THE LIMA-PARIS ACTION AGENDA (LPAA) Briefing on the occasion of ADP 2.11 19 October 2015
1/A GROWING MOBILIZATION Main messages • Two months before the COP, state and non-state actors, through cooperative initiatives, are responding to the call for an action-oriented COP: – Cooperative initiatives : climate-action initiatives are gathering new members and setting for themselves high targets. The LPAA partners have seen and assessed more than 100 initiatives. –
Companies are taking new commitments in the run up to the COP and using more and more the NAZCA platform to showcase them.
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Subnationals have seen growing mobilization throughout the year, with several political sequences, enlargement of the scope of their platforms, and new work on the support side.
– Civil society organizations are also part of the dynamic and active in a large number of initiatives
• This is just a start: as of now the LPAA website and the NAZCA platform are just capturing a part of the reality. • More can be done : It is still time to register more actions on NAZCA and to declare your support to relevant initiatives.
1/ A GROWING MOBILIZATION Cooperative initiatives • More than 50 cooperative initiatives, ambitious and robust : –
Innovative public-private multi-stakeholder partnerships to accelerate the development of a particular objective or solution;
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Some are coming from the Climate Summit, others are new;
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All with ambitious commitments;
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30 already registered on the LPAA website on NAZCA, with hundreds of participants and more to be added.
Some Examples: •
En.lighten, more than 60 governments and regions to speed-up the progressive replacement of incandescent bulbs by more efficient technologies. Could achieve a -52% energy consumption from Lighting.
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The Divest-Invest initiative, movement is speeding-up with major pension Funds getting on board.
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The Compact of Mayors and the Convenants of Mayors are collecting, supporting and mobilizing local policy makers engaged in the energy transition.
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For details: see http://newsroom.unfccc.int/lpaa
1/ A GROWING MOBILIZATION Cities and subnationals • More 1,700 subnational individual commitments on NAZCA, from 582 cities and 98 regions or states ; • Covering more than a 1 Billion of citizens – 15% of the world population; • Some regions are very well covered while others are catching up rapidly
Some Examples of the global dynamism: •
Alliance of Peaking Pioneer Cities (APPC) 29 Cities of China and US ( 4% of the world population, 12% of world GDP),
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More than 10 initiatives: Compact of Mayors, New York Declaration on Forests, the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, the Compact of States and Regions, the Covenant of Mayors
1/ A GROWING MOBILIZATION Businesses • More than 1,150 businesses inscribed their commitments on NAZCA : –
half of the 4,279 commitments on NAZCA were made by companies;
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60% of them have quantified individual commitments;
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the commercial value of these companies is equivalent to the cumulative GDP of Japan, Germany and France.
Some Examples: •
Involvement of major companies vary among sectors: retailers are well represented (8 of the 10 largest companies are on NAZCA), energy less (2 of the 10 largest only).
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At least 19 initiatives open to business: Caring for Climate (356 companies), Science based targets (45 companies), RE100 (29), Business Leadership on Carbon Pricing (42), Green Freight, Cement Sustainability Initiative, Global energy efficiency accelerator Platform, etc.
1/ A GROWING MOBILIZATION Civil-society organizations • Hundreds of Civil-society organizations are part of the LPAA dynamic : •Foundations, •Universities and research teams, •NGOs, •Faith based communities • Through Cooperative Initiatives, Civil-society organizations are visible on Nazca portal : -As they own financial assets for instance, Faith based communities or Universities can publicly commit to invest into renewables or energy efficiency; -As they contribute to innovative solutions (know how, research etc.) or dissemination.
Some Examples: •
The Divest-Invest initiative, is gatherings dozens of foundations and even citizens
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Initiatives such as Science Based Targets or Refrigerant Naturally include major NGOs (Greenpeace, WWF…)
2/ PREPARING THE LPAA SEQUENCE ‘LPAA Focuses’ 12 action areas will be represented in Paris over 2 weeks (1 Dec. – 8 Dec.) Mon 30 th Nov
Tues 1 st Dec
Wed 2 nd Dec
Thur 3 rd Dec
Fri 4 th Dec
Sat 5th Dec
RESILIENCE FOCUS
RESILIENCE
Mon 7th Dec
Tues 8th Dec
ENERGY FOCUS
10:15 - 13:30 10:15 - 13:30 10:15 - 13:30 10:15 - 13:30 FOREST
Sun 6 th Dec
TRANSPORT
10:15 - 13:30 10:15 - 13:30
PRIVATE FINANCE
RENEWABLE ENERGY
ACTION DAY
CITIES & SUBNATIONALS
13:30 – 15:00 BUSINESS
15:00 - 18:15 15:00 - 18:15 15:00 - 18:15 15:00 - 18:15
15:00 - 18:15 15:00 - 18:15
SHORT-LIVED CLIMATE POLLUTANTS
ENERGY INNOVATION EFFICIENCY & ACCESS
AGRICULTURE
RESILIENCE
BUILDING
Wed 9 th Dec
Thur 10 th Dec
Fri 11 th Dec
2/ PREPARING THE LPAA SEQUENCE Organizers of ‘LPAA Focuses’ Forest 1st, December, 2015 – Morning
Agriculture 1st, December, 2015 – Afternoon
Resilience 2 nd, December, 2015
Transport 3rd, December, 2015 – Morning
Building 3rd, December, 2015 – Afternoon
Private Finance 4th, December, 2015 – Morning
Short-Lived Climate Pollutants 4th, December, 2015 – Afternoon
Action Day 5th, December, 2015
Renewable Energy 7th, December, 2015 – Morning
Energy Efficiency 7th, December, 2015 – Afternoon
Cities and Subnationals 8th, December, 2015 – Morning
Business 8th, December, 2015 – Lunch
Innovation 8th, December, 2015 – Afternoon
Peru France + FAO Peru + Partners PPMC (SloCat + Michelin Challenge Bibendum) UNEP + WBCSD + WGBC France + UNSG
CCAC LPAA Partners IRENA SE4All France + UNSG Caring for Climate + others IEA + CTCN
2/ PREPARING THE LPAA SEQUENCE LPAA Focus Events 3 hours + 15mn break 1. Review of the background and rationale for a 2-degree-consistent and resilient scenario in the action area concerned + discussions on technological developments and comparative public policies 2. Presentation of the major changes that will drive transformation and how the LPAA initiatives concretely contribute to that change •
Assess progress of initiatives launched at the Climate Summit
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Showcase new cooperative initiatives contribution and potential
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Feature concrete impacts
3. The ways forward for these initiatives and for the action area in general: challenges ahead, progress expected in the future, emerging initiatives…
2/ PREPARING THE LPAA SEQUENCE Example : LPAA Focus on Transport WHAT PATHWAYS FOR a 2C SCENARIO ? Moving towards an almost complete de-carbonization of transport is a challenge but is increasingly technically and economically feasible. LPAA initiatives support a three-pronged transformation, which combines action on: (1) Freight transport, (2) Urban mobility; and (3) Accelerated deployment of electric and low emission vehicles. 10.15 – 10.25
Welcome and Introduction
10.25 – 10.45
Current global transport landscape and prospective trends
10.45 – 11.00
Freight and long distance transport
11.00 – 11.40
Urban mobility, low carbon & clean vehicles, walking & cycling
11.40 – 12.30
Transport’s Adaptation to Climate Change
12.50 – 13.20
Conclusions & Action beyond COP21
2/ PREPARING THE LPAA SEQUENCE Example : LPAA Focus on Subnational WHAT PATHWAYS FOR a 2C SCENARIO? As the world faces the greatest wave of urbanization in its history, a rapid, international scale-up of urban and local climate mitigation and resilience action is now urgently required. The support of the international community is crucial to increase this unprecedented mobilization of local players, from cities to regions and federal states. Thus, through a 5-year Vision, this Focus will discuss the main solutions to scale up local action in the coming years. 10:15 – 10:30
Opening words: why local-level action is key to a 2C pathway
10:30 – 10:45
Sharing a common narrative: main messages of the 2d assessment report on climate change in cities from the Urban Climate Change Research Network
10:45 – 11:15
Building on existing commitments: feedback from the Summit of Local Leaders (4th December)
11:15 – 12:45
Scaling up local action through public-private partnerships and innovative solutions
12:45 – 01:15
Collectively committing to a 5-year vision to accelerate local-level transformation
01:15 – 01:30
Closing statements from COP21 and COP22 Presidencies
2/ PREPARING THE LPAA SEQUENCE Status of preparation Programs: Under finalization Will be progressively added on the LPAA website Speakers: 1st invitations to be issued Speakers invited to present cooperative initiatives and their role/ motivation in participating. Great attention paid to geographical and gender balance Interactivity and dynamism Organizers asked to set up lively and dynamic events Films, announcements, panel discussions, etc
3/ COMMUNICATION & MOBILIZATION Plans for Paris During the COP : • International media coverage : Press conference at the conclusion of each Focus Event, to communicate the announcements around the world • Mobilization of the social networks • Additional communications support from Initiatives, non state actors, companies
After the COP • A full brochure presenting the LPAA outcomes • Keeping the mobilization going: NAZCA regular update, regular featuring, etc.
3/ COMMUNICATION & MOBILIZATION Two key websites to engage or find information NAZCA = Non-State Actor Zone for Climate Action:
LPAA Website:
Launched in Lima, the NAZCA portal collects, showcases and tracks progress to highlight the scale of individual commitments by non-State actors and cooperative action involving both state and non state actors.
Provides information on the LPAA along the year, the Paris sequence, and further details to showcase LPAA labelled initiatives. The registered initiatives are assessed according to criteria of the LPAA. French version just released, Spanish to come.
NAZCA displays the stakeholders commitments uploaded from data partners.
http://newsroom.unfccc.int/lpaa/
http://climateaction.unfccc.int/
31-08-2015
THANK YOU!
ANNEX– Contributing to the momemtum States : States can engage by… Joining or partnering with initiatives, either to get some support for accelerated domestic action or to bring national expertise and assistance Encouraging domestic non state actors to take individual commitments or join networks and existing initiatives, Launching new initiatives. Working with sub-national actors in a vertically integrated approach Sub-national actors : Sub-national actors can engage by… Committing to GHG reductions, climate planning, climate resilience or taking sectoral commitments; Joining large-scale cooperative and multi-stakeholder initiatives; Setting up new partnerships Working with States in a vertically integrated approach Businesses : Businesses can engage by… joining partnerships or cooperative initiatives. Cooperative action can be Action-oriented, Industryorientated or Technology-oriented Individual Action : on Mitigation, Resilience, or Finance Public Policy Action: actively supporting the implementation of internal and public policies for combating climate change and developing low-carbon economies, especially on carbon prices Civil society – IIPP – Youth…: Civil society can engage by… Committing to GHG reductions, enhance climate resilience; Joining or creating large-scale cooperative and multi-stakeholder initiatives;
ANNEX– Join the LPAA Criteria There are several criteria for an initiative to be included in the LPAA. It must: • Be cooperative, be inclusive, open and regionally balance. • Be ambitious: short and long term quantifiable targets – transformative actions guided by a 2°C and resilient pathway. • Be science based: Address a concrete impact of climate change mitigation or adaptation issues to get us on a resilient and below 2°C pathway. • Have the capacity to deliver. Ability to directly deliver and implement commitments. • Showcase implementation of existing commitments (sufficient level of maturity in Paris) • Follow-up and report. Ready to report on implementation.
ANNEX – Lessons learned and way forward •
High-level leadership of the process is needed,
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A dedicated support team is essential: to track, coordinate, trigger, engage, and support initiatives.
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Clearly established governance – it may take 1-3 years for initiatives to rampup and deliver. Useful to have had the 4 Partners to ensure complementary perspectives and roles.
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General principles and minimum scrutiny are necessary to ensure robustness and credibility to the process.
How to keep the dynamic after Paris?
How could the technical examination process of the Workstream 2 harverst the energy of the LPAA to improve its work after Paris?