogue between policy makers, civil society and industry representatives, who shared their previous experiences and voiced their anticipations on NAMAs. The workshop ended with concluding remarks from representative of the Norwegian Embassy and Dr. Arabinda Mishra, Director, Climate Change Division, TERI.
Presentations at the UNFCCC Asia Pacific Regional Workshop
on NAMAs
TERI was invited as a resource person for the Annual Regional Workshop
on NAMAs organized by the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat in Lao PDR. Outputs of the NFA
work were presented in the sessions on 'NAMA preparation and implementation
process' and 'MRV'. The workshop was the first in 2014 for building
capacity of countries of the region to conceptualize, design and
implement NAMAs. Apart from TERI, UNEP Risoe, FAO, UNDP, ETH Zurich,
GIZ, Global Green Growth Institute, CCAP, UNCCD, Danish Energy Agency,
OECC, NAMA Facility and European Union Commission also participated
in the workshop.
1. An
evaluation framework to facilitate NAMA prioritization
2. Options
and methodologies for developing baselines for different categories
of NAMAs
International Conference on 'Urban Development with Climate
Co-benefits: Aligning Climate, Environmental and Other Development
Goals in Cities'
Project findings were presented in the context of role of co-benefits
in climate policy making at the International Conference on 'Urban
Development with Climate Co-benefits: Aligning Climate, Environmental
and Other Development Goals in Cities' held on 9th December, 2013
at India Habitat Centre Complex, New Delhi, India.
Presentation at NAMA technical briefing in SBI 39, Warsaw,
Poland, November 2013
TERI presented on identifying the options and methodologies for
developing baselines for different categories of NAMAs. The technical
briefing, which was organized in the sidelines of COP 19, was part
of SBI work programme to further the understanding of the diversity
of NAMAs. The session was attended by country representatives from
all the world regions.
The presentation can be accessed here.
Presentation at Summer School on 'Tracking Progress and
MRV for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions' by International Partnership
on Mitigation and MRV, Viet Nam, August 2013
TERI presented an 'evaluation framework to facilitate design and
evaluation of NAMAs at the national level', developed as a part
of the NFA study . The Summer School was attended by policy makers,
practitioners and negotiators representing 19 developing and developed
countries from all the world regions.
The presentation can be accessed here.
Presentation at Regional Workshop in Promoting international
collaboration to facilitate preparation, submission and implementation
of NAMAs in Asia and Pacific, Singapore, August 2013
TERI presented an 'evaluation framework to facilitate design and
evaluation of NAMAs at the national level', developed as a part
of the NFA project. The workshop, conducted by UNFCCC to enhance
the capacity of countries from Asia and Pacific on NAMAs, was attended
by 19 countries of the region and had representatives from donor
agencies and multilateral bodies.
The presentation can be accessed here.