An innovative monitoring tool that assesses how effectively national climate policies address gender inequalities
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis and are also driving solutions, building resilience, and leading change. Yet when climate policies overlook them, the crisis deepens.
The Gender Equality and Climate Policy Scorecard tracks how comprehensively countries are responding to the gendered impacts of climate change while promoting women’s participation and leadership in climate action. It assesses the latest round of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) for their gender responsiveness and features an online repository of NDC gender commitments to action, showcasing promising and innovative policy examples to inspire learning, replication, and scale-up across countries and regions.
To track progress on gender-responsive climate action, the Scorecard is composed of 50 indicators across six gender dimensions.
The Scorecard has been developed by UN Women and the Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls at Binghamton University. It is part of the forthcoming edition of Progress of the World’s Women 2026: Gender Equality in the Age of the Climate Crisis. This report and its associated resources have been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Government of Denmark.
Read about the Scorecard’s methodology.
What are the Scorecard’s six dimensions of gender-responsive climate action?
Economic security
By 2050, 158 million more women could be pushed into extreme poverty.
Unpaid care work
2.3 billion people live in water-stressed countries. Women are responsible for water collection in 80% of households.
Gender-based violence
Living in arid areas is associated with rates of child marriage up to 32 percentage points higher than in humid areas.
Health
During heatwaves, the likelihood of preterm birth rises by about 26%.
Participation and leadership
In 2025 women comprised just 34% of heads of delegation at COP30.
Gender mainstreaming
125 countries have designated national gender and climate change focal points.
How are countries integrating gender equality into climate policies?
Results from a 2025 global survey to National Gender and Climate Change Focal Points under the UNFCCC highlight that:
- 45% of countries incorporated their national gender equality machinery within existing national climate change coordination mechanisms
- 54% of countries report engaging women’s civil society organizations in preparatory NDCs consultations
- At least 34 countries have a dedicated national gender and climate action plan or strategy
So, are these efforts translating into more gender-responsive NDCs?
The first map on the gender-responsiveness of the NDCs offers an overview of how countries are addressing the gendered impacts of climate change and elevating women’s voices in climate action. It currently features 67 revised NDCs submitted up to 30 September 2025. A third update is planned for October 2026 ahead of COP31, which will bring the total number of NDCs to 100.
The second map highlights the gender and climate policy enablers that countries are putting in place to translate gender commitments in their NDCs into action.
What commitments to gender-responsive action do countries make in their NDCs?
Gender-responsive climate action database
Explore in more detail the gender commitments to action in NDCs 3.0 across countries.
| Country Sort descending | NDC excerpt | Gender dimension | Climate policy area | Sector |
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| Angola | 4.3. Adaptation Contribution: 4.3.1. UNCONDITIONAL CONTRIBUTION: Table 8 Unconditional contributions to adaptation Sector | Unconditional contributions | Impact Response | Cost (Million USD) Agriculture and Fisheries *Conduct studies on the impact of climate change on fishing productivity and coastal economies | Acidification of the sea and fresh water; | 17,70 *Develop community and school gardens | Rising water temperature and increased | 5,00 *Apply the national collection local seeds in programs to improve and create adapted local varieties | Salinization | 7,50 *Studies to develop adequate possible measures to increase the resilience of national production systems in agriculture and livestock, with the establishment of partnerships with other countries to transfer technologies. | Increased frequency and intensity of heat | 10,00 *Development of programmes to recover forest areas, agricultural areas and degraded pastures. | Waves / heat island effect | 5,00 **NOTE: Angola's NDC notes that women play an important role in the agricultural sector: "As shown by the data displayed above, women play a critical role in Angola's agricultural sector, particularly in subsistence farming and post-harvest activities. Their involvement is fundamental not only for local food security but also for the economic resilience of households. Women are often responsible for seed selection, planting, harvesting, processing, storage, and the marketing of agricultural products, especially in rural areas where formal market access is limited." (p.20) |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Angola | 4.3. Adaptation Contribution: 4.3.2 Conditional Contribution: Table 9 Conditional contribution to adaptation Sector | Unconditional contributions | Impact Response | Cost (Million USD) Agriculture and Fisheries * Conduct a study on the impact of changing the geographical distribution of animal diseases (infectious and parasitic) and the availability of water on the country's animal production levels | Health risks and disease transmission | 7,50 * Replicate the project “Promotion of sustainable charcoal in Angola through a Value Chain Approach” in the Luanda-Uige corridor | Change/Loss of Biodiversity | 17,88 * Definition of a network of marine protected areas that serve to preserve marine fauna. | Acidification of the sea and fresh water; Rising water temperature and increased salinization | 12,00 * Diversification of water sources to supply water to agri-food production activities, including use of underground resources and reuse of waste water | Increased frequency and intensity of periods of drought and water scarcity | 8,00 * Research and dissemination of the use of local crop varieties adapted to the adverse effects of the climate. | Increased frequency and intensity of periods of drought and water scarcity | 10,00 **NOTE: Angola's NDC notes that women play an important role in the agricultural sector: "As shown by the data displayed above, women play a critical role in Angola's agricultural sector, particularly in subsistence farming and post-harvest activities. Their involvement is fundamental not only for local food security but also for the economic resilience of households. Women are often responsible for seed selection, planting, harvesting, processing, storage, and the marketing of agricultural products, especially in rural areas where formal market access is limited." (p.20) |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Angola | 7.1 GENDER Due to this central role both in adaptation and mitigation planning, Angolan women are called to play an important part in the climate action efforts present in this Nationally Determined Contribution. While it is indisputable that women should take part in decision-making mechanisms, data has shown that there is an imbalance in gender representation inside these mechanisms, with women having fewer opportunities to act as agents of change and climate resilience. Therefore, and as part of Angola’s process of developing the policies and projects present in this NDC, national authorities will reinforce the incentive instruments for women’s participation, seeking to involve the female gender more in the strategic planning of the country's climate policy and including the specific visions and concerns of Angolan women. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Australia | 4. A target backed by clear policies and plans: Supporting workers, skills, jobs and businesses through the transition Through the nationwide Australian Curriculum, Australia equips students to understand the basics of climate change and its impacts, while empowering them to be part of creating a more climate-resilient future. Australia is using education programs such as the Key Apprenticeship Program to incentivise the uptake of careers in the priority industries of the net zero transition. **NOTES: The Key Apprenticeship Program includes caregivers among its priority applicants, and targeted opportunities for women to enter male-dominated trades. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Multisectoral |
| Australia | 4. Planning processes: 4a. Information on planning processes and implementation plans for the preparation of the NDC including, asappropriate: 4a-i). Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation and engagement with local communities and Indigenous peoples, in a gender-responsive manner. Australia assesses the social and economic impacts of its policies and measures via a thorough impact analysis during the policy design phase. This can also include analysis of distributional effects to identify how certain cohorts, such as women, First Nations people and people in remote and regional areas, may be affected disproportionately by particular policies. In addition to the impact analysis process, the Office for Women supports the analysis of gender impact assessments, the National Indigenous Australians Agency supports the analysis of First Nations impacts, and the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts supports the analysis of Regional Australia Impacts. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Australia | 4. A target backed by clear policies and plans: Supporting workers, skills, jobs and businesses through the transition Australia is embedding equity considerations in our transition. By empowering First Nations peoples to lead and participate in the net zero transition we can take meaningful steps to achieving the priority reforms of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap. ‘Working for Women: A Strategy for Gender Equality’ highlights renewable energy as a key emerging industry to embed gender equality in pay, leadership and opportunities. (p.16) // Planning processes: 4a. Information on planning processes and implementation plans for the preparation of the NDC including, as appropriate: 4a-i). Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation and engagement with local communities and Indigenous peoples, in a genderresponsive manner. Australia recognises that women and girls face unequal impacts from climate change, and that it is critical women have a seat at the table to address these challenges. Australia’s Working for Women: A Strategy for Gender Equality, recognises the gendered impacts of climate change, and ensuring their full inclusion to ensure climate solutions work for women (p.21) |
Economic security
Participation and leadership
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Bangladesh | Chapter 4 : Policy Measures for Mitigation Actions : Table 13: Policy Measures in AFOLU Sector Sub-sectors: Agriculture Priority Measures: * Promote appropriate agroforestry practices in areas including homesteads, croplands, and fruit orchards. * Promote smart agriculture practices to ensure food and nutrition security. * Technological advancement like Apps, IoT for Precision agriculture. * Training of farmers for the larger scalability of AWD, Prilled Urea Applicators and other Climate Smart Agricultural practices. * Biochar production from agricultural waste for application in soil enhancement and other industrial purposes. * Promoting practices that save water and reduce methane emissions, while keeping yields stable. * Promote crops diversification and hardy varieties and ensure farmers can adapt to the changing rain and temperature patterns. * Extension services/farmers training to enhance climate awareness in daily farming choices, particularly among women and the youth. * Develop higher Tier baseline and database for AWD. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Agriculture |
| Bangladesh | Chapter 4 : Policy Measures for Mitigation Actions: 4.5 Agriculture, Forest, and Other Land Use (AFOLU) Sector: 4.5.1.1 Policy Direction: Table 13: Policy Measures in AFOLU Sector: Forestry and Land Use *Scale up community-based forestry and agroforestry to empower local people while diversifying income. *Expand mangrove restoration to protect coasts and enhance carbon storage. *Promote afforestation of degraded lands to reach long-term targets. *Encourage participatory forest management and biodiversity conservation. *Strengthen governance and monitoring of forest resources aligned with REDD+ frameworks and Article 6 mechanisms to attract international climate finance. **According to ILO data (2022), the agriculture and forestry sector in Bangladesh accounts for more than 60% of women's formal employment, meaning that climate measures in this sector are likely to have a disproportionate impact on women's wellbeing and livelihoods. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Agriculture |
| Bangladesh | Chapter 5 : Adaptation and Loss & Damage : Table 14: National Adaptation Priorities for NDC 3.0 aligned with NAP sectors Sector: Disaster, social safety and security Interventions for NAP sectors: * Construction and rehabilitation of gender-, age- and disability-sensitive, multipurpose, climate-resilient, and accessible cyclone and flood shelters with safe drinking water, sanitation and livestock shelter facilities (...) * Protection and enhanced resilience of climate migrants with a particular focus on gender and disability (...) * Halt child abuse, early marriage and domestic violence triggered by climate-induced disasters (...) * Building climate-resilient houses and education & communication infrastructure in areas with high climate risk |
Gender-based violence
Health
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Adaptation | Disasters |
| Bangladesh | Chapter 5 : Adaptation and Loss & Damage : Table 14: National Adaptation Priorities for NDC 3.0 aligned with NAP sectors Sector: Disaster, social safety and security Interventions for NAP sectors: (...) * Increase the resilience of vulnerable poor communities by introducing gender-, age- and disability-responsive diversified livelihoods, effective insurance mechanisms and climate resilience funds * Behavioral change and development of awareness among vulnerable communities for emergency responses and livelihood protection due to climate-induced disasters * Introduction of risk transfer and insurance mechanisms for protection of critical and disaster protection infrastructure, vulnerable MSMEs and farmers |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Bangladesh | Chapter 5 : Adaptation and Loss & Damage : Table 14: National Adaptation Priorities for NDC 3.0 aligned with NAP sectors Sector: Urban areas Interventions for NAP sectors: * Improvement of natural and artificial stormwater drainage networks for reducing vulnerabilities to urban flooding and drainage congestion * Expansion and conservation of green and blue infrastructure for improvement of urban environments and drainage systems * Development of city climate action plans for major urban and peri-urban areas emphasizing the resilience of urban-poor communities and climate migrants * Expand innovative climate-resilient, gender-, age- and disability-sensitive WASH technologies and facilities for urban communities * Increase access to water supply, sanitation and hygiene services in cities for reducing exposure to flooding and waterborne diseases during or after extreme weather events * Establishment of climate-resilient health-care facilities in urban areas * Development of heatwave and disease outbreak advisory services for city dwellers |
Unpaid care work
Health
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Bangladesh | Chapter 5 : Adaptation and Loss & Damage : Table 14: National Adaptation Priorities for NDC 3.0 aligned with NAP sectors Sector: Policies and institutions Interventions for NAP sectors: * Preparation of a roadmap for implementing the NAP * Development of a regulatory and institutional framework for advancing the NAP * Update and reform policies and plans for mainstreaming CCA * Operationalize the NAP monitoring, evaluation and learning framework based on a theory of change * Reform local government institutes towards the inclusion of community-based organizations, women, people with disabilities and youth in the implementation of locally led adaptation * Innovative, appropriate and enhanced financial instruments for supporting CCA * Private sector finance in leading CCA implementation |
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Bangladesh | Chapter 5 : Adaptation and Loss & Damage : Table 15: Proposed Activities in Loss and Damage Strategic Pillars: Addressing Non-Economic Losses (NELs) Key Activities for Bangladesh: 1. Develop a national framework for identifying, assessing, and valuing NELs (e.g., loss of cultural heritage in the Sundarbans, loss of indigenous knowledge due to displacement). 2. Establish a "Community Memory Bank" program to digitally document cultural heritage and ecological knowledge in climate-hotspot areas. 3. Integrate mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) into climate disaster response and recovery programs. 4. Provide continuous support for life-saving and essential health care to affected populations, including rapid measures to repair and/or rebuild damaged health facilities, and erect temporary health facilities with particular attention on restoring WASH infrastructure. 5. Implement affordable microinsurance and “climate insurance” models to provide additional safety nets to remedy loss of income, damage to housing, infrastructure, crops and other assets from climate disasters. 6. Facilitate community-led plans to reduce and redress non-economic loss and damage. 7. Estimate the associated costs Timeframe: Short and Mild Term **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. |
Economic security
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Bangladesh | 6.1 Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) : 6.1.1 Institutional Measures • Establishment of dedicated GEDSI units and focal points with trained personnel, resources, and clear mandates to ensure effective coordination across ministries. • Develop capacity-building programs for climate and inclusion focal points, children and youth, and underrepresented groups to integrate inclusion in sectoral actions. • Ensure active participation of vulnerable groups in NDC implementation, with local governments promoting inclusive adaptation planning. |
Participation and leadership
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Bangladesh | 6.1 Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) : 6.1.1 Institutional Measures (...) • Mainstreaming inclusive employment, skills development, Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), and innovation led by women, persons with disabilities, and vulnerable groups. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Bangladesh | 6.1 Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) : Table 16: Priority Actions in GEDSI Sector: Energy & IPPU Key GEDSI Entry Points: Women and persons with disabilities ares excluded from renewable energy jobs; reliance on biomass cooking. Proposed Actions: * Promote women/youth entrepreneurship in solar, biogas, and clean cooking. * Provide targeted training and finance for women/PWDs in renewable and green manufacturing sectors. Expected Outcomes: * Increased women/PWD participation in the clean energy workforce. * Improved household health and safety through clean cooking. |
Economic security
Health
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Cross-cutting | Energy |
| Bangladesh | 6.1 Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) : Table 16: Priority Actions in GEDSI Sector: Transport Key GEDSI Entry Points: Lack of safe, accessible, and affordable transport for women, elderly, and PWDs. Proposed Actions: Ensure universal design in MRT/BRT and EV charging stations. * Introduce women- and disability-friendly public transport policies. * Promote female employment in EV and public transport sectors. Expected Outcomes: * Safer, more inclusive mobility. * Increased employment opportunities for women and youth. |
Economic security
Gender-based violence
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Cross-cutting | Transportation |
| Bangladesh | 6.1 Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) : Table 16: Priority Actions in GEDSI Sector: AFOLU Key GEDSI Entry Points: Women farmers have limited land rights; youth underrepresented in adaptation. Traditional knowledge underutilized. Proposed Actions: * Support women and youth farmers in climate-smart agriculture. * Support land tenure security and financial access to vulnerable groups. * Integrate traditional ecological knowledge in forestry management. * Promote homestead vegetable cultivation Expected Outcomes: * Increased food security and resilience. * Enhanced carbon sequestration. * Empowerment of women and youth farmers. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Agriculture |
| Bangladesh | 6.1 Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) : Table 16: Priority Actions in GEDSI Sector: Waste Key GEDSI Entry Points: Informal sector dominated by women and migrants with unsafe conditions. Proposed Actions: * Formalize waste pickers’ roles with social protection and safety training. * Support women- and youth-led recycling enterprises. * Introduce PWD-friendly waste facilities. Expected Outcomes: * Safer working conditions and fair wages. * Reduced methane emissions. * Empowerment of women and youth entrepreneurs. |
Economic security
Health
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Cross-cutting | Waste |
| Bangladesh | 6.1 Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) : Table 16: Priority Actions in GEDSI Sector: Urban & Infrastructure Key GEDSI Entry Points: Vulnerable groups excluded from urban planning; infrastructure not inclusive Proposed Actions: * Enforce GEDSI-compliant building codes. * Ensure climate-resilient WASH and shelters are disability-accessible. * Expand participatory urban climate planning. Expected Outcomes: * More resilient and inclusive cities. * Improved disaster preparedness for vulnerable groups. * Equitable access to basic services. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Infrastructure |
| Bangladesh | 6.5 Health Bangladesh considers health systems to be crucial for both adaptation and mitigation. NDC 3.0 underscores the importance of strengthening the health sector’s climate resilience and low-carbon transition to safeguard public health and preserve essential services in the face of escalating climate hazards. Key priorities include the implementation of energy-efficient and low-emission medical waste management systems, integration of climate–health modules into medical education and workforce training, and adoption of renewable energy solutions such as solar power and flood-proof designs in health facilities. Disaster preparedness and rights-based outreach initiatives will particularly target vulnerable groups, including mothers and children, ensuring health equity in times of crisis. Additionally, NDC 3.0 aims to enhance the linkage between health, WASH, and nutrition by establishing reliable access to safe water and sanitation infrastructure, thereby reducing undernutrition caused by waterborne diseases and environmental contaminants. Strengthening these cross-sectoral linkages will ensure that public health outcomes remain central to Bangladesh’s climate action. |
Health
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Cross-cutting | Health |
| Bangladesh | 6.5 Health : Table 18: Priority Actions in Health Action Area: Health System Infrastructure and Operations Priority Actions: * Retrofit public health facilities with rooftop solar PV, climate smart structures, and energy-efficient health systems; * Adopt and apply climate-smart facility guidelines on Green Healthcare Initiative (GHI) and carry out regular climate and energy audits in healthcare facilities; * Solarize and climate-proof child- and maternal-focused health centers in high-risk areas; * Implement low-emission healthcare waste management with segregation and non-incineration treatment technologies; * Promote green procurement and efficient operations (HVAC, lighting, pumps, energy management); * Encourage clean air and clean cooking initiatives around health and education facilities to reduce local pollution and improve child respiratory health; * Encourage integrate climate-health training into medical curricula and workforce programs; * Promote Green Intervention Package for Women Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). |
Health
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Cross-cutting | Health |
| Bangladesh | Chapter 7: Just Transition: 7.2 Priority Sectors and Transition Pathways: 7.2.2 Industry Context: Decarbonizing carbon-intensive, hard-to-abate industries while providing green job opportunities for workers. Transition measures: industrial energy efficiency, electrification, fuel switching (solid or liquid fuel to RE/cleaner alternatives), waste heat recovery, clinker substitution, modern kiln retrofits, and brick sector transformation to clean materials. Worker support: concessional finance for cleaner tech, productivity-linked training and reskilling programs, certification for new green skills, and formalization pathways for informal workers. Just transition safeguards: prior notice and consultation; financial support to affected workers; local hiring quotas. **Women are overrepresented amongst informal workers in Bangladesh. Therefore, measures that seek to formalize jobs are likely to benefit them. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Multisectoral |
| Bangladesh | Chapter 7 : Just Transition : 7.2 Priority Sectors and Transition Pathways 7.2.4 Agriculture, Forestry & Land Use Sector • Transition Measures: climate-smart agriculture, organic farming, enteric methane reduction, alternate wet and dry (AWD), vermicompost, residue management, agroforestry, floodplain aquaculture, mangrove restoration, and coastal afforestation. • Livelihood support: extension services, risk insurance, value-chain access for smallholders and SMEs for women-led enterprises and youth-led enterprises; promote community enterprise-based practices. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Agriculture |
| Bangladesh | Chapter 7 : Just Transition : 7.3 Enabling Measures for Just Transition : 7.3.2 Skills Development and Reskilling • Reskill and upskill workers in carbon-intensive industries (e.g., fossil fuel workers, farmers in conventional agriculture) for green jobs. • Focus on training programs for women, youth, climate migrants, and marginalized communities to ensure they have equal opportunities in sustainable industries. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Multisectoral |
| Bangladesh | Chapter 7 : Just Transition : 7.3 Enabling Measures for Just Transition : 7.3.3 Financial Support • Mobilize appropriate climate finance through international mechanisms (e.g., Green Climate Fund, Global Environment Facility, MDBs) to support smallholder farmers and workers transitioning to low-carbon practices. • Introduce subsidies or incentives for businesses and communities adopting green technologies and climate-smart practices. **According to ILO data (2022), the agricultural sector in Bangladesh accounts for more than 60% of women's formal employment, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the agricultural sector are likely to have a disproportionate impact on women's wellbeing and livelihoods. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Multisectoral |
| Bangladesh | Chapter 7 : Just Transition : 7.3 Enabling Measures for Just Transition : 7.3.4 Social Protection • Establish social protection and labor measures programs (e.g., unemployment benefits, income support) to protect vulnerable workers during the transition. • Implement social protection schemes that provide financial support for workers in the energy, agriculture, and waste sectors affected by climate action policies. • Gender & Youth Inclusion: gender-responsive budgeting; targets for women and youth in training and reskilling programs. • Encourage to strengthen shock-responsive social protection by embedding early warning, scalable delivery systems, and contingency financing to protect vulnerable households during climate-related shocks and disasters. |
Economic security
Gender mainstreaming
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Mitigation | Multisectoral |
| Bangladesh | Table 4: Mitigation Actions in Energy Sector Sector: Energy Sub-Sector: Other Sectors - Commercial/ Institutional and Residential Priority Actions: Enhanced use of energy efficient appliances in household and commercial buildings Actions by 2035 Unconditional: Use energy-efficient appliances in household, institutional, and commercial buildings to achieve 10% energy savings (energy-efficient lighting, fan, television, oven, washing machine, refrigeration, cooling systems, geyser, water purification). 50% of this target will be unconditional. Install rooftop solar systems in 50% of existing government buildings, institutions, schools, and hospitals, and 100% of new government buildings, institutions, schools, and hospitals. 30% of this target will be unconditional. This target will complement the RE total unconditional target. Actions by 2035 Conditional: Use energy-efficient appliances in household, institutional, and commercial buildings to achieve 10% energy savings (energy-efficient lighting, fan, television, oven, washing machine, refrigeration, cooling systems, geyser, water purification). 50% of this target will be conditional. Install rooftop solar systems in 50% of existing government buildings, institutions, schools, and hospitals, and 100% of new government buildings, institutions, schools, and hospitals. 70% of this target will be conditional. This target will complement the RE total conditional target. Promote modern cooking systems• 20% of Cooking Energy Mix will be energy-efficient modern electric cookstoves• 20% of Cooking Energy Mix will be energy-efficient improved cookstoves (ICS)• 50% of Cooking Energy Mix will be energy-efficient LPG Hospitality and Tourism• At least 10% of electricity consumption should be from renewable energy sources. This target will complement the RE total conditional target. **Expanding access to clean and efficient household energy in Bangladesh is likely to benefit women by easing unpaid care burdens and improving health through safer, more sustainable cooking and energy solutions. |
Unpaid care work
Health
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Bangladesh | 6.2 Human Rights Informed by the Decision 1/CMA.5 on outcome of the First Global Stocktake (GST1), Bangladesh acknowledges that climate change is a common concern of humankind and that actions to address climate change should respect, promote and consider the respective obligations on human rights, the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, the right to health, the rights of ethnic minorities, local communities, migrants, children, women, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations and the right to development. In line with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the GST1 outcome, Bangladesh will ensure that NDC 3.0 is child- and youth-responsive. This includes strengthening low-carbon, climate-resilient child protection systems, safeguarding children, women, persons with disabilities, and other vulnerable groups from climate-related protection risks and promoting climate justice through accessible grievance and accountability mechanisms. Therefore, Bangladesh's NDC 3.0 adopts a rights-based approach to climate action, informed by the Paris Agreement and the UNHRC Resolution 48/13 A/HRC/48/L.23/Rev.1 on the human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Significantly, mitigation and adaptation measures will uphold, safeguard, and advance human rights in accordance with national development priorities and the right to development. Furthermore, emphasis will be placed on equality, non-discrimination, participation, accountability, and access to remedies. Climate policies will protect vulnerable populations, including women, youth, persons with disabilities, and marginalized groups, by ensuring their full participation in decision-making processes and equitable access to benefits. |
Participation and leadership
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Barbados | 5. Integrating Social Protection The Government of Barbados provides social protection after climate-related disasters. Many of the Ministry of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs’ (MPEA) programmes focus on offering social services, social protection, and improving the lives of the vulnerable and enabling them to survive shocks. After Hurricane Elsa in 2021, a Resilience and Reintegration Unit was established within the MPEA. The Government of Barbados will continue to: * develop and implement social protection measures which enhance the resilience of vulnerable populations to withstand the socio-economic shocks attributed to climate change related disasters; * strengthen the mechanisms to provide safe shelter and social provisions for persons who have been displaced by the climate crisis. * strengthen the shock-responsiveness of the social protection system to robustly respond to the social impacts of weather events resulting from climate change; and * design targeted social protection programmes linked to populations vulnerable to the socio-economic impacts of climate change such as those whose livelihood is sustained in the agriculture, fishing and tourism sectors. **The NDC lists women among those disproportionately vulnerable to the impacts of climate change (p.11), and refers to ongoing work between the Bureau of Gender Affairs and the Resilience and Reintegration Unit of the Ministry of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs which aims to build resilience among women and girls in the event of a climate disaster (p.28). |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Other |
| Barbados | 5. Integrating Social Protection: 5.5 Gender The Bureau of Gender Affairs is also partnering with UN Women on the Climate Resilience & Safety Project (CRSP), which aims to re-position women and young persons at the forefront of climate change matters. The project prioritizes women and young persons as key players in climate change and building safer communities. CRSP endeavors to construct a safer and more secure Speightstown community, by enhancing its resilience to climatic events and promoting environmental security. CRSP aims to meet SDG 5 (Gender Equality), SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and SDG 13 (Climate Action). Core stakeholders of CRSP are UNICEF, UN Women, the Bureau of Gender Affairs in the Ministry of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs (MPEA) and the Ministry of Educational Transformation. These agencies will collaborate closely with other major stakeholders such as the Speightstown Parish Community, the Department of Emergency Management (DEM) and transportation sectors to achieve project goals. It is hoped that consideration will be afforded to replicating the CRSP in other coastal communities such as Oistins in Christ Church. |
Gender-based violence
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Barbados | 5. Integrating Social Protection: 5.5 Gender Additionally, in January 2025, the Bureau of Gender Affairs, the Barbados Water Authority and the Caribbean Community Climate Change (CCCCC) collaborated on the execution of the Green Climate Fund funded “R’s (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) for Climate Resilience Wastewater Systems in Barbados (3R-CReWS)” project. This project, inter alia, aims to strengthen Barbados’ resilience to recover from climatic events. In this regard, key project protocols include: * Resettlement Action Plans (RAP) for displaced persons; * Mandates for low emission equipment and vehicles used in the project; * Gender parity employment throughout the project’s lifecycle; * Instituting gender responsive measures such as WASH (water, sanitation & hygiene); and * Gender mainstreaming and conducting gender analyses on project activities with a view to implementing targeted inventions as necessary. Analyses will also consider the intersectional identities of impacted persons. |
Unpaid care work
Health
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Cross-cutting | Water resources |
| Barbados | 1.3 Policy Framework - Domestic: 1.3.6 Roofs 2 Reefs Programme The Roofs 2 Reefs Programme (R2RP) framework operationalizes the PDP and provides the vehicle through which public investment will be directed. Acknowledging the need for locally-led adaptation specially building a robust understanding of risks and uncertainties and addressing structural inequities faced by women, young people and those socially and economically disadvantaged, the GoB through its R2RP is seeking to establish a sufficient and stable funding mechanism and the accompanying programme management framework that enables finance to be accessed when and where the need arises. R2RP seeks to identify the key projects and programmes, assess their costs, and identify and pursue funding opportunities, and coordinate implementation. The R2RP was deliberately conceptualized as a vehicle to operationalize and implement the physical development and infrastructure elements of the NDC and other major national policies and plans. Hence, the goals of the R2RP align directly with the commitments of the NDC. (p.7) 6. Information to facilitate Clarity, Transparency and Understanding: 4. Planning process: d. Each Party with an NDC under Article 4 of the Paris Agreement that consists of adaptation action and/or economic diversification plans resulting in mitigation co-benefits consistent with Article 4, paragraph 7, of the Paris Agreement to submit information on: ii. Specific projects, measures and activities to be implemented to contribute to mitigation co-benefits, including information on adaptation plans that also yield mitigation co-benefits: (...) The Roofs 2 Reefs Programme framework is focused on increasing resilience and operationalizes the Physical Development Plan. Its objectives are: * to make low- and middle-income homes more resilient to extreme weather events and their impacts, with as possible loss of access to electricity and potable water distribution systems; * to increase freshwater storage capacity and water use efficiency and reduce emissions through the deployment of distributed renewable energy technologies; * to decrease land-based sources of marine pollution through more sustainable land use practices; * to make critical utility, water and sanitation and road infrastructure climate resilient; and, * to restore vulnerable coral reef ecosystems, particularly on the west and south coasts of the island. (p.37) |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Belize | 7. Adaptation Targets and Actions: 7.4 Human Health: Table 12 - Human health adaptation targets and actions. Targets: Increase resilience of the human health sector by implementing the measures in the national adaptation plan by 2035. Conditionality: Conditional. Actions: * Develop a health infrastructure masterplan focused on strengthening climate resilience and durability, utilising prior vulnerability assessments by 2030 and its implementation up to 2040. Conditionality: Conditional * Retrofit key hospitals and clinics to be resilient to extreme-weather events by 2035. Conditionality: Conditional * Update and include risks identified in the STAR 2023 report in the Emergency All-Hazard Plan (EAP) for the health sector which provides for creating a reserve of health supplies and food by 2030 and implementing it by 2035, Conditionality: Conditional * Build the capacity of community members and leaders on environmental and climate change-related diseases and impacts on human health with the integration of climate change in the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) by 2030. Conditionality: Conditional * Enhance the testing and treatment of drinking water sources in regions vulnerable to droughts by 2030. Conditionality: Conditional **According to ILO data (2019), the healthcare sector in Belize accounts for 23.62% of women's employment compared to just 6.73% of men's, meaning that measures targeting resilience of the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
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| Belize | 7. Adaptation Targets and Actions: 7.7 Water Resources The targets and associated actions in this NDC are aligned with the National Adaptation Strategy for Addressing Climate Change in the Water Sector (CCCCC, 2009) and the Integrated Water Resources Management National Adaptation Plan (IWRMNAP) (Cashman, 2024). The primary focus of these strategies is on water monitoring and the implementation of water resource management practices to ensure effective conservation of water resources, water security and the institutional arrangements needed, with much emphasis on Gender, Equality, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) issues related to water resources. (...) Table 15 - Water resources adaptation targets and actions. Target: 1. Increase resilience of the water sector by implementing the measures in the national adaptation plan by 2035 Actions: * Implement the National Integrated Water Resources Act (NIWRA) by 2026. Conditionality: Unconditional * Develop a National Water Resources Sectoral Action Plan (NWRSAP) aligned with the NIWRA by 2030 and implement it by 2035. Conditionality: Conditional * Build capacity on water-resources and watershed conservation with 2 training and awareness-raising campaigns by 2030 and 4 by 2035 (cumulative total no. of campaigns). Conditionality: Conditional * Develop a National Sanitation and Water Strategy for water management in rural areas by 2030 and enforce it by 2033. Conditionality: Conditional * Enhance water quality in coastal areas by creating a dedicated task force by 2030. Conditionality: Conditional * Establish a dedicated watershed conservation unit which manages the related processes within the Ministry of Natural Resources by 2030. Conditionality: Conditional * Develop two (2) watershed management plans for two major watersheds that will include water quality, nutrient loading, and garbage disposal by 2029. Conditionality: Conditional * Develop a comprehensive Water inventory including a robust monitoring, report and update framework for the country covering all known water sources and sectors using water by 2030. Conditionality: Conditional * Examine opportunities for upscaling the pilot programme to improve wastewater treatment systems with support from financing institutions by 2030. Conditionality: Conditional * Implement the plans for the groundwater network by 2032 and develop plans for other regions across the country by 2035. Conditionality: Conditional |
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (...) There is a strong political commitment and will to increase gender equality in Belize. The overarching policy driving gender action in Belize is the National Gender Policy 2024 -2030. One of the guiding principles of the policy is to move gender issues to the mainstream in all national policies, regulations and programmes. Furthermore, the National Policy for Older Persons, 2002 provides protection, care, residential services to older persons and secures their participation in national development. Other key national and sectoral policies, strategies and plans on climate change have included GEDSI considerations. Belize developed its first National Climate Change Gender Action Plan (NCCGAP) 2022 – 2027 which provides guidance to all stakeholders of the climate change sector on how to mainstream gender in their policies and programmes. ** Belize's NCCGAP includes 15 focus areas grouped in 4 priorities to enhance participation, policy coherence, capacity building and monitoring and evaluation. Each of the focus areas includes concrete actions, indicators and proposed timeframe: 1) Inclusive representation in climate change negotiations and planning: build leadership and representation, support engagement machinery and mechanisms, inclusive engagement of local and indigenous groups, create space for and guarantee opportunities for women, increase gender participation over time; 2) Policy coherence across all government to support gender equality and social inclusion: identify key sectors, fragile ecologies and arenas for action, foster policy coherence across key government agencies, integrate gender equality and social inclusion principles throughout the education system, and partnership mapping; 3) Capacity development for existing institutional structures: allocation of time and resources, facilitate and nurture a learning environment and cross-sector dialogues; 4) Continuous improvement of documenting evidence and best practices: build accountability mechanisms, ensure effective monitoring and reporting systems, identify and define common indicators, and generate opportunities for development and innovation. |
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Cross-cutting | Other |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (...) There is a strong political commitment and will to increase gender equality in Belize. (...) The National Agriculture and Food Policy 2015-2030 sets gender specific strategic objectives under the policy`s four strategic pillars. **The National Agriculture and Food Policy 2015-2030 is guided by eight principles, including the principle of equity and inclusiveness, and actions are grouped in 18 strategic objectives along five pillars, including objectives and actions to enhance women's access to resources, empowerment, participation. Specifically, Pillar 3 on national food and nutrition security and rural livelihoods, and Pillar 4 on sustainable agriculture and risk management include gender-specific objectives that target women's inclusion and empowerment. |
Economic security
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Agriculture |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (...) There is a strong political commitment and will to increase gender equality in Belize. (...) The National Energy Policy 2023 -2040 makes a bold commitment to ensure gender equality in the energy sector. One of the policy objectives is to unlock economic opportunities to unserved communities by creating local employment opportunities, improving livelihoods, reducing pressure on urban migration, and improving opportunities for women and children in the energy sector, the policy actions however do not include GEDSI it is therefore unclear how these gender commitments will be met. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Energy |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (...) A Multi-sectoral National Adaptation Plan (MNAP) is currently under development. The MNAP will take into consideration the needs of women, youth, men, vulnerable people as well as local and indigenous communities. A Fisheries Gender Analysis has been completed. A fisheries gender analysis and gender strategy and action plan has also been completed to ensure gender mainstreaming in the fisheries sector. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (...) In addition to these strategic national documents, several GEDSI activities have been carried out to promote gender mainstreaming in climate action. (...)The Resilient Rural Belize Programme has a target to have at least 40% of the programme beneficiaries as women and 20% as youth. ** The Resilient Rural Belize project (under implementation until 2026) aims to minimize the impacts of climate and economic events on smallholder farmers while supporting continuous market access for their produce through Climate Resilient Value Chains Development and Climate Resilient Rural Infrastructural and Assets Development. The project, funded by the Green Environment Fund, has a project-level gender action plan with 13 activities grouped in 7 actions that details women's engagement in project activities. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Agriculture |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (...) In addition to these strategic national documents, several GEDSI activities have been carried out to promote gender mainstreaming in climate action. (...) Finally, the Climate Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture Project, a project aimed at promoting the adoption of climate-smart agricultural approaches, aims to have 30% of the 3,700 target beneficiaries as women. **The Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture Project (2022-2027) acknowledges gender gaps in agriculture and tailors the project to address these challenges, including tailored training and technical assistance for women, targeting at least 30% of matching grants to women farmers, supporting women farmers with tailored capacity for the design and implementation of the matching grant business proposals, and by ensuring selected technologies are affordable and consider the time constraints women face. It also mentions investments would be evaluated to prevent heightened risks of sexual exploitation and abuse. |
Economic security
Gender-based violence
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Cross-cutting | Agriculture |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion. Table 18 - Cross-cutting, mitigation and adaptation GEDSI proposed actions. Cross Cutting Actions. * Seek the opportunities and activities of this NDC to develop gender disaggregated data. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Other |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion. Table 18 - Cross-cutting, mitigation and adaptation GEDSI proposed actions. Cross Cutting Actions. (...) * Include the knowledge of women, indigenous peoples, youth, children, PWD, and all other marginalised groups, through inclusive consultative approaches across sectors in the development and implementation of climate policies and programmes as well as in decision making processes. (...) * Innovative projects on climate change that contribute to transforming gender relations, designed by and for women, measure impacts on gender gaps and enhancing women's agency and innovations will be explored through the NDC implementation process. |
Participation and leadership
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion. Table 18 - Cross-cutting, mitigation and adaptation GEDSI proposed actions. Cross Cutting Actions. (…) * Increase women's representation at COPs and subsidiary body meetings by at least 50% by 2027. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Other |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion. Table 18 - Cross-cutting, mitigation and adaptation GEDSI proposed actions. Cross Cutting Actions. (...) * Build competencies and capacities of communities at local levels to engage in climate change governance and decisions. * Co-host peer-to-peer training retreats on climate change /GEDSI contexts and practices. * Co-host peer-to-peer design workshops on climate change/GEDSI indicators, indexes and identify common social indicators per sector. * Promote awareness and sensitisation of climate change amongst the youth and children. * In order to ensure inclusive climate governance, mitigation and adaptation measures must institutionalize the representation of indigenous peoples within committees or bodies developed to track the NDC Development Process, as well any monitoring systems within the Forest Department. All climate actions must respect free and prior informed consent (FPIC) principles, with structured consultations at each stage of project design and implementation. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Other |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion. Table 18 - Cross-cutting, mitigation and adaptation GEDSI proposed actions. Adaptation actions. (…) * Mainstream GEDSI in fisheries regulations and Management Plan. * Create a gender desk or function in the Inland Fisheries Management Authority. The function will be responsible for ensuring inclusivity (e.g. age, disability etc.) in the work of the Authority. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Coastal zones and fisheries |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion. Table 18 - Cross-cutting, mitigation and adaptation GEDSI proposed actions. Cross Cutting Actions. (...) * Enhance access by GEDSI groups to climate finance through targeted programs under the Green Climate Fund and Adaptation Fund. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion. Table 18 - Cross-cutting, mitigation and adaptation GEDSI proposed actions. Mitigation actions. (...) * Consider the mobility patterns of GEDSI groups in feasibility analysis for EV penetration and transport master plan. Feasibility analysis should include options for the use of both digital and non-digital options for accessing public EV buses that would enable access to the elderly, the less educated and other social groups that are not digitally apt. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Transportation |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion. Table 18 - Cross-cutting, mitigation and adaptation GEDSI proposed actions. Adaptation actions. * Set GEDSI quotas for capacity building activities, training and awareness campaigns on sustainable practices for fisheries and aquaculture; tourism private sector on sustainable tourism practices; water resources and watershed conservation and climate related diseases and impact on health. Tailor training to their needs. (...) * Mainstream GEDSI in health infrastructure master plan, resilience infrastructure plan, housing policy, water management policy framework and disaster risk response plan. Capture the vulnerabilities of the aged, children, PWD to climate change. (...) * Ensure the representation of GEDSI groups in the watershed conservation unit under the Ministry of Natural Resources. * Develop a response plan programme to climate impacts including heatwaves, vector and non-vector borne diseases which considers the special needs of children, elderly and other vulnerable population by 2030. * Collect disaggregated data on risks and needs of children on food security. * Implement area specific adaptation strategies that provide guidance on adapting to impacts of climate change, paying keen attention to indigenous communities. * Promote and enhance land stewardship practices underway in indigenous communities when implementing policies and policy frameworks for incorporating responsible and climate-sensitive (and water-sensitive) development and land use. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion. Table 18 - Cross-cutting, mitigation and adaptation GEDSI proposed actions. Mitigation actions. * Design specific incentives for women, indigenous peoples, PWD, low-income groups, rural communities and other marginalised groups who have decreased purchasing power in RE, EV and climate smart agriculture financial schemes. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Multisectoral |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion. Table 18 - Cross-cutting, mitigation and adaptation GEDSI proposed actions. Mitigation actions. (...) * Include at least 30% of women, youth and indigenous owned businesses in capacity building activities on RE and EE. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion. Table 18 - Cross-cutting, mitigation and adaptation GEDSI proposed actions. Mitigation actions. (...) * Identify existing occupational segregation that may exist within the recycling sector and address barriers that GEDSI groups may face in the sector. * Set GEDSI quotas for campaigns and capacity building activities on recycling and waste management, agrosilvopastoral systems and climate smart agriculture. Specifically, target waste management campaigns in schools. Capacity building activities should be tailored to address the needs of GEDSI groups and consider opportunities for income generation. * Mainstream the risks, opportunities, and necessities of women, indigenous communities, youth, PWD, children and the poor in the development and implementation of harmonized sustainable waste management policies and plans. The plans should consider integrating community-based adaptation approaches. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Waste |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion. Table 18 - Cross-cutting, mitigation and adaptation GEDSI proposed actions. Adaptation actions. (…) * Include GEDSI considerations in vulnerability assessment for key tourism areas. The vulnerability assessment process should include contributions from GEDSI groups. * Prepare gender assessment to inform GEDSI mainstreaming in National Remediation Plan for environmental impact on the tourism sector. The plan development process should include contributions from GEDSI groups. |
Economic security
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Tourism |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion. Table 18 - Cross-cutting, mitigation and adaptation GEDSI proposed actions. Adaptation actions. (…) * Design financial incentives for the adoption of low emissions technologies by women and other marginalised groups in the tourism sector. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Tourism |
| Belize | 8. Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion. Table 18 - Cross-cutting, mitigation and adaptation GEDSI proposed actions. Adaptation actions. (…) * Ensure equitable access to climate-resilient infrastructure and basic social services by women, PWD, children, youth and indigenous communities to reduce their exposure to sea level rise, saltwater intrusion, flood and other climate hazards. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Belize | 9. Loss and Damage. (...) Belize is currently receiving technical assistance support to develop a National Loss and Damage Framework, to understand better the current policy and development circumstances surrounding L&D in the country, the level of irremediable losses and damages at different levels and examine opportunities to alleviate some of the multisectoral implications of L&D. The NDC 3.0 recommends the following considerations for loss and damage for each sector, as shown in Table 19 below.(...) Agriculture: * Examine opportunities for wide crop insurance to cover all Belizean farmers. * Integrate risk management plans with early warning systems for droughts. Forestry and Other Land-Use (FOLU) * Develop biodiversity corridors to protect species migration. * Develop community-based initiatives and program that builds capacity in community-based fire management and response, and for hazardous fuel reduction using prescribed burns in fire dependent ecosystems * Employ early dry season/late wet season prescribed burns to contribute to carbon sequestration and reduce impacts of severe dry season fires * Draft a new “Forest” or “Wildland” Fire Bill with enhanced provisions incorporating community participation, climate change issues, and alignment with sustainable forest management principles, ensuring that forest fire prevention and management practices contribute to the long-term health and resilience of forests * Expand ecosystem restoration efforts in most degraded areas to enhance and protect biodiversity and ecosystem services * Examine funding opportunities for post-disaster recovery of natural habitats. Coastal Zones and Marine Environments * Develop and implement a coastal erosion monitoring programme in all vulnerable and tourism areas. * Examine pilot projects for blue infrastructure and Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in coastal areas for enhanced resilience to flooding and salt intrusion * Develop coastal buffer zones in high-risk protected areas based on previous assessments and ongoing sectoral work. * Examine parametric insurance schemes for communities impacted by sea level rise and flooding. * Develop post-storm repair systems to maintain extreme weather protection benefits of intact coral reefs for coastal communities Fisheries * Promote disaster relief planning to assist fishers after natural disasters, and to establish a relief fund for the fisheries sector such as the COAST parametric Insurance or a livelihood protection Insurance policy for fisheries sector and vulnerable fishing communities. * Evaluate the potential of transforming temporary emergency relief funds into a permanent support mechanism for fisher dependent communities. * Implement vocational training and microenterprise support initiatives that enable fishers to transition into sustainable non-fishing income streams where appropriate. Aquaculture * Evaluate the creation of financial instruments for ecosystem and economic recovery for aquaculture and mariculture dependent communities. * Upgrade aquaculture zones to develop climate-resilient green and gray infrastructure * Designate and upgrade specific areas to develop climate-resilient aquaculture zones. Human Health * Develop emergency health response plans and training for main hospitals and health centres. * Create community-based health support networks including communication channels, check-in protocols and evaluation protocols for vector and nonvector borne disease prevention * Establish regional partnerships for knowledge and lessons learnt exchange and post-disaster rapid recovery. * Create climate-resilient medical supply reserves for enhanced emergency response. Tourism * Provide disaster preparedness training for tourism private sector. * Develop resilient tourism infrastructure standards * Examine funding opportunities for rapid recovery funds for tourism dependent communities post-disaster. Human Settlements and Infrastructure * Retrofit essential infrastructure in flood-prone areas * Launch housing upgrade programs in high-risk zones. * Build comprehensive disaster protection systems within human settlements and key infrastructure * Mandate resilient building codes * Establish relocation assistance. Water Resources * Expand rainwater harvesting and storage in drought prone areas. * Establish a flood response task force with support from local community members. * Develop project concepts for blue-green infrastructure solutions for enhanced resilience of water resources in urban areas. * Develop saltwater intrusion barriers in high-risk coastal areas. **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. |
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 4.4.7 Meta 7: Producción de productos forestales no maderables Meta 7: Hasta 2035, duplicar la producción de productos forestales no maderables fortaleciendo la economía local de los productores como medida frente al cambio climático. Descripción: La meta busca duplicar hacia 2035 la producción de productos forestales no maderables (PFNM), como castaña, asaí, cacao silvestre entre otros, promoviendo cadenas de valor sostenibles y resilientes. Para alcanzarla, se fortalecerán las capacidades comunitarias en recolección, procesamiento y comercialización de PFNM, incorporando innovación tecnológica y prácticas de conservación. Se promoverá la certificación de calidad y sostenibilidad, así como el acceso a mercados diferenciados que reconozcan el valor ambiental y social de estos productos. La meta también contempla programas de financiamiento verde y asistencia técnica para garantizar la rentabilidad de las iniciativas, además de fomentar la participación activa de mujeres y jóvenes en las cadenas productivas. Con ello, se generarán ingresos sostenibles, se reducirá la presión sobre los bosques y se fortalecerá la resiliencia de los medios de vida locales, articulando la conservación de la biodiversidad con el desarrollo económico inclusivo. Principales acciones de la meta 7: 1. Elaboración de planes de manejo para productos no maderables 2. Estimación de los costos de producción e implementación (Castaña, Cacao, Asaí, otros). 3. Promoción de la certificación de productos forestales no maderables. 4. Desarrollo de cadenas de valor y diversificación de ingresos. 5. Implementación de sistemas agroforestales. 6. Implementación de centros de procesamiento local. 7. Desarrollo de infraestructura y escalabilidad de procesos. 8. Capacitación y apoyo a PyMEs. 9. Investigación y desarrollo de nuevos productos. 10. Acceso y gestión de mercados. // 4.4.7 Goal 7: Production of Non-Timber Forest Products Goal 7: By 2035, double the production of non-timber forest products, thereby strengthening the local economies of producers as a measure to address climate change. Description: This goal seeks to double the production of non-timber forest products (NTFPs)—such as Brazil nuts, açaí, and wild cocoa, among others—by 2035, by promoting sustainable and resilient value chains. To achieve this, community capacities in the harvesting, processing, and commercialization of NTFPs will be strengthened through the incorporation of technological innovation and conservation practices. The certification of quality and sustainability will be promoted, as will access to differentiated markets that recognize the environmental and social value of these products. The goal also encompasses green financing programs and technical assistance to ensure the profitability of these initiatives, in addition to fostering the active participation of women and youth within the production chains. Through these efforts, sustainable income will be generated, pressure on forests will be reduced, and the resilience of local livelihoods will be strengthened, thereby linking biodiversity conservation with inclusive economic development. Key Actions for Goal 7: 1. Development of management plans for non-timber products. 2. Estimation of production and implementation costs (Brazil nuts, cocoa, açaí, and others). 3. Promotion of certification for non-timber forest products. 4. Development of value chains and income diversification. 5. Implementation of agroforestry systems. 6. Establishment of local processing centers. 7. Infrastructure development and process scalability. 8. Training and support for SMEs. 9. Research and development of new products. 10. Market access and management. |
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Adaptation | Land use and forestry |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 4.5 Enfoques transversales identificados por el sector Tabla 11. Enfoques transversales priorizados del sector bosques Enfoque transversal: Género Aplicación en el sector bosques: Promueve la igualdad sustantiva entre mujeres y hombres, reconociendo sus roles diferenciados en la gestión forestal. Se transversaliza garantizando la participación de mujeres en el manejo forestal y PFNM, su acceso equitativo a recursos, financiamiento y beneficios, y su inclusión en espacios de toma de decisión. // 4.5 Cross-cutting Approaches Identified by the Sector Table 11. Prioritized Cross-cutting Approaches in the Forestry Sector Cross-cutting Approach: Gender Application in the Forestry Sector: Promotes substantive equality between women and men, recognizing their differentiated roles in forest management. It is mainstreamed by ensuring women's participation in forest management and Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs), their equitable access to resources, financing, and benefits, and their inclusion in decision-making spaces. |
Economic security
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Land use and forestry |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 5.5 Enfoques transversales identificados por el Sector Energía: Tabla 24. Enfoques transversales priorizados Enfoque transversal: Enfoque de género Descripción de cómo se incorpora: Se integrará el enfoque de género mediante la formación y el empoderamiento de mujeres para que sean actoras directas en el cumplimiento de las metas. Se incluirán en los programas metas para capacitar a mujeres en zonas rurales en la instalación, mantenimiento y operación de sistemas de generación de energía; para que sean las protagonistas del cambio. También se incluirán en los programas la capacitación técnica y el empoderamiento de las "mujeres en energía (STEM)", en los temas de: generación distribuida, energías renovables, electro movilidad y eficiencia energética. // 5.5 Cross-cutting Approaches Identified by the Energy Sector: Table 24. Prioritized Cross-cutting Approaches Cross-cutting Approach: Gender Approach Description of how it is incorporated: The gender approach will be integrated through the training and empowerment of women, enabling them to act as direct agents in the achievement of established goals. Program objectives will include training women in rural areas in the installation, maintenance, and operation of energy generation systems, thereby positioning them as key drivers of change. Furthermore, programs will incorporate technical training and empowerment initiatives for "women in energy (STEM)" across the following areas: distributed generation, renewable energy, electromobility, and energy efficiency. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Energy |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 6.5 Enfoques transversales identificados por el sector Agropecuario Tabla 33. Enfoques transversales priorizados según metas del sector Enfoque transversal: Género e igualdad Descripción de cómo se incorpora: Se integrará promoviendo la participación de mujeres en todas las etapas de los proyectos, desde la planificación hasta la ejecución y seguimiento. Se asegurará el acceso equitativo a capacitación, crédito, tecnologías adaptativas y espacios de decisión, reconociendo su rol en la producción agropecuaria, empoderándolas en la toma de decisiones y liderazgo sobre la gestión de las UPAs, contribuyendo a la equidad y la eficacia de las medidas. // 6.5 Cross-cutting Approaches Identified by the Agricultural Sector Table 33. Cross-cutting Approaches Prioritized According to Sector Goals Cross-cutting Approach: Gender and Equality Description of how it is incorporated: It will be integrated by promoting the participation of women in all stages of projects—from planning to implementation and monitoring. Equitable access to training, credit, adaptive technologies, and decision-making spaces will be ensured, recognizing women's role in agricultural production and empowering them in decision-making and leadership regarding the management of Agricultural Production Units (UPAs), thereby contributing to the equity and effectiveness of the measures. |
Economic security
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Agriculture |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 7.5 Enfoques transversales identificados por el sector El sector residuos reconoce que la acción climática efectiva requiere la incorporación de enfoques transversales que aseguren justicia social, equidad intergeneracional y sostenibilidad estructural. En ese sentido, se identifican cinco enfoques prioritarios que deben guiar la implementación de las metas de mitigación y adaptación del sector. − Primero, el enfoque de género busca reducir las desigualdades que enfrentan las mujeres en el acceso a recursos, formación y condiciones laborales dentro de los sistemas de gestión de residuos, promoviendo su liderazgo en procesos de planificación climática y economía circular. (...) Tabla 38. Enfoques transversales priorizados Enfoque transversal: Género Descripción de cómo se incorpora: Se promueve la participación activa de mujeres en la cadena de gestión de residuos, priorizando su inclusión en programas de reciclaje, compostaje, capacitación técnica y liderazgo en economía circular. // 7.5 Cross-cutting Approaches Identified by the Sector The waste sector recognizes that effective climate action requires the incorporation of cross-cutting approaches that ensure social justice, intergenerational equity, and structural sustainability. In this regard, five priority approaches have been identified to guide the implementation of the sector's mitigation and adaptation goals. − First, the gender approach seeks to reduce the inequalities women face regarding access to resources, training, and working conditions within waste management systems, while promoting their leadership in climate planning and circular economy processes. (...) Table 38. Prioritized Cross-cutting Approaches Cross-cutting Approach: Gender Description of how it is incorporated: The active participation of women in the waste management chain is promoted, prioritizing their inclusion in programs related to recycling, composting, technical training, and leadership within the circular economy. |
Economic security
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Waste |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 7.5 Enfoques transversales identificados por el sector El sector residuos reconoce que la acción climática efectiva requiere la incorporación de enfoques transversales que aseguren justicia social, equidad intergeneracional y sostenibilidad estructural. En ese sentido, se identifican cinco enfoques prioritarios que deben guiar la implementación de las metas de mitigación y adaptación del sector. (...) - Cuarto, se prioriza el principio de transición justa, garantizando que los procesos de modernización no excluyan a recicladores de base ni a trabajadores informales (...) Tabla 38. Enfoques transversales priorizados Enfoque transversal: Transición justa Descripción de cómo se incorpora: Se implementan medidas para asegurar que los procesos de formalización, innovación tecnológica y cierre de botaderos no excluyan a recicladores ni trabajadores informales, garantizando protección social. // 7.5 Cross-cutting Approaches Identified by the Sector The waste sector recognizes that effective climate action requires the incorporation of cross-cutting approaches that ensure social justice, intergenerational equity, and structural sustainability. In this regard, five priority approaches have been identified to guide the implementation of the sector's mitigation and adaptation goals. (...) - Fourth, priority is given to the principle of a Just Transition, ensuring that modernization processes do not exclude grassroots recyclers or informal workers. (...) Table 38. Prioritized Cross-cutting Approaches Cross-cutting Approach: Just Transition Description of how it is incorporated: Measures are implemented to ensure that processes involving formalization, technological innovation, and the closure of open dumps do not exclude recyclers or informal workers, thereby guaranteeing social protection. **Women are overrepresented amongst waste workers in Bolivia and are therefore likely to disproportionately benefit from measures seeking to formalize the sector and build social protection systems. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Waste |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 10.1 Enfoque de género y empoderamiento de las mujeres Este enfoque promueve la igualdad sustantiva entre hombres y mujeres, así como la participación activa y el liderazgo de las mujeres (especialmente indígenas, rurales y jóvenes) en todos los niveles de la acción climática. Reconoce que el cambio climático afecta de manera diferenciada a las mujeres y que su rol en la gestión de recursos naturales, la seguridad alimentaria y la resiliencia comunitaria es esencial. Acciones clave: a. Diseñar metas, acciones e indicadores desagregados por sexo, incluyendo variables intersectoriales. (...) d. Reconocer y valorar los roles diferenciados en los sistemas de vida. // 10.1 Gender Approach and Women’s Empowerment This approach promotes substantive equality between men and women, as well as the active participation and leadership of women (particularly Indigenous, rural, and young women) at all levels of climate action. It recognizes that climate change affects women in differentiated ways and that their role in natural resource management, food security, and community resilience is essential. Key Actions: a. Design goals, actions, and indicators disaggregated by sex, including intersectional variables. (...) d. Recognize and value differentiated roles within livelihood systems. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 10.1 Enfoque de género y empoderamiento de las mujeres Este enfoque promueve la igualdad sustantiva entre hombres y mujeres, así como la participación activa y el liderazgo de las mujeres (especialmente indígenas, rurales y jóvenes) en todos los niveles de la acción climática. Reconoce que el cambio climático afecta de manera diferenciada a las mujeres y que su rol en la gestión de recursos naturales, la seguridad alimentaria y la resiliencia comunitaria es esencial. Acciones clave: (...) c. Promover la participación de mujeres en espacios de decisión climática. // 10.1 Gender Approach and Women’s Empowerment This approach promotes substantive equality between men and women, as well as the active participation and leadership of women (particularly Indigenous, rural, and young women) at all levels of climate action. It recognizes that climate change affects women in differentiated ways and that their role in natural resource management, food security, and community resilience is essential. Key Actions: (...) c. Promote women’s participation in climate decision-making spaces. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 10.1 Enfoque de género y empoderamiento de las mujeres Este enfoque promueve la igualdad sustantiva entre hombres y mujeres, así como la participación activa y el liderazgo de las mujeres (especialmente indígenas, rurales y jóvenes) en todos los niveles de la acción climática. Reconoce que el cambio climático afecta de manera diferenciada a las mujeres y que su rol en la gestión de recursos naturales, la seguridad alimentaria y la resiliencia comunitaria es esencial. Acciones clave: (...) b. Asegurar acceso equitativo a asistencia técnica, recursos financieros y tecnologías. // 10.1 Gender Approach and Women’s Empowerment This approach promotes substantive equality between men and women, as well as the active participation and leadership of women (particularly Indigenous, rural, and young women) at all levels of climate action. It recognizes that climate change affects women in differentiated ways and that their role in natural resource management, food security, and community resilience is essential. Key Actions: (...) b. Ensure equitable access to technical assistance, financial resources, and technologies. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 10.1 Enfoque de género y empoderamiento de las mujeres Este enfoque promueve la igualdad sustantiva entre hombres y mujeres, así como la participación activa y el liderazgo de las mujeres (especialmente indígenas, rurales y jóvenes) en todos los niveles de la acción climática. Reconoce que el cambio climático afecta de manera diferenciada a las mujeres y que su rol en la gestión de recursos naturales, la seguridad alimentaria y la resiliencia comunitaria es esencial. Acciones clave: (...) d. Reconocer y valorar los roles diferenciados en los sistemas de vida. // 10.1 Gender Approach and Women’s Empowerment This approach promotes substantive equality between men and women, as well as the active participation and leadership of women (particularly Indigenous, rural, and young women) at all levels of climate action. It recognizes that climate change affects women in differentiated ways and that their role in natural resource management, food security, and community resilience is essential. Key Actions: (...) d. Recognize and value differentiated roles within livelihood systems. |
Unpaid care work
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 10.3 Enfoque intergeneracional Busca asegurar el derecho al futuro de las generaciones jóvenes y la transferencia de saberes entre generaciones. Reconoce que niñas, niños, adolescentes y juventudes no solo son grupos vulnerables, sino también agentes activos de cambio. Acciones clave: a. Fomentar el liderazgo juvenil en gobernanza climática y proyectos de innovación verde. b. Desarrollar programas de formación técnica y empleabilidad para jóvenes en sectores estratégicos. c. Garantizar que las políticas climáticas consideren impactos diferenciados en niñez y juventud. d. Promover mecanismos de participación intergeneracional en todos los niveles. // 10.3 Intergenerational Approach Seeks to safeguard the right to a future for younger generations and facilitate the transfer of knowledge between generations. It recognizes that girls and boys, adolescents, and youth are not merely vulnerable groups, but also active agents of change. Key Actions: a. Foster youth leadership in climate governance and green innovation projects. b. Develop technical training and employability programs for youth in strategic sectors. c. Ensure that climate policies take into account the differentiated impacts on children and youth. d. Promote mechanisms for intergenerational participation at all levels. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 10.6 Enfoque de gestión integral del riesgo climático Este enfoque refuerza la capacidad de anticipación, prevención, respuesta y recuperación ante eventos climáticos extremos, considerando los impactos diferenciados por género, edad, cultura y territorio. La gestión del riesgo climático debe ser parte integral de las medidas sectoriales de adaptación. Acciones clave: a. Incorporar el análisis de riesgo climático en el diseño de metas y medidas. b. Desarrollar e implementar sistemas de alerta temprana sensibles al contexto local. c. Promover soluciones basadas en la naturaleza para la reducción del riesgo. d. Asegurar que la planificación climática territorial incluya la gestión del riesgo y resiliencia comunitaria. // 10.6 Comprehensive Climate Risk Management Approach This approach strengthens the capacity for anticipation, prevention, response, and recovery in the face of extreme climatic events, taking into account impacts differentiated by gender, age, culture, and territory. Climate risk management must be an integral part of sectoral adaptation measures. Key Actions: a. Incorporate climate risk analysis into the design of targets and measures. b. Develop and implement early warning systems that are sensitive to the local context. c. Promote nature-based solutions for risk reduction. d. Ensure that territorial climate planning includes risk management and community resilience. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 10.7 Enfoque de innovación, ciencia y tecnología inclusiva Promueve el acceso equitativo a tecnologías limpias, información climática y procesos de innovación, incorporando a mujeres, pueblos indígenas y juventudes como protagonistas del cambio. Este enfoque reconoce que la innovación solo es efectiva si es socialmente justa y culturalmente adecuada. Acciones clave: a. Democratizar el acceso a tecnologías adaptativas y sostenibles. b. Vincular la ciencia contemporánea con los saberes ancestrales y territoriales. c. Incluir a mujeres y jóvenes en los procesos de investigación e innovación. d. Garantizar la gobernanza de los datos climáticos y la soberanía tecnológica. // 10.7 Inclusive Innovation, Science, and Technology Approach Promotes equitable access to clean technologies, climate information, and innovation processes, engaging women, Indigenous peoples, and youth as agents of change. This approach recognizes that innovation is effective only if it is socially just and culturally appropriate. Key Actions: a. Democratize access to adaptive and sustainable technologies. b. Integrate contemporary science with ancestral and territorial knowledge. c. Include women and youth in research and innovation processes. d. Ensure climate data governance and technological sovereignty. |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 11.6 Prioridades a corto plazo y aumento de la ambición: Implementación del Sistema de Información de Salvaguardas (SIS) En paralelo al MRV, se pondrá en pleno funcionamiento el Sistema de Información de Salvaguardas (SIS), para monitorear el respeto a las salvaguardas de Cancún en todas las acciones de la NDC. El SIS documentará cómo las medidas contribuyen a la protección de la biodiversidad, los derechos de los pueblos indígenas, la equidad de género, la inclusión juvenil y la participación ciudadana, garantizando que la acción climática sea social y ambientalmente sostenible desde el diseño hasta la ejecución. // 11.6 Short-Term Priorities and Increased Ambition: Implementation of the Safeguards Information System (SIS) In parallel with the MRV, the Safeguards Information System (SIS) will be brought into full operation to monitor adherence to the Cancun Safeguards across all NDC actions. The SIS will document how these measures contribute to the protection of biodiversity, the rights of indigenous peoples, gender equity, youth inclusion, and citizen participation, thereby ensuring that climate action is socially and environmentally sustainable from design through to implementation. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 4.4.4 Meta 4: Incremento de superficie de bosques bajo manejo integral y sustentable Meta 4: Hasta 2035, duplicar la superficie de bosques bajo manejo integral y sustentable, favoreciendo la resiliencia de los bosques ante los efectos del cambio climático. Descripción: La meta busca duplicar hacia 2035, con un potencial de mitigación aproximado de 7 MtCO₂eq de la superficie de bosques bajo manejo integral certificado, consolidando la sostenibilidad del aprovechamiento forestal y su aporte a la economía nacional. Para alcanzarla, se impulsará la certificación de planes de manejo forestal, fortaleciendo la capacidad técnica de actores públicos y privados. Se priorizarán incentivos para la producción sostenible de madera, fibras y otros productos forestales, garantizando trazabilidad, control de legalidad y acceso a mercados diferenciados. La implementación de herramientas tecnológicas de monitoreo y fiscalización permitirá asegurar el cumplimiento normativo y reducir la presión sobre áreas no autorizadas. Se fomentará la participación comunitaria en procesos de gestión forestal, incluyendo la formación técnica, la inclusión de jóvenes y mujeres, y la articulación con cadenas de valor sostenibles. Con ello, la meta contribuirá a consolidar paisajes productivos resilientes, fortalecer la gobernanza forestal y aportar cobeneficios de conservación y reducción de emisiones. Esta meta tiene estrecha relación con las metas del sector agropecuario, siendo complementarias y no generan doble contabilidad, debido a los roles diferenciados de las instituciones, y existiendo un solo registro de permisos de planes de manejo. (...) Principales acciones de la meta 4: 1. Elaboración de Planes de Manejo Integral. 2. Generación de incentivos para implementar la GISB. 3. Reforma de marco normativo y desarrollo de políticas públicas para la GISB. 4. Establecimiento de programas de certificación forestal para manejo sostenible. // 4.4.4 Goal 4: Increase in Forest Area Under Integrated and Sustainable Management Goal 4: By 2035, double the area of forests under integrated and sustainable management, thereby enhancing forest resilience against the effects of climate change. Description: This goal seeks to double—by 2035 and with an approximate mitigation potential of 7 MtCO₂eq—the area of forests under certified integrated management, thereby consolidating the sustainability of forest utilization and its contribution to the national economy. To achieve this, the certification of forest management plans will be promoted, strengthening the technical capacity of both public and private stakeholders. Priority will be given to incentives for the sustainable production of timber, fibers, and other forest products, ensuring traceability, legality verification, and access to differentiated markets. The implementation of technological tools for monitoring and oversight will ensure regulatory compliance and reduce pressure on unauthorized areas. Community participation in forest management processes will be fostered, including technical training, the inclusion of youth and women, and integration into sustainable value chains. In doing so, this goal will contribute to consolidating resilient productive landscapes, strengthening forest governance, and delivering co-benefits in terms of conservation and emissions reduction. This goal is closely linked to the goals of the agricultural sector; they are complementary and do not result in double counting, given the distinct roles of the respective institutions and the existence of a single registry for management plan permits. (...) Key Actions for Goal 4: 1. Development of Integrated Management Plans. 2. Creation of incentives for implementing Integrated and Sustainable Forest Management (GISB). 3. Reform of the regulatory framework and development of public policies for GISB. 4. Establishment of forest certification programs for sustainable management. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Land use and forestry |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 4.5 Enfoques transversales identificados por el sector Tabla 11. Enfoques transversales priorizados del sector bosques Enfoque transversal: Innovación, ciencia y tecnología inclusiva Aplicación en el sector bosques: Democratiza el acceso a la tecnología y vincula ciencia moderna con saberes ancestrales. Se transversaliza mediante el uso de monitoreo satelital y comunitario, la inclusión de mujeres y jóvenes en innovación forestal, y la integración de conocimientos tradicionales en soluciones tecnológicas. // 4.5 Cross-cutting Approaches Identified by the Sector Table 11. Prioritized Cross-cutting Approaches in the Forestry Sector Cross-cutting Approach: Innovation, Science, and Inclusive Technology Application in the Forestry Sector: Democratizes access to technology and links modern science with ancestral knowledge. It is mainstreamed through the use of satellite and community-based monitoring, the inclusion of women and youth in forestry innovation, and the integration of traditional knowledge into technological solutions. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Land use and forestry |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 6.4.1 Meta 1: Sistemas agroalimentarios resilientes Meta 1: Hasta 2035, se incrementará la resiliencia climática en los sistemas agroalimentarios de las diversas macrorregiones del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, mediante prácticas de agricultura de conservación, regenerativas, de precisión, entre otras, que posibiliten la diversificación productiva, el fortalecimiento de cadenas de valor baja en emisiones, y la mejora de la capacidad adaptativa de al menos el 40% de las unidades productivas agropecuarias, afectadas por el cambio climático en poblaciones rurales altamente vulnerables. Descripción: La meta busca incrementar la resiliencia climática de los sistemas agroalimentarios mediante prácticas agrícolas sostenibles como la agricultura de conservación que mejorará la salud del suelo; agricultura regenerativa y agroecológica, que incluyen técnicas que aumentan la biodiversidad y la fertilidad del suelo de forma natural; la agricultura de precisión que utiliza la tecnología para optimizar el uso de insumos y gestionar los cultivos de manera más eficiente; la diversificación productiva que busca reducir la dependencia de un solo cultivo o tipo de ganado; el impulso de cadenas de valor bajas en emisiones que implica mejorar los procesos desde la producción hasta el consumidor final, reduciendo la huella de carbono y aumentando el valor de los productos promocionando de la bioeconomía circular de los productores, que garanticen la soberanía y seguridad alimentaria de las poblaciones rurales altamente vulnerables. Las acciones contemplan prácticas agrícolas resilientes y bajas en carbono que mejoran la capacidad adaptativa de las unidades productivas y el ajuste de las mismas. Este enfoque integral permitirá robustecer los sistemas y medios de vida locales frente a la variabilidad climática y asegurar la disponibilidad de alimentos nutritivos, con énfasis en la inclusión social, la equidad de género generacional e intergeneracional, participación de jóvenes y pueblos indígena originario campesinos y otros grupos vulnerables. Principales acciones de la Meta 1: Las acciones previstas para la Meta 1, son tres, no siendo limitativas a acciones adicionales que contribuyan al cumplimiento de la meta: 1. Fortalecer los sistemas agroalimentarios climáticamente inteligentes, promoviendo la diversificación productiva con enfoque de género, la conservación y recuperación de recursos genéticos y el uso de soluciones basadas en la naturaleza. 2. Fomentar e implementar acciones que promuevan la resiliencia de sistemas agropecuarios como sistemas de cosecha, almacenamiento de agua de lluvia y riego comunitario en territorios rurales e indígena originario campesinos. 3. Impulsar la bioeconomía circular de las familias rurales e indígena originario campesinas mediante el desarrollo de cadenas de valor sostenible Articulaciones estratégicas y sinergias: La meta contribuye a los ODS: fin de la pobreza (ODS 1.5), seguridad alimentaria (ODS 2.3, 2.4 y 2.5), crecimiento económico sostenible (ODS 8.2 y 8.5), acción climática (ODS 13.1) e igualdad de género (ODS 5). También se vincula con la CNULD, alineándose con el artículo 2 (objetivo 2), artículo 5 (inciso d) y artículo 10 (numeral 2.f y numeral 3.c, d, e). De igual forma, se relaciona con el CDB, en los artículos 6 (inciso b), 8 (c, e, j), 10 (c, d), 12 (a), 13 (a) y 18 (1), que refuerzan la conservación, el uso sostenible, la educación, la investigación y la cooperación técnica y científica. // 6.4.1 Goal 1: Resilient Agri-food Systems Goal 1: By 2035, climate resilience within the agri-food systems across the diverse macro-regions of the Plurinational State of Bolivia will be enhanced through the implementation of conservation, regenerative, and precision agriculture practices—among others—that enable productive diversification, the strengthening of low-emission value chains, and an improvement in the adaptive capacity of at least 40% of agricultural production units affected by climate change in highly vulnerable rural populations. Description: This goal seeks to increase the climate resilience of agri-food systems through sustainable agricultural practices such as conservation agriculture, which improves soil health; regenerative and agroecological agriculture, which encompasses techniques that naturally enhance biodiversity and soil fertility; precision agriculture, which utilizes technology to optimize input usage and manage crops more efficiently; and productive diversification, which aims to reduce dependence on a single crop or type of livestock. Furthermore, it involves boosting low-emission value chains—a process entailing the improvement of operations from production to the final consumer—thereby reducing the carbon footprint and increasing product value by promoting a circular bioeconomy among producers, ultimately ensuring the food sovereignty and security of highly vulnerable rural populations. The actions outlined herein encompass resilient and low-carbon agricultural practices that enhance the adaptive capacity of production units and facilitate their necessary adjustments. This comprehensive approach will serve to fortify local systems and livelihoods against climate variability and ensure the availability of nutritious food, with a strong emphasis on social inclusion, intra- and intergenerational gender equity, and the active participation of youth, indigenous-origin peasant communities, and other vulnerable groups. Key Actions for Goal 1: The actions envisaged for Goal 1 consist of three measures; however, these are not exhaustive and do not preclude additional actions that contribute to the achievement of the goal: 1. Strengthen climate-smart agri-food systems by promoting productive diversification—with a gender-sensitive approach—as well as the conservation and recovery of genetic resources and the use of nature-based solutions. 2. Foster and implement actions that promote the resilience of agricultural and livestock systems—such as rainwater harvesting and storage systems, and community-based irrigation—within rural and indigenous-peasant territories. 3. Drive a circular bioeconomy for rural and indigenous-peasant families through the development of sustainable value chains. Strategic Linkages and Synergies: This goal contributes to the following SDGs: End Poverty (SDG 1.5), Food Security (SDGs 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5), Sustainable Economic Growth (SDGs 8.2 and 8.5), Climate Action (SDG 13.1), and Gender Equality (SDG 5). It also links with the UNCCD, aligning with Article 2 (Objective 2), Article 5 (subparagraph d), and Article 10 (paragraphs 2.f and 3.c, d, e). Similarly, it relates to the CBD—specifically Articles 6 (subparagraph b), 8 (c, e, j), 10 (c, d), 12 (a), 13 (a), and 18 (1)—which reinforce conservation, sustainable use, education, research, and technical and scientific cooperation. |
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 6.4.3 Meta 3: Ganadería sostenible y regenerativa Meta 3: Hasta 2035, se adoptarán tecnologías y prácticas de ganadería sostenible y regenerativa en al menos 155 mil hectáreas de unidades productivas agropecuarias, contribuyendo a la mitigación y adaptación del cambio climático, a través, de la reducción, captura y fijación de emisiones de GEI en al menos 58 millones de toneladas de CO₂-eq. Descripción: Se prevé el escalamiento de prácticas de producción sostenible y regenerativas (que incluyen prácticas libres de fuego y libres de deforestación, etc.) que restauren la salud del suelo y mejoren la productividad de los sistemas ganaderos contribuyendo a la reducción de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero. Las intervenciones comprenden la implementación de sistemas silvopastoriles, agrosilvopastoriles, corredores de sombra, el uso de biodigestores, la restauración y rehabilitación de áreas degradadas. Asimismo, se fomentará la implementación de infraestructura y tecnología adaptativa, sistemas de captación y almacenamiento evitando la contaminación de fuentes de agua, conservación de forrajes, manejo sanitario, el mejoramiento genético y la alimentación eficiente. Este enfoque contribuirá a reducir emisiones de GEI (ej. metano y óxido nitroso), aumentar la captura de carbono, consolidar sistemas de producción ganadera resiliente y competitiva, mejorar la capacidad de respuesta de los productores, proteger los medios de vida rurales y asegurar la sostenibilidad de la actividad ganadera frente a los desafíos climáticos. (...) Principales acciones de la Meta 3: Las principales acciones previstas para la Meta 3, son tres, la primera y segunda acción son de carácter de mitigación y la tercera es de adaptación, conforme se presenta a continuación. 1. Establecer sistemas silvopastoriles y agrosilvopastoriles para incrementar la productividad y captura y fijación de carbono, articulados a la Planificación Climática Integrada. 2. Restaurar áreas ganaderas en proceso de degradación mediante sistemas de producción integrados y el establecimiento y mejoramiento de forrajes con soluciones adaptativas. 3. Fortalecer la resiliencia climática de los sistemas ganaderos de pequeña, mediana y gran escala mediante prácticas regenerativas climáticamente inteligentes, infraestructura adaptativa, sistemas de captación y almacenamiento de agua, conservación de forraje y manejo de la alimentación y sanitario con enfoque de género intergeneracional e inclusión. Articulaciones estratégicas y sinergias: La Meta 3 se articula con múltiples Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), en particular con la seguridad alimentaria (ODS 2: metas 2.3, 2.4, 2.5), crecimiento económico sostenible (ODS 8: metas 8.2 y 8.5), infraestructura resiliente (ODS 9: meta 9.1), producción y consumo sostenibles (ODS 12: metas 12.2 y 12.5) y acción climática (ODS 13: metas 13.1 y 13.3). También incorpora de forma transversal el enfoque de igualdad de género (ODS 5). (...) // 6.4.3 Goal 3: Sustainable and Regenerative Livestock Farming Goal 3: By 2035, sustainable and regenerative livestock farming technologies and practices will be adopted across at least 155,000 hectares of agricultural production units, contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation through the reduction, capture, and sequestration of GHG emissions totaling at least 58 million tons of CO₂-eq. Description: The scaling up of sustainable and regenerative production practices (including fire-free and deforestation-free practices, among others) is envisaged; these practices aim to restore soil health and enhance the productivity of livestock systems, thereby contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The interventions encompass the implementation of silvopastoral and agrosilvopastoral systems, shade corridors, the use of biodigesters, and the restoration and rehabilitation of degraded areas. Furthermore, the implementation of adaptive infrastructure and technology, water harvesting and storage systems (designed to prevent the contamination of water sources), forage conservation, animal health management, genetic improvement, and efficient feeding practices will be promoted. This approach will contribute to reducing GHG emissions (e.g., methane and nitrous oxide), increasing carbon capture, consolidating resilient and competitive livestock production systems, enhancing producers' response capacity, protecting rural livelihoods, and ensuring the sustainability of livestock farming activities in the face of climate challenges. (...) Key Actions for Goal 3: The key actions envisaged for Goal 3 consist of three measures: the first and second actions are mitigation-oriented, while the third is adaptation-oriented, as outlined below. 1. Establish silvopastoral and agrosilvopastoral systems to increase productivity as well as carbon capture and sequestration, integrated within the framework of Integrated Climate Planning. 2. Restore livestock areas undergoing degradation through integrated production systems, as well as through the establishment and improvement of forage resources using adaptive solutions. 3. Strengthen the climate resilience of small-, medium-, and large-scale livestock systems through climate-smart regenerative practices, adaptive infrastructure, water harvesting and storage systems, forage conservation, and feed and health management, applying a gender-sensitive, intergenerational, and inclusive approach. Strategic Linkages and Synergies: Goal 3 aligns with multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—specifically food security (SDG 2: targets 2.3, 2.4, 2.5), sustainable economic growth (SDG 8: targets 8.2 and 8.5), resilient infrastructure (SDG 9: target 9.1), sustainable production and consumption (SDG 12: targets 12.2 and 12.5), and climate action (SDG 13: targets 13.1 and 13.3). It also integrates a gender equality perspective (SDG 5) as a cross-cutting theme. (...) |
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Cross-cutting | Agriculture |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 6.4.4 Meta 4: Sistemas de Producción Resilientes, productos no maderables Meta 4: Hasta 2035, se innovará y tecnificará el aprovechamiento sostenible e integral de al menos 2,5 millones de hectáreas de bosque, en las que se realiza la recolección y aprovechamiento de productos no maderables, con enfoque de soluciones adaptativas y bioeconomía, contribuyendo de esta manera al fortalecimiento de los medios de vida de pueblos y naciones indígenas originarios campesinos bajo en emisiones y libres de deforestación. Descripción: Se contempla promover la producción, conservación y protección de extensas áreas de recolección de productos forestales no maderables y sistemas productivos sostenibles (ej. frutos del bosque) que promuevan la bioeconomía circular y contribuyan a evitar la deforestación, y la captura de carbono en territorios de la Amazonia y Chiquitanía, entre otros. Se impulsarán prácticas de manejo y conservación, agroforestales, certificación orgánica, verde y climática; conservación de biodiversidad, fortalecimiento de cadenas de valor inclusivas, con soluciones basadas en la naturaleza y con GISB. Asimismo, se contarán con planes de vida y/o planes de ordenamiento predial y/o planes de gestión territorial indígena y/o planes de gestión integral de bosques y tierras. Esta meta tiene estrecha relación con las metas del sector bosques, siendo complementarias y no generan doble contabilidad, debido a los roles diferenciados de las instituciones, existiendo un solo registro de permisos de planes de manejo. Principales acciones de la Meta 4: Las acciones previstas para la Meta 4, son dos, la primera acción es de carácter de mitigación y la segunda es de adaptación, descritas a continuación. 1. Fortalecer los sistemas naturales para recolección y sistemas productivos resilientes que contribuyen a la fijación y captura de carbono. 2. Fomentar cadenas de valor en la recolección y aprovechamiento sostenible de productos forestales no maderables, generando bioeconomía y valor agregado con participación activa de pueblos indígenas originarios y enfoque de género y generacional, fortaleciendo sus medios de vida. Articulaciones estratégicas y sinergias: La Meta 4 se vincula con los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) relacionados con la reducción de la pobreza (ODS 1: meta 1.4), seguridad alimentaria (ODS 2: metas 2.3, 2.4, 2.5), crecimiento económico inclusivo (ODS 8: meta 8.5), producción sostenible (ODS 12: meta 12.2), acción climática (ODS 13: meta 13.1), y conservación de ecosistemas terrestres (ODS 15: metas 15.1, 15.5 y 15.9). De manera transversal, la meta también contribuye al ODS 5 sobre igualdad de género y empoderamiento de las mujeres.(...) // 6.4.4 Goal 4: Resilient Production Systems, Non-Timber Products Goal 4: By 2035, the sustainable and comprehensive utilization of at least 2.5 million hectares of forest—where the collection and harvesting of non-timber products take place—will be innovated and technologically enhanced. This effort will employ an approach centered on adaptive solutions and bioeconomy, thereby contributing to the strengthening of the livelihoods of indigenous peoples, native nations, and peasant communities in a manner that is low-emission and deforestation-free. Description: The objective is to promote the production, conservation, and protection of extensive areas dedicated to the collection of non-timber forest products, as well as sustainable production systems (e.g., forest fruits) that foster a circular bioeconomy and contribute to preventing deforestation and facilitating carbon sequestration in territories within the Amazon and Chiquitanía regions, among others. Practices related to management and conservation, agroforestry, and organic, "green," and climate certification will be promoted, alongside biodiversity conservation and the strengthening of inclusive value chains, utilizing nature-based solutions and the GISB (Global Standard for Nature-Based Solutions). Furthermore, the initiative will be supported by the implementation of "life plans" (planes de vida), property management plans, indigenous territorial management plans, and/or integrated forest and land management plans. This goal is closely linked to the goals of the forestry sector; they are complementary and do not result in double counting, given the distinct roles of the various institutions involved and the existence of a single centralized registry for management plan permits. Main Actions for Goal 4: Two actions are envisaged for Goal 4: the first is focused on mitigation, and the second on adaptation, as described below: 1. Strengthen natural systems for collection, as well as resilient production systems, that contribute to carbon fixation and sequestration. 2. Foster value chains for the collection and sustainable utilization of non-timber forest products, thereby generating bioeconomic activity and added value through the active participation of indigenous peoples and native nations, while incorporating a gender and intergenerational perspective to strengthen their livelihoods. Strategic Linkages and Synergies: Target 4 is linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to poverty reduction (SDG 1: Target 1.4), food security (SDG 2: Targets 2.3, 2.4, 2.5), inclusive economic growth (SDG 8: Target 8.5), sustainable production (SDG 12: Target 12.2), climate action (SDG 13: Target 13.1), and the conservation of terrestrial ecosystems (SDG 15: Targets 15.1, 15.5, and 15.9). In a cross-cutting manner, the target also contributes to SDG 5 on gender equality and women's empowerment. (...) |
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| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 7.4.1 Meta 1: Valorización de residuos sólidos (Mitigación) Meta 1: Hasta 2035, se incrementará progresivamente la valorización de residuos sólidos municipales en Bolivia, alcanzando al menos el 25 % del total generado, mediante el escalamiento de estrategias de reciclaje inclusivo, compostaje, co-procesamiento y aprovechamiento energético. Descripción: La valorización de residuos es una estrategia clave para reducir emisiones de metano y avanzar hacia un modelo de economía circular. Actualmente, Bolivia valoriza menos del 8 % de sus residuos sólidos municipales. Esta meta tiene como objetivo aumentar esa proporción al 25 % para 2035, mediante la promoción de prácticas de reciclaje con inclusión social, compostaje a escala urbana y periurbana, integración del co-procesamiento en hornos cementeros y desarrollo de tecnologías de aprovechamiento energético. Las proyecciones al 2035 estiman alcanzar más de 581.458,00 t/año de valorización orgánica y más de 531.072 t/año de valorización inorgánica. El cumplimiento de esta meta está condicionado en un 80 % a la movilización de recursos financieros de cooperación internacional, banca de desarrollo y fondos climáticos. Su implementación tendrá beneficios en reducción de emisiones, empleo verde, formalización del reciclaje y transición justa (MMAyA, 2025). (...) Principales acciones de la meta 1: Ampliar la cobertura de recolección diferenciada en al menos 30 municipios, priorizando zonas urbanas. 1. Establecer plataformas de reciclaje inclusivo con asociaciones de recicladores de base formalizadas. 2. Construir e implementar plantas de compostaje urbano y comunitario con cadenas de comercialización de abono. 3. Integrar residuos no reciclables al sistema de co-procesamiento en hornos cementeros autorizados. 4. Desarrollar proyectos piloto de valorización energética mediante biodigestores y otras tecnologías. 5. Articular estas acciones a programas existentes. Articulaciones estratégicas y sinergias Esta meta contribuye al cumplimiento de los ODS 8 (trabajo decente), ODS 11 (ciudades sostenibles), ODS 12 (producción y consumo responsables) y ODS 13 (acción por el clima). Además, se vincula con la Estrategia Nacional de Economía Circular, el régimen de Responsabilidad Extendida del Productor, el Plan Nacional de Rellenos Sanitarios, y con instrumentos internacionales como el Acuerdo de París al fomentar prácticas de resiliencia urbana, inclusión social y reducción de emisiones // 7.4.1 Goal 1: Solid Waste Valorization (Mitigation) Goal 1: By 2035, the valorization of municipal solid waste in Bolivia will be progressively increased, reaching at least 25% of the total generated, through the scaling up of strategies for inclusive recycling, composting, co-processing, and energy recovery. Description: Waste valorization is a key strategy for reducing methane emissions and advancing toward a circular economy model. Currently, Bolivia valorizes less than 8% of its municipal solid waste. This goal aims to increase that proportion to 25% by 2035 through the promotion of socially inclusive recycling practices, urban and peri-urban scale composting, the integration of co-processing in cement kilns, and the development of energy recovery technologies. Projections for 2035 estimate reaching over 581,458.00 t/year of organic valorization and over 531,072 t/year of inorganic valorization. The achievement of this goal is 80% conditional upon the mobilization of financial resources from international cooperation, development banks, and climate funds. Its implementation will yield benefits in terms of emissions reduction, green employment, the formalization of recycling activities, and a just transition (MMAyA, 2025). (...) Main Actions for Goal 1: Expand the coverage of segregated waste collection in at least 30 municipalities, prioritizing urban areas. 1. Establish inclusive recycling platforms involving formalized associations of grassroots recyclers. 2. Construct and implement urban and community-scale composting plants, including commercialization chains for the resulting compost. 3. Integrate non-recyclable waste into the co-processing system within authorized cement kilns. 4. Develop pilot projects for energy recovery using biodigesters and other technologies. 5. Integrate these actions into existing programs. Strategic Linkages and Synergies This goal contributes to the achievement of SDG 8 (Decent Work), SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities), SDG 12 (Responsible Production and Consumption), and SDG 13 (Climate Action). Furthermore, it aligns with the National Circular Economy Strategy, the Extended Producer Responsibility framework, and the National Landfill Plan, as well as with international instruments—such as the Paris Agreement—by fostering practices related to urban resilience, social inclusion, and emissions reduction. **Women are overrepresented amongst waste workers in Bolivia and are therefore likely to disproportionately benefit from measures seeking to formalize the sector. |
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| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 8.4 Enfoques transversales identificados por el sector Tabla 49. Enfoques transversales priorizados Enfoque transversal: Género e igualdad Descripción de cómo se incorpora: Asegurar que los comités de cuenca, los usuarios de riego organizados y los gobiernos municipales incluyan una representación equitativa de mujeres, especialmente de mujeres indígenas, en la elaboración e implementación de los planes de gestión (Meta 2) y en las acciones de gestión del riesgo (Meta 6). Las medidas de eficiencia (Meta 7 y Meta 8) deben reducir la carga de tiempo que recae sobre las mujeres para acarrear agua; por ejemplo, mediante tecnologías de riego y sistemas de distribución que acerquen el recurso a las viviendas. En la formulación de indicadores, desagregar datos por sexo y pertenencia indígena permitirá monitorear la reducción de brechas; por ejemplo, medir el porcentaje de mujeres e indígenas en comités de gestión o la reducción del tiempo dedicado al acarreo de agua. (...) 8.3.2 Meta 2: Planes de gestión de recursos hídricos en implementación Meta 2: Hasta 2035, se contará con 102 planes de gestión de recursos hídricos en implementación, integrando enfoques de adaptación al cambio climático. Descripción: Esta meta busca fortalecer la gestión de los recursos hídricos mediante la aplicación de herramientas técnicas, normativas y de planificación que consideren el ciclo hidrológico y su interacción con los ecosistemas y usos productivos, reconociendo al agua como un recurso estratégico y de bien común. Los instrumentos o herramientas técnicas pueden incluir planes directores de cuenca, estrategias de planificación hídrica por cuencas, planes de gestión de agua subterránea, planes de manejo en áreas protegidas y humedales, y planes maestros; además de fortalecer los mecanismos de gobernanza participativa. La articulación intersectorial será clave para integrar la gestión del agua con otros sectores estratégicos como la agricultura, energía, salud, planificación territorial y conservación ambiental, reconociendo las funciones ambientales y la importancia de la gestión de riesgos hidrológicos o que afecten la hidrología para de esta manera sentar bases para una gestión sostenible, equitativa y resiliente contribuyendo a la conservación de los ecosistemas, la seguridad hídrica, seguridad alimentaria y el desarrollo sostenible a nivel local, regional y nacional. (...) Principales acciones de la meta 2. 1. Desarrollar e implementar planes de gestión de aguas subterráneas con criterios de sostenibilidad y adaptación al cambio climático. 2. Formular e implementar planes de gestión de cuencas de agua superficial, incorporando enfoques de adaptación y uso sostenible. 3. Elaborar planes de gestión de agua potable y saneamiento básico con enfoque de resiliencia frente al cambio climático. 4. Desarrollar planes de gestión en sitios RAMSAR, integrando criterios de adaptación climática y conservación hídrica. 5. Formular planes de gestión en áreas protegidas, articulando recursos hídricos y cambio climático para un manejo sostenible del territorio. (...) 8.3.6 Meta 6: Volumen de agua residual tratada en forma eficiente Meta 6: Hasta el 2035, se adicionará al menos 19 millones de m3/año de agua residual tratada que cumple con los límites permisibles para descargas líquidas (DBO5, DQO y SST) según el anexo A-2 del RMCH, mediante el fortalecimiento de la capacidad de operación y mantenimiento, y la construcción de nuevas Plantas de Tratamiento de Aguas Residuales Descripción: El tratamiento de las aguas residuales domésticas tiene como objetivo básico transformar el agua residual bruta en un efluente tratado, que cumpla la legislación vigente que permite su vertido, con un mínimo costo económico y ambiental. El indicador propuesto para la NDC 3.0 considera la medición de los parámetros DBO5, DQO y SST según el anexo A-2 del RMCH con el fin de reducir el problema de contaminación del agua dulce. (...) Principales acciones de la meta 6 1. Operación y mantenimiento de las PTAR. 2. Mejoramiento, ampliación y/o rehabilitación de PTAR. 3. Monitoreo de los parámetros de calidad de aguas residuales. 4. Construcción de nuevas PTAR. // 8.4 Cross-cutting Approaches Identified by the Sector Table 49. Prioritized Cross-cutting Approaches Cross-cutting Approach: Gender and Equality Description of how it is incorporated: Ensure that basin committees, organized irrigation users, and municipal governments include equitable representation of women—especially indigenous women—in the development and implementation of management plans (Goal 2) and in risk management actions (Goal 6). Efficiency measures (Goal 7 and Goal 8) must reduce the time burden placed on women for water hauling; for example, through irrigation technologies and distribution systems that bring the resource closer to households. In the formulation of indicators, disaggregating data by sex and indigenous status will allow for the monitoring of gap reduction; for instance, by measuring the percentage of women and indigenous people in management committees or the reduction in time spent on water hauling. (...) 8.3.2 Goal 2: Water Resources Management Plans Under Implementation Goal 2: By 2035, 102 water resources management plans will be under implementation, integrating climate change adaptation approaches. Description: This goal seeks to strengthen water resources management through the application of technical, regulatory, and planning tools that take into account the hydrological cycle and its interaction with ecosystems and productive uses, recognizing water as a strategic resource and a common good. Technical instruments or tools may include basin master plans, basin-level water planning strategies, groundwater management plans, management plans for protected areas and wetlands, and master plans; in addition to strengthening participatory governance mechanisms. Intersectoral coordination will be key to integrating water management with other strategic sectors—such as agriculture, energy, health, land-use planning, and environmental conservation—while recognizing environmental functions and the importance of managing hydrological risks (or risks affecting hydrology). This approach will lay the groundwork for sustainable, equitable, and resilient management, thereby contributing to ecosystem conservation, water security, food security, and sustainable development at the local, regional, and national levels. (...) Key Actions for Goal 2: 1. Develop and implement groundwater management plans incorporating criteria for sustainability and climate change adaptation. 2. Formulate and implement surface water basin management plans, integrating approaches focused on adaptation and sustainable use. 3. Develop drinking water and basic sanitation management plans with a focus on climate change resilience. 4. Develop management plans for Ramsar sites, integrating criteria for climate adaptation and water conservation. 5. Formulate management plans for protected areas, integrating water resources and climate change considerations to ensure sustainable land management. (...) 8.3.6 Goal 6: Volume of Wastewater Treated Efficiently | Goal 6: By 2035, at least 19 million m³/year of treated wastewater meeting the permissible limits for liquid discharges (BOD5, COD, and TSS)—as per Annex A-2 of the RMCH—will be added to the total volume, achieved through the strengthening of operation and maintenance capacity and the construction of new Wastewater Treatment Plants. Description: The basic objective of domestic wastewater treatment is to transform raw wastewater into a treated effluent that complies with current legislation regarding discharge, while incurring minimal economic and environmental costs. The indicator proposed for NDC 3.0 involves measuring the parameters BOD5, COD, and TSS—in accordance with Annex A-2 of the RMCH—with the aim of mitigating the problem of freshwater pollution. (...) Key Actions for Goal 6 1. Operation and maintenance of Wastewater Treatment Plants (PTARs). 2. Improvement, expansion, and/or rehabilitation of PTARs. 3. Monitoring of wastewater quality parameters. 4. Construction of new wastewater treatment plant |
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 8.4 Enfoques transversales identificados por el sector Tabla 49. Enfoques transversales priorizados Enfoque transversal: Género e igualdad Descripción de cómo se incorpora: Asegurar que los comités de cuenca, los usuarios de riego organizados y los gobiernos municipales incluyan una representación equitativa de mujeres, especialmente de mujeres indígenas, en la elaboración e implementación de los planes de gestión (Meta 2) y en las acciones de gestión del riesgo (Meta 6). Las medidas de eficiencia (Meta 7 y Meta 8) deben reducir la carga de tiempo que recae sobre las mujeres para acarrear agua; por ejemplo, mediante tecnologías de riego y sistemas de distribución que acerquen el recurso a las viviendas. En la formulación de indicadores, desagregar datos por sexo y pertenencia indígena permitirá monitorear la reducción de brechas; por ejemplo, medir el porcentaje de mujeres e indígenas en comités de gestión o la reducción del tiempo dedicado al acarreo de agua. (...) 8.3.7 Meta 7: Capacidad fortalecida ante riesgos hidrometeorológicos Meta 7: Hasta 2035, se habrá fortalecido la capacidad de resiliencia ante riesgos hidrometeorológicos en 92 municipios vulnerables, como contribución a la adaptación climática y resiliencia comunitaria. Descripción: Hasta 2035 se habrá fortalecido la capacidad de resiliencia para la gestión de riesgos hidrometeorológicos en 92 municipios vulnerables, mediante la identificación de amenazas y vulnerabilidades, la elaboración e implementación de planes municipales de gestión del riesgo con enfoque de adaptación al cambio climático, la instalación y operación de sistemas multi-amenaza de alerta temprana a escala comunitaria, la capacitación de funcionarios y líderes locales, y el fortalecimiento de los comités de gestión del riesgo. Estas acciones, coordinadas con los sistemas nacionales y departamentales, buscan reducir pérdidas humanas y económicas, mejorar la preparación y respuesta ante fenómenos como inundaciones y sequías y aumentar la resiliencia comunitaria ante los efectos del cambio climático. (...) Principales acciones de la meta 7. 1. Fortalecer capacidades municipales para sistemas de alerta temprana hidrometeorológica, mediante equipamiento, capacitación y articulación institucional. 2. Implementar acciones correctivas ante riesgo hidrológico mediante asistencia técnica y ejecución de medidas estructurales y no estructurales. (...) 8.3.8 Meta 8: Incremento de la superficie intervenida con tecnologías de uso eficiente Meta 8: Hasta 2035, se habrá incrementado la superficie intervenida con tecnologías de uso eficiente del agua en 653.981 hectáreas, como medida de adaptación y seguridad hídrica. Descripción: Hasta 2035 se habrá ampliado 653.981 hectáreas la superficie agrícola que incorpora infraestructura, prácticas y tecnologías para el uso eficiente del agua como medida de adaptación al cambio climático y fortalecimiento de la seguridad hídrica. Esta meta incluye la adopción de sistemas de riego tecnificado (por goteo, aspersión, micro‑riego), la modernización de redes de conducción y aplicación. Se pretende responder a la mayor variabilidad de las precipitaciones, el incremento de sequías y la reducción de la disponibilidad hídrica en cuencas críticas mediante la optimización del agua en la producción agrícola, reduciendo pérdidas en la conducción y aplicación y asegurando la sostenibilidad del recurso para los ecosistemas, la producción y el consumo humano. La intervención se priorizará en territorios con mayor estrés hídrico, promoviendo tecnologías de bajo costo adaptadas a contextos locales y formando a productores para garantizar su adopción. (...) Principales acciones de la meta 8. 1. Promover tecnologías de uso eficiente del agua en el sector riego como acción de adaptación y seguridad hídrica. // 8.4 Cross-cutting Approaches Identified by the Sector Table 49. Prioritized Cross-cutting Approaches Cross-cutting Approach: Gender and Equality Description of how it is incorporated: Ensure that basin committees, organized irrigation users, and municipal governments include equitable representation of women—especially indigenous women—in the development and implementation of management plans (Goal 2) and in risk management actions (Goal 6). Efficiency measures (Goal 7 and Goal 8) must reduce the time burden placed on women for water hauling; for example, through irrigation technologies and distribution systems that bring the resource closer to households. In the formulation of indicators, disaggregating data by sex and indigenous status will allow for the monitoring of gap reduction; for instance, by measuring the percentage of women and indigenous people in management committees or the reduction in time spent on water hauling. (...) 8.3.7 Goal 7: Strengthened Capacity to Address Hydrometeorological Risks Goal 7: By 2035, resilience capacity regarding hydrometeorological risks will have been strengthened in 92 vulnerable municipalities, contributing to climate adaptation and community resilience. Description: By 2035, resilience capacity for the management of hydrometeorological risks will have been strengthened in 92 vulnerable municipalities through the identification of threats and vulnerabilities; the development and implementation of municipal risk management plans with a climate change adaptation focus; the installation and operation of multi-hazard early warning systems at the community level; the training of officials and local leaders; and the strengthening of risk management committees. These actions, coordinated with national and departmental systems, seek to reduce human and economic losses, improve preparedness and response to phenomena such as floods and droughts, and increase community resilience to the effects of climate change. (...) Key Actions for Goal 7: 1. Strengthen municipal capacities for hydrometeorological early warning systems through the provision of equipment, training, and institutional coordination. 2. Implement corrective actions to address hydrological risks through technical assistance and the execution of structural and non-structural measures. (...) 8.3.8 Goal 8: Increase in the Area Covered by Efficient-Use Technologies. Goal 8: By 2035, the area covered by water-efficient technologies will have increased by 653,981 hectares, serving as a measure for adaptation and water security. Description: By 2035, the agricultural area incorporating infrastructure, practices, and technologies for the efficient use of water will have expanded by 653,981 hectares, serving as a measure for climate change adaptation and the strengthening of water security. This goal includes the adoption of modernized irrigation systems (drip, sprinkler, and micro-irrigation) and the modernization of water conveyance and application networks. The aim is to respond to increased precipitation variability, rising drought frequency, and reduced water availability in critical basins by optimizing water use in agricultural production—thereby reducing losses during conveyance and application—and by ensuring the sustainability of the resource for ecosystems, agricultural production, and human consumption. Intervention will be prioritized in territories experiencing the highest levels of water stress, promoting low-cost technologies adapted to local contexts and training producers to ensure their adoption. (...) Key actions for Goal 8: 1. Promote water-efficient technologies in the irrigation sector as an adaptation and water security measure. |
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Bolivia, Plurinational State of | 11.4 Mecanismos de coordinación La gobernanza de la NDC 3.0 se organiza bajo un enfoque interinstitucional, intergubernamental y multiactor. El MMAyA y la APMT lideran la implementación, en coordinación con el Ministerio de Planificación del Desarrollo (MPD), el Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas Públicas (MEFP) y los ministerios sectoriales (MDRyT, MHE y otros). El trabajo técnico se canaliza a través de siete mesas sectoriales (energía, recursos hídricos, bosques, agropecuario, residuos, transversales y financiamiento), responsables de la planificación, ejecución y monitoreo. La participación de sociedad civil, pueblos indígenas, organizaciones juveniles, plataformas de mujeres, academia y sector privado garantizará legitimidad, innovación y control social, fortaleciendo la apropiación nacional de la NDC 3.0. (...) 11.6 Prioridades a corto plazo y aumento de la ambición: Fortalecimiento del marco de transparencia mejorado Se consolidará el sistema nacional de Monitoreo, Reporte y Verificación (MRV) multisectorial, garantizando un seguimiento riguroso, transparente y oportuno de las metas de mitigación y adaptación. Esto incluye mejorar la recolección de datos primarios a nivel sectorial, desarrollar metodologías coherentes con las directrices del IPCC, e integrar indicadores de cobeneficios sociales, económicos y ambientales. La transparencia será fortalecida mediante informes públicos periódicos, que permitan la participación activa de la sociedad civil y el control social. // 11.4 Coordination Mechanisms The governance of NDC 3.0 is organized under an inter-institutional, intergovernmental, and multi-stakeholder approach. The MMAyA and the APMT lead the implementation, in coordination with the Ministry of Development Planning (MPD), the Ministry of Economy and Public Finance (MEFP), and the sectoral ministries (MDRyT, MHE, and others). Technical work is channeled through seven sectoral working groups (energy, water resources, forests, agriculture and livestock, waste, cross-cutting issues, and finance), which are responsible for planning, execution, and monitoring. The participation of civil society, indigenous peoples, youth organizations, women's platforms, academia, and the private sector will ensure legitimacy, innovation, and social oversight, thereby strengthening national ownership of NDC 3.0. (...) 11.6 Short-Term Priorities and Increased Ambition: Strengthening the Enhanced Transparency Framework The national multi-sectoral Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) system will be consolidated, ensuring rigorous, transparent, and timely tracking of mitigation and adaptation targets. This includes improving primary data collection at the sectoral level, developing methodologies consistent with IPCC guidelines, and integrating indicators for social, economic, and environmental co-benefits. Transparency will be strengthened through periodic public reports, which will facilitate the active participation of civil society and social oversight. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Botswana | Annex 1: Adaptation measures and baseline targets: Crops Adaptation measure: Conservation agriculture, with a specific focus on those living in poverty, and female-headed households Indicators: Number of farmers practising conservation agriculture; Chemical use in the farming sector Baseline: 0 (not conclusive); <5% Target: 70% of farmers practise conservation agriculture; 25% decline in chemicals use |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Botswana | Annex 1: Adaptation measures and baseline targets: Crops Adaptation measure: Drought tolerant crops Indicators: % drought-tolerant seeds distributed Baseline: TBD 100% Target: 50% of smallholder farmers and 75% of commercial farmers **Women are likely to benefit from economic measures targeting smallholder farmers because they make up a large share of this group and rely on small-scale farming for income and household food security. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Botswana | Annex 1: Adaptation measures and baseline targets: Health Adaptation measure: Establish health-specific emergency response programs, particularly those that target women, children and the elderly, as well as those living in poverty Indicators: Number of women and children under reproductive scheme Baseline: N/A Target: 100% of families with access to health-specific emergency response programs, per year, age, sex and vulnerable group |
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| Botswana | Annex 1: Adaptation measures and baseline targets: Health Adaptation measure: Expand water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programmes at national scale Indicators: % population with improved sanitation Baseline: 89.2% Target: 95% of all the citizens with access to improved sanitation **Due to the near-universal target of 95% access to improved sanitation, women will benefit from this measure. |
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| Botswana | Annex 1: Adaptation measures and baseline targets: Health Adaptation measure: Improve health management information systems to incorporate indicators of climate stress linked to major health impacts, including those related to reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health. Indicators: Operationalised national health information system. Baseline: N/A Target: 1 national operational health management information system |
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| Botswana | Annex 1: Adaptation measures and baseline targets: Health Adaptation measure: Prioritise protection of women’s sexual and reproductive health under unstable and changing climate conditions. Indicators: Number of women and children under the reproductive scheme Baseline: N/A Target: 100% of women with access to reproductive health programmes |
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| Brazil | The Pact for Ecological Transformation among the three branches of the Brazilian State In an unprecedented initiative, the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches have established the Pact for Ecological Transformation between the three branches of the Brazilian State. The Pact is a clear demonstration that Brazil’s vision of ecological transformation is a long-term State commitment. Established by Decree 12.223, of October 14, 2024, the instrument represents a commitment among the three branches to act harmoniously and cooperatively to adopt a set of actions and measures aimed at the objectives of (i) ecological sustainability; (ii) sustainable economic development; (iii) social, environmental and climate justice; (iv) consideration of the rights of children and future generations; and (v) resilience to extreme climate events. ** The Decree that establishes the “Pact for Ecological Transformation” among Brazil’s three branches of government, and its Executive Committee tasked with implementation and operational oversight, explicitly mandates that "the composition of the Executive Committee shall observe gender parity and ethnic‑racial diversity", ensuring each branch appoints at least one self-declared Black, Brown, or Indigenous individual for each member and their alternate in Article 5.3. |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Brazil | Planning and Implementation: Whole-of-government, whole-of-society, whole-of-economy: Mitigation Guidelines, Objectives and Priorities (...) The national mitigation strategy will be accompanied by seven sectoral plans, which define actions, targets, implementation costs, means of financing, monitoring and evaluation. In the land use and forestry sector, Brazil will implement coordinated and continuous efforts to suppress illegal deforestation and increasingly encourage the preservation of native vegetation; this will require not only strengthening command and control measures, but also establishing positive incentives to make it economically advantageous to maintain and restore native vegetation on private rural properties; the restoration of native vegetation is a fundamental driver of this strategy, and restoration consists of nature-based removals that will allow the goal of net zero emissions by 2050 to be achieved; among relevant instruments for implementing actions related to land use and forests are the Plans for the Prevention and Control of Deforestation in the Biomes—including the Legal Amazon (PPCDAm) and Cerrado (PPCerrado)—and the National Plan for the Recovery of Native Vegetation (Planaveg), which may be supported by payment of environmental services, carbon markets and other economic instruments. **Gender is integrated into several draft plans related to enabling women's employment and capacity building in the land use and forestry sector. |
Gender mainstreaming
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| Brazil | Planning and Implementation: Whole-of-government, whole-of-society, whole-of-economy: Mitigation Guidelines, Objectives and Priorities (...) The national mitigation strategy will be accompanied by seven sectoral plans, which define actions, targets, implementation costs, means of financing, monitoring and evaluation. (...) In the agricultural sector, Brazil will continue to demonstrate that it is possible to sustainably expand agricultural production while guaranteeing food security and energy security through the sustainable production of biofuels. In doing so, the country will rely on two fundamental transformations: (i) the conversion of new areas primarily from degraded pastures whilst expanding the area of crops in integrated systems such as crop-livestock and crop-livestock- forest integration, and (ii) productivity gains in agricultural production systems, through greater migration to integrated systems and an increase in high productivity systems. In the agricultural sector, Brazil will implement the Plan for Adaptation to Climate Change and Low Carbon Emissions in Agriculture (ABC+ Plan), as well as other instruments such as the National Program for Strengthening Family Farming (Pronaf), the Bioeconomy Brazil Socio-biodiversity Program and the National Bio-inputs Program and the National Program for the Conversion of Degraded Pastures into Sustainable Agricultural and Forestry Production Systems (PNCPD), a new initiative that aims to convert low productivity pastures into agricultural areas over ten years. **Women's considerations are mainstreamed into mitigation policies in the agricultural sector. For instance, the PRONAF programme expands and subsidizes access to bank credit for small scale producers. Through this programme, rural women had wider access to investment lines, particularly through a special line for women (Pronaf Mulher). |
Economic security
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| Brazil | Planning and Implementation: Whole-of-government, whole-of-society, whole-of-economy: Mitigation Guidelines, Objectives and Priorities (...) The national mitigation strategy will be accompanied by seven sectoral plans, which define actions, targets, implementation costs, means of financing, monitoring and evaluation. (...) Furthermore, integrating sustainable urban development actions with nature-based solutions is a fundamental aspect of increasing the potential for greenhouse gas removals in Brazilian cities. Existing public policy instruments focus on modal shift towards public transportation and active mobility, as well as on promoting integrated and sustainable urban planning, such as the Green and Resilient Cities Plan. **The Green and Resilient Cities Plan requires the project be designed with diversity of gender, race, ethnicity, age, disability, income and location in mind. It highlights special attention to vulnerable urban communities, especially in peripheral neighborhoods, ensuring that gender and other diversity lenses are part of its justice-oriented, socio-environmental strategy. |
Unpaid care work
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| Brazil | Incentives and Means of Implementation: NDC as an investment platform: Ecological Transformation Plan As an investment plan for Brazil’s sustainable development, the Ecological Transformation Plan (ETP) will restructure the national economic dynamic to promote sustainable development, based on technological innovation and the rational use of natural resources. Supporting the implementation of the Climate Plan, the ETP will respond to mitigation and adaptation needs in the face of the climate crisis while repositioning the Brazilian economy in a new cycle of low- carbon economic growth. The Plan will increase economic productivity by generating decent work, promoting climate justice and reducing regional, gender and racial inequalities. Actions envisaged in the ETP will encourage and support the development and incorporation of new technologies into production processes, especially in the strategic sectors for the transition to a green economy, in line with sectoral mitigation and adaptation plans under the National Climate Plan. The country will make use of its environmental and sustainability comparative advantages to promote technological densification of supply chains, as well as to expand and modernize the national production structure. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Brazil | Clarity, Transparency and Understanding. ii. Contextual matters. a. National circumstances. Eradicating poverty In line with the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs, Brazil believes that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge, without which there can be no sustainable development. Committed to fighting the problem, Brazil has relaunched the Bolsa Familia Program at home and launched the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty at the international level. The Alliance will take concrete steps to integrate a set of established domestic public policy instruments that have proven successful in developing countries, including targeted cash transfers, school lunch programs, support for family farming and social security mechanisms. The program is open to all countries, which will have access to technical cooperation and financial resources, as well as international organizations, knowledge centers, development banks and funds, and philanthropic institutions. The Alliance represents Brazil’s commitment to reversing setbacks in the achievement of SDG 1 (“poverty eradication”) and SDG 2 (“zero hunger and sustainable agriculture”). Given their universal and comprehensive nature, the SDGs interact with the main global challenges: from the fight against poverty and hunger to combating climate change, including economic growth, gender equality and the promotion of equality. Brazil is fully committed to the realization of the 2030 Agenda through the multidimensional perspective that the implementation of the SDGs requires. **The Bolsa Familia Program is a conditional cash transfer that prioritizes women as household beneficiaries and also provides top-up benefits for women-headed households. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Brazil | Clarity, Transparency and Understanding. ii. Contextual matters. c. Other contextual aspirations and priorities acknowledged when joining the Paris Agreement. Energy transition Although it is very close to guaranteeing universal access to electricity, mainly through the Light for All Program, for its population (reaching 99.8% of the Brazilian population by 2022), Brazil still faces pressing challenges in promoting access to clean technologies for cooking food (with around 6.7% of the country’s population still using firewood and other rudimentary methods in 2022), with considerable regional levels of inequality still being recorded in the country. To address this issue, Brazil has proposed the creation of the LPG for All Program (Bill No. 3.335/2024), which aims to guarantee access to LPG cylinders for more than 20 million families in the coming years.' **Expanding access to clean cooking technology is likely to benefit women by easing unpaid care workloads and improving health through safer, more sustainable cooking and energy solutions. |
Unpaid care work
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Brazil | Planning and Implementation: Whole-of-government, whole-of-society, whole-of-economy To implement its NDC, Brazil will rely on its national process of updating the National Plan on Climate Change (Climate Plan). Aligned with the Pact for Ecological Transformation between the three branches of the Brazilian State, the Climate Plan will take a central role in the coordination of policies and measures related to both mitigation and adaptation, while systematizing the ways to achieve Brazil’s commitments to the UNFCCC and its Paris Agreement, in line with national objectives of sustainable development with social, environmental and climate justice. Defined by the Interministerial Committee on Climate Change, Brazil´s highest climate governance body, CIM, via Resolution 3 of September 14, 2023, the new Climate Plan will include: the “National Adaptation Strategy”, with sixteen sectoral adaptation plans; the “National Mitigation Strategy”, with seven sectoral mitigation plans; and a “Transversal Strategy”, covering the following themes common to both adaptation and mitigation: (i) Just Transition; (ii) Socio-environmental Impacts; (iii) Means of Implementation; (iv) Education, Training, Research, Development and Innovation Capacity; and (v) Monitoring, Management, Evaluation and Transparency. The ongoing Climate Plan update is being been informed by robust scientific knowledge and broad intersectoral and government-society dialogue, with comprehensive participation by government agencies at different levels of government, the private sector, civil society and the scientific community. (p.10) National Adaptation Guidelines and Objectives The National Adaptation Strategy contains the guidelines for the design and implementation of adaptation actions at the federal, state and municipal levels: 1. promoting sustainable development in its many dimensions, considering strategic sectors and themes for the country, with a view to reducing inequalities and to a just transition; 2. promoting climate justice based on the dimensions of gender, race, ethnicity, age, social class and other factors that influence vulnerability; 3. promoting environmental protection, conservation and preservation, guided by the principles of precaution and prevention; 4. multilevel and transversal governance, with a view to coherence, synergy and complementarity between strategies, taking into account territorial specificities; 5. promoting transparency and participatory processes with society; 6. mainstreaming adaptation into policies, programs and projects that may be affected by climate change, including through structuring initiatives and a long-term perspective; 7. strengthening institutional capacities at the different levels of government, including those needed to access sources of funding for adaptation and other means of implementation; 8. promoting co-benefits between adaptation and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions; 9. adoption of the best available knowledge, based on science, good sectoral and societal practices, traditional knowledge and other sources deemed appropriate; 10. integrating incremental and transformational actions, based on an understanding of climate-related risks and their multiple conditioning factors, with different time horizons and scales of execution; 11. promoting public awareness of climate change, its causes, consequences and approaches to risks reduction; 12. adopting Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA) approaches, recognizing their potential to reduce climate risks and vulnerabilities in a systemic, flexible, socially just and cost-effective way, with mitigation co-benefits; 13. flexibility and adaptability of strategies, with context changes and revisions to the Plan to incorporate updates to the information and knowledge generated, as well as lessons learned. (p.11-12) (...) Based on these guidelines, sixteen sectoral and thematic adaptation plans are being developed, incorporating awareness-raising, training and conceptual alignment actions on topics such as EbA, climate emergency, human mobility and climate justice. The plans are as follows: (i) agriculture and livestock; (ii) family farming; (iii) biodiversity; (iv) cities; (v) risk and disaster management; (vi) industry; (vii) energy; (viii) transportation; (ix) racial equality and combating racism; (x) traditional peoples and communities; (xi) indigenous peoples; (xii) water resources; (xiii) health; (xiv) food and nutritional security; (xv) ocean and coastal zone; and (xvi) tourism. The sectoral plans are being developed under the leadership of the ministries responsible for the respective agendas, covering five chapters: context, with a description of the importance of adaptation and the institutional arrangements for each sector/theme; a summary of the main impacts, risks and vulnerabilities associated with climate change; objectives, targets and actions linked to the national adaptation objectives, with identification of funding sources; a description of the drafting process, the players involved and responsibilities for implementing the plan; and the lessons learned, good practices and barriers identified in the process, with recommendations for the implementation phase and the plan’s review cycles. (p.12) **Gender is integrated in draft documents developed as part of the Climate Plan, including the draft national mitigation strategy and all seven of the draft sectoral mitigation plans. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Cambodia | 8. Monitoring and Evaluation: Governance, Means of Implementation, Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) and Transparency: 8.2. Costing and Financing Strategy: Role of Climate Funds and Blended Finance (...) Cambodia should explicitly articulate its intent to access the newly operational Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), positioning this mechanism as a core source of support to address both economic and non-economic climate-related impacts. A key first step is the development of a national loss and damage needs assessment, quantifying impacts such as flood-related infrastructure damage, salinization of agricultural lands, loss of cultural heritage and displacement in low-lying areas. For instance, Cambodia’s annual average flood-related damages are estimated at the range of USD 100-170 million (UNDRR-supported Disaster Risk Finance Country Diagnostic), a figure that underscores the relevance of FRLD interventions. The assessment should directly link with NDC 3.0 priorities, making the case for scaling up ongoing efforts such as mangrove restoration, nature-based flood control infrastructure, and local relocation schemes. Proposals should aim to demonstrate blended finance structures - such as 70% L&DF contribution combined with 30% domestic resources or co-financing from climate funds like the GCF - to improve their attractiveness and scalability. All interventions must include basic but robust monitoring frameworks, with indicators such as number of hectares protected, the percentage reduction in livelihood losses, or number of households benefiting from risk reduction measures. **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. |
Economic security
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy: 1. Increase the share of RE-installed capacity to 72% by 2035 (conditionally to 80% by 2035) The measure focuses on scaling up utility-scale solar, wind, biomass, hydro, and pumped hydro storage, while also promoting grid modernization to enhance energy efficiency and reliability. This transition will be implemented in two key phases: 70% RE by 2030, followed by a further increase to 72% by 2035, ensuring a gradual yet decisive shift away from fossil fuel dependency in the power sector. A core element of this plan is the prioritization of modern RE technologies, particularly solar and wind, to diversify Cambodia's energy mix and maximize sustainability. CO-BENEFITS: -Energy security, reduced reliance on imported fuels, job creation, and rural electrification. -Position the country as a regional leader in clean energy, attracting green investments and fostering innovation. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Targeted training to increase women's participation in solar/wind careers, tracking women in senior roles (baseline 2021: 21.5%) and sectoral employment (baseline 18% (EDC), 27% (EAC). - Implement pro-poor tariffs and support community-owned REprojects and reskilling workers, create alternative livelihoods for communities affected by coal phase-outs. MME (lead) WITH EAC, EDC BASELINE INDICATOR: Installed Capacity 2020 (MW)/Share % in 2020 Hydro/1329.7/33% Pump storage/0/0% Solar/296.8/7% BESS/0/0% Wind/0/0% Biomass/30.57/1% LNG/0/0% Coal/675/17% Fuel oil/659/17% Import Laos/371/9% Import Thailand 277.3/7% Import Vietnam 332.45/8% Total/3971.988/100% TARGETS: 72% RE installed capacity (unconditional), up to 80% conditional. MRV: RE Installed capacity by type per Annum Annual Report of EAC CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 15.335 (uncond) Additional 10.223 (cond) [2026-2035] PS: Mobilizing investment via PPPs, green incentives, and streamlined regulations. TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Solar PV, Onshore wind, Dam reservoir/ run river and Waste to Energy. Technology transfer: Promoting local manufacturing capacity and knowledge sharing for solar, wind, and waste-to-energy technologies. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy: 3. Improve supply-side energy efficiency through the adoption of grid modernization technologies (e.g., high temperature low sag technologies, more efficiency conductors, etc.) This measure focuses on upgrading Cambodia's electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure through advanced grid technologies to reduce technical losses and enhance energy efficiency. Key interventions include, among others, deploying high-temperature low-sag (HTLS) conductors, high-efficiency transformers, and dynamic line rating systems, which collectively minimize power wastage and increase the grid's capacity to integrate renewable energy. By modernizing power system infrastructure, Cambodia can significantly reduce the 8-12% technical losses currently experienced in its grid, while improving reliability and reducing the need for additional fossil-fuel-based generation to compensate for inefficiencies. CO-BENEFITS: - Improved air quality - Reduced power outages and associated economic losses thanks to enhanced grid reliability and stability - Improved energy security and reduced import dependency for fossil fuels CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Training programs for youth (especially women) in grid technology installation and maintenance, creating pathways to green jobs. - Partnerships with vocational schools to integrate RE and smart grid curricula. MME (lead) WITH EAC, EDC BASELINE INDICATOR: - HTLS conductors deployed: 0 km - High-efficiency transformers deployed: 0 units - Technical distribution losses: 8-12% (est) TARGETS: -HTLS conductors deployed: 500 km (Cover ~10% of critical transmission corridors (prioritizing high-loss areas). -High-efficiency transformers deployed: 5000 units. Replace 15-20% of aging distribution transformers -Technical distribution losses: ≤5.5% (~40% reduction from baseline, aligning with ASEAN best practices MRV: EDC Annual Report or Project Report CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 2.738 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Technology is mature and globally available, but Cambodia should select Cost-effective solutions suited to its grid, climate, and development goals and ensure proper installation, skilled operation, and maintenance. MME calls for techno-economic evaluations before adoption. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy: 4. Phase down coal-fired power plants This measure outlines Cambodia's commitment to gradually reduce reliance on coal-fired power plants while ensuring energy security during the transition to renewable energy. The strategy involves implementing a coal moratorium on new projects, accelerating the retirement of older inefficient plants, and transitioning some existing facilities to cleaner alternatives like biomass co-firing or LNG as transition fuels. This phased approach prioritizes grid stability while aligning with LTS4CN and its pledge to achieve an 72% renewable energy share in installed capacity by 2035. CO-BENEFITS: -Mitigates water stress, safeguarding agricultural and community water resources. - Improved air quality bolsters community health resilience, particularly for vulnerable groups. - Fosters economic resilience by creating diversified green jobs and local supply chains. - Support climate adaptation through solar-powered health clinics and disaster resilient microgrids. - Enhances energy security by diversifying Cambodia's power mix with renewables. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI & PS: - Target women and youth from coal-dependent communities through reskilling programmes in renewable energy (solar/wind installation, grid modernization) and sustainable industries. - Support young women pursuing technical degrees to build a gender-balanced workforce through STEM Scholarships. - Prioritize young workers in RE projects, with quotas for women and support women-led businesses in recycling coal plant materials or providing clean energy services through microgrants. MME (lead) WITH EAC, EDC BASELINE INDICATOR: (2020) No more new coal investment policy #of early retirements of coal power plant with capacity in MW = 0 MW 32 %of power generation from coal power plants in total power generation 4 coal power plants with total installed capacity of 1,375 MW. TARGETS: -No more new coal investment policy = 1 -Number of early retirements of coal power plant with capacity in MW = 150 MW -14% of power generation from coal power plants in total power generation MRV: ETM Project Report CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 0 MtCO₂e The phasing down mitigation potential is accounted under the other energy mitigation policies, not here to avoid double counting. TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Solar, wind, hydro, and energy storage |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy: 5. Carbon Capture and Utilization (CCU) from Coal Power Plants This measure explores the feasibility of capturing CO₂ emissions existing coal-fired power plants and repurposing them for industrial and food-grade applications, such as beverage carbonation, urea production, or concrete curing. Given Cambodia's limited CCS (carbon capture and storage) geology, the focus will be on low-cost capture technologies (e.g., modular amine scrubbing) paired with short-cycle utilization to create economic value while reducing emissions. The initiative targets coal plants in Sihanoukville, which contribute ~36% of GHG Emission from the energy sector (IEA, 2025). It was estimated that around 30 GgCO₂e will be captured and utilized. CO-BENEFITS: - Revenue from waste CO₂ (estimated at $510/ton for industrial uses). -Attracts international climate tech investment, foster local R&D through pilot projects, and open potential for carbon credit exports under Article 6. - Builds local technical capacity and partnerships - Reduced air pollution, lower water use, and improved energy security. - Improve of community health, skilled green job creation, and support for women's economic roles through CO₂-based enterprises. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI & PS: - Develop specialized courses in CCU technology for youth (prioritizing female students) - Facilitate workshops where international experts mentor young Cambodian engineers (50% female participation target) - Support female entrepreneurs - Mandate 30% procurement from women/youth-owned businesses for CCU - Set workforce targets (40% women, 60% youth) for CCU plant operations - Include equal representation of women and youth in project planning MME (lead) WITH EDC BASELINE INDICATOR: (2020) - 0 GgCO₂e captured and utilized - Private investment mobilized: USD 0 Million TARGETS: -240 GgCO₂e captured and utilized - USD 16 Million Private investment mobilized MRV: EDC Annual Report or Project Report CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 4.891 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Technologies are available but require demonstration projects and localization for cost reduction |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy: 6. Adopt efficient and clean energy for cooking This measure aims to transform Cambodia's household and institutional cooking practices by promoting widespread adoption of energy-efficient cookstoves and clean cooking solutions (e.g., improved biomass stoves, biogas, LPG, and electric induction). Targeting 72.8% of rural households still reliant on traditional wood/charcoal stoves (NIS 2021), the initiative addresses both forest conservation and public health by reducing indoor air pollution. The measure will target a 30% clean cookstove adoption by 203 and 60% by 2035 CO-BENEFITS: - Health improvements - Time savings, previously spent collecting firewood, creates income opportunities through women-led enterprises in stove sales and maintenance - Environmental protection by reducing demand for fuelwood -Eligibility for carbon credits - Generation of jobs - Reduced household energy costs, increased energy access & security CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - % of households switching to clean cooking solutions with clean cookstove, disaggregated by sex of HOH; - # and % of women participating in the design, promotion, distribution, and M&E of cookstove adoption programs. MME (lead) WITH MAFF BASELINE INDICATOR: Type of fuel/Cambodia/Phnom Penn/Other urban/Rural Firewood/49.9/4.6/35. 8/65.8 Charcoal/6.7/2.4/8.6/7 LPG/42.8//92.5/54.8/26.7 Publicly-provided electricity/City power/0.5/0.4/0.6/0.4 Total/100/100/100/100 CSES 2021 TARGETS: -National: 60% - Rural: 50%, focus: Biogas/LPG + efficient biomass stoves - Phnom Penh: 98%, focus: LPG/electric induction saturation - Other urban: 95%: focus: LPG expansion + electric transition MRV: CSES Report or Project Report CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 2.129 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Improved biomass stoves, biogas digesters, LPG systems, and electric induction cooktops are available, affordable, adaptable to rural settings. Additionally, digital tools and Training programs enhance accessibility and ensure sustainable adoption. |
Economic security
Unpaid care work
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy: 7. Energy Efficiency Standards and Labelling (S&L) Program for residential This measure establishes mandatory Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) and energy labeling for high-consumption residential appliances, including air conditioners, refrigerators, fans, LED light, and rice cookers. Targeting appliances that account for ~60% of household electricity use, the program will phase out inefficient models while promoting affordable, high-efficiency alternatives through a tiered labeling system (15 stars). The initiative builds and aligns with ASEAN harmonized standards, ensuring access to regionally tested, climate-appropriate technologies. COBENEFITS: - Strengthens economic resilience and free up income for education, healthcare - Stimulates private sector innovation and creating green jobs in manufacturing, retail, and compliance sectors. - Enhances regional trade opportunities while ensuring, decreases reliance on fossil fuel imports, bolstering energy security CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI & PS: - # women supported through STEM scholarships in EE engineering/design and - # women entrepreneurs supported accessing in the EE appliance value chain - # youth engaged in vocational training, in appliance manufacturing and testing MME (lead) WITH MEF, MOC, MISTI BASELINE INDICATOR: Number of residential designated appliances with EE S&L: 0 in 2020 TARGETS: Number of residential designated appliances with EE S&L: 5 in 2035 MRV: MME Report CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 3.276 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Labelling of electrical regulated appliances comply with MEPS for Electrical regulated appliances |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy: 8. Energy Efficiency S&L Program for Industrial designated appliances This measure introduces mandatory MEPS and energy labeling for key industrial appliances (e.g. transformers, engines, fans, air compressors, pumps, and boilers) which collectively account for over 50% of industrial energy consumption in Cambodia. By phasing out inefficient models and promoting high-efficiency alternatives, the program aims to improve energy efficiency in Cambodia's garment, building, and manufacturing sectors. CO-BENEFITS: - Reduced industrial operating costs by 15-30% through lower energy bills. - Creates demand for skilled technicians, develops local expertise - Reduces industrial water usage through efficient cooling systems and electronic waste. -Improves worker safety through modernized, temperature regulated facilities and creates higher value jobs in green technology sectors CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Targeted training for women, support for women-led SMEs as well as modernizing equipment to reduce physical strain in factories - Developing youth apprenticeship programs and funding youth-led innovations in industrial IoT for monitoring. PS: Concessional loans to commercial customers for EE equipment and small manufacturers for equipment upgrades + creating EE demo hubs MME (lead) WITH MEF, MOC, MISTI BASELINE INDICATOR: Number of industrial designated appliances with EE S&L: 0 in 2020 TARGETS: Number of industrial designated appliances with EE S&L: 3 in 2035 MRV: MME Report CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 6.651 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: - Establish testing labs for Cambodia specific efficiency solutions - Promote smart metering and AI-driven energy optimization - Develop standards for efficient equipment refurbishment/recycling |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy: 9. Establishment of the digital energy balance linking with energy management program for the building (MLMUPC), Industry, and SME Sector (MISTI) and others Digital energy management technology uses digital tools like sensors, smart meters, and software to monitor, analyze, and manage energy consumption, ultimately aiming to improve energy efficiency and reduce costs. This technology leverages data to identify areas for optimization, allowing for informed decision-making and automation of energy saving processes. The proposed measure establishes a national digital energy balance platform to integrate real-time energy data across key sectors, including buildings (managed by MLMUPC), industries, and SMEs (under MISTI). By creating a unified system for energy monitoring and management, Cambodia can optimize demand-side efficiency. The initiative supports Cambodia's NEEP. CO-BENEFITS: - Improves collaboration between LMs and other institutions reducing bureaucratic fragmentation. - Improved energy security & grid resilience - Accelerates innovation and demonstrates scalable models for digital governance CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Promotes gender-inclusive recruitment in tech-driven energy roles and establishes "green digital" career pathways in energy informatics and smart grid management for youth PS: New models for data sharing, market opportunities for local tech startups, Performance-based contracts for ESCOs and certification for energy auditors. MME (lead) WITH MLMUPC, MISTI BASELINE INDICATOR: Number report published = 0 TARGETS: Digital Energy Balanced Established and operational Number report published = 5 MRV: MME REPORT CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 4.807 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Adoption of energy monitoring software, integration with digital infrastructure, and cybersecurity measures Requires parallel investments in cybersecurity frameworks and data protection standards |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy: 10. Establishment of MEPS for public lighting This measure introduces MEPS for Cambodia's public lighting systems, including streetlights, garden lighting, and municipal infrastructure. The standards will phase out inefficient technologies (e.g., high-pressure sodium lamps) in favor of Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting with smart controls, reducing energy consumption by 50-70% while improving illumination quality and safety contributing to the objectives of Cambodia's NEEP. CO-BENEFITS: Reduced municipal energy bills, lower maintenance costs - Job creation and opportunities for local SMEs. - Enhanced public safety, reducing accidents and crime rates. - Reduced light pollution improving urban livability. - Lower GHG emissions from reduced electricity demand. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Targeted recruitment of women in technical roles, safer street lighting for reduced gender-based mobility restrictions - Digital skills development in smart lighting controls and auditing certification opportunities for youth PS: Incentives for local manufacturing of EE fixtures, reducing import dependence. Market expansion for suppliers and startups. MME (lead) WITH MPWT BASELINE INDICATOR: No National lighting code TARGETS: National lighting code prepared and published MRV: Government reports CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 1.202 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: LED and efficient lighting technologies are widely available and cost effective |
Economic security
Gender-based violence
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy: 11. Development of Building Energy Code policy framework & inclusion of a Passive Cooling strategies performance indicator This measure aims at accelerating the Cambodian Government effort with Energy Efficiency and the Building Sector. The Inclusion of a Passive Cooling Strategies performance index within the country building energy regulations, will support and accelerate the practical implementation of the Building Energy Codes with options (technologies & know-how) that are already available and accessible (costs) in Cambodia. CO-BENEFITS: - Contribution to decrease pollution / Ozone damage (with less harmful refrigerants - Cooler buildings & Cities (lowering UHIE) contributing to better Environment & well-being for all CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Integrate gender-responsive design into the building code: ventilation for kitchen areas, safe night cooling access, thermal comfort rates etc. - Prioritize women in "Passive Cooling Technician" training. 40% target - Support women-led businesses for certified projects and the co-design social housing cooling solutions. - Develop Khmer language apps for DIY cooling retrofits. PS: Incentives & Subsidies, like tax rebates for BECcompliant projects, subsidies for local production of cooling materials, ESCOs models, Green Bonds (certified "Cool Building" portfolios for investors), create "Cooling Material Hubs" for local suppliers, PPPs for bulk procurement: Lower costs by 20-30%. MLMUPC (lead) WITH MME BASELINE INDICATOR: Baseline 2020: No Building energy Code TARGETS: - 34%/25% energy consumption reduction in residential/commercial building - 20% of new buildings complies with BEC by 2030 - Min 2%/y of existing total public and commercial buildings with Passive Cooling Strategies renovation and comply with BEC by 2030 - Min 10% of buildings renovated with passive cooling strategies, to comply with BEC by 2035 - Pilots for 4 new buildings, 2 existing commercial buildings, 2 public buildings, 2 will be equipped with Passive Cooling Strategies -By 2028, 500 engineers trained in building energy assessment and certification process -By 2029, at least 100 buildings certified under BEC MRV: MLMUPC annual report CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 2.978 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Available and accessible in Cambodia (technology, know-how, costs), through knowledge documents, like PCS design guidelines (official version released by mid-2025), PCS Compendium, Typology Analysis Several Practitioners Technical Trainings for PCS best practices including trainings of trainers have been delivered Passive Cooling Strategies are under draft integration within Architectural Design Technical Regulation document. |
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy/Transport: 12. Accelerate integrated public transport and low-carbon urban mobility in major cities This measure expands transit-oriented urban spaces with integrated public transport, better coverage, and traffic upgrades, while enhancing walkability, and green spaces to cut emissions and improve inclusive, resilient urban access. CO-BENEFITS: The measure cuts GHG emissions by shifting trips to cleaner, shared modes, while improving air quality, reducing congestion, and expanding access for women, low income groups, and persons with disabilities. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Proportion of children elderly, women, and people with disabilities participating in public transport consultations. Baseline: 10%, target 30% MPWT (lead) WITH MEF, SNA AND CITY ADMINISTRATIONS BASELINE INDICATOR: Modal share of urban public buses in 2035: 2.5% TARGETS: Modal share of urban public buses in 2035: 15% MRV: Track annual ridership, trip length, and vehicle kilometer travelled (VKM) using city transport data; report via MPWT; periodic audits. CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 0.3 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Standard, fuel efficient, and electric buses as well as e-ticketing systems are available, though dedicated bus lanes are lacking. |
Participation and leadership
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Mitigation | Transportation |
| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy/Transport: 14. Develop an integrated, centralized transport data platform to enforce standards, support planning and MRV tracking This measure links vehicle inspection data with other systems to enforce safety and emission standards, support phased regulations, improve air quality, and enhance planning, equity, and progress tracking. CO-BENEFITS: The platform supports emissions reduction, enhances air quality, and enables more equitable service planning by integrating data across vehicle types and transport services as well as predicting / assessing impact of new transport policies. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Improved data enables gender responsive, inclusive transport planning by identifying mobility gaps and enhancing access and safety for women and underserved groups. MPWT (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: Centralized transport data platform: 0 TARGETS: (i) 1 centralized transport data platform (ii) 2/3 of inspection centers are capable of measuring and tracking emissions; (a) 80% of registered vehicles inspected. (b) Vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) by vehicle and fuel types (c) GHG and non-CO2 emissions (including black carbon) MRV: Track vehicle stock, scrappage, and emissions via inspection centers and operator data; report in MPWT annual reports; verify using customs and registration records. CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 2.6 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Digital MRV platforms and vehicle inspection data systems are widely available and can be built using modular, cloud-based solutions tailored to national needs |
Gender mainstreaming
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy/Transport: 15. Scale up the adoption of electric mobility for low-carbon road transport This measure accelerates e-mobility through EV infrastructure, incentives, and partnerships, supporting Cambodia's EV and climate goals while promoting inclusive access for women and underserved groups. CO-BENEFITS: The measure cuts GHG and air pollutant emissions, lowers transport costs, and improves public health outcomes, especially in dense urban areas. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Clean e-mobility improves safe, affordable access for women and creates opportunities for low-income and informal transport users. PS: Activity to be undertaken in close cooperation with private sector players MPWT (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: E-2 wheelers: 8,650 E-3 wheelers: 2,375 E-cars: 4,750 TARGETS: Unconditional target (i) E-2 wheelers: 35% of total motorcycle fleet (ii) E-3 wheelers: 5% of total tuk tuk fleet (iii) Passenger e-cars: 5% of total car stock Conditional target: (i) Urban e-buses: 20% of public bus fleet MRV: Track EV uptake via MPWT and registration data; report in MPWT annual report; verify with utility records on EV charging. CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 11.6 (Uncond) 12.1 (Cond) [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Electric vehicles are increasingly available though they are 1.5 2 times more expensive than baseline vehicles |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy/Transport: 17. Enhance efficient and low-carbon waterborne transport through Funan Techo Canal The Funan Techo Canal, Cambodia's largest inland waterway, will connect the Mekong to the sea via a 172 km route, cutting freight trips by up to 80 km and reducing costs, fuel use, and emissions. It also supports water management, agriculture, flood control, and tourism. CO-BENEFITS: It reduces fuel use and emissions through shorter travel distances (up to 80 km saved), while promoting cleaner shipping and boosting agricultural trade and eco-tourism CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Improved transport and water infrastructure boost access to markets and services for women and support livelihoods for low-income, riverine communities. PS: Activity to be undertaken in close cooperation with private sector players MPWT (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: Modal share (passenger and freight) of waterborne transport: 2.5% TARGETS: Modal share (passenger and freight) of waterborne transport: 6% MRV: Track vessel fuel use and distance saved via MPWT and port data; MPWT annual report; verify through audits and GPS checks. CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 19.1 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Canal construction and water management systems are proven applications in many countries for integrated transport and multi-purpose water management. |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy/Manufacturing and Construction: 19. Energy Management Program to Enhance Sustainable energy efficient in industries Develop regulations promoting energy efficiency, including leveraging MME's work on standards and labeling for key industrial equipment improvement across all industries (GFT, F&B, agro processing, i.e., rubber, rice, cassava, electrical industries etc.): - Implementation of standards and labeling protocols and Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) for industrial equipment; - Support from the NEEP 2022-2030; - Alignment with Resource Efficiency and Cleaner Production Strategy and Action Plan for Industry and SME Sector 2021-2030 CO-BENEFITS: -Reduction of mass emission load by 87%, from 251 kg of Suspended particulate matter (SPM) to 33 kg SPM -Enhanced energy security and reduced vulnerability to energy price fluctuations for industries. -Improved operational reliability and cost-effectiveness of machinery. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - % of women trained in EE, energy management and sustainable energy technologies - prioritize energy efficiency measures that also lead to improved working conditions and support women-owned and operated manufacturing SMEs to adopt EE measures MISTI (lead) WITH MAFF FOR AGRO-PROCESSING INTERVENTIONS AND WITH MME ON STANDARDS AND LABELING BASELINE INDICATOR: 24% saving on electricity compared to BAU by 2035 18.6 TWh cumulative savings 2025-2035 TARGETS: -Mandatory energy performance reporting for designated energy consumers (above a certain threshold). -Basic reporting by other factories MRV: CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 7.5 [2025-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Available |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Energy/Manufacturing and Construction: 20. Renewable and efficient steam generation Targets steam using industries (GFT, F&B, agro-processing), focusing on steam system efficient improvement and gradual transition to sustainable biomass fuels, biogas recovery from waste water or electrification from renewable energy sources. Leverages on the FOLU action on developing certified sustainable wood supply chains CO-BENEFITS: - Reduction in air pollution and support for deforestation reduction efforts. - Potential for job creation in sustainable biomass supply chains and REN sectors. - Enhanced competitiveness for industries adopting greener practices CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: # of women in technical fields (engineers and energy professionals) in developing regulations for sustainable thermal energy generation. MISTI (lead) WITH MAFF AND MME BASELINE INDICATOR: 30% of the wood is plantation wood Average steam system efficiency is 42% TARGETS: 100% wood is sustainable. Of which around 6% met by methane recover from industrial waste water. Average steam system efficiency is 80% MRV: - Reports by factories. - MISTI annual reports CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 11.4 (0.09 non-CO2e emissions from biomass) [2025-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Readily available |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Industry/IPPU: 25. HFC Phase-down in cooling by transitioning to low-GWP alternatives This measure gradually reduces hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) unconditionally, by promoting low-GWP alternatives through regulations, capacity building and private sector participation (synergies with NEEP, National Cooling Action Plan and LTS4CN) CO-BENEFITS: It contributes to improved air quality, reduces energy demand, and creates green jobs in cooling services and equipment maintenance. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: % of women technicians trained in cooling and refrigeration technologies. MOE (lead) WITH MISTI BASELINE INDICATOR: Projected emissions in 2035: 0.62 tCO2e TARGETS: Unconditional: 56% GHG reduction by from projected 2035 levels. Conditional: 72% GHG reduction by from projected 2035 levels. MRV: Track the consumption of HFCs, as per MoE Verification Reports on HFCs consumption to UNEP CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 1.8 (Uncond) 2.4 (Cond) [2026-2035] Baseline:0%; target: 10% PS: Potential for carbon financing TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Low-GWP refrigerant technologies such as CO₂, R- 290, and HFOs Are commercially available yet expensive. |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Agriculture: 26. Increase the adoption of management and intermittent flooding in rice fields Encourage the adoption of non- photosensitivity rice cultivars alongside a shift from continuously flooded fields to intermittent irrigation methods. The proposed action aims to: 1. Integrate AWD into national and subnational agricultural water-use policies and guidelines.; 2. Incentivize AWD through subsidy schemes (e.g., for water-saving equipment or land leveling services).; 3. Establish inter-agency coordination (e.g., MAFF, MOWRAM, local authorities) for irrigation scheduling and water governance.; 4. Facilitate access to microfinance or grants for smallholder farmers to invest in AWD enabling tools. 5. Implement performance-based payments (e.g., for water use reduction of GHG mitigation under climate-smart agriculture financing). CO-BENEFITS: -Reduced input costs and improved yield stability in drought-prone or water-scarce areas. -Enhanced soil health by reducing waterlogging and promoting better root growth. -Increased resilience of smallholder farmers to water stress and climate variability. -Improved gender participation when water-saving technologies. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: N/A MAFF (lead) WITH MOWRAM BASELINE INDICATOR: (2025): 1) 335 kg/ha for nonphotosensitive rice varieties and the total fertilizer use in a total of 670,000 ton of which including: Urea 340,000 ton, DAP: 130,000 ton, KCL:200,000 ton 2) Most farmers apply continuous flooding in irrigated rice production TARGETS: 1) Reduce chemical fertilizer of 15% by 2035 of 2 million hectare of nonphotosensitive Rice varieties. 2) Increase the substitute use of biochar/ organic fertilizer of 15% of non- photosensitive rice varieties. 3) 90.000 ha of rice managed using intermittent flooding practices (e.g., AWD, midseason drainage etc.), and SRP. MRV: National Assessment reports CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 7.07 [2021-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: -Laser Land Leveling -Solar-Powered Irrigation -Digital Tools and Smart Irrigation |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Agriculture: 27. Increase Mechanized Direct Seeded-Rice (mDSR) Support the adoption of dry direct seeding techniques and increased mechanization in rice cultivation to reduce labor demand, lower production costs, and improve efficiency. They contribute to replacing traditional transplanting with machine-based direct seeding. It reduces labor demand, saves water, shortens the cropping cycle, and cuts methane emissions. 1. Integrate mDSR into national rice and climate-smart agriculture strategies, such as the National Action Plan for Rice Sector Development. 2. Subsidize or provide tax incentives on mDSR equipment. 3. Develop national technical guidelines on mDSR practices, including land preparation, seed rates, and weed management protocols. 4. Promote inclusive financing mechanisms, including Machinery leasing schemes and soft loans or grants for service providers and cooperatives. CO-BENEFITS: -Significant labor savings, especially in transplanting season -Reduction in methane emissions. -Lower disturbance improves structure and organic matter -Faster crop maturity and potential for increased cropping Intensity -DSR saves significant irrigation water and contributes to less labour intensive and time. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Promote equitable access to mechanization services for women headed households and marginalized farmers. - Involve women in extension training, decision-making, and ownership models. - Link mDSR programs to youth entrepreneurship (e.g., business incubation for machinery rental services). PS: Leverage PPPs to increase supply and maintenance of mDSR equipment. MAFF (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: By 2035, 100.000 ha of rice cultivation area under mDSR TARGETS: By 2035, 100.000 ha of rice cultivation area under mDSR MRV: The assessment of adoption rates in target areas including quantification of water consumption used for establishment of rice crop CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: N/A TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: -Manual and motorized seed drills (2-wheel and 4-wheel tractor mounted) -Laser land leveling equipment (supported in Battambang, Kampong Thom, and Takeo etc.) -Rotary tillers and disc harrows for dry land preparation |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Agriculture: 30. Introduce agro-ecological practices, land productivities including reducing tillage and sustainable agriculture (such as mulching, cover cropping, crop rotations, alternative crops) Support the promotion and scaling-up of agroecological practices, with a focus on reduced tillage, to improve soil structure, enhance soil moisture retention, and reduce erosion. These practices contribute to enhancing carbon stock, increased soil organic matter, and greater climate resilience, while maintaining productivity and promoting long-term sustainability in agricultural systems. CO-BENEFITS: -Enhance dietary diversity and local food availability -Climate information services, like Seasonal forecasting and EWS. -Promotes collective action, and social safety nets in vulnerable farming communities. -Diversification of livelihood options, increasing household income stability. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Empower women, indigenous communities, and marginalized groups. Ensuring equitable access to land, resources, training, and decision-making roles is critical to maximizing benefits and inclusivity. MAFF (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: (2025): The cultivated of the sustainable agriculture, agroecological practices on 2,508 ha. TARGETS: By 2035 - At least 16000 ha of the agriculture production applied the Agro-ecological practices, Conservation Agriculture, Climate Smart Practices. - 30 % of women farmers trained in agroecological practices, reduced tillage, improved soil structure, enhanced soil moisture retention, and reduced erosion. MRV: Mid-term review of the NDC 3.0 to be conducted to evaluate the application of the CA/SI and AE in Cambodia. CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: N/A TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: - Conservation Tillage and No- Till Equipment -Water-Saving Irrigation technologies -Digital Tools and Decision Support Systems |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Agriculture: 31. Improve animal waste management for soil improvement and rural energy Support the development of sustainable animal waste management systems to convert livestock waste into valuable resources for soil improvement and renewable energy in rural areas. Properly managed manure can be used as organic fertilizer to enhance soil fertility and structure, while biogas production from animal waste offers a clean, affordable energy source for rural households. These practices contribute to circular agriculture, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and promote climate-smart farming solutions. The objectives are: 1. Integrate Biogas in Manure Management Guidelines; 2. Assess and Promote Bioslurry Valorization Technologies; 3. Scale Up Composting through a National Promotion Programme CO-BENEFITS: - Reducing environmental pollution and public health risks. - Enhance soil fertility, improve moisture retention, and increase crop resilience to drought. - Reduces dependence on synthetic fertilizers, lowering production costs and diversifying farmer income. - Replaces firewood and fossil fuels, supporting forest conservation and climate mitigation. - Eases fuel collection for women, reduces exposure to indoor smoke, and frees time for productive or caregiving tasks CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Reduce women's labor burden in fuel collection and lowers health risks from indoor smoke, allowing them more time for productive or leisure activities. - Create job opportunities for youth in biogas technology provision and related businesses. PS: Recognizes the private sector as the primary provider and driver of biogas technology adoption. MAFF (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: (2020) 28,683 biodigesters constructed. Projected number (from 2021 to 2025): An estimated 4,588 biodigesters constructed annually. Projected baseline (2025): 51,623 biodigesters constructed. TARGETS: (2035) -100% increase in commercial pig population after 2020 using biogas -Swine population is growing by 6% until 2030, and of about 3% from 2030 onwards -25% of commercial cattle population using biogas -Household biodigester (cattle + pig): 65000 units in 2030, 97000 in 2035 -Cattle population is growing by 1.5%/y in 2022- 2030, and by 0.8%/y from 2030 to 2050 MRV: -Reporting by National Biogas Programme -5-yearly survey of commercial pig farm management practices, of commercial cattle farm management practices -Compost promotion programme monitoring and evaluation system data -BTR -MAFF Annual Report CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 9.27 [2021-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: - Anaerobic digestion -Composting -Biochar Production. - Manure Storage - Precision Application for efficient manure spreading to minimize pollution. - Nutrient Recovery -Bioenergy Feedstock -Advanced Treatment, such as filtration or wetlands to clean manure effluents. |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Agriculture: 32. Improve fodder and feeding for livestock production Encourage the adoption of feed additives in cattle production systems to improve feed efficiency, enhance animal health, and reduce enteric methane emissions. The use of scientifically proven additives such as enzymes, probiotics, and methane inhibitors can contribute to higher productivity, lower environmental impact, and support the transition to climate-smart livestock systems. CO-BENEFITS: Better feeding improves farm income and resilience to market shocks. - Fodder conservation supports livestock productivity during dry seasons and climate extremes. - Reduces women's time spent sourcing feed, freeing time for other activities. - Support climate resilient, productive, and gender-sensitive livestock systems. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Support women's roles in cattle raising by actively involving them in training programs and farm decision-making processes. PS: Encourage farms and SMEs to participate in quality seed and vegetative matter production, while agrodealers supply supplements and additives to improve feed efficiency. MAFF (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: (2020) -Cattle population: 2,836,536 head adopted conventional practices of livestock productions -Projected Population: 2025: 3 598 420 head, 2030: 3 870 503 head -Population is growing by 1.5% per year between 2022 and 2030, and by 0.8% per year from 2030 onwards TARGETS: (2035) -5% of the household other cattle is receiving better feeding practices, or about 201 391 heads. -30% of women livestock farmers trained on the adoption of feed additives in cattle production systems MRV: -5-yearly surveys that assess the diet composition of cattle on household scale farms. -BTR -MAFF Annual Report CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 0.57 [2021-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Skills and knowledge for forage production and livestock feeding are available, quality seed and vegetative planting material can be locally sourced. Further research is needed to assess the methane reducing potential of emerging feed additives. |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Agriculture: 33. Improve Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Sustainable Natural Rubber (SNR) The measure is improving productivity, quality, and environmental stewardship within the rubber sector. Advancing GAP, farmers are empowered with knowledge and techniques that enhance soil health, optimize resource use, reduce chemical inputs, and improve overall farm management. Simultaneously, supporting the adoption of Sustainable Natural Rubber standards ensures that rubber production aligns with global sustainability goals, emphasizing traceability, deforestation-free supply chains, respect for labor rights, and resilience to climate change with following objectives: 1. Integrate GAP and SNR into national and subnational agricultural policies and guidelines 2. Incentivize GAP and SNR through subsidy schemes 3. Promote climate smart agriculture CO-BENEFITS: -Enhance productivity, improve soil fertility and carbon storage. -High quality rubber for markets, and promote safer, fairer labor conditions. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Develop training of- trainers (ToT) programs and ensure the youth groups, women and minorities group involved in the capacity development. MAFF (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: (2025): 100 ha piloted GAP and SNR located in Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri province TARGETS: (2035): 1) 50,000 ha Increased of harvested areas of SNR and GAP (Nutrient management and rubber wood) MRV: The record on the reduction of emission from N fertilizer, Pesticide and Herbicide CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 0.002 [2021-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: -Cover cropping and mulching -Compost and organic fertilizers -Protective gear and safety measures -Low Frequency Tapping |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Agriculture: 34. Introduce agroforestry practices on rubber-high value timber for smallholders The measure is improving productivity, quality, and environmental stewardship within the rubber sector. Advancing GAP, farmers are empowered with knowledge and techniques that enhance soil health, optimize resource use, reduce chemical inputs, and improve overall farm management. Simultaneously, supporting the adoption of Sustainable Natural Rubber standards ensures that rubber production aligns with global sustainability goals, emphasizing traceability, deforestation-free supply chains, respect for labor rights, and resilience to climate change with following objectives: 1. Integrate GAP and SNR into national and subnational agricultural policies and guidelines 2. Incentivize GAP and SNR through subsidy schemes 3. Promote climate smart agriculture CO-BENEFITS: Enhances biodiversity, diversifies income, and reduces reliance on latex alone. It strengthens climate resilience, improves soil health, and supports long-term sustainability. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Promotes equal access to resources, training, and benefits for women and marginalized groups MAFF (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: (2025): 0 ha TARGETS: (2035): 1) 2000 ha agroforestry practices on rubber-high value timber for smallholders MRV: 1) Biomass increment 2) Volume of merchantable of high value timber CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: N/A TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: - Double row spacing - Cover cropping and mulching - Pruning and canopy management - Post harvest of wood product |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Agriculture: 35. Introduce sustainable rubber wood harvesting Support the financial sustainability of rubber smallholders during periods of declining latex yields by enabling income generation from harvested rubber wood for timber. This provides an additional revenue stream while maintaining continuous land productivity through timely replanting. The sustainable cycle enhances carbon sequestration, reduces pressure on natural forests, and supports soil and water conservation. Economically, it diversifies income and strengthens long-term financial planning. Socially, it creates rural employment, builds community resilience, promotes stable land use, and contributes to poverty reduction CO-BENEFITS: 1) Provides smallholders with an alternative revenue stream from rubber wood products. 2) Enhance micro and small enterprises (furniture, biomass energy, crafts) in rural areas CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Inclusive value chain development can enhance women's roles in timber processing, marketing, and enterprise development. - Promotes access to training and fair benefit sharing mechanisms among the local producers, youth and women MAFF (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: (2025): 0 ha TARGETS: (2035): 150,000 hectare of rubber plantation improved sustainable rubber wood production MRV: 1) Clear cutting and replanted areas guideline and manuals 2) GDR annual reporting 3) MAFF reporting in line with the NDC tracking system CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: N/A TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: - Climate smart agriculture - Planning for rubber plantation - Post harvesting technique for rubber wood |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - FOLU: 37. Reduce deforestation through REDD+ Mechanism and other measures This measure supports the reduction of deforestation by implementing key actions outlined in the National REDD+ Strategy Action and Investment Plan, the Circular Strategy on Environment (2023-2028), and other relevant policies. Moreover, incentivizing deforestation through access to markets, credit, and sustainable certification schemes (Article 6, Voluntary Carbon Standard Projects, and Results-based Payments). CO-BENEFITS:- Enhance biodiversity, indigenous groups, and local communities through PA, CPA, CF, CFi, and law enforcement. - Enhancement of climate change mitigation. -Improvement of ecosystem services, cultural preservation and livelihoods improvement, community empowerment and participation. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - % of women in forest communities and protected areas participating in programs of the National REDD+ Strategy Action and Investment Plan. -% of IP women involved in FPIC processes (free, prior and informed consent of indigenous people) and REDD+ consultations and benefit sharing - % of women and indigenous farmers trained and engaged in forest monitoring and reporting (e.g., use of digital tools). - % of women and IPs engaged in sustainable local livelihoods, including forest products and ecotourism (based on FPIC) MOE (lead) WITH MAFF (FA AND FIA) BASELINE INDICATOR: Average of the years 2014-2020: annual deforestation rate - 2.58% (REDD+ forest definition) and -2.19% (national forest definition) TARGETS: Target: 50% reduction of deforestation rate by 2030 and stop by 2045. 60% reduction by 2035 Unconditional NDC: 15% reduction of deforestation rate by 2030 and 40% by 2050 MRV: -Biennial forest cover reports from MoE & MAFF reported through CEMIS -BTRs CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 124.25 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Cambodia Environmental Management Information System (CEMIS), National Forest Monitoring System; Safeguards Information System; REDD+ Project Databased/ registry |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - FOLU: 39. Expand forest cover through afforestation and reforestation activities(A/R) This measure contributes to increasing the country's forest cover in alignment with the Pentagonal Strategy - Phase I. It includes, among others, through afforestation and reforestation initiatives, engaging stakeholders at all levels, community-led tree plantation in CPA and other areas, distribution of at least one million saplings annually among the public, strengthening forest monitoring, incentivizing afforestation/reforestation through industrial and smallholder plantations through enhanced market access and incentives. CO-BENEFITS: Enhance ecosystem restoration and resilience, natural habitats of biodiversity, and Carbon sequestration. Inclusive stakeholder engagement and enhancing community resilience. Improve sustainable livelihoods, access to carbon finance and market opportunities. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: % of women and indigenous farmers trained in forest monitoring and reporting (e.g., use of digital tools). MOE (lead)/GDLC, GDPNA, CARBON CREDITING SECRETARIAT WITH MAFF/FA/FIA BASELINE INDICATOR: (2020): 50,000 ha of forest plantations TARGETS: 1.6 million ha of forest plantations by 2050. 600,000 ha of forest plantations by 2035. 220,000 ha of deforested, bare land, and open area to be ARR by 2035. Unconditional NDC: 30,000 ha A/R by 2050 MRV: Biennial forest cover reports from MoE BTR CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 82.87 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: CEMIS, National Forest Monitoring System; Safeguards Information System; REDD+ Project Databased/ registry, Forest Inventory and Forest Resources assessment |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - FOLU: 42. Introduce and promote agroforestry This measure includes agroforestry actions aimed at promoting sustainable land use practices that integrate trees with crops and/or livestock. These actions contribute to both forest conservation and rural development. It includes, among others, the following actions: - Promotion of agroforestry systems tailored to local ecological conditions and community needs; - Integration of forest-based agroforestry model into CPA management plans - Development and dissemination of technical guidelines and training programs on agroforestry practices; - Introduce multi-purpose tree species (e.g., fruit, timber, fodder) for integration into farming systems; - Rubber and other horticulture-based agroforestry models CO-BENEFITS: Enhanced biodiversity, improved soil and water quality. Empower local communities, improve nutrition, and food security. Diversified income streams, market accesses and finance incentives. Improve farm products and climate resilience. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - % of women farmers trained in agroforestry practices, sustainable land use, from farmer field schools - % of Indigenous Peoples supported to document TEK in agroforestry % IPs engaged in learning exchanges on traditional and contemporary agroforestry practices MAFF (lead) WITH MOE/GDLC/GDNPA CARBON CREDITING SECRETARIAT BASELINE INDICATOR: (2025): 1852 ha under agroforestry management (project supported) TARGETS: -50,000 ha by 2025, and 160,000 ha of agricultural land by 2050 -18000 agroforestry practices by 2035 - 2000 ha of rubber plantation piloted agroforestry practices by 2035. Unconditional NDC: 5,000ha of agriculture land by 2050 MRV: REDD+ progress reports BTR CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 1.11 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: CEMIS, National Forest Monitoring System; Safeguards Information System; REDD+ Project Databased/ registry Community Forestry Management Plan Enrichment Planting Sylviculture practices Agroforestry |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - FOLU: 40. Increase forest carbon stocks through assisted natural regeneration (ANR) and other forest restoration measures This measure includes Assisted Natural Regeneration (ANR) and natural forest restoration activities aimed at enhancing ecosystem resilience, restoring degraded forest landscapes, and promoting biodiversity recovery. These efforts focus on supporting the natural regeneration of native tree species, minimizing human disturbance, and creating conditions that accelerate forest ecosystem recovery in both Protected Areas and surrounding landscapes. It includes, among others, development of forest restoration plans, good practice guidelines on forest rehabilitation, strengthen forest ecosystem monitoring, improve law enforcement, interventions focused on the restoration, sustainable management of forest and other resources including blue carbon habitats, and good governance, ecosystem based management of critical and vulnerable ecosystems which have high potential such as blue carbon are vital for millions of fishing households, community fisheries, aquatic biodiversity, and ecosystem health. CO-BENEFITS: Enhance ecosystem restoration and resilience, natural habitats of biodiversity, and carbon sequestration. Inclusive stakeholder engagement and enhancing community resilience. Improve sustainable livelihoods, access to carbon finance and market opportunities. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - % of women farmers trained in forest monitoring and reporting using digital tools - # of women community leaders participating in forest restoration planning and forest rehabilitation for PAs MOE (lead)/GDLC/GDNPA WITH MAFF/FA/FIA BASELINE INDICATOR: (2024): 22,000 ha reforested TARGETS: -1.1 million ha of ANR/forest restoration by 2050 and/or 450,000 ha of ANR/forest restoration by 2035. -A total of 56,900 ha of flooded forest improved management, governance and restored by the year 2035. -A total of 4,080 ha of mangrove forest improved management, governance and restored by the year 2035. Unconditional NDC: 30,000 ha of ANR and native forest restoration by 2050 MRV: Biennial forest cover reports from MoE BTR CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 11.37 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: CEMIS, National Forest Monitoring System; Safeguards Information System; REDD+ Project Databased/ registry, Forest Inventory and Forest Resources assessment |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - FOLU: 41. Incorporate good and/or improved forest management practices to enhance forest carbon stocks as well as ecosystem integrity This measure includes actions to strengthen the implementation of sustainable forest management across Cambodia's forests, aiming to ensure the long-term health, productivity, and ecological function of forest ecosystems. It focuses on balancing conservation, sustainable use, and restoration objectives while enhancing the livelihoods of forest-dependent communities and contributing to climate resilience. -Development of forest management plans for Protected Areas (PAs), Community Protected Areas (CPAs), Community Forests (CFs), and Community Fisheries (CFis) - Establishment of clear demarcation and registration of forests, PAs, CPAs, CFs, and CFis to secure tenure and management rights - Preparation of guidelines for forest management planning, with an emphasis on reforestation and forest rehabilitation - Development and support of ecotourism and other sustainable uses of natural forests as complementary strategies for conservation and local economic development - Incentivizing improved forest management through access to markets, credit, and sustainable certification schemes (Article 6, Voluntary Carbon Standard Projects and Results-based Payments) of community-based organizations. CO-BENEFITS: Enhance biodiversity, restore degraded ecosystems, and improve ecological integrity. Enhanced carbon sequestration and emissions reduction, and ecosystem services. Strengthen tenure security and empower local communities. Enhance sustainable livelihoods and income generation. Access to carbon finance and green markets. CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - % of women and indigenous farmers trained in forest monitoring and reporting (e.g., use of digital tools) - # of women community leaders participating in improved forest management MOE (lead)/GDLC/GDPNA FOR PA AND CPA DOMAIN WITH MAFF/FA/FIA FOR PRODUCTION FOREST CF, FIC & CFI, CARBON CREDITING SECRETARIAT BASELINE INDICATOR: (2025): 1) 530 498 ha under the management of CF 2) 87755 ha of CF under CFMP. 3) 26000 ha under IFM for sustainable wood harvesting TARGETS: - All forest land, including PAs, CFs, CPAs, and Cfis will be brought under improved Forest Management Plans by 2050. 60% by 2035. -2 million ha CF by 2029. 30,000 ha developed/under Community Forestry Management Plan - 150,000 ha applied sustainable rubber wood harvesting by 2035. - 520,513 ha Improve Forest management for sustainable wood harvesting by 2035 Unconditional NDC: 15% of forests under forest management by 2030 and 40% by 2050 MRV: REDD+ Progress reports BTR CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 67.03 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Cambodia Environmental Management Information System (CEMIS), National Forest Monitoring System; Safeguards Information System; REDD+ Project Databased/ Registry Fire Management Forest Management Plan |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Waste: 43. Implement solid waste reduction strategies, and pollution control measures - Applying the waste hierarchy model and promoting 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) in line with Sub-decree 113; - Implementing the Circular Economy Strategy and Action Plan 2021-2034; - Implementing the Cambodia Climate Change, Strategic Plan 2024 -2033 - Implementing the Resource Efficiency and Cleaner Production (RECP) Action Plan and Strategy for SME and Industry 2021-2034; - Establishing an EPR scheme on specific waste types; - Implementing the Prakas No. 2196/0325 on the liabilities of exclusive manufacturers, importers or suppliers of electrical and electronic equipment concerning e-waste management, (March 2025), and - Implementing the Cambodia National Plastic Action Partnership Roadmap. CO-BENEFITS: -Reduced environmental pollution and groundwater/surface water contamination - Enhanced biodiversity and ecosystem protection - Support for green SMEs and industries, especially in recycling, eco-design, and plastic alternatives - Job creation in recycling, repair, and material innovation sectors - Strengthened regulatory frameworks, such as EPR and SUP bans CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Adopt a gender responsive Social Behavior Change and Communications strategy targeting at least one national awareness campaigns per year. - 50% of women and youth participating in community-based awareness/ education programs and behavior change campaigns on waste reduction strategies (4R) - Target: 3 new inclusive and gender responsive policies and plans for waste management MOE (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 1) Average waste per capita ratio in 2020 is 0.78kg/capita /day (vs 0.73kg/capita /day in 2015) 2) 546,000 tons of plastic generated in 2022 in Cambodia TARGETS: 1) MSW generation per capita to 0.84 kg/capita/day by 2030 and maintain below ≤0.86 kg/capita/day by 2035 through waste management practices (especially food waste), recycling programs, and public awareness campaigns. 2)Limit the plastic waste generation to 400.000t/y by 2035 by enforcing a ban on Single Use Plastic and strengthening EPR schemes. 3)Conduct research on alternatives to replace plastics using locally available materials. MRV: -Waste reports, audits, and national surveys - Market surveys, regulatory enforcement, and industry data. - Monitor carefully waste pollution in the vulnerable areas such as coastal or tourism areas. CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 5.54 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: EPR scheme on plastic in place in Vietnam SUP ban in place in China and phase-out SUP bans in Malaysia and Vietnam. |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Waste: 44. Waste collection and segregation at source (at households, schools, markets, restaurants/hotels levels) To strengthen waste collection coverage in secondary cities (to reduce open burning) notably by investing in new collection trucks (specific for organic waste); implement MSW segregation at source, with national color code and sorting guidelines; provide incentives schemes; and conduct large awareness raising campaigns and activities. This measure aims to implement a unified Waste Collection System. CO-BENEFITS: -Improve air quality -Prolong the capacity of landfill sites, and create added value opportunities for organic waste and recyclables - Creation of green jobs in waste collection, sorting, recycling, and composting. - Greater public awareness and behavioural change - Enhanced data collection and monitoring capacity CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Adopt a gender responsive Social Behavior Change and Communications strategy in segregation at source awareness raising campaigns. Target: 100% of the campaigns are gender responsive. - 50% of women and youth participating in community-based awareness/ education programs and behavior change campaigns on waste reduction strategies (4R). PS: this measure requires local government to work closely with private operators by integrating segregation at source in waste collection contracts MOE (lead) WITH PDOE AND SNA BASELINE INDICATOR: 1) 0% of MSW is segregated at source at households' level in 2024. 2) In Phnom Penh, an average citywide collection rate of 75% is reported. For secondary cities, this rate falls below 50% for households. 3) 25% of total population is burning waste in 2020 (MOE). TARGETS: 1) 25% of MSW collected is segregated at source (at households, schools, markets, restaurants/hotels levels) in at least 5 cities (excluding Phnom Penh) by 2027 and scaling up to at least 50% nationwide by 2035. 2) 75% of total population have access to regular household waste collection service by 2035. 3) Reduce % of total population that practice open burning of waste from 25% (2020) to 10% (2035). Enforce open burning restrictions through sub-national regulations and penalty mechanisms in at least 10 provinces by 2030, scaling nationwide by 2035. MRV: -Annual Household surveys -Track the number of schools with waste segregation at source System. - Collect gender-disaggregated data and conduct gender analysis in waste management projects. CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 5.37 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Organic waste collection trucks available regionally and with limited availability in Cambodia (mostly standard trucks retrofitted) It should be compactor trucks with Separate compartments or dedicated organics-only trucks (equipped with leak-proof containers and odour control systems). |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Waste: 45. Increase capacities for organic waste processing To limit volumes of organic waste that are landfilled by: - Orientating organic fraction from both MSW and agro-processing industries (especially cassava, rubber, mango) to appropriate processing facilities using either aerobic or anaerobic digestion; - Integrating composting facilities in the design of new landfill projects and existing landfill sites (wherever it is technically possible); - Promoting decentralized solutions, including community-based and home composting, particularly in urban and peri-urban areas, to minimize transportation distances, fuel use, and air pollution CO-BENEFITS: - Create alternatives to synthetic fertilizers and enhanced biodiversity and soil ecosystems - Reduced odour and pest issues near landfills and in neighbourhoods - Job creation in composting operations and income opportunities from selling - Increased crop yields and resilience through improved soil structure and nutrient retention - Enhanced community participation in waste solutions - Enhanced capacity of local governments CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - create job opportunities for women in formal waste economy. Target: At least 30% of the workforce are women. - 50,000 women and people from marginalised groups trained on community and homebased organic waste composting, particularly in urban and peri-urban areas. PS: Incentives can attract investments in organic waste recycling. Target: at least one incentive to encourage private investment in this field MOE (lead) WITH MAFF, PDOE, SNA BASELINE INDICATOR: 1) About 73.000t/y oentering composting and/or biological treatment facilities in 2024. TARGETS: 1) 600.000 t/y of organic waste (or 25% or total organic waste fraction) are processed through dedicated facilities. This includes composting, anaerobic digestion, and other biological treatment techniques. Breakdown: - 550,000 t/y to be processed in dedicated municipal and regional facilities. - 50,000 t/y diverted through community based composting programs in rural areas, focusing on farmers' participation MRV: Weighbridges at treatment facilities, waste composition studies, and annual facility Audits. - annual reports -provided by each facility - Surveys CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 1.84 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Composting: Technology available in Cambodia (both industrial and Community based) Anaerobic digestion: Small to medium scale biodigesters available in Cambodia; Industrial biodigesters available in China. |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Waste: 46. Introduce alternative SWM processing at existing landfills To prolong the lifetime of existing landfill sites by implementing alternatives for the treatment of mixed MSW and hazardous waste. Technologies that will be prioritized in the national context include, among others, waste-to-energy (WtE), gasification, pyrolysis, and the production of synthetic fuels like refuse derived fuel (RDF). CO-BENEFITS: - Renewable energy generation - Job creation in the construction, operation, and maintenance of RDF and WtE facilities. - Incentivisation of formal waste management systems. - Technology and capacity development in modern waste treatment systems CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - At least 30% of the workforce across all levels in the waste management sector are women. - Anticipate and integrate impacts of new waste infrastructure on the informal waste sector by including informal workers association in consultation meetings about new infrastructure (landfill, MBT, WtE, RDF) PS: to attract private investment in waste and energy infrastructure through PPPs MOE (lead) WITH MME BASELINE INDICATOR: 1) No RDF production from MSW as of 2024 2) No WtE production as of 2024 3) In 2021, the capacity of the Medical Waste Management Unit (MWMU) was 2 tons/day. Meanwhile the total amount of medical waste was estimated at 4 tons/day in 2021, versus 1ton/day in 2016 TARGETS: 1) By 2030, to establish RDF processing facilities to convert at least 200.000 t/y of fresh or old MSW (nonorganic fraction only) into RDF for industrial use. 2) By 2035, to construct and operationalise at least 1 large-scale WtE facility to process 300.000 t/y of mixed MSW to generate electricity, to achieve a 30% reduction in MSW disposed in landfills, and to increase the capacity of MWMU to at least 8 t/day, to face the growing amount of medical waste. MRV: - Operator reports and energy production data. CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 1.44 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: RDF and WtE - Available in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia. RDF is used in cement kilns in Cambodia. |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Waste: 47. Landfill management To strengthen the operations of controlled and sanitary landfills, while supporting the MoE's interim strategy of establishing necessary dumpsite locations where appropriate, with a long-term goal of transitioning from open dumpsites to sanitary waste disposal systems. CO-BENEFITS: - Reduction in environmental pollution caused by illegal dumping - Odour control and reduced risk of fires and landfill collapse - Reduced health risks to communities and waste pickers - Job creation in landfill construction, operation, and site rehabilitation CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Increase women's leadership and participation in decision-making. Target: 30% of women participation in consultation in waste sector planning. - 30% of women and people from marginalised groups in formal landfill related jobs. - Provide training on occupational health and safety risks for women, men and children, and safety protocols - Anticipate and integrate impacts of new waste infrastructure on informal waste sector by including informal workers association in consultation meetings about new infrastructure (landfill, MBT, WtE, RDF) PS: to demonstrate the economic viability of LFG extraction MOE (lead) WITH PDOE SNA BASELINE INDICATOR: 1) 11 controlled landfills in use in 2024 totaling a capacity of 4,486,000 m3. Two others-controlled landfills are in progress in 2025 for an additional capacity of 988,000 m3. 2) 0 dumpsites have been properly closed as of 2024. 3) No landfill gas (LFG) extraction technology has been implemented yet as of 2024. 4) As of 2024, the average organic content of landfill waste is 55%. TARGETS: 1) Increase by 50% the share of waste disposed at controlled and sanitary landfills by 2035. Support the MoE's interim strategy to establish necessary dumpsite locations in underserved areas to address immediate waste management needs. 2) Launch a National Plan for Dumpsite Closure and Transition, to rehabilitate/upgrade at least 2 dumpsites/y. Prioritize sites where controlled and/or sanitary landfills or improved alternatives become available. 3) By 2027, Ensure LFG extraction technology is installed and operational at the new Phnom Penh regional sanitary landfill, which should start operating in 2025. 4) Assess the feasibility of Mechanical-Biological Treatment (MBT) technologies for pretreatment of waste prior to disposal. Target reducing the organic content of landfilled waste to < 20% by 2035. MRV: - Every 2-3 years evaluate the effectiveness of landfill operations and waste-to-energy projects and assess waste composition - sanitary landfills annual reports. CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 6.40 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: - Capping system (HDPE geomembrane, clay layers...) - available via Local contractors. - Leachate collection systems, landfill gas venting and passive flaring system, LFG Extraction: technologies: available regionally MBT: - Anaerobic digestion systems and composting - Available in Cambodia |
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| Cambodia | Mitigation Measures (Table 7/Annex 1) - Waste: 48. Improve textile waste management capacities 1. Establish centralised textile waste collection and sorting centers in Cambodia to increase the recycling rate of post-industrial textile waste (PITW). It includes having a registration process for textile waste operators (e.g. the companies managing the collection and sorting centers), a standardized textile waste data submission process to MoE, and a potential auction process to manage textile waste transactions. 2. Promoting textile waste segregation and the use of sustainable packaging at factory level, by supporting factories with capacity building and tax incentives, a necessary step for the collection and sorting centers to operate efficiently. CO-BENEFITS: - Improved air quality - Reduced microplastic leakage - Job creation and upskilling in textile waste collection, sorting and recycling - Stimulate innovation and investment in textile recycling technologies. - Improved traceability and transparency in textile waste flows - Enable EPR design for the textile industry CROSS CUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Increase in women in formal employment in the textile waste sector. Target: 20% - 40% of women participating in textile waste segregation training in factories. PS: implement incentives to attract more textile recyclers in Cambodia. Target: at least one incentive to encourage private investment in this field MOE (lead - 1) AND MISTI (lead - 2) BASELINE INDICATOR: 1) In 2024, less than 20% of post-industrial textile waste (PITW) is traceable and recycled 2) As of 2024, 21 factories and 13 waste handlers were trained about sustainable textile waste management in Cambodia. TARGETS: 1) 80% of PITW is traceable, recorded, and sent to recyclers, directly or through registered waste collectors and Aggregators. 2) 40% of garment factories have received at least one external training on textile waste management MRV: - Textile waste operators quarterly reports. - Data from Cambodian Garment Training Institute (CGTI) CUMULATIVE GHG/ER: 0.69 [2026-2035] TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Textile waste recycling technology available in Cambodia |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Energy: 1. Enhance Climate-Proof Energy Infrastructure This measure strengthens Cambodia's energy resilience through three key actions: conducting climate risk assessments for all energy infrastructure to guide adaptation investments; hardening infrastructure by retrofitting transmission lines with heat resistant materials, elevating flood-prone substations, and installing cooling systems; and implementing innovative hybrid systems like floating solar-pumped storage to optimize water-energy use during droughts while boosting renewable capacity. Together, these approaches enhance climate-proofing of critical energy assets while supporting Cambodia's NDC commitments. CO-BENEFITS: - Economic Development & Job Creation - Social & Health Improvements: - Environmental Protection: water conservation (20% savings in hydropower reservoirs), lower fossil fuel dependency - Institutional & Technological Advancement - Knowledge transfer via vocational training in resilient infrastructure technologies CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: promote women's participation in climate risk and energy maintenance; offers vocational programs on advanced adaptation technologies. PS: encourage local production of Resilient infrastructure materials; attracts investors by showcasing innovation in climate-resilient energy solutions MME (lead), WITH EAC, EDC BASELINE INDICATOR: 0 (2020) TARGETS: -100% of high-risk assets reinforced by 2035. -50% fewer climate linked outages by 2035 compared to baseline. MRV: 1) Share of transmission lines, substations, and power plants retrofitted 2) Annual decrease in Outage duration and frequency caused by extreme weather 3) Water savings EDC report RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: It strengthens energy system reliability during climate-induced disruptions, ensuring energy access for households, hospitals, and essential services, and it integrates automated early warning systems, protects urban and rural energy networks from climate shocks, and sets best practices for climate-proofing transport, water, and digital infrastructure. TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Climate resilient transmission lines, modular substations, automated grid monitoring, and early warning systems are locally scalable and regionally available |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Energy: 3. Enhance Preparedness & Capacity Building in the Energy sector This measure strengthens Cambodia's energy resilience through three approaches: (1) Operational Resilience by deploying early warning systems, standardizing emergency protocols, and maintaining repair stockpiles; (2) Workforce Development via climate adaptive design certifications, field training on flood/heat-proofing, and annual disaster drills; and (3) Strategic Planning through climate stress-tests for new projects, drought contingency plans for hydropower, and dynamic risk mapping for infrastructure upgrades. Together, these actions enhance preparedness against climate disruptions while aligning with Cambodia's NDC goals. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Builds long-term adaptive capacity, ensuring that energy sector institutions can anticipate, respond to, and recover from climate impacts and emergencies. CO-BENEFITS: - Economic & Workforce Development - Standardized emergency protocols improve collaboration between MME, disaster agencies, and local governments-- Environmental CoBenefits (drought contingency plans protect aquatic ecosystems, minimize backup generator use, extend asset lifespans reducing waste) CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Targets 30% female participation in technical training - Equips local leaders with knowledge to coordinate during energy emergencies and protects vulnerable communities through timely alerts about energy disruptions PS: Growth of REN sector through floating solar pumped storage projects, attracting green investments MME (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 0 (2020) TARGETS: 1. Achieve ≤30-minute response time for 90% of warnings by 2035 2. 75% of critical personnel trained and certified by 2027 3. 100% of new projects meet climate resilience standards by 2028 MRV: 1. Early Warning System Effectiveness 2.Workforce Climate Competency 3. Climate-Integrated Planning Compliance TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Digital platforms for training, ESWs in synergy with the tools used in disaster Risk management sector, and knowledge management systems |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Industry/IPPU: 4. Implement Heat Stress Adaptation Measures for Industrial Workers Implement comprehensive heat stress adaptation in industries using integrated prevention and alleviation strategies. Prevention: - Improve working conditions with better ventilation, lower humidity & breathable uniforms. - Implement engineering solutions like passive cooling, insulation, cool roofs, optimized ventilation, and solar-powered cooling. - Promote individual practices such as increased water intake and appropriate attire. Alleviation (Organizational & Support): -Conduct awareness campaigns and training on heat stress; -Ensure access to cool drinking water and designated rest areas (shade or air conditioned). ; -Adjust work-rest cycles based on heat. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: - Improves health, safety, and livelihood stability by reducing heat-related illnesses and maintaining work capacity - Sustains productivity and operational continuity, boosting competitiveness Community/National - Supports economic stability by protecting key industrial sectors and aids a ""Just Transition"" by integrating adaptation into labor policies. CO-BENEFITS: -Better public health and significant gains in worker productivity and output. -Improved occupational safety, job satisfaction, and worker morale. -Potential for energy efficiency, cost savings from optimized cooling, and reduced environmental impact from greener technologies. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI & PS: -Worker data disaggregated by sex, age and affiliation with marginalized groups. - Benefits for female workers, who dominate the garment sector, by improving their working conditions and health. - Reduced economic losses from climate-related power outages, supporting business continuity. MISTI (lead) WITH MLVT BASELINE INDICATOR: 60% of GFT workers experience seasonal heat stress TARGETS: -Develop heat stress regulation based on international standards adapted to local context for thermal comfort -Establish OSH management systems in all large factories -Launch at least 4 demonstration factory pilots meeting local heat stress standards on thermal comfort MRV: - Factories assessment reports - leverage on the National Energy Efficiency Policy (NEEP) reporting mechanism, especially for Designated Energy Consumers (DECs) (large factories). TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: AVAILABLE |
Economic security
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Agriculture: 5. Develop climate resilient crop varieties well suited to market demand Strengthen research, development, and commercialization efforts to support the creation and deployment of climate-resilient crop varieties in Cambodia. This includes accelerating research and breeding cycles, enhancing collaboration between research institutions and the private sector, and improving the scaling-up of new varieties through well-functioning seed value chains. Key activities involve strengthening the capacity of seed multipliers, increasing farmer awareness and adoption, and ensuring that high quality, resilient seeds are accessible and available at scale to support sustainable agricultural transformation. The main objectives indicated in following: 1. Support for certified seed production and community-based seed banks. 2. Mechanisms for seed distribution, quality assurance, and public-private partnerships in seed delivery. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: -Withstand extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, heatwaves, and salinity intrusion. -Maintain stable yields, reducing risk for smallholder farmers. - Resist pests and diseases that are becoming more prevalent due to shifting climate patterns. -Reduce dependency on single crops and improve food and income security. CO-BENEFITS: - improve dietary diversity and reduce hunger. - Strengthens national research institutions (e.g., CARDI), extension systems, and farmer organizations through skill development, technology transfer, and knowledge co-creation. - Crop diversification through resilient varieties contributes to food system sustainability. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - ensure the needs and preferences of women and marginalized groups are addressed through inclusive crop breeding programs (e.g., participatory variety selection) - improved access to climate-resilient seeds and knowledge to empower vulnerable populations, especially women across the value chain. MAFF (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 1) 38 crop varieties conserved (2020) 2) Research and development on agriculture productivity conserved/rejuvenated a total of 350 varieties of eggplant, chili, pumpkin, melon and sweet potatoes (2023) TARGETS: (2035): 1) 2,000 varieties conservation and rejuvenation per year; 2) At least 2 of high yield resilient/resilient varieties developed 3) At least 20% area of crop growing being adopted to resilient, high-yield crop varieties MRV: - MAFF annual reporting aligned with NDC tracking -database of rice breeding lines and released Varieties. -Map areas (hectares) planted with resilient high yield varieties. TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: 1) Widely available at research institutions (e.g., CARDI, IRRI collaborations ). Marker assisted selection accelerates breeding for drought, salinity, and pest resistance. |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Agriculture: 6. Increase climate smart practices and technologies on crop production This package includes actions to address current impacts of climate variability and extremes, as well as to ensure resilience to future change, including demonstration, financing and incentives. This will include evaluation and scaling up of current pilots. Includes climate smart extension services, with farmer support and extension services (Modern Agriculture Cooperative), enhance capacity for Integrated Pest Management and also backward linkages in supply chains. Includes Integrated pest and disease management/monitoring and surveillance. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: - Use of drought- and flood-tolerant crop varieties, crop diversification, and agroforestry practices -Adoption of reduced tillage, organic mulching, composting, and micro-irrigation systems -Timely weather and pest advisories reduce yield loss and increase preparedness -Improved yields, stable income, and reduced input dependency for smallholder farmers CO-BENEFITS: -Reduced GHG emissions from synthetic fertilizers, improved carbon sequestration through soil and biomass -Intercropping and crop livestock integration offers multiple income streams -Promotes safe food production with reduced chemical inputs - Enhances biodiversity, soil fertility, and pollination services -Improved access to information through mobile advisory systems -Opportunities in agritech services, CSA entrepreneurship, and digital agriculture CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: CSA practices tailored to women-led farms and vulnerable communities increase equitable access to resources MAFF (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: Technologies Developed: 4 types of climate resilient technologies have been developed in response to climate change (MoE Stocktake, 2024). TARGETS: (2035): 1) 4 Climate-Resilient Technologies adopted 2) CSA Adoption: 20% of total agricultural land under identified Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) management practices MRV: -MAFF annual reporting aligned with NDC tracking -Publications and reports -Baseline study on adoption rate of availability CSA technology management practices TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: 1) Water Saving: Drip, sprinkler, solar pumping and irrigation 2) Mobile Agro-climatic apps, satellite-based crop monitoring, SMS-based advisories |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Agriculture: 10. Improve Good Aquaculture Practices (GAqP) Encourage aquaculture producers to comply with technical requirement and regulation in order to ensure environmental health, Sustainability, Safety product for consumers and possibility for export market. Building capacity of adaption and mitigation to Aquaculture-related actors , including women and youth group at the ground where they inhabitant is a very important intervention to effective protection and conservation of fisheries resources, biodiversity and habitat. The capacity building focus on climate-resilient techniques, such as improved fish farming methods to cope with changing water availability and quality. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: It builds resilience by promoting sustainable resource use, climate-adaptive techniques, robust biosecurity, community cooperation, and knowledge transfer. Embedded in the SPF 2025-2033, these practices ensure aquaculture systems withstand climate and environmental stressors. GAqP incorporates climate-smart practices (e.g., water-efficient systems, low-carbon feeds like insect-based feeds) to reduce emissions and adapt to climate stressors like temperature spikes and erratic rainfall (SPF Sub-program 1: Aquaculture Enterprise Value Chains). It enhances aquaculture resilience, ensuring stable production and minimizing environmental impact. CO-BENEFITS: Low-emission, water-efficient farming Integration into national policies to ensure structured, long-term adoption of climate smart and sustainable aquaculture. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: N/A MAFF (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: (2025): 1) 5,000 aquaculture farmers 2) 600 Farmers have been building the capacity on GAqP. 3) 4,400 Aquaculture farmers are needed to build their GAqP TARGETS: (2035): 1) Select 100 GAP equipped farmers of 600 to upgrade further knowledge in GAqP and certify them as Training of Trainer 2) Select 1,000 farmers of total 4,400 SME aquaculture related actors to equip with GAqP 3) Select further 200 GAqP-equipped farmers of 1,000 upgrade further knowledge in GAqP and certify them as Training of Trainer 4) 300 ToT GAqP 5) 1,000 GAqP equipped Farmers MRV: Fisheries Administration Report MAFF Annual Report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Sensors and IoT devices monitor parameters like pH, oxygen levels, and Temperature in real-time |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Agriculture: 13. Improve Climate-Smart Fodder Management and production Enhance fodder management practices to improve livestock nutrition, increase farm productivity, and build climate resilience. This includes promoting drought-tolerant forage species, optimizing harvesting and storage techniques, and integrating agroforestry and rotational grazing systems. Improved fodder management reduces pressure on natural grazing lands, enhances carbon sequestration, and contributes to lower methane emissions supporting the transition to climate-smart livestock systems. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: It improves livestock nutrition, increase farm productivity, and build climate resilience. This includes promoting drought-tolerant forage species, optimizing harvesting and storage techniques, and integrating agroforestry and rotational grazing systems. It reduces pressure on natural grazing lands, enhances carbon sequestration, and contributes to lower CH4 emissions supporting the transition to climate smart livestock systems. CO-BENEFITS: 1) Cultivating improved forages is a low-cost means to improve cattle nutrition. Other feeds, supplements and additives also increase productivity and may be profitable; 2) Improved feeding increases cattle productivity and feed efficiency; 3) Improved feeding increases profitability of cattle raising; 4) Forage cultivation reduces women's labour burden of sourcing feed. 5) Supports adaptation through improved feed availability throughout the year CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Support women's role in cattle raising by involving them in training and farm decision-making. PS: Engage farms & SMEs in quality seed/vegetative matter production, and agro-dealers in supplement and additive supply MAFF (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: (2020): 2,318.13 hectares TARGETS: (2035): 22,000 hectares climate- Smart Fodder Management and production MRV: GDAHP Annual Reports TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: -Skills and knowledge for forage production and feeding exist in Cambodia; seed /vegetative matter can be sourced; -Other feeds and supplements available on the market; further investigation required to understand methane inhibitory properties of potential new feed additives |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - FOLU: 17. Improved forest management practices, such as integrated landscape management and sustainable forestry practices Improved forest management practices, including integrated landscape management and sustainable forestry practices, are crucial for long-term forest health and resilience, particularly in the face of climate change. These practices involve adapting management strategies to changing conditions, ensuring the ecological, social, and economic benefits of forests are maintained. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Improved forest management boosts ecosystem and community resilience while securing long-term ecological and economic benefits. CO-BENEFITS: Enhanced biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and ecosystem resilience. Strengthened community rights, knowledge, and participation CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - % of women, including ethnic women, consulted on the development of forest management plans for Protected Areas (PAs), Community Protected Areas (CPAs), Community Forests (CFs) - # of women and indigenous people in forest management committees and local governance bodies MOE (lead) WITH MAF BASELINE INDICATOR: (2025): 1) 530 498 ha under the management of CF 2) 87755 ha of CF under CFMP. 3) 26000 ha under IFM for sustainable wood harvesting TARGETS: All forest land, including PAs, CFs, CPAs, and CFis, will be brought under improved Forest Management Plans by 2050. 60% by 2035. MRV: -Number of PA, FiC, CPA, CF, and CFi with improved forest management plan. -BTR reports, other annual reports, and project reports TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: 1) Forest Zoning and Landscape Planning 2) Enrichment Planting method |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - FOLU: 18. Forest Ecosystem adaptation and resilience through protection of the existing forest and biodiversity ecosystem: Conservation Forest ecosystem and forest biodiversity in the production forest area. High Conservation Value (HCV) areas located within production forest zones under the jurisdiction of MAFF/FA represent significant potential for forest and biodiversity conservation, contributing to climate adaptation efforts. These HCV areas include watershed management zones, tree seed conservation areas, biodiversity protection habitats, and forest recreation sites, all managed under the authority of MAFF/FA. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: It contributes to regulating climate and water cycles, conserve biodiversity, preserve genetic resources, and provide vital ecosystem services and livelihoods that support both nature and communities. CO-BENEFITS: Improved water security, biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, disaster risk reduction, and support local livelihoods through sustainable forest use and ecotourism, while preserving cultural and recreational values for communities. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: integrated land use planning, clear demarcation and legal recognition of HCV areas, inclusive governance involving local communities and IPs, capacity building for forest rangers and subnational authorities, gender-responsive and socially inclusive conservation strategies, and robust monitoring systems MAFF (lead) WITH MOE BASELINE INDICATOR: (2025): 5000 ha is under current conservation status of CF, Forest Restoration area TARGETS: 30,000 ha of production forest is under the management for forest ecosystem and biodiversity conservation MRV: - Annual production forest land under improved forest management in ha - Annual reports, and project reports (e.g. FA annual report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: 1) Forest Zoning and Landscape Planning 2) Enrichment planting method |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - FOLU: 19. Forest Ecosystem adaptation and resilience through restoring of the degraded forest and biodiversity ecosystem: Restore forest ecosystem and biodiversity conservation in watershed management area, forest recreation, MAFF/FA managed forest, ecosystem conservation, and climate change adaptation. Degraded forest ecosystems under the jurisdiction of MAFF/FA hold significant potential for ecological restoration, offering opportunities to transform these areas into landscapes that contribute meaningfully to climate change adaptation and environmental resilience. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: It will boost resilience by reviving ecological functions, enhancing climate adaptation, reducing disaster risks, and supporting biodiversity, carbon storage, and sustainable livelihoods. CO-BENEFITS: Enhanced water regulation, soil stability, and carbon sequestration, supporting biodiversity recovery and reducing climate-related risks and contributing to sustainable livelihoods, ecotourism, and cultural values, strengthening both environmental health and community resilience. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: including integrated watershed and landscape planning, community-based restoration approaches, capacity building for local stakeholders and forest authorities, secure land and resource tenure, gender responsive and socially inclusive participation, sustainable financing mechanisms, and robust monitoring systems MAFF (lead) WITH MOE BASELINE INDICATOR: (2025): 5000 ha is under current conservation status of CF, Forest Restoration area. TARGETS: 30,000 ha of degraded production forest is under restoration for forest ecosystem and biodiversity Conservation MRV: Annual degraded forest land under restoration for ecosystem and biodiversity conservation in hectares. TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: 1) Integrated Watershed Management 2)Participatory Land Use Planning 3) ANR 4) Riparian Forest restoration 5) Erosion control in slope land |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Human health and WASH: 20. Enable effective decision-making for health interventions by developing a health national adaptation plan, improving surveillance and early- warning systems focused on climate-related health vulnerabilities among children and other highly impacted groups 1.Update NSP for Disaster Risk Management for Health and National Climate Change Action Plan for Public Health to reduce the risks and impacts of severe weather or emergency events (e.g., floods, drought, heatwave) at facility and community levels. ; 2.Enhance Dengue Sentinel Surveillance through lab maintenance, sample shipment processes, and staff support.; 3.Digitalize and integrate dengue and other vector-borne diseases, and climate data into existing Dengue and Malaria Information Systems for early warning and decision making for outbreaks/re-emergences of vector-borne diseases.; 4.Strengthen early warning and risk assessment by integrating multi-sectoral and multi source surveillance data through a dedicated platform at national and sub-national levels. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: -Enhances national adaptive capacity by supporting early risk detection and intersectoral response planning for climate-sensitive health threats and events; decrease case fatality rate and increase resilience - Foster multi-sectoral engagement, alignment and improving the health system's ability to respond, remain functional, and build resilience during extreme weather, minimizing service disruptions and health risks CO-BENEFITS: -Enhanced surveillance reduces illness-related absences and boosts school participation. - Strengthened EWS enable proactive infection prevention and control in healthcare settings. - Minimize contamination and improve waste management. - Reduce losses and support economic resilience. Strengthen governance and cross-sector coordination CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: target women and youth in the development of strategies/action plans where relevant PS: technology, participation in development of action plans and systems MOH (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 1)Disaster Risk Management for Health (2020-2024), NCCAPPH 2014-18; 2) Second NCCAPH (2020-2024) TARGETS: 1)Completion status of the National Strategic Plan for Disaster Risk Management for Health (2026-2030 and 2031-2035) and National Climate Change Action Plan for Public Health (2026-2030 and 2031- 2035) 2) Maintain regular surveillance of 15 samples per sentinel site with 15 sentinel sites 3) One digitized and integrated module per targeted vector-borne disease 4) 70% of PHD Staff trained in early warning protocols nationwide MRV: 1) Annual Report of the MOH 2) Annual Report of the MOH; Number of dengue sentinel surveillance sites according to annual reporting of the MOH 3) Reports of the digitized system 4) Reports of the integrated hub or MOH Annual Report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: QGIS DIS MoWRM R, remote sensing data |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Human health and WASH: 21. Enhance multi-sectoral coordination mechanisms to adapt and implement Climate Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health Care Facilities, including WASH, considering the needs of vulnerable groups (e.g., children, pregnant women, elderly, migrants, and persons with disabilities). 1. Update Technical Guidelines for HC Waste Management and National Guidelines for WASH in Health Care facilities. 2. Develop and implement a training package on environmental and health risks considering climate-resilience and environmental sustainability for promoting action. 3. M&E of Gender Mainstreaming Working Group at Sub National level on climate change adaptation in the health sector. 4. Conduct a WASH-FIT assessment for Healthcare Facilities and begin appropriate upgrades to healthcare facilities and/or WASH facilities within healthcare settings, for climate resilience. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: - Health care facilities and staff equipped to maintain Healthcare Waste Management guidelines, WASH-IPC guidelines, and provision of care during extreme weather event(s) - Ensure that health-related infrastructure is designed appropriately to provide necessary health services despite extreme weather, minimizing service disruptions and health risks CO-BENEFITS:- It improves health outcomes and community resilience by reducing climate-related illnesses and enhancing emergency response. Better health supports school attendance and learning. - Improving hygiene, maternal, newborn, and surgical care. Sustainable resource use, while improved waste practices protect the environment. - Economic opportunities expand through private sector engagement in sustainable health services. - Stronger governance builds institutional capacity and accountability at all levels CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: N/A MOH (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 1) Technical Guidelines for HC Waste Management (2011) and National Guidelines for WASH in Health Care facilities (2018) 2) # of healthcare workers trained 3) Number of provinces (0) 4) 25 of Healthcare Facilities included in WASH-FIT Assessment (in RTK). Number of climate-resilient Health and WASH facilities upgraded or constructed (30) TARGETS: 1) Updated Technical Guidelines for HC Waste Management and Technical Guidelines for WASH in Health Care Facilities every 5 years 2) 21,000 Healthcare workers trained 3) 10 Provinces engaged in gender mainstreaming of climate adaptation in health sector 4 250 HF across at least 10 Provinces completing WASHFIT Assessment 100 HFs with upgrades for climate-resilient Health and WASH MRV: 1/2/4: Annual Report of MOH 2) Training on Environmental Health 3) M&E reporting TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: HIS MODULE |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Human health and WASH: 22. Conduct climate risk assessments, develop a climate-resilient and inclusive WASH response framework, and monitoring and evaluation to strengthen climate risk informed programming across 25 provinces - Assessment of the climate risks affecting WASH services at the provincial level, and identification and prioritization of climate resilient WASH solutions using the UNICEF GWP strategic framework for WASH climate resilience; - Development of the provincial climate resilient and inclusive WASH framework, costed provincial action plan. ; - Monitor the implementation of the response framework through the MIS system. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: - Resilient WASH infrastructure that remain functional during extreme weather, minimizing service disruptions and health risks. - Resilient community: better anticipate and prepare for WASH related impacts like water scarcity, flooding, and infrastructure damage - Empowerment of local actors strengthening local governance and service provider capacity, reinforcing self-reliance and localized adaptation. CO-BENEFITS:- Improved health by reducing waterborne diseases, enhance school attendance particularly for girls and strengthen infection prevention in healthcare. - Efficient water use, reduce environmental contamination, improve waste management and protect water sources. - By saving time on water collection, they enable greater economic participation, especially for women. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: Gender: 1. Number of provincial climate resilient and inclusive WASH framework, and costed provincial actions plans. Baseline: 12 provinces (2024); MRD (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: BASELINE: 0 TARGETS: 25 provinces climate resilient and inclusive WASH framework and action plan developed based on the assessed risks) MRV: Provincial report and MIS report Target: 25 provinces (2035) 2. Proportion of women participating in the development of the provincial climate resilient and inclusive WASH framework, costed provincial action plans. Baseline: 30% (Year); Target: 60% (2035). TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: - The Global Water Partnership and UNICEF's Strategic Framework for WASH Climate-Resilient Development - Existing climate and WASH data. - Existing capacity of MRD's climate resilient WASH task force |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Human health and WASH: 23. Operationalize the implementation of the climate resilient and inclusive WASH response framework for climate-resilient, low-carbon, and inclusive WASH This measure promotes climate and WASH awareness among rural populations, especially vulnerable groups like women, children, and youth. It builds community capacity to understand climate-WASH-health links and encourages preventive behaviors to reduce related health risks: - Develop a community outreach strategy on climate impacts, WASH, and health - Create child- and youth-friendly materials to build early awareness and empower action - Conduct school and community campaigns on climate-WASH-health impacts and prevention measures RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: - Resilient WASH infrastructure that remain functional during extreme weather, minimizing service disruptions and health risks. - Resilient community: rural communities to have access to WASH services more resilient to climate shocks CO-BENEFITS: - GHG reduction through solar powered pump and improved FSM and treatment processes. - Improved health by reducing waterborne diseases and enhancing hygiene in healthcare settings. Better school attendance, particularly for girls, through inclusive sanitation. - Efficient water use, reduce environmental contamination - Creation of economic opportunities by freeing up time especially for women to engage in income-generating activities CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Youth engagement in the risk assessment and solution appraisal process PS: with piped water operator and sanitation service provider to increase coverage and promote innovative WASH technology in climate resilient, low-carbon and inclusive WASH service provision at the provincial level MRD (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: BASELINE: 0 TARGETS: 25 provinces implementing the climate resilient and inclusive WASH response framework MRV: MRD WASH information management system TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: The monitoring and evaluation system needs Information technology but can be locally sourced. |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Human health and WASH: 24. Streamline climate risk assessments and the implementation of climate resilient measures for piped water supply infrastructures and services, particularly in climate risk prone areas and promoting inclusive and pro-poor approaches for vulnerable communities, women and children. This measure aims to integrate climate risk considerations into the planning, design, and management of piped water supply systems, especially in areas highly vulnerable to climate change impacts such as floods, droughts, and rising temperatures. The focus will be on: - Conducting climate risk assessments for piped water systems to identify vulnerabilities and inform adaptation options. - Implementing climate-resilient measures such as flood-proofing, drought-resilient water sources, energy-efficient pumping systems. - Ensuring pro-poor and inclusive service delivery by prioritizing access for vulnerable groups, particularly women, children, and low-income communities. - Capacity strengthening of service providers and sub-national authorities to integrate climate resilience into water supply planning and operations. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: - Piped water systems are designed or upgraded to withstand extreme weather and reduced service interruptions during floods, droughts, and power outages. - Increases access to safe and reliable water during climate shocks, reducing health risks and time burdens, especially for women and children and enhances preparedness of vulnerable communities through improved service reliability. CO-BENEFITS: - Reduction of GHG emissions through solar powered pumping and improved operational Efficiency. - Reduction of waterborne diseases and improves health. Reduction of water collection burden especially for girls boosts school attendance. - Economic opportunities by freeing up time for income-generating activities, particularly in rural and peri-urban areas. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Prioritize poor and vulnerable communities in infrastructure improvements and access. PS: Encourage participation of local water operators in providing access to clean and safe piped water supply, especially to the most vulnerable communities. MISTI (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: (2025) 1) 29 piped water supply systems assessed for climate risk (using climate resilient water safety plan guideline as the tool) 2) 161 existing and new piped water supply systems retrofitted or built with climate resilient features 3) 5,941,685 people with access to climate resilient piped water services: persons TARGETS: 1.450 systems 2.450 systems 3.9,464,969 people MRV: MISTI water supply monitoring system TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Existing MISTI's climate resilient water safety plan guideline for piped water supply climate risk assessment Local capacity of resilient infrastructure design, construction and management |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Human health and WASH: 25. Promote and de-risk investments and climate financing for climate-resilient and low carbon water supply infrastructures and systems This measure aims to mobilize and scale up climate financing and investment both public and private for piped water supply infrastructure that is climate-resilient, low carbon, and inclusive. It will: - Develop enabling policies, financing instruments, and incentives to attract private sector participation in climate-resilient water supply. - Promote blended finance models that combine public, private, and international climate funds to reduce financial risks. - Facilitate technical assistance and capacity building for service providers to develop bankable, climate-aligned water projects. - Ensure investments benefit vulnerable communities, promoting equitable access and gender-responsive design. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: - Attracts investment in infrastructure built to withstand climate risks - Improves long-term access to reliable water services during climate shocks by financing resilient systems in vulnerable areas, reducing health risks and time burdens, especially for women and children and enhances preparedness of vulnerable communities through improved service reliability. CO-BENEFITS: • Reduction of GHGs and improved operational efficiency • Improves long-term access to reliable water services during climate shocks, reduces health risks and time burdens, especially for women and children and enhances preparedness of communities. - Minimizes resource use, environmental degradation - Improves planning, budgeting, and accountability for resilient infrastructure at sub-national levels. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Ensures investments prioritize inclusive service access and women's participation in decision-making. - Targets underserved and climate-vulnerable populations through pro-poor investment strategies. PS: Actively promotes partnerships with private actors, utilities, and climate financiers. MISTI (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 0 TARGETS: - 450 piped water supply projects financed using climate-aligned or derisked investment mechanism- 50% funded projects that include pro-poor, gender-sensitive components MRV: MISTI water supply monitoring system TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Local capacity of resilient infrastructure Design, construction and management |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Human health and WASH: 26. Update the national piped water data monitoring system with inclusion of climate resilient aspects to assess vulnerabilities, track progress, and ensure targeted interventions for the communities (with particular attention for women and children) living in climate disaster prone areas. This measure will enhance the national piped water data monitoring system by integrating climate resilience indicators to enable more effective and equitable decision making. It focuses on: - Capturing climate vulnerability data related to piped water infrastructure and service disruptions in disaster-prone areas. - Monitoring access and resilience gaps, especially among vulnerable groups such as women, children, and poor households. - Enabling data-driven planning and adaptation investments based on real-time information and climate risk analysis. - Ensuring accountability and transparency in climate-resilient WASH service delivery. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: - Enables proactive maintenance and climate-resilient upgrades based on performance and risk data and enhances adaptive capacity of service providers through evidence based planning. - Provides early warning for service risks and targeted support for vulnerable populations and improves equity by ensuring that those most affected by climate hazards receive prioritized attention. CO-BENEFITS: - DRR: Enables integration of WASH systems into broader early warning and disaster response planning. - Health: Improves targeting water services to prevent disease outbreaks after climate disasters. - Advances digital data systems and decision support tools for public service management. - Facilitates more efficient and sustainable use of water resources through informed planning. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Incorporates sex disaggregated data to ensure women's needs are visible and addressed in planning. - Focuses on vulnerable and underserved communities in climate-disaster prone areas. - Explore opportunities for youth involvement in data collection, digital system development, and community outreach. PS: Enables data sharing and collaboration with service providers for improved delivery. MISTI (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: Number of water supply monitoring system updated and operational with climate resilience indicators: Water supply monitoring system without climate resilience (2025) TARGETS: 1 water supply monitoring system updated and operational with climate resilience indicators. MRV: MISTI water supply monitoring system (WSMS) TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Local capacity and technology available for data monitoring system |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Human health and WASH: 27. Expand sewage and Fecal Sludge Management (FSM) systems coverage area in urban areas to reduce GHG and prevent contaminations during extreme weather events promoting pro-poor services for vulnerable groups, including women and children This measure aims to expand climate-resilient sewage and faecal sludge management (FSM) systems by at least 30% by 2035 in Cambodia's urban areas. It will: - Reduce GHG emissions from unmanaged human waste; - Prevent wastewater overflows and contamination during floods and extreme weather - Provide pro-poor, gender-sensitive sanitation services for vulnerable groups, especially women, children, and low-income households - Improve urban public health, environmental quality, and resilience through safely managed, inclusive sanitation systems. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: GHG mitigation potential: 2.68 Mt CO2e over a 10-year period. - Builds adaptive capacity of urban sanitation systems to enhance risk management of climate change impacts. - Reduces health risks (e.g., diarrhea, cholera) during climate-induced floods by improving containment and treatment, and enhances sanitation access for marginalized populations in flood-prone and informal urban settlements. CO-BENEFITS: Improved health Supports school attendance and learning. It protects water sources, soil, and ecosystems from contamination Contributes to climate resilient urban planning especially in informal settlements Creates jobs within the green economy. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Prioritizes safe and dignified sanitation services for women and girls, especially during floods. - Expands access for poor and underserved urban Populations. - Involves youth in awareness raising. PS: Encourages public-private partnerships in infrastructure, services, and Technology innovation. MPWT (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: Percentage increase in sewage and FSM service coverage in urban areas (Among the urban areas of the 25 Provincial Cities, 9 have wastewater treatment plants, and 2 have FS treatment plants) TARGETS: 30% MRV: MPWT sewage and FSM data monitoring system TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Local capacity available for resilient infrastructure design, construction and management (e.g. WSP, PTF, Conventional activated sludge, MABR…) |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Human health and WASH: 28. Establish a national sewage and FSM data monitoring system with inclusion of climate resilient indicators This measure focuses on the creation and operationalization of a national data monitoring system for urban sewage and FSM services, embedded with climate resilience indicators to: - Assess service coverage, infrastructure condition, and vulnerabilities to climate risks. - Track progress on the implementation of climate-resilient urban sanitation measures. - Enable data-driven planning and targeted interventions in disaster-prone and underserved areas, with special attention to women, children, and low-income communities. - Strengthen coordination, transparency, and governance in urban sanitation sector management. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: It enables the identification and upgrade of high emission or unsafe sanitation systems (e.g., open dumping of sludge) to reduce GHG emission. Supports GHG tracking and reporting in the sanitation sector CO-BENEFITS: Enhanced sanitation monitoring improves disease control, guides climate-resilient urban planning, and protects water resources from contamination. It supports evidence-based governance, strengthens sanitation in schools through targeted investments, and enhances disaster risk management by enabling early warning and rapid response to sanitation-related hazards. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Ensures that data disaggregation and analysis address the specific needs of women and girls in urban sanitation planning. - Identifies and targets underserved urban areas and marginalized populations. - Engages youth in data collection, digital mapping of sanitation infrastructure. MPWT (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 0 TARGETS: 1 national sewage and system established MRV: MPWT sewage and FSM data monitoring system General Department of Sewage and Wastewater Management/ MPWT reports PS: Supports market development for sanitation services and technologies. TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Local capacity available for setting up monitoring system |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Infrastructure: 29. Design and build guidance for climate-resilient houses and buildings for low-income households This intervention aims to design and construct affordable housing and buildings specifically designed to withstand the adverse effects of climate change, such as floods, storms and extreme heat. The goal is to provide safe, durable, and energy-efficient homes for low-income households, reducing their vulnerability while promoting long term resilience and improved living standards. The final output of this measure will be standardised and applied country-wide based on the disaster contexts in the areas. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Strengthen climate resilient houses and buildings for low income households. CO-BENEFITS: Improve adaptive capacity of low-income and vulnerable households by building climate-resilient houses. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Number of people from vulnerable groups accessing climate resilient housing, disaggregated (e.g., disability) Number of women and men architects, engineers, and human settlements experts participating in the design of climate resilient houses. MLMUPC (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: - Prototypes of Climate resilient house design or criteria developed by INGOs/DPs. No countrywide climate resilience house design standard yet. - MLMUPC's affordable Housing policy. TARGETS: - By 2028, development of guidelines for country-wide climate resilience housing and building design for low-income HHs and 60 climate-resilient houses built in coastal areas, disaggregated by sex. - By 2029, 500 engineers and local skilled builders trained on the guidelines disaggregated by sex. - By 2030, 500,000 low-income HHs will receive climate resilience housing design standards training disaggregated by sex of HoH. - By 2035, 500,000 low-income HHs will apply climate resilient house design, 4,000 climate resilience houses built, 100 in the coastal area disaggregated by sex of HoH, and climate resilience building design will be integrated into the building permit. MRV: ANNUAL REPORT Baseline: TBD (2025); Target: TBD of which 33% are women (2035) TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Design of climate-resilient houses in coastal areas already developed and available |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Infrastructure: 33. Rural road rehabilitation and improvement for climate change resilience This intervention aims to enhance the durability and accessibility of rural road infrastructure by integrating climate-resilient design and construction practices. The initiative reduces vulnerability to climate-related hazards such as flooding and erosion by rehabilitating and improving key rural road networks RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: These roads will be usable during disasters like floods, ensuring continued connectivity for rural communities during extreme weather events. CO-BENEFITS: Improved connectivity supports economic development, ensures continuity of essential services, and strengthens the adaptive capacity of rural communities in the face of climate change. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Proportion of women employed in rural roads construction projects. Baseline 15% (2025); Target 30% (2035) MRD (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: Length of roads in Double Bituminous Surface Retreatment pavement (DBST) 6,723 km, 1,804 km in concrete TARGETS: (2035): 12,000 KM (paved road) MRV: MRD's Annual Report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Available for resilient road construction, but advanced tech needed for Construction in challenging environments |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Infrastructure: 34. Repair and rehabilitate existing road infrastructure, ensuring climate-resilient designs, and establish effective operation and maintenance systems that consider the impacts of climate change This initiative focuses on restoring and upgrading existing road infrastructure by incorporating climate-resilient design standards that address the risks posed by climate change, including flooding and erosion. It also involves establishing robust operation and maintenance systems to ensure long-term functionality and resilience. By enhancing structural integrity and promoting adaptive maintenance practices, the program ensures safer, more reliable transportation networks that support economic activity and disaster risk reduction in a changing climate. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Strengthen the existing national and provincial road infrastructure to make it resilient to climate-related disasters. CO-BENEFITS: Avoid loss and damage due to climate hazards and ensure full and sustainable road operations for road users, particularly the most vulnerable group. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Proportion of women's participation in repairing and rehabilitating road construction. MPWT (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 591.6 km of roads repaired to meet climate-proofing standards. TARGETS: 5,000 km of repair roads using climate-proofing standards by 2035. MRV: MPWT's Annual Report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Road design specification and Resilient and Inclusive Design Principles developed by MPWT |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Infrastructure: 35. New national road construction with climate-resilient designs to withstand the impacts of climate change This initiative focuses on designing and constructing the new national road infrastructure using climate-resilient approaches that anticipate and withstand the impacts of climate change. This includes incorporating durable materials, advanced drainage systems, elevated roadbeds, and green belts to enhance long-term sustainability and reduce maintenance costs. The aim is to ensure road networks remain safe, functional, and cost-effective despite changing environmental conditions. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Proportion of women's participation as new national road construction Workers. - Proportion of women, men, and people from other marginalised groups participating in road development consultations. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Strengthen national road infrastructure to withstand climate related disasters. CO-BENEFITS: Avoid loss and damage due to climate hazards and ensure full and sustainable road operations for road users, particularly the most vulnerable group. MPWT (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 7,374.864 km of existing national roads as of 2024. TARGETS: (2025): - 300 km of new national road construction using climate-proofing road standards - 5% of 300 km of new national road construction with green belts MRV: MPWT's Annual Report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Road design specification and Resilient and Inclusive Design Principles developed by MPWT |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Infrastructure: 36. Develop and expand resilient school infrastructure by constructing new buildings and facilities, retrofitting existing structures, and designing climate-resilient infrastructure tailored to geographic and demographic needs This involves constructing new school buildings and facilities to meet climate-resilient standards. It also includes retrofitting and upgrading existing structures to withstand natural disasters such as floods. The infrastructure should be climate-resilient, incorporating sustainable materials and adaptable designs tailored to each location's geographic and demographic characteristics. The goal is to ensure safe, inclusive, and long-lasting student learning environments. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: It responds to climate related disasters such as temperature increase, drought, flood, storms and lightning. CO-BENEFITS: Boost enrolment rates and ensure the continuity of education during climate-related disasters. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: % of women, youth and people with disability in local consultations conducted on the design of school infrastructure and facilities MOEYS (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: (2025): 10 schools built and retrofitted TARGETS: - By 2026, complete guidelines for school resilience and shortlisted schools for construction. - By 2027, upgrade drawing materials for school resilience; - By 2028, the pilot 40 new climate-resilient schools will be constructed, and 10 schools will be retrofitted and upgraded to withstand natural disasters. - By 2035, 1,000 new climate-resilient schools will be constructed, and 200 schools will be retrofitted and upgraded to withstand natural disasters such as floods. MRV: MoEYS' Annual Report and construction department report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Solar energy, a cooling system, eco-system construction materials, and an early warning alerting system. |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Infrastructure: 37. Construct climate and Disaster Resilience Safe Evacuation Centres with integrated climate and inclusive disaster-resilient design in disaster-prone areas This involves the construction of Climate and Disaster Resilience Safe Evacuation Centres, which focus on building secure, durable facilities in disaster-prone areas that can serve as shelters during emergencies. These centres are designed with integrated climate and disaster-resilient features, including elevated structures, reinforced materials, sustainable energy sources, and water and sanitation systems. Beyond immediate safety, they provide dignified, accessible spaces that support and address varied needs of vulnerable populations especially women, children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities during crises. These centres also serve as community hubs for preparedness training and risk reduction education, enhancing long-term resilience and adaptive capacity. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Improve the climate-resilient construction practices and infrastructure standards across critical sectors CO-BENEFITS: Improve community safety during disasters. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: % of women participating in consultations on the planning of climate resilient and safe evacuation centres. NCDM (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: (2025): 10 (6 WFP, 1 NCDM and 3 MRD) TARGETS: - By 2028, review and update of the Gender Responsive Climate and Disaster Resilience Safe Evacuation Centres construction guidelines - By 2035, 25 trainings on SoP of Climate and Disaster Resilience Safe Evacuation Centres, and establishment of 20 Climate and Disaster Resilience Safe Evacuation Centres. MRV: NCDM's Annual Report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: The design of Climate and Disaster- Resilient Safe Evacuation Centres is available. |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Infrastructure: 38. Enhancing climate-resilient cities at the sub-national level by conducting climate vulnerability and impact assessments to integrate climate resilience strategies into sub-national development plans This initiative focuses on strengthening urban resilience by conducting detailed climate vulnerability and impact assessments with GEDSI within cities at the sub-national level. The findings from the assessment will inform the integration of climate resilience strategies into sub-national development plans. By aligning sub-national development plans with climate risk data, this approach enables cities to proactively address current and future climate challenges, ensuring sustainable, inclusive, and adaptive urban growth. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Strengthen climate-resilient cities CO-BENEFITS:-Develop environmentally friendly cities that ensure community safety during disasters. - Climate vulnerable groups, such as women and the poor population, benefit from climate resilient solutions from city governments. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: # of subnational development plans integrating gender and climate resilient measures with gender indicators, baselines and targets. NCDD (lead) WITH MLMUPC BASELINE INDICATOR: Draft Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessments for Subnational Adaptation in Cambodia (2025). TARGETS: - By 2030, at least 1 climate vulnerability and impact assessments will be conducted with GEDSI consideration to support city administrations' planning and investment. - By 2035, 10 cities will integrate data and results from climate vulnerability and impact assessments into their development plans for an urban sustainable, inclusive and adaptive urban growth. MRV: NCDD's Annual Report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: A guideline on Climate Resilience Infrastructure for subnational Administration s exists. Lack of appropriate technologies, such as climate data-driven tools to support city governments' decisions, climate-smart infrastructure, resilient city solutions, smart transportation, and EWS, among others |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Livelihood and ecosystems: 43. Establish and strengthen national biodiversity monitoring and assessment systems reflecting ecosystem and livelihood resilience Establish and strengthen national biodiversity monitoring and assessment systems reflecting ecosystem and livelihood resilience by developing and improving data collection tools (including community-based mobile application), formalizing institutional arrangement for integration into CEMIS with clear institutional roles, and ensuring the use of locally collected data to support inclusive planning and sustainable management of natural resources. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Enabling inclusive, evidence-based planning to sustain ecosystems and support resilient livelihoods. CO-BENEFITS: Empowering local communities through participatory data collection (e.g., mobile apps for reporting wildlife sightings), improving institutional coordination for biodiversity governance (e.g., clearly defined roles in CEMIS). CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Proportion of young people and women engaged in biodiversity monitoring and assessments. MOE (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 0 TARGETS: 30 communities trained and actively engaged in biodiversity data collection using standardized tools - 500 biodiversity citizen science contributions (i.e., community generated observations or monitoring data entry) integrated in national biodiversity monitoring and assessment -500/year data access from CEMIS for biodiversity data by the public MRV: - Training report(s) - MoE Report- Data access portal report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: N/A |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Livelihood and ecosystems: 50. Expand, establish and improve the management of coastal and marine protected areas Increase the coverage and improve the management of coastal and marine protected areas by applying ecosystem-based approaches that conserve biodiversity, restore critical habitats and ensure sustainable access to marine resources for local communities. These actions include recognizing and supporting Other Effective area based Conservation Measures (OECMs), enhancing enforcement, and enabling communities to benefit from ecologically intact and well-managed ecosystems that sustain livelihoods, ecosystem services, and coastal resilience in line with national and international conservation targets. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: -Protecting and restoring critical marine and coastal habitats such as coral reefs, seagrasses, and mangroves serve as natural buffers against storm surges, erosion, and sea-level rise. -Expanding and improving the management of protected areas, including recognition of OECMs, ensures ecosystem functionality that supports long-term climate adaptation for both nature and people CO-BENEFITS: -Biodiversity conservation, sustainable fisheries, and ecotourism opportunities. - Protecting marine habitats supports healthy ecosystems that provide food security, sustainable jobs and income, and cultural values for coastal communities. - Preservation and restoration of blue carbon ecosystems, including mangroves, tidal marshes, and seagrasses. These ecosystems store large quantities of carbon in their biomass and sediments. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Engage women and IPs in coastal and marine resource stewardship. - Proportion of population following sustainable fishing/marine harvesting practices, by sex and type of practice MOE (lead) WITH MAFF MLMUPC BASELINE INDICATOR: 0 TARGETS: - 5 marine and coastal protected areas established or strengthened, including Marine Fisheries Management Areas (MFMA) and Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) - 3 Research Report showing the number of people (disaggregated by gender and vulnerability) benefitting from improved access to sustainably managed marine and coastal resources - 3 Research Report showing the Improvement in marine resource conditions, such as increases in key biodiversity indicators (e.g., coral cover, mangrove extent, species richness, fish stock health) MRV: MoE and MAFF Report Assessment report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: GIS tools for marine zoning and biodiversity mapping, and mobile apps for community reporting of illegal activities |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Livelihood and ecosystems: 46. Identify zones within Protected Areas (PAs) that are threatened by climate risks and increase their resilience Identify zones within PAs that are threatened by climate risks and increase their resilience by demarcating zones crucial for ecosystems and community livelihoods and ensuring their intactness, it is possible to effectively maintain biodiversity, habitats, and ecosystems as well as livelihoods for IPLC in the concerned areas. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Ensures that intact ecosystems continue to provide essential services like water regulation, food sources, and habitat stability therefore it will reduce risk of drought, fires, or floods. CO-BENEFITS: Supports biodiversity conservation, safeguards ecosystem services, and secures traditional livelihoods CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: IPLC, including women, youth, and the elderly, are involved in identifying and managing climate threatened zones MOE (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 0 TARGETS: -10 Climate change vulnerability assessment of PA - 100% within PAs assessed on their climate vulnerability and size of areas being demarcated as threatened by climate risks calculated. - 100% of zoning and boundary systems that involve women and IPLC in restoration or natural resource management activities MRV: V&A of PA Report MoE Progress Report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Remote sensing tools, GIS-based climate risk mapping, and community-based participatory mapping platforms |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Livelihood and ecosystems: 47. Develop M&E framework for assessing climate impacts in PAs Develop and implement protected area-specific M&E frameworks to assess climate impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and the livelihoods of local communities in order to inform adaptive conservation strategies and strengthen climate resilience. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Enabling PAs' managers and communities to understand how climate change affects biodiversity, ecosystem services, and livelihoods CO-BENEFITS: Improved data for conservation planning, enhanced transparency in management effectiveness, and greater accountability to stakeholders CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Engaging women, IPs, and youth in data collection, interpretation, and feedback processes to ensure that conservation responses reflect diverse experiences and vulnerabilities MOE (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 0 TARGETS: - 5 Policy Brief or Research and Development Reports on climate-specific indicator and evaluation related to PA and/or biodiversity - 50% of protected areas with climate-specific monitoring and evaluation frameworks developed and operationalized MRV: Number Policy Brief or Research and MoE report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: CEMIS |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Livelihood and ecosystems: 48. Strengthen Private-Public Partnerships (PPP) to promote and operationalise Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in PAs Strengthen Private-Public Partnerships (PPP) to promote and operationalise Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in PAs contributing to resource mobilization to support biodiversity conservation and improving IPLC's livelihood. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Mobilizing sustainable financing through PES, which supports the protection of ecosystems that buffer climate risks such as forests, wetlands, and watersheds while providing direct incentives to IPLCs CO-BENEFITS: PES through PPPs generates multiple cobenefits: it creates green income for rural households, strengthens biodiversity protection, and builds local conservation leadership CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Women and marginalized groups in benefit-sharing agreements, governance structures, and capacity-building efforts MOE (lead) Lead LM: MOE BASELINE INDICATOR: 0 TARGETS: - At least 5 private sectors engaged in PES mechanism. - At least 15 private sectors consulted in PES mechanism. - 5 IPLC benefiting from PES. MRV: MOE REPORT TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Digital MRV platforms to track ecosystem service delivery |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Livelihood and ecosystems: 51. Register and increase climate resilience in ecotourism and community-based ecotourism sites Support community's livelihood by promoting official registration of Community-Based Ecotourism (CBET) with capacity building to these local communities, including indigenous people and women, on climate resilience/climate change adaptation. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Ecosystem conservation strengthens adaptive capacity, reducing vulnerability to climate shocks while promoting inclusive, sustainable development. CO-BENEFITS: Improving livelihoods through ecotourism income and job creation, strengthens local institutions and empowering women and IP with training and economic roles, and supporting ecosystem conservation by reducing harmful practices like illegal logging. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: N/A MOT (lead) WITH MOE MAFF BASELINE: 0 TARGETS: - 20 ecotourism community sites who received supports to promote climate resilience (50% women participants and 2 IP communities) - 20 ecotourism communities, homestays and tourism businesses awarded national or ASEAN green/sustainable tourism standards (50% women participants and 2 IP communities) - 10 communities implement the value added products development in agroecology (50% women participants) - 5 ecotourism sites and CBT/CBET registered to Green Destination Standard by Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC). MRV: MOT REPORTS TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Digital registration and a platform that can support the communities |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Disaster and climate risk management: 58. Improve early warning systems by ensuring inclusive dissemination and integrating digital platforms with impact-based forecasting under the Early Warning for All (EW4ALL) initiative. The intervention aims to expand coverage to poor households and vulnerable groups including rural communities, women, persons with disabilities, and marginalized populations. Automated data sharing across key platforms will improve access, focusing on women and at-risk groups. A Common Alert Protocol (CAP) will be adopted nationally to standardize alerts. The programme will also build knowledge and trust among vulnerable communities to act on warnings and develop accessible, user-friendly communication materials to strengthen disaster awareness and response. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: The availability of real time climate data supports informed decision-making and enhances community level preparedness and response to disasters. CO-BENEFITS: Water resources, meteorology, and agriculture will also benefit from potential cross-sectoral activities. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS:GESI: - % of women in the coverage areas reporting access to early warning system alerts. - # of people from marginalized groups (including youth and PwDs) report access to accessible early warning system alerts - # of IPs report access to accessible early warning system alerts (culturally appropriate/ in simple language/using visual information) NCDM (lead) WITH MOP, GS-NSPC, MOWRAM BASELINE INDICATOR: - 154,000 Subscribers to the EWS1294 - EW4All implementation roadmap developed - EWS materials for disability inclusion being developed - No endorsed EWS SOPs TARGETS: -1.2 million poor households connected to EWS1294 -50% of people living with disabilities, at least 50% of indigenous people and at least 80% of women have access to the alert mechanism, - National EW4All roadmap implemented and monitored - EWS materials for disability inclusion developed and rolled out - EWS SOPs endorsed and disseminated MRV: Number of household/people register to the system Annual Report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: - Automatic Weather and Hydrological Stations available, integrated into a broader Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) System. - Real-time technology based forecasting developed by advanced meteorological societies worldwide- EWS1294 early warning system |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Disaster and climate risk management: 59. Strengthen disaster preparedness and resilience by integrating anticipatory action (AA), securing appropriate financing, and enhancing local and community capacities. This includes adopting AA plan for priority hazards to boost community resilience, linking social protection programs to improve shock responsiveness, and exploring disaster risk financing. The intervention also builds local capacity through updated multi-sectoral contingency plans for floods, droughts, storms, and develops a heatwave action plan for Phnom Penh. Community-based initiatives will enhance vulnerable groups' ability to respond effectively to warning alerts. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: This helps reduce disaster impacts and strengthens local coping mechanisms. By tailoring existing social protection programmes and delivery systems to be more responsive to shocks, vulnerable populations can receive timely support during crises, enhancing their ability to recover and adapt CO-BENEFITS: Fosters stronger coordination among government agencies, humanitarian actors and local stakeholders leading to more efficient disaster governance. - Ensures that vulnerable populations especially the poor, elderly, women, and persons with disabilities receive targeted support, promoting equity and reducing social and economic disparities. - Enhances public understanding of climate risks and encourages proactive behaviors, fostering a culture of preparedness. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: % of women and other marginalized groups (PwDs, IPs, LGBTIQA+ and youth) benefitting NCDM (lead) WITH MOWRAM, MPTC, MOE, GS-NSPC, NBFSA/MEF BASELINE INDICATOR: -AA protocol for floods developed -AA working group established - DRF Strategy launched but not yet operationalized for AA TARGETS: - Harmonized multihazard AA protocols endorsed and piloted - AA integrated in national policies and strategies - DRF Strategy is operationalized for AA MRV: ANNUAL REPORT TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: N/A |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Disaster and climate risk management: 60. Strengthen the preparedness and response capacities of national and local institutions and communities through mainstreaming migration and displacement trends, gender and disability inclusion. Integrates inclusive DRM into Commune Development Plans (CDP) and Commune Investment Plans (CIPs), and develops gender-responsive, disability-inclusive emergency preparedness and response plans at the commune level. Capacity building for stakeholders, development of drought and heatwave contingency plans, and improved coordination through upgraded data platforms like PRISM and CamDi are prioritized. The programme enhances data collection on climate-induced migration, supports policy integration, and ensures vulnerable groups' needs are met in sector contingency plans with safe shelters. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: - It promotes long-term risk-informed planning that reflects the needs of all community members, including women, children, PWDs, and marginalized groups. - It facilitates better data integration and sharing, supporting effective forecasting, vulnerability assessments, and SRSP. Reliable, real-time data is crucial for timely action and targeted resource allocation. - Capacity building ensures a well coordinated, skilled, and informed response mechanism during disaster. - Strengthening data exchange and coordination at the sub-national and community levels improves the accuracy and rapid needs assessments, IDPoor list updates, and early warning dissemination. CO-BENEFITS:- Enhance overall preparedness and coordination, while ensuring the needs of vulnerable groups are addressed and strengthens inclusive preparedness. - Improves anticipatory action and minimizes sectoral losses. - Enhance data on climate linked migration and displacement to inform planning and protect displaced populations. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - % of women at the communes participating in the development of emergency response and contingency plans. - % of most vulnerable individuals including PwDs and LGBTQIA+ members have access to safe contingency measures NCDM (lead) WITH NCDD, PCDM BASELINE INDICATOR: - National contingency plan for flood - 25 provincial contingency plans for flood. - Commune Development Plans (CDP) and Commune Investment Plans (CIPs) don't systematically incorporate DRM/DRR measures TARGETS: -National contingency plan for drought and heat wave developed - CDPs & CIPs incorporate inclusive DRM/DRR measures - Sectoral (e.g., Education, Health, WASH, Food Systems, Shelter, etc.) contingency plans incorporate inclusive DRR principles MRV: Annual report Training report Number of research TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: EWS1294 early warning system Kobo toolbok for data collect for PRIS |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Disaster and climate risk management: 61. Enhance disaster risk analytics and identify vulnerable communities to support evidence-based decision-making. This includes developing risk knowledge products that address the diverse needs of vulnerable groups considering gender, age, geography, and disabilities to improve effectiveness for decision-makers. It also involves creating climate hazard and gender responsive vulnerability assessments and monitoring tools for informed risk management. Additionally, this will strengthen data sharing among key agencies to Improve targeting and coordination, ensuring more accurate and inclusive disaster risk analysis and response planning. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: - Inclusive knowledge products to strengthen equity in planning by addressing diverse needs. - Inclusive risk and vulnerability assessment to improve targeted, risk-informed decisions. - Enhance data sharing to enable faster, coordinated, and effective responses CO-BENEFITS: -Promotes inclusive policies - Enhances the accuracy and relevance of preparedness plans, benefiting high-risk and underserved groups. - Improves coordination, reduces duplication, and supports faster, more effective decision-making. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: # of women, youth and members of other vulnerable groups engaged in the design of the knowledge products. NCDM (lead) WITH NCDD, PCDM BASELINE INDICATOR: - Disaster Risk Assessment Index developed and launched (AI powered disaster risk assessment in Cambodia) - PRISM and CamDi developed but not fully integrated into Government decision-making process - NCDDS is generating data and info related to vulnerabilities (such as down scale climate risk and vulnerability assessment) at the local level TARGETS: -Updated risk assessment developed by the Government - Updated multidisaster Risk Assessment - PRISM, CamDi and other relevant tools are fully integrated into the Government system to support decision-making. -Strengthening decision making for disaster risk management using down scale climate Data MRV: - Annual report - Number of Dashboard updated TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: N/A |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Disaster and climate risk management: 63. Establishment and modernization of a centralized and standardized meteorological and hydrological data centre for water management This measure targets the establishment of a data bank storage portal (Integrated Data Service Platform) accessible to all stakeholders and users, with a friendly access to it. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: It enhances the capacity of communities and ecosystems to adapt to and recover from environmental stresses and shocks, and it serves as a unifying mechanism that aligns and supports coherence across global frameworks related to sustainability, climate resilience, and disaster preparedness CO-BENEFITS:-Strengthened Collaboration Among Major Water Users - Helps reverse or halt the negative impacts of overdevelopment by promoting responsible and equitable water management. - Ensures that water systems continue to support both human needs and the health of ecosystems within the basin. - Improve evidence based data collection that can inform better design and project proposals CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Gender and age disaggregated data is collected and used at the water resource management info center MOWRAM (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 0 TARGETS: Integrated Data Service Platform hosted at MoWRAM to provide data to stakeholders who demand for hydrometeorological data (Web portal for data service) MRV: Annual and project report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: The National Water Resources Data Management Center (NWRDMC) is supported by partners such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB), European Investment Bank (EIB), Meteo France International, and others. |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Social protection, social services and child protection: 64. Building climate resilience among poor, vulnerable and at-risk population by strengthening routine social protection programmes and service delivery This Measure focuses on providing targeted, timely, and adequate social protection support, including cash, in-kind, and health services, to poor, vulnerable, and at-risk populations, including pregnant women and children under 2-years, school children, persons with disabilities, elderly, and persons living with HIV/AIDS, to enhance their adaptive capacity to climate change. This includes: 1. Strengthening routine social protection programmes access, implementation and enrolment with attention to gender and community engagement (e.g. intersectional gender analysis, public awareness campaigns); 2. Strengthening IDPoor system by addressing registration and verification challenges 3. Strengthening delivery systems, including grievance mechanisms and shock responsive components; 4. Implementing the National-Home Grown School Feeding (NHGSFP) Joint Transition Strategy. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Improved adaptive capacity of the population, especially among climate vulnerable groups, reduced risk of impoverishment due to climate shocks, advancement towards universal social protection floor commitments (adopted in 2012 by countries including Cambodia), strengthened national systems, ownership and accountability CO-BENEFITS :Enhanced coordination for disaster risk management response, improved levels of awareness among communities CROSSCUTTING TOPICS:GESI: Ensure gender equity and disability inclusion by prioritizing support/targeted campaigns for female-headed households and marginalized groups. Enhance service delivery mechanism and/or finance awareness campaigns and training. Track using disaggregated data by gender, age disability. GS-NSPC (lead), WITH MOP, MOE, MOSVY, MOH, MOEYS, MLVT, MOWA, NSAF, NSSF BASELINE INDICATOR: -2025: 90% of IDPoor households registered in the Family Package programme - 2024: 553 schools under the national Home-Grown School Feeding programme - 2024: 45 % of population covered by social health protection TARGETS: - 95% of IDPoor households registered in the Family Package programme - 1114 schools under the national Home- Grown School Feeding programme - 80 % of population covered by social health protection MRV: NSAF Family Package MIS data disaggregated by age, sex, disability status - Reported by MoEYS-WFP school records - Annual reporting from GS-NSPC TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Extensive mobile Banking network and G2P online payment systems; IDPoor, Digital Social Protection Platform (DSPP) in expansion |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Social protection, social services and child protection: 65. Reducing climate vulnerability among poor, vulnerable, and at-risk population by implementing shock responsive social protection (SRSP) and improving interoperability of social protection systems This measure focuses on strengthening the five building blocks of the SRSP Framework to ensure systematic, predictable, timely and effective support for poor, vulnerable, and at-risk populations including pregnant women and children under 2- years, school children, persons with disabilities, elderly, and persons living with HIV/AIDS facing climate and other shocks. This includes: 1. developing and implementing shock responsive social protection system as well as improving IDPoor identification of climate-vulnerable households, service delivery and monitoring while leveraging interoperable systems and data exchange mechanisms and 2. Expanding the Digital Social Protection Platform to link with early warning systems, enabling social protection beneficiaries to receive customized early warning messages, in alignment with CREWS and EW4ALL initiatives. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Timely responses to shocks tailored to the needs of specific groups will reduce vulnerability by enabling communities to prepare for and cope effectively with the impacts of climate shocks, thereby minimizing loss of life and property. The use and expansion of SRSP will also strengthen government systems, delivery mechanisms and improve efficiency of operations, thus increasing systemic resilience in addition to community resilience CO-BENEFITS: Improved disaster preparedness and response across vulnerable communities and systems, strengthened trust and engagement in social protection programmes and overall governance, reduced physical and economic losses and mitigated impacts from climate related hazards CROSSCUTTING TOPICS:GESI: Climate forecasts/data informed programme designed will allow for needs-based service packages as well as tailored messaging for women, youth, elderly persons, ethnic minorities and persons with disabilities, using inclusive languages and formats. Track using data disaggregated by gender, age and disability. GS-NSPC (lead), WITH MOP, WITH MOP, MOSVY, NCDM, MOWRAM, MOEYS, MOE, GDB/MEF, MOI, MOWA, NCDDS, NSAF, NSSF BASELINE INDICATOR: 2025:0 TARGETS: -4 operational guidance developed and endorsed to make SRSP - 3 disaster risk assessments conducted for different climate hazards, focusing on poor, vulnerable and at-risk population - 2 Impact based triggers established for SRSP to address different climate hazards - 5 databases/ systems integrated with the Social Protection Registry to ensure interoperability for rapid data sharing during climate shocks - 40 training provided to sub-national administrations in areas at risks of climate change disaster on social protection and climate adaptation MRV: Annual reporting from GS-NSPC Annual tracking of technical specifications and API reports TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: PRISM and IDPoor, EWS1294 system established, work on API between IDPoor and EWS1294 ongoing, Mobile based SMS and IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems for alert dissemination , trials with use of AI undergoing, real time tracking of hazard information |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Social protection, social services and child protection: 66. Enabling a just and inclusive transition by expanding social protection to those whose livelihoods are/will be affected by climate change This measure includes: 1. the implementation of the National Graduation-Based Social Protection Programme to enhance the climate resilience and adaptive capacities of poor and vulnerable households through training, improved livelihood options, and providing sustainable pathways out of poverty; 2. the design of a Family Package referral and linkage mechanism to strengthen access to essential services and promote climate-resilient development. In addition, this measure assesses the feasibility of: 1. a Cash-for-Work Programme under NSPC coordination for climate adaptation and mitigation, including during shocks; 2. unemployment related support for those who become unemployed, including as a direct result of climate change or Cambodia's green transition. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Targeting based on climate vulnerability indicators allows selection of households that are most at risk from climate events, and safeguards economic destitution by building household level capacities Complementary training will promote income diversification and investments in productive assets, thereby reducing underlying vulnerabilities and preventing negative coping strategies CO-BENEFITS: Strengthening of local economy; less reliance on negative coping strategies to cope with climate risks and increased financial capacities of households and communities, leading to improved health, wellbeing, human development and reducing overall vulnerability to climate change impacts CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Vulnerable groups in most at risk areas exposed to climate hazards prioritized for income support and income diversification options. Training included will enable climate smart agriculture and productive investments that safeguard loss of income due to climate hazards when dependent on one source of income. Track using data disaggregated by gender, age, and disability. GS-NSPC (lead) WITH MOP, OSVY, MLVT, MOE, MAFF, MRD, MOWRAM, GDICDM, MEF, GDB/MEF, MOWA, NSAF, NSSF, PROVINCIAL AND MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES BASELINE INDICATOR: 2025:0 TARGETS: -50,000 IDPoor households receiving Graduation based Social Protection Programme - 1 completed design and pilot of the Family Package Referral and Linkage Mechanism - 2 feasibility studies conducted to set up additional new social protection programmes MRV: - Annual tracking of graduation-based programme's beneficiary data disaggregated by age sex, disability status - Annual reporting by GS-NSPC TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Mobile banking for quick wage payments, IDPoor database indicating number of individuals in natural resource dependent livelihoods disaggregated by age, sex, disability and ethnicity |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Social protection, social services and child protection: 67. Establishing the foundations for climate-sensitive housing related support for poor, vulnerable and at risk population through the social protection system This measure aims to explore housing related support to enable access to affordable, safe, and climate-resilient housing to vulnerable populations, including those in informal settlements prone to climate hazards like heat waves and floods. It includes: 1. a feasibility study to understand needs arising from climate change impacts by exploring climate-sensitive housing related supports for vulnerable groups and demand for other social protection supports; 2. a feasibility study to examine the potential for providing support to vulnerable groups residing in pagodas and other religious sites. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Affordability of safe, climate resilient housing reduces vulnerability to climate hazards (e.g., floods, heatwaves) and improves health outcomes thus enhancing the adaptive capacity of different groups. Additional subsidies for meeting increased energy costs can also help in building resilience and preventing additional expenses among poor households CO-BENEFITS: Improves living conditions and public health and WASH, reduces urban heat islands; increases economic opportunities through construction and renovation activities; promotes coordinated and climate sensitive urban development planning CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Prioritize housing for female-headed households, elderly residents, persons with disabilities, and young girls moving to urban cities from rural areas. Additionally, youth could be involved in urban greening projects as part of public works programs, thus supporting skill-building and employment. PS: Could be involved in green technology supply. GS-NSPC (lead), WITH MLMUPC, GDB/MEF, GDPPP/MEF, MOP, MOSVY, MOCR, NSAF BASELINE INDICATOR: 2025:0 TARGETS: 2 feasibility studies conducted to assess housing support mechanisms for poor and vulnerable groups MRV: End line reporting on completed feasibility study TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: IDPoor for identification of urban poor, urban greening technology examples, expanding Digital Social Protection Platform. |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Social protection, social services and child protection: 68. Expand Specialized Social Services (SSS) and reinforce the climate resilience of all rehabilitation centers, residential care institutions (RCIs) and communities Extending social work interventions, counselling, holistic care, therapy and medical support for persons with disabilities, the elderly and individuals in rehabilitation centers, residential care institutions (RCIs) and community-based centers to receive safe and supportive services before, during and after emergency responses of natural disasters of climate change. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: The service providers use case management procedures to analyze the causes, problems and needs of the clients to link them to social services and SSS that they need the most. Through intervention and counselling, they can observe and obtain information relevant to any disasters and global warming that can cause heat stroke, mental health problems, eye problems, etc. During the services, clients will obtain basic knowledge of how to adapt to climate resilience at home and outdoors. All the residents in state, private and NGO centers/RCIs need to be trained to adapt the climate resilience. All centers/RCIs need to meet the standard of green environment and energy. CO-BENEFITS: Through intervention, counselling, care and therapy, clients will have better health, and SSS will help cut down the expense and time of the individual and family for not visiting the hospital. Having a green environment and energy at the center of RCIs can reduce state expenses and promote a healthy environment for the residents. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Data disaggregated by gender and age to obtain the specific number of women, elderly women, and girls who are victims and vulnerable individuals receiving safe and supportive emergency responses and other SSS before, during, and after climate induced natural disasters. MOSVY (lead) WITH MOH, MOI, NCDM BASELINE INDICATOR: BASELINE:0 TARGETS: By 2035: - # victims and vulnerable individuals received counselling attached with climate resilience knowledge 340,000 PwDs holding PwDs Card 300,000 Elderly as the member of association 3,500 Homeless People 9,499 Children and Youth in the centers: - Evaluated as a standard of climate resilient place for the victims and vulnerable groups: 252 RCIs 1 Juvenile Center 5 Transit Centers 19 Drug Rehab. Centers 15 Rehab. Centers for PwD. - 5 policies and SOPs built or updated to include the climate resilience, disaster risk reduction and emergency response intervention for victim and vulnerable groups in the centers and RCIs MRV: Admin. Report and Integration Case Management System (ICMS) TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Laptops and Apps such as Ms. Office and data analysis tools, Integration Case Management System (ICMS) |
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Social protection, social services and child protection: 69. Integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change into the planning, development and support of the Social Service Workforce through enhancement of legal framework, adoption of quality assurance system and capacity building of the SSW 1. Integrate climate change into quality assurance for the social service workforce, draft child protection law, and Child Protection SOPs.; 2. Develop evidence-based training curricula on climate adaptation, green practices, and social work in disaster risk reduction. ; 3. Build capacity of the social service workforce on climate-responsive child protection and disaster risk reduction.; 4. Strengthen child protection services responsive to climate and disability, including integrating a climate marker in Primero and case management 5. Ensure SSW inclusion in disaster responses, data systems, and relocation planning. 6. Promote child and youth participation in climate-responsive protection systems.; 7. Conduct risk assessments for diverse groups of children (e.g., indigenous, rural, disabled) to inform tailored responses. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Builds institutional resilience by integrating climate and disaster risk considerations into social service workforce Development. Strengthening the legal framework, quality assurance, and capacity of the workforce ensures a more adaptive and responsive child protection system during climate-related emergencies. CO-BENEFITS: - Ensures more responsive child protection services during climate-related emergencies. - Strengthens legal and quality assurance systems for a climate-informed social service workforce. -DRR: Enhances frontline capacity to respond to child protection risks linked to climate shocks. -Supports use of climate data and case management systems to inform services. - Promotes disability responsive and gender sensitive protection during displacement and recovery. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Gender-responsive and disability inclusive social service workforce - Youth inclusion in training development and community outreach activities. PS: Opportunities to engage training institutions or tech providers in workforce capacity building and data systems. MOSVY (lead) WITH MOI AND SNA BASELINE INDICATOR: - Social service workforce quality assurance system inclusive of Climate change (DRR and Climate Resilient SSW) developed and operational - Baseline: Quality assurance system for social service workforce is in development stage (score 8 of 16) in 2023 - Baseline: 0 TARGETS: -Quality assurance system for social service workforce is well developed (score 16) - 379 trained social service workforce have engaged in disaster risk reduction, climate change adaption and climate resilience programming (preparedness and response) - Climate responsive child protection services case management system developed and operationalised to identify and address protection risks through capacitated, resourced, and social service workforce - A system enabled social service workforce to collect, analyse and share data (e.g. displacement tracking, damage, loss and recovery needs assessments…) developed and operationalized MRV: Child Protection Information Management System, Government Partners Reports Primero case Management system TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Primero case management system Child Protection Information Management System Registration, Accreditation and Licensing System Supervision System Human Resource Information Management System |
Economic security
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| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Social protection, social services and child protection: 70. Embed child protection provisions in climate policies and planning to address children affected by climate change, particularly child trafficking, migration, and repatriation, and to ensure adoption of risk mitigation for children affected by climate change, with a focus on case management and social work 1. Collect data on children affected by migration and trafficking, with analysis of climate change impacts to inform policy and programmes. 2. Develop and implement SOPs on child protection in contexts of migration, trafficking and violence, integrating climate change adaptation.; 3. Strengthen child protection services and case management for children impacted by climate-induced migration, trafficking, and violence. ; 4. Enhance coordination on child protection across ministries and with destination countries.; 5. Include children and youth perspectives in policy and SOP development. 6. Use child- and youth-friendly formats to share SOPs and climate adaptation information with at-risk children. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Builds system resilience by ensuring climate-sensitive child protection systems can more effectively respond to risks such as trafficking, violence, and unsafe migration. - Embedding case management and social work into adaptation and migration planning enhances the protective environment for children facing climate-induced displacement. CO-BENEFITS: -Reduces exposure to violence, exploitation, and trafficking during climate-related displacement - Embeds child protection into national and cross-border migration and adaptation policies. - Increases protection for children on the move during climate-induced crises. - Strengthens data systems to inform child-focused migration and trafficking responses. - Supports targeted case management for high-risk and marginalised children. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Addresses vulnerabilities of girls, migrant children, and trafficked children through integrated and inclusive protection mechanisms. PS: Potential to collaborate with ICT and data providers to strengthen case management and migration tracking systems. MOSVY (lead) WITH MOI NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR COUNTER TRAFFICKING (NCCT), SNA BASELINE INDICATOR: BASELINE:0 TARGETS: -1 research and study on children in the context of migration and human trafficking with deep dive of impact of climate change - 2 MoU (2026) or SOPs on child protection in the context of migration, trafficking, violences with inclusive of climate change adaptation developed and endorsed - 5000 children in the context of migration, trafficking, violences with inclusive of climate change adaptation received child protection services MRV: MoSVY and NCCT report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Primero case management system Child Protection Information Management System |
Gender-based violence
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Adaptation | Other |
| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Air quality: 73. Enhance air quality monitoring: expand coverage and upgrade equipment and the centralized data center This measure enhances Cambodia's Air Quality (AQ) management system by expanding the number of air quality monitoring stations nationwide and upgrading the AQ monitoring stations as well as upgrading the centralized data center. The expanded network will ensure province-wide coverage, enabling the collection of accurate, real time data on key air pollutants. The centralized center located at the MoE processes, analyzes, and disseminates AQ data through a publicly accessible digital platform, including a mobile application that provides real-time air quality updates, alerts, and health advisories. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Strengthen public health resilience by enhancing early warning systems for climate-related health risks, providing timely data that enables vulnerable communities to take precautionary measures, adopt appropriate behavioral responses during high pollution events (e.g., reduced outdoor exposure), and support the implementation of emergency health protocols. CO-BENEFITS: -Promotes environmental awareness, supports public health interventions, and empowers communities through improved access to information. - Enhances intersectoral coordination and policy alignment on air quality, health, and climate action. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Mobile application will be available in Khmer and designed for accessibility by women, vulnerable group, and persons with disabilities MOE (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: (2025) - 13 reference air quality monitoring stations were installed (3 stations in the capital city and 10 stations in provinces). - website and app established https://airquality.moe.gov.kh/home TARGETS: (2035) - 28 stations (15 new stations) installed. - The Chakra mobile application will be upgraded to incorporate advanced system features, enhancing functionality through the advance of the monitoring centralized center. MRV: Annual MoE report and data collected from monitoring stations transmitted to central servers TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: YES |
Health
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Adaptation | Health |
| Cambodia | Adaptation Measures - (Table 8/Annex 1) - Air quality: 74. Strengthen emission control and management in factories This measure aims to control air pollution and industrial emissions from key sectors such as cement, coal power plants, and garment factories by equipping with Continuous Emission Monitoring System (CEMS) and emission control, following the national emission standard and existing air quality control regulations. RESILIENCE BUILDING POTENTIAL: Improved air quality, reduced respiratory illnesses, green job creation through pollution control technology, and improved industrial compliance capacity. CO-BENEFITS: -Enhances institutional capacity for pollution control and reduces climate-related health risks for urban and periurban populations exposed to industrial emissions. - High potential to monitor the actual reduction of GHG and non-GHG pollutants (black carbon, dust) from combustion processes, contributing to national mitigation commitments CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Promotes gender-responsive occupational health standards in industrial zones; includes social safeguards for workers PS: encourages private sector investment in clean technologies MOE (lead) WITH MISTI BASELINE INDICATOR: N/A TARGETS: -By 2027, a platform to collect AQ data from factories is operationalized. - By 2035, 100% of cement and coal power plants with Continuous Emissions Monitoring System(CEMS) equipped and 80% of garment factories have emission control systems installed. MRV: Annual reports, data from the platform, and inspection reports. TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: YES |
Health
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Adaptation | Industry |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Education, information and awareness raising: 1. Implement safe schools and Eco-schools to promote environmental sustainability, ensure resilient facilities, uphold child rights, and support continuous learning Increased ambition and coverage to implement both safe schools and eco-schools. This involves the implementation of the National Guidelines on Eco-school and the Guidelines for Safe School Framework as part of the child-friendly school program, which the MoE has developed to promote environmental friendliness and ensure the safety of students before, during and after climate-related hazards. These schools prioritize the rights and needs of children, ensuring inclusive access to education in all circumstances. By integrating green infrastructure and disaster risk reduction strategies, they support continuous learning and community resilience while fostering environmental awareness among students. CO-BENEFITS: Contributing to environmental friendliness by implementing an Ecoschool and Safe School Frameworks. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: 50% of girls and women are participating in implementing Ecoschools and safe schools. Children with disabilities are also participating. MOEYS (lead) WITH MOE BASELINE INDICATOR: - 85 Eco-schools (68=MoE, 17=MoEYS) - 114 (primary) safe school (MoEYS with CRF) - 74 (primary) Safe schools and Ecoschools (MoEYS with support from Save the Children) TARGETS: - 1000 schools will implement eco-schools by 2035. - 1000 schools will implement safe schools by 2035. MRV: MoEYS annual report, Education Congress report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Eco-school guidelines (2016, MoE and MoEYS) Safe School Framework (2023, MoEYS) |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Other |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Education, information and awareness raising: 3. Upgrade non-formal education curriculum to build green competencies Adjusted measure aligned with new policy frameworks such as ESP 2024-2028, which aims to: - Enhance the curriculum and teaching materials for non-formal education including life skills and green competencies - Implement the updated curriculum through Lifelong Learning Centers (LLCs) CO-BENEFITS: Students shall understand the concept of climate change mitigation, pollution, biodiversity, environmental conservation and 5Rs strategies CROSSCUTTING TOPICS:GESI: - green skills training for out-of-school youth, women, and marginalized groups - Youth perspectives will inform the design of non-formal learning pathways PS: Private sector actors will contribute to identifying priority green competencies and co-developing training modules that match labour market demands. MOEYS (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: By 2025, 23 Lifelong Learning Centers (LLCs) upgraded TARGETS: By 2035, 50 LLCs implement updated curriculum MRV: Non-Formal Education (NFE) reports on LLCs implementation of standards and curriculum TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: 1. Education for sustainable development: a roadmap 2. Greening curriculum guidance: teaching and learning for climate action |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Other |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Education, information and awareness raising: 6. Promote environmental sustainability and climate resilience in Cambodia by integrating green concepts into the national Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system. CO-BENEFITS: - Green job creation and entrepreneurship - Gender empowerment and social inclusion - Safer and healthier learning environments - Local innovation and community resilience CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: Gender equality, youth empowerment, rural inclusion, digital transformation, private sector engagement MLVT (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: • < 5% of TVET graduates trained in the green concept • 0 green institutions • N/A female participation TARGETS: At least 60% of all public TVET students graduate with certified green skills (generic or specific); - 20 institutions implementing Green TVET practices. MRV: Annual report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Basic digital and classroom tools, solar energy kits, smart agriculture tools, and green training materials. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Other |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Education, information and awareness raising: 7. Expand the number of broadcasting programs on climate change to increase understanding, promote best practices and combat misinformation - Develop and implement broadcasting and awareness programs on climate change through roundtables, banners, radio, tv and online media; - Organise trainings for journalists to combat fake news and misinformation. - Cooperate with other LMs on technical support; - The training topics include climate change, gender, social inclusion. CO-BENEFITS: Green journalism jobs Preserving traditional knowledge Better understanding of good environmental practices CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - At least 20% women access to training, roundtable and access to media/broadcasting programs - # of women, Indigenous People, people with disabilities and local communities reached through broadcasting and reporting on climate change - 20 people from marginalized groups (women, Indigenous People, people with disabilities and youth) supported to serve as resource people for training of journalists and as journalists MONIFO (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: - 11 roundtables - 71 news articles (Khmer, English and French, and 1 Photo news - 62 topics of news feature (national radio) - 68 topics of news feature (AKP) - 40 topics of news feature (App MoINFO) TARGETS: - 20 workshops/2,400 journalists trained on climate change and combating fake news. -10 million people reached through 1,000 banners in provinces -10 million people reached from 18,000 individual broadcasts by 5 private and state TV stations -20 million people reached by 12,000 individual broadcasts from 25 public and state radio stations across 25 provinces - Broadcasts in Khmer and in indigenous languages -10 million viewers reached through 18,000 social media posts on 5 social channels -1,200 print articles MRV: - Annual report and survey of sample population through Provincial Department of Information on the audiences of radio, TVs and banners. TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Existing digital and physical platforms |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Other |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Education, information and awareness raising: 9. Promote climate conscious thinking among civil servants Increase the number of trainings for government officials across ministries on key climate policies and strategies, including the NDC, CCCSP, Circular Strategy on Environment and others in collaboration with National School of Local Administration (NASLA). CO-BENEFITS: Increased level of implementation across mitigation and adaptation actions in different sectors CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Number of officials trained on gender and climate change links, participation data disaggregated by sex MOE/NCSD (lead) WITH NASLA BASELINE INDICATOR: 3 trainings/ year TARGETS: - 40 trainings conducted by Dept. of Environmental Education (4/year) - 4,000 (1,000/year) government officials trained by 2035 MRV: Training reports TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: N/A |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Education, information and awareness raising: 11.Strengthen community resilience to climate-related health risks by developing and implementing public awareness campaigns on climate-sensitive diseases (e.g., dengue, malaria), injuries (e.g., drowning, snakebites), nutrition, and mental health, with targeted messaging for vulnerable groups (e.g., children, pregnant women, elderly, migrants, and persons with disabilities). (Human health and WASH) 1.Improve health literacy and build capacity of village health support groups (VHSG) and local authorities on climate-sensitive conditions. 2.Increase community awareness on climate-sensitive conditions. 3.Ensure community preparedness for climate impacts (extreme heat, flooding, air pollution, food/general hygiene, WASH) 4. Effectively disseminate information through communications campaigns and operationalization of a public information system 5. Enhance food safety through training, monitoring of end-use sites, and enforcement of food hygiene and safety standards CO-BENEFITS: - Improved attendance and ability to focus on learning - Greater awareness of health-related impact of pollution, water resource management and the environment - Improved economic opportunities - Increased local ownership, governance, and participation - Improved awareness, public health literacy, self-protection behavior, preparedness, and response capacity CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: appropriately tailored messaging and engagement for women or other vulnerable populations (children, youth, elderly, disabled) in high priority/risk areas Lead LM: MOH BASELINE INDICATOR: 0 TARGETS: - At least 80% of VHSGs have received standardized training on climate-sensitive diseases, injuries, and mental health - 100% of population reached through awareness activities - 25 Provinces and 60% of communes and province have completed community preparedness plans - One national mass media (or similar) campaign annually - 70% of end use site managers that receive certified raining on food hygiene and safety MRV: -Annual MOH Report - Campaign to raise awareness reported -Subnational plans - IEC/BCC produced and distributed - DDF Training reports TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: N/A |
Health
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Cross-cutting | Health |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Education, information and awareness raising: 13. Increase awareness and knowledge in the vulnerable rural communes, including children and young people, on climate change impacts on WASH services, related health risks, and prevention measures. (Human health and WASH) This measure promotes climate and WASH awareness among rural populations, especially vulnerable groups like women, children, and youth. It builds community capacity to understand climate-WASH-health links and encourages preventive behaviors to reduce related health risks: - Develop a community outreach strategy on climate impacts, WASH, and health - Create child- and youth-friendly materials to build early awareness and empower action - Conduct school and community campaigns on climate-WASH-health impacts and prevention measures - Conducting awareness campaigns on impacts of climate change on WASH, related health risks, and prevention measures in both schools and local communities. -Public awareness-raising campaigns on the links of gender equality and social inclusion in climate change and WASH among rural populations especially vulnerable and marginalized groups to reduce climate-related health risks. CO-BENEFITS: - Increases uptake of hygiene and disease prevention practices, reducing water-borne diseases. - Increased climate and WASH awareness into schools and informal Learning - Enhances preparedness through risk communication and localized knowledge. - Strengthens local leadership and civic engagement, especially among youth and women. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Number of women participating in community education, health related risks and climate risks. Baseline: 0 (2025); Target 600,000 (2035) MRD (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: Number of communes reached in the awareness raising campaigns on climate-WASH (Annual) % of people with Knowledge, Attitude and Practices on climate change impacts on WASH services (Every 5 years) TARGETS: 100% of vulnerable rural communes MRV: MRD WASH information management system + provincial monitoring report KAP Survey TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: N/A |
Health
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Cross-cutting | Health |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Education, information and awareness raising: 14. Increase awareness and knowledge in the most vulnerable urban communities, including women, children and young people, on climate change impacts on sanitation services, related health risks, and prevention measures. (Human health and WASH) This measure, led by the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation, aims to increase awareness in vulnerable urban communities, especially women, children, and youth. It will: -Launch a comprehensive awareness campaign -Build understanding of health risks from climate-related sanitation disruptions -Promote preventive behaviors and community action -Empower residents to support climate-resilient sanitation -Foster early awareness and behavior change among children and youth as future change agents. CO-BENEFITS: - Reduces disease transmission through improved sanitation behaviors - Encourages school based WASH awareness, improving student health and attendance - Supports participatory urban sanitation planning and behavior change - Enhances urban populations' preparedness and response to climate related risks CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Reaches women with practical knowledge for household and community sanitation preparedness. - Prioritizes underserved and climate-vulnerable urban communities. - Empowers young people as peer educators and climate resilience advocates. - Encourages informed, community-led responses to climate-WASH-health challenges. MPWT (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: % of target areas reached with awareness raising campaign TARGETS: 100% of target areas MRV: MPWT sewage and FSM data monitoring system TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Local capacity available |
Health
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Cross-cutting | Health |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Education, information and awareness raising: 15. Increase child and youth-sensitive commitments of government to enhance access to information and public awareness on climate change and its impacts on the promotion, protection and fulfillment of rights of children, and support families and communities to become climate resilient. (Child Protection) 1. Develop SBC and communication tools on climate adaptation and green practices for existing programmes (e.g., Strong Family Campaign, positive parenting). 2. Raise awareness among caregivers, youth and children on adaptation strategies via online and offline channels. 3. Develop a costed, public-friendly quad-media communication plan, incorporating the UN CRC, 2022 Concluding Observations, General Comment No. 26 (2023), and an MoSVY-managed knowledge base on child rights, climate resilience, and public engagement in climate action. 4. Integrate the costed communication plan into MoSVY's annual budget to maintain messaging on child rights and climate action. 5. Produce child and youth-friendly versions of NDC 3.0 and related materials. 6. Disseminate disaster and climate messages in child and youth-accessible formats (e.g., storytelling, games, radio, comics). CO-BENEFITS:- Increases caregiver and community capacity to protect children from climate-related harm - Enhances preparedness through climate literacy and behavior change at household and community levels - Improves public access to child rights and climate resilience information - Strengthens community and family resilience by enhancing skills that support families in protecting children's rights and well-being in the face of climate related risks CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Ensures public messaging is inclusive and accessible, with a focus on women, children, and persons with disabilities.- Positions young people as key communicators and change agents in climate and child protection awareness Campaigns. PS: Leverages media and tech platforms to disseminate child-focused climate messaging. MOSVY (lead) WITH MOWA, MOI, SNA, MOE BASELINE INDICATOR: # of children, adolescents, parents and caregivers reached through Strong Family Campaign and Positive Parenting (online and offline) Baseline: 107,590 (20% of boys) # of costed communication plans on child rights, child protection and climate actions developed Baseline: 0 TARGETS: Target: 257590 (45% of boys) Target: 01 (2030), 01 (2035) MRV: Annual Report from MOSVY and MOWA TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Application of social behavior science, and technological platforms |
Unpaid care work
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Cross-cutting | Other |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Governance: 16. Strengthen the institutional capacities of the NCSD through the Climate Change Technical Working Group (CC-TWG) - Support regular meetings of the CC-TWG - Review the list of LMs in the CC-TWG - Review the TOR for CC-TWG members and observers, including DPs, academia, CSOs, medias and youth representatives - Propose an annual workplan with clear and achievable goals and indicators - Provide structured capacity-building support to CC-TWG - Ensure buy-in from high-ranking officials within each LM - Enhance coordination between GMAG and CC-WTG - Build GESI capacity of CC-TWG and promote joint meetings with GMAG members to foster GESI mainstreaming in climate actions. CO-BENEFITS: Increase availability of climate data/ information CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - 60% CC-TWG members receiving gender and climate integration training - 1 meeting/year between GMAGs and CC-TWG members - 1 event/year bringing first person experience from marginalised groups to CC-TWG to raise awareness and understanding of real-life experiences of climate change impacts and traditional ecological knowledge - 1 meeting/year with the representatives from the Disability Action Group. - 1 capacity-building activity per year on GESI and strategy to mainstream GESI into climate change action - 30% of CC-TWG members are women as opposed to the baseline of less than 10%. NCSD (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 4 CC-TWG meetings per year TARGETS: - At least 3 CC-TWG meetings and 3 reports per year, documenting achievements and expected next steps of each meeting. -1 annual capacity assessment -Over 60% of CC-TWG members participate in capacity-building activities MRV: • Annual report of CCTWG activities, coordinated by MoE • Training and mission reports TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: WEB PORTAL |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Governance: 17. Enhance environmental diplomacy effort - Strengthen the capacities of Cambodia's climate change delegation to negotiate at the international level. - Support meaningful participation to international negotiations like COPs and other ASEAN dialogues, e.g. ASEAN Working Group on Climate Change (AWGCC) - Support the participation of delegates representing the civil society and Indigenous People - Clearly communicate the key outcomes of the international negotiations and assign relevant tasks among the CC-TWG to enhance implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and other UNFCCC commitments - Enhance collaboration with the MoFAIC - Conduct annual reflections on progress, challenges and solutions to inform improvements in the following year's plans and strategic actions. CO-BENEFITS: Better access to finance or resources - Increase international relationships CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - 20% women in international climate change delegations. - 10% of delegates are from nongovernmental organizations, particularly IPOs MOE (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: - Annual position paper for COPs on Climate Change - Participation to 3 AWGCC annual meetings. TARGETS: -1 position paper per international event. The position needs to reflect all key stakeholders' voices. -10 COP outcomes are disseminated with LMs and relevant stakeholders -Participation to the annual Meetings of AWGCC MRV: Annual report by NCSD TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: N/A |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Governance: 18. Comply with ETF requirements under Paris Agreement on Climate Change and other tracking mechanisms to facilitate access to climate finance - Efficiently manage, regularly update and develop tools and mechanisms needed to comply with the ETF requirements under the Paris Agreement - Develop reporting tools and an online registry as compliance mechanisms for the carbon market. - Collaboration with MEF in the annual development of the CPER and climate finance tracking mechanisms, including also private investment tracking - Development of MRV systems focused on the consistent collection and use of sex disaggregated data. CO-BENEFITS: Increase the accountability and transparency of the climate action CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: NDC M&E Framework systematically collects, validates, and makes accessible sex disaggregated data MOE (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: • Annual NDC/LTS4CN reports available for 20211/2022/2023 • BTR1 submitted to UNFCCC in 2024 • No Carbon Registry TARGETS: -Annual NDC/LTS4CN tracking update and report is developed and validated by CC-TWG members -Timely submission of the BTR reports to UNFCCC -Establishment of a carbon reporting tools/registry MRV: -NDC online tracking tool, accessible to LMs and managed by MoE - Carbon registry system TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: N/A |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Governance: 19. Document evidence-based data on climate change to support decision making and planning process - Ensure the maintenance and regular updating of a user-friendly digital platform for storing and sharing documents and data, building on the existing NCSD Data Portal that already includes Vulnerability Index, air quality data, CEMIS, and other key datasets - Facilitate the collection and integration into the same digital platform of project findings, reports, and case study from other LMs, DPs, NGOs, CSOs and academia - Enhance cooperation with academic institutions on technical or scientific research on climate change. CO-BENEFITS: - Increase access to climate change data and general understanding of climate change basics and implication in the Cambodian context. - Improve quality of proposal development related to climate change CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: data disaggregated by gender, age, vulnerable group affiliation in the design and implementation on a climate change indexes and research projects MOE (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 1 data portal on the NCSD website TARGETS: -12 publications per year related to technical and scientific climate change -3,000 visitors/year accessing the data portal, with data disaggregated by sex, age and type of audiences MRV: - List of publications - Number of users accessing the data portal TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: GIS Digital platform |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Governance: 20. Strengthen subnational capacity to assess, manage, and respond to climate change and disaster risks in their local areas and enhanced climate change coordination mechanism and other coordination mechanisms -Pertains to enhancing the capacity of sub-national administration to access climate data and vulnerable assessment in their development plans and investment programmes. -Involve preparing/updating Climate Change and Disaster Strategy and Action Plan for sub-national levels including vertical and horizontal coordination for climate change and other coordination mechanisms. -Improve capacity of women in leadership positions on climate change at Capital/Province (CP) and District/Municipality/Khan (DMK) levels. -Involves enhancing national and sub-national systems (database) to monitor and track climate change projects in targeted areas. CO-BENEFITS: -Improving climate database and knowledge sharing - Strengthening policy for local governance CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Research and MRV for climate change NCDD (lead) with MOE, MOWRAM, NCDM, AND MOWA BASELINE INDICATOR: 1.(2025) 0 SNA carrying vulnerable assessment and/or using climate data to integrate climate and disaster risks into their development plans. 2: Under the framework of National Programme for Sub-National Democratic Development Phase II (NP2), Subnational climate change strategy was developed 3: Lack of capacity of women in leadership positions related to climate change at CP and DMK (In 2023, 33% of women are in the leadership positions at provincial and capital level. 21% of women are in the leadership positions at D/M/K levels) 4.SNA Project Implement Database (PID) has limited GEDSI data TARGETS: 1. Number of development plans and investment programmes of subnational strengthened by using climate data and assessments 2. Sub-national climate change strategy is updated with concrete actions plans to achieve climate change results under the NP2 which includes vertical and horizontal coordination for climate change and other coordination mechanisms. 3. By 2030, 50% of women in leadership positions with capacity on climate change at CP, and DMK (based on MoWA/NCDDS target: by 2028, 36% of women in leadership positions at provincial and capital level and 28% at DMK). 4. SNA PID user manual and the SNA PID system are updated to track climate finance, target area, include GEDSI indicators MRV: NCDDS annual report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Software programme for climate data analysis and interpretation |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Disasters |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Governance: 21. Develop an inclusive climate financing policy framework, supported by tools and coordination mechanisms, to mobilize and track climate expenditures, funds and revenues. Further explore opportunities in climate finance and carbon markets The measure aims to strengthen its climate finance system by developing an inclusive policy framework and tools to mobilize and track climate-related funds, expenditures, and revenues. This includes establishing sub-national climate funds mechanisms, expanding access to green finance, integrating GESI, and building capacity at all levels. It will also develop the NDC 3.0 financing strategy, explore carbon markets and pricing mechanisms, improve public finance linked to NDC 3.0. These efforts will support effective implementation of climate actions and long-term resilience. CO-BENEFITS: - Acceleration of private sector investments - Creation of green jobs - Economic Growth CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Include gender action plans into climate finance proposals - Disburse gender responsive climate finance - Include GESI provisions in climate finance policies - Provide gender inclusive capacity building activities to national and subnational actors PS: - GCF finance available: at least 10 medium to large scale projects financed. - At least 100 smaller green finance loans provided. - 10 green bonds created by 2030. MEF (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: - No carbon registry - Carbon Credit Secretariat at the MoE - Annual CPER - Basics for carbon market opportunities - Operational Manual for Article 6 - Two Green Bonds approved through Cambodia Sustainable Bond Accelerator (CSBA) TARGETS: - Develop and adopt the NDC 3.0 financing strategy 2026, in collaboration with MoE - Issue comprehensive guidelines on climate aligned investment and public finance, linked to the Public Financial Management Reform (PFM) and the NDC 3.0 implementation - Design and operationalize a tracking tool on climate-related expenditures and revenues across sectors and levels of government, and capturing contributions from key stakeholders, including the private sector and DPs - Explore and establish carbon pricing instruments, including carbon tax collection mechanisms -Establish sub-national climate investment fund mechanisms to mobilize climate finance from diverse sources - Deliver capacity building programs on climate fund mobilization, management, and reporting to national and subnational officials, disaggregating the participation by gender and age MRV: -Annual report - National carbon registry framework TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: N/A |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Governance: 22. Strengthen climate change mainstreaming in the development plans, including M&E, and in the public investment program, at the national/capital/ provincial levels This measure aims to further mainstream climate change considerations in the National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP), sectoral plans and sub-national plans, taking into account GESI. It includes updating existing guidelines for the formulation of the NSDP and sub-national plans, as well as the organisation of capacity-building programmes. The three-year rolling Public Investment Program (PIP) with climate-related projects will be developed annually at national and provincial levels. Guidelines and training sessions support its preparation. By 2030, an online platform will provide public access to updated climate investment trends, expenditures, and funding opportunities. CO-BENEFITS: - Green jobs - Economic growth - Resilient livelihoods - Sustainable environment CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: All actions and strategies to address climate change include GESI components. These measures are integrated both at national and subnational levels to ensure climate responses are inclusive, equitable, and benefit all members of society, especially vulnerable groups. MOP (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: - CC integrated in the National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) and key sectoral development plans - CC is tagged in the formulation of projects in 3-year Public Investment Program (PIP) at national and subnational level TARGETS: 1.1 CC fully integrated in NSDP, sectoral and SNA development plans 1.2 Updated guidelines for NSDP and development plans at SNA level formulation, incl. CC and GEDSI 1.3. Capacity building on development planning, incl. CC and GEDSI 1.4 Prepare the Voluntary National Review (VNR) 2026 with the report of CC status in Cambodia 2.1 Annual development of national/ capital/ provincial 3-year rolling PIP, including CC-related projects 2.2 Development of guidelines and capacity building session for the preparation of 3-year PIP at national and subnational level 2.3 By 2030, online climate investment and funding information available to public and updated annually, including the trend of climate expenditure and potential funding information. MRV: MoP Publications and reports Annual Progress Report/Voluntary National Review of the implementation of NSDP/CSDGs TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: National/ Capital/ Provincial Public Investment Program Public Investment Program Database |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Governance: 23. Strengthen digital data governance and reporting mechanism to in line with the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) reporting requirement (Agriculture) Enhance national capacity for data governance, coordination, and reporting to ensure compliance with the ETF under the Paris Agreement. This includes developing institutional arrangements, establishing data-sharing protocols, improving sectoral data quality and accessibility, and aligning GHG inventory and adaptation tracking systems with ETF requirements. Strengthened mechanisms will enable transparent, timely, and accurate reporting of progress toward Cambodia's NDC targets and other climate commitments. CO-BENEFITS:- Strengthens coordination and accountability across government institutions, supporting data-driven policy and budget planning, and prioritization of vulnerable sectors/regions - Enables better documentation and justification for international climate finance CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Digital systems can integrate gender disaggregated and socially inclusive data, ensuring that climate actions reflect and address the needs of women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, and vulnerable groups. MAFF (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: Baseline (2025): 30 national staff from agriculture subsector trained on ETF reporting requirement TARGETS: data archiving system operationalized across key sectors for enhancing ETF reporting requirement (2035) - 500 of national and subnational staff trained on ETF-aligned reporting and data governance MRV: MAFF annual report and NDC tracking system TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: National Platforms (e.g., Cambodia Climate Change Data Portal, NIS systems) can be upgraded to integrate ETFcompatible data modules. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Governance: 24. Increase the proportion and capacity of women in government leadership and decision-making roles relevant to all NDC priority sectors. This measure aims to increase women's representation and capacity within governmental institutions responsible for NDC sectoral policy, planning, and implementation. It aligns with Cambodia's Pentagonal Strategy Phase 1 on promoting women's participation in leadership. CO-BENEFITS: N/A CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: SEE BASELINE AND TARGET COLUMNS MOWA (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: Baseline -Average for all NDC 3.0 ministries: 27% (2023-2024, MCS) -Capital and province: 27.5% (2023-2024, NCDD) -District: 23.5% (2024, NCDD) TARGETS: % of women in senior and mid-level management positions (combined average) by ministry and sub-national level administration of all NDC 3.0 ministries. (2028) - Average for all NDC 3.0 ministries: 31% - Capital/Province: 32% - District: 32% MRV: Data sources: All line ministries in the NDC and with collaboration with NCDD for subnational levels; MCS at the national level. Reporting: NDC portal TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: N/A |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Governance: 25. Strengthen sectoral capacity on the nexus between gender and climate change and institutional coordination between sectoral GMAGs and CC-TWGs, as well as between MoWA and MoE for the implementation and monitoring of gender-responsive climate actions This measure aims to build capacity and improve joint collaboration among gender and climate change coordination bodies such as GMAGs, CC-TWGs, the MoWA and the MoE to ensure that agreed gender mainstreaming actions and key performance indicators are systematically integrated throughout the implementation of NDC 3.0. CO-BENEFITS: N/A CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: SEE BASELINE AND TARGET COLUMNS MOWA (lead) WITH MOE BASELINE INDICATOR: Baseline: 5 (2025); Baseline: 0 (2025) TARGETS: Number of GMAGs and CCWTGs trained on the nexus between gender equality and climate change Target: 15 (2035) - Number of gender mainstreaming actions and gender equality and social inclusion KPIs in NDC 3.0 that are adopted in GMAPs with means of implementation. Target: 25 (2035) MRV: -MOWA, MoE, NDCC, and all LMs in the NDC sectors at the national and subnational levels. MOWA training reports and administrative data. TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Training modules. Templates and guidelines for integrate NDC gender KPIs in the ministries' GMAPs. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Governance: 26. Enhance the integration of systematic Gender Analysis into Climate Vulnerability Assessments and sectoral planning. Climate change impacts men and women differently. Conducting gender analysis as part of climate vulnerability assessments to promote climate actions that address specific needs will result in more equitable outcomes. This is in line with government policies including Neary Rattanak VI for 2024-2028. MOWA (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: Baseline: 0 (2025) TARGETS: % of climate vulnerability assesments conducted gender analysis, with findings informing gender-responsive climate action MRV: -All LMs in the NDC sectors in collaboration with MoWA - NDC Portal CO-BENEFITS: N/A CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: SEE BASELINE AND TARGET COLUMNS TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Templates and guidelines for integrating gender analysis in vulnerability assessments |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Governance: 27. Scale-up the integration of gender considerations in climate-related policies in all NDC sectors, with special focus on the transition to green economy. Review all climate-related policies to ensure gender integration in climate plans, programs and projects relating to the promotion of green practices and clean technology. CO-BENEFITS: N/A CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: SEE BASELINE AND TARGETS MOWA (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: Baseline: 0 (2025) TARGETS: Number of CC policies enhanced with gender equality and social inclusion considerations in the transition to green economy. Target 10 (2035). MRV: -All LMs in the NDC sectors in the green economy. -NDC Portal TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Global knowledge products and tools for integrating GESI in CC and green economies policies. |
Economic security
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Policy, planning and capacity building: 31. Strengthen technical guidance for climate sensitive diseases, injuries, and conditions, such as: vector/water-borne diseases, drowning/heat stress, snake bites, malnutrition, respiratory illness, etc. (Human health and WASH) Develop technical guidelines and protocols for diagnosis, detection, control, prevention and treatment of climate sensitive diseases and injury such as: vector/water-borne diseases, drowning/heat stress, snake bites, respiratory illness, malnutrition, etc (PMD, MCH, CNM) CO-BENEFITS: -Improved Economic Opportunities for a healthier population -Strengthen preparedness -Health workers better equipped to address CC related health prevention and treatment will build trust and result in a healthier more resilient community CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI & PS: Technical guidelines and protocols will address gender equality, social inclusion, youth engagement, and potentially private sector, where applicable MOH (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: Number of technical guidelines/protocols developed TARGETS: At least 5 technical guidelines/protocols developed MRV: Annual Report of MOH - Technical guidelines/protocols developed TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: TRAINING PLATFORMS |
Health
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Cross-cutting | Health |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Policy, planning and capacity building: 33. Develop guidelines and plans to integrate climate resilience into land use and urban planning. (Infrastructure) This involves incorporating climate resilience principles and criteria into land use and urban planning frameworks to ensure that future development is sustainable, adaptive, and capable of withstanding climate-related risks. This includes the development of the guidelines for climate-resilience, including vulnerability assessment for land use and urban planning, and the development of an urban adaptation plan, that includes city heat action plan. CO-BENEFITS: -Contribute to building community capacity to cope with climate-related disasters. - Strengthen the climate resilience in land use and urban planning to ensure that future development is sustainable, adaptive, and capable of withstanding climate related risks. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: Number of women and men, women's groups and/or gender equality CSOs consulted, in the integration of climate resilience and vulnerability assessments in the Commune Land Use Plans. Baseline: TBD (2025); Target: 3,000 of which 33% are women (2035) MLMUPC (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: 0 TARGETS: - Guidelines for climate resilience integration into land use and urban planning developed (2028) - 5 urban cities conduct vulnerability assessment (2030) - Urban Adaptation Plan document (including a City Heat Action Plan) will be prepared, and its piloting within at least five urban cities started. (2030) - 50% of Commune Land Use Planning (CLUP) and District Land Use Planning (DLUP) will be developed with a climate resilient lens. (2035) MRV: ANNUAL REPORT TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: N/A |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Land use and forestry |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Policy, planning and capacity building: 35. Strengthen the capacities of social workers, caregivers, and local communities to support victims and vulnerable groups in climate risk and disaster preparedness (Social services) Equipping social workers, caregivers and local communities with skills and materials to support the climate-preparedness of vulnerable populations through awareness programs and disaster preparedness training and including the caseworks on disasters of climate change in the Integration Case Management System. CO-BENEFITS: - Health Improvement - Youth and recent graduates in social work and related fields gain job opportunities through volunteer-based programs that build professional skills and support community engagement CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: The indicators in this measure will be disaggregated by age, sex, dis/ability, ethnicity of social workers and participants of marginalized people leading and/ or meaningfully participating in capacity building and community-led climate awareness and readiness events MOSVY (lead) WITH MOH, MOI, NCDM BASELINE INDICATOR: BASELINE:0 TARGETS: - 3 standardized guidelines or tools for social workers' capacity building programs on climate resilience, disaster risk reduction and emergency response intervention - 5,000 social workers and caregivers trained on climate resilience, disaster risk reduction and emergency response intervention, disaggregated by sex - 70% (of 21,200) social workers become agents for climate change and environmental issues, disaggregated by sex - 50 Events for increasing participation and awareness of climate risk preparedness facilitated by social workers, and 2,500 Participants MRV: Admin. Report and ICMS Effectiveness relevant to climate resilience will be scored by the independent supervision team from MoSVY every trimester Through supervision program and client interview. TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS COSTING U (UNCONDITIONAL) ,C (CONDITIONAL) ,U/C (BOTH): C |
Unpaid care work
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Cross-cutting | Other |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Policy, planning and capacity building: 36. Strengthen and integrate child and youth protection and climate change adaptation, including child and youth sensitive and gender responsive interventions, disaster risk reduction and emergency response into MoSVY's relevant plans and policies. (Child protection) 1. Build awareness among NCDM and CC-TWG on child rights and protection in climate adaptation and disaster response. 2. Update the child protection Emergency Contingency Plan (20252026). 3. Integrate child protection climate actions into MoSVY and child protection strategic plans. 4. Include and implement child protection climate change adaptation actions and ensure child rights are reflected in climate-related M&E frameworks. 5. Produce data analysis or policy briefs on child rights and protection in climate contexts. 6. Strengthen MoSVY's institutional capacity (mitigation, adaptation, enabling, policy, planning and finance) through training, advocacy and planning. 7. Promote meaningful participation of children and youth in climate and disaster risk reduction strategies. CO-BENEFITS: - Reduces climate-related physical and psychological risks to children. - Strengthens institutional coordination and accountability through integration of CP into national climate and disaster frameworks. - Increases preparedness by equipping social service actors and policymakers with child sensitive tools. - Promotes data-informed decision-making and adaptive programming. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Promotes child-sensitive, gender-responsive planning and inclusion of marginalised children in national climate and DRR policies. - Encourages youth participation in awareness-raising and policy dialogue on child rights and climate change. MOSVY (lead) WITH NCDM, CC-TWG BASELINE INDICATOR: baseline:0 TARGETS: - 150 MOSVY officials, members of NCDM, and CC-TWG trained on child rights, child protection and environment and climate change - 3 (1 Updated emergency contingency plan, 1 MOSVY strategic plan, 1 CP strategic plan) developed and endorsed with incorporation of child protection-climate change adaptation - Child rights and child protection results are included in M&E framework and assessed) MRV: MOSVY Report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Primero case management system |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Disasters |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Policy, planning and capacity building: 37. Strengthen religious leaders' capacity especially Buddhist monks to prevent and respond to children and youth protection issues, violence and abuse against children and youth caused by impacts of natural disasters and various risks related to climate change (Child protection) 1. Develop a national strategic plan (20252030) for environmental and climate education in cults and religion sectors. 2. Develop education materials on child protection, and prevention and response to violence during climate disasters for Buddhism and other religions. 3. Provide capacity building on environment, climate change, and child protection for monks and religious leaders at all levels. 4. Disseminate information on environment, climate change, child protection, and violence prevention in pagodas, religious institutions, schools, and communities. 5. Integrate action plans on environment, climate change, child protection, and disaster risk into royal decrees and interfaith dialogue resolutions. 6. Include these topics in training, workshops, and meetings for religious leaders. 7. Use spiritual and intergenerational dialogue tools to engage children and elders on culture-rooted climate solutions. 8. Encourage monks and leaders to support climate messaging for children and youth through local, accessible practices. 9. Promote standards for climate-resilient construction focused on child protection during disasters. 10. Issue guidelines for pagodas to promote renewable energy and implement climate resilient, gender-sensitive, and inclusive infrastructure standards. CO-BENEFITS: - Strengthens institutional leadership by embedding child protection and climate resilience into religious policies and structures. - Enhances preparedness and response through trained monks and faith leaders in disaster-prone communities. - Expands child protection messaging through trusted religious networks and public platforms. - Strengthening gender responsive approaches within religious settings enhances protective support during climate related emergencies. CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Promotes gender sensitive and disability inclusive religious spaces and messaging through national guidance and faith based leadership. - Encourages youth participation in community outreach and interfaith education on child protection and climate resilience. MOCR (lead) WITH SUPREME PATRIARCHS OF THE TWO DISTINCT BRANCHES, MOI, SNA BASELINE INDICATOR: 0 (2025) 1,231 out of 70,905 monks (2024) 81,342 (2024) TARGETS: - 3 (1 strategic plan, 1 guideline, 1 SOP) on environmental and CC education in the cults and religion sector, promoting the use of renewable energy and the standard for environmental and climate-resilient infrastructure designs for religious building - 12,310 monks and other religious leaders trained on environment and CC with focus on child protection, prevention, and response to violence and abuse against children during natural disasters and CC-related risks - 181,342 children, parents, communities and religious followers reached through awareness raising and campaigns conducted by of religious leaders MRV: MoCR Report TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Application of social behavior science, and technological platforms |
Gender-based violence
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Cross-cutting | Disasters |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Policy, planning and capacity building: 38. Strengthen air quality regulatory enforcement: operationalize air quality management sub-decree and emission standard (Air quality) This measure aims to accelerate the adoption of a key air quality regulation, such as the draft sub-decree on Air Pollution, Noise and Vibration Control, through improved institutional coordination. It includes development of technical guidelines, in collaboration with other LMs, the enforcement of other key strategies, such as the Clean Air Plan of Cambodia and the Environmental Code, among others, through compliance monitoring, and legal action mechanisms. CO-BENEFITS: -Stronger governance, reduced public health costs, increased trust in institutions and compliance by PS. -Build institutional resilience by strengthening environmental governance and legal enforcement. Reduces exposure of vulnerable populations to climate sensitive health impacts from air pollution -Promote soil quality and biodiversity -Promote one health CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: 20% of women's participation in the policy and regulations development and implementation MOE (lead) WITH MISTI, MPWT, MLMUPC, MAFF BASELINE INDICATOR: By 2025, sub-decree on Air Pollution, Noise, and Vibration Control drafted by MoE TARGETS: -By 2026: Sub-Decree approved -By 2035: At least 80% of industrial sites, 100% of vehicle fleet, and 50% of agricultural areas are compliant with the emissions standards. -Enhanced collaboration with MPWT and MoC in the joint preparation of technical guidelines on vehicle emission standards and fuel quality -By 2030, include Black Carbon in the policy development and modelling MRV: Annual reports and inspection reports. TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: AVAILABLE |
Health
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Cambodia | Enabling measures - (Table 9/Annex 1) - Policy, planning and capacity building: 39. Supporting the development of thermal comfort regulation for working environments & related OSH strengthening This measure includes the following actions: - Develop thermal comfort regulation for indoor & outdoor working environments (including thermal comfort indicators for place assessment & progress monitoring, definition of several levels of thermal comfort health & safety) - Develop case studies in collaboration with other relevant ministries and research academy on best practices in combating heat stress (heat tolerant clothing, cooled drinking water, ventilation, drawing on national and international experiences for both indoor and outdoor workers) CO-BENEFITS: Support private sector companies - Sustainability reporting / ESG performance - Facilitate Export to international markets, where OSH & ESG compliance is required (Europe, Australia, NZ, etc.) CROSSCUTTING TOPICS: GESI: - Ensuring thermal comfort standards are applied equitably to protect women's health - Protect all workers, including low-income, informal, and marginalized groups, - Youth awareness raising and training on occupational safety and climate resilience, research participation PS: Compliance consultations and joint monitoring with workplace committees in the development and implementation of thermal comfort standards MLVT (lead) BASELINE INDICATOR: - Prakas on thermal comfort and draft OSH regulation - ITC research on HS on garment, education and construction sector (CCCA3) TARGETS: - Assessment study to select most relevant thermal comfort indicators for working environments, and pilots to measure HS in at least 3 in indoor and 2 outdoor workplaces (2026) - Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) index used to measure HS reduction performance, and levels of thermal comfort and work rates/loads are integrated in OSH regulations for indoor working places (2027) - Several levels of thermal comfort are integrated in OSH regulations. (2030) - Comprehensive policy and OSH is developed, implemented & enforced. (2035) MRV: ANNUAL REPORT TECHNOLOGY AVAILABILITY: Technology available in Cambodia. Some local studies on Heat Stress already conducted (ITC University, MoE ..) |
Health
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Canada | Annex 1. Further information necessary for clarity, transparency, and understanding (ICTU) of Canada's NDC: 6. How the Party considers its NDC is fair and ambitious in the light of its national circumstances: b) Fairness considerations, including reflecting on equity (...) The Government of Canada has been committed to using gender-based analysis (GBA), and more recently GBA Plus, in the development of policies, programs and legislation since 1995. GBA Plus is an analytical tool to equip federal officials with the means to attain better results for Canadians by being more responsive to specific needs and ensuring that government policies and programs are inclusive, equitable and barrier-free. (...) In setting the 2035 target, the Government of Canada undertook a GBA Plus assessment on the impacts of various levels of climate ambition on diverse groups of people, including Indigenous Peoples, women, youth and future generations, 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, racialized Canadians, new immigrants, people with disabilities, low-income households, seniors, and those living in rural and remote communities. The assessment found that the pace and scale of the transition will have varying impacts on different groups and sectors in Canada. In general, more ambitious climate action will benefit those who are disproportionally impacted by climate change, including low-income people, seniors, people with disabilities, and Indigenous Peoples, as well as youth and future generations, by alleviating the negative impacts of climate change. (...) The Government of Canada will conduct additional GBA Plus analysis for climate plans, policy and programs moving forward, to maximize positive benefits for those most impacted by the negative effects of climate change, including low-income Canadians, women, racialized Canadians, persons with disabilities, Indigenous communities and people living in rural and remote communities. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Canada | Annex 1. Further information necessary for clarity, transparency, and understanding (ICTU) of Canada's NDC: 6. How the Party considers its NDC is fair and ambitious in the light of its national circumstances: b) Fairness considerations, including reflecting on equity (...) As part of the 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan, Canada reiterated its commitment to develop legislation to enable a just transition that supports workers and communities as the shift to a low-carbon future advances. In 2024, Canada passed the Canadian Sustainable Jobs Act, which ensures accountability, transparency, and engagement to support the creation of sustainable jobs for workers and economic growth in a net-zero economy. A just and inclusive transition to sustainable jobs is an opportunity to advance equity, inclusion, and justice, by embedding these principles in policies, programs, frameworks and pathways to 2030 and beyond. The move to a low-carbon economy also represents an opportunity to address existing inequalities in the workplace, and to enhance and improve training supports for those facing barriers in the workforce, such as Indigenous Peoples, racialized people, skilled newcomers, youth, women, LGBT+ people and persons with disabilities. The Sustainable Jobs Act will foster the creation of sustainable jobs, support industries and communities in every region across Canada, and help the workforce gain the necessary skills, training, and tools to fill these new job opportunities. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Multisectoral |
| Chile | 5.2.1 El ciclo de la adaptación Contribución en adaptación N°1: A1) Se establecen los siguientes compromisos respecto al ciclo de la adaptación, que considera:i) evaluación del impacto, del riesgo y de la vulnerabilidad; ii) la elaboración de planes; iii) la implementación de los planes; y iv) monitoreo, evaluación y aprendizaje. i) A 2031, los Planes Sectoriales de Adaptación actualizados cuentan con estándares y lineamientos transversales sobre grupos vulnerables al cambio climático, la reducción de las brechas de género, la consideración de soluciones basadas en la naturaleza, y el enfoque de reducción del riesgo de desastres // 5.2.1 The Adaptation Cycle Adaptation Contribution No. 1: A1) The following commitments are established regarding the adaptation cycle, which comprises: i) assessment of impact, risk, and vulnerability; ii) the development of plans; iii) the implementation of plans; and iv) monitoring, evaluation, and learning. i) By 2031, updated Sectoral Adaptation Plans shall incorporate cross-cutting standards and guidelines regarding groups vulnerable to climate change, the reduction of gender gaps, the consideration of nature-based solutions, and a disaster risk reduction approach. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Chile | 5.2.2 Seguridad hídrica Contribución en adaptación N°2: A2) Reducir la escasez hídrica inducida por el cambio climático y mejorar la resiliencia climática ante peligros relacionados con el agua, avanzar hacia un suministro de agua y saneamiento resiliente al clima, y hacia el acceso a agua potable segura y asequible para toda la población. Esto considera los siguientes compromisos: a) A 2025, se habrá implementado un sistema de sellos de reconocimiento según el nivel de gestión del consumo de agua a nivel organizacional, a través del Acuerdo de Producción Limpia (APL) Certificado Azul; y a 2028, mediante el Sistema de Certificación Voluntaria de Gases de Efecto Invernadero y Uso del Agua - HuellaChile. b) A 2026, se habrá implementado un indicador, a nivel nacional y a escala de cuenca hidrográfica, que permita hacer seguimiento de la brecha y riesgo hídrico, y avanzar en alcanzar la seguridad hídrica del país. c) A 2030, se habrá fiscalizado un 95% de los sistemas sanitarios rurales catastrados como mayores (aquellos que cuenten con más de 600 arranques). Además, se avanzará en la fiscalización de los sistemas sanitarios rurales catastrados como medianos y menores. d) A 2030, el sector sanitario contará con un Plan Sectorial para la Gestión de Riesgo de Desastres presentado ante el organismo competente. e) A 2030, el nivel de aguas no facturadas del sector sanitario concesionado no superará el 30%. f) A 2030, se habrá completado el 100% de las metas de la Agenda 2030 del sector sanitario. g) A 2030, se avanzará en la seguridad hídrica para atender prioritariamente la demanda asociada al consumo humano, y en la protección de la población y el territorio ante amenazas del cambio climático, asegurando que cada proyecto de infraestructura pública para aguas que atienda estas necesidades considere en su evaluación vulnerabilidad climática con el fin de contribuir a aumentar la resiliencia de la infraestructura y de los territorios. h) A 2030, se habrán elaborado 15 Planes Estratégicos de Recursos Hídricos en Cuenca (PERHC), en las cuencas priorizadas de acuerdo con la Resolución DGA N°1.190/2024, las cuales equivalen a más de un tercio del territorio nacional continental, alcanzando sobre el 70% de la población. // 5.2.2 Water Security Adaptation Contribution No. 2: A2) Reduce climate change-induced water scarcity and enhance climate resilience against water-related hazards; advance toward a climate-resilient water supply and sanitation system; and move toward access to safe and affordable drinking water for the entire population. This entails the following commitments: a) By 2025, a recognition seal system based on the level of organizational water consumption management will have been implemented through the Blue Certificate Clean Production Agreement (APL); and by 2028, through the Voluntary Certification System for Greenhouse Gases and Water Use—HuellaChile. b) By 2026, an indicator will have been implemented—at both the national and river basin scales—to enable the monitoring of water gaps and risks, and to facilitate progress toward achieving the country's water security. c) By 2030, 95% of rural sanitation systems classified as "major" (those with more than 600 service connections) will have undergone inspection. Furthermore, progress will be made in the inspection of rural sanitation systems classified as "medium" and "minor." d) By 2030, the sanitation sector will have a Sectoral Disaster Risk Management Plan submitted to the competent authority. e) By 2030, the level of non-billed water within the concessioned sanitation sector will not exceed 30%. f) By 2030, 100% of the targets set forth in the sanitation sector's 2030 Agenda will have been achieved. g) By 2030, progress will be made in water security to prioritize meeting the demand associated with human consumption, as well as in protecting the population and the territory against threats posed by climate change; this will be ensured by requiring that every public water infrastructure project addressing these needs incorporate a climate vulnerability assessment into its evaluation, with the aim of contributing to increased resilience in both infrastructure and the territories. h) By 2030, 15 Strategic Water Resources Plans for River Basins (PERHC) will have been developed within the basins prioritized in accordance with DGA Resolution No. 1,190/2024; these basins encompass more than one-third of the continental national territory and serve over 70% of the population. |
Unpaid care work
Health
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Chile | Contribución en adaptación N°3: A3- A 2030, se aumentará la resiliencia del sector Salud frente a las consecuencias del cambio climático, se promoverá la resiliencia climática de los servicios de salud, y se avanzará en reducir signi_cativamente la morbilidad y mortalidad relacionadas con el clima, especialmente en las comunidades más vulnerables. Esto considera los siguientes compromisos: a) A 2029, Chile contará con una evaluación de los riesgos climáticos en el sector Salud para apoyar la actualización de la Estrategia Nacional de Salud de Chile y la actualización del Plan de Adaptación del Sector Salud, entre otras políticas públicas asociadas a la salud, tanto física como mental, y al cambio climático. b) A 2030, Chile contará con una plataforma del sistema de vigilancia epidemiológica nacional sobre los efectos en salud asociados al cambio climático, que permita monitorear, analizar y alertar sobre los efectos en la salud relacionados con temperaturas extremas, enfermedades vectoriales, enfermedades transmitidas por el agua y los alimentos, así como otros eventos hidro-meteorológicos extremos, proporcionando información clave para apoyar la toma de decisiones en salud pública. c) A 2030, Chile desarrollará planes de trabajo regionales intersectoriales que consideren los efectos del cambio climático en la salud mental de la población, en las Mesas Técnicas Intersectoriales de Salud Mental y Apoyo Psicosocial en la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres. d) A 2030, Chile habrá diseñado e implementado normativas y/o protocolos nacionales en el ámbito de la seguridad y salud en el trabajo, para abordar los riesgos asociados a las altas temperaturas y eventos de calor extremo, con el _n de proteger la vida y la salud de la población trabajadora. e) A 2035, Chile habrá evaluado e implementado mejoras a la plataforma del sistema de vigilancia epidemiológica nacional respecto a los efectos en salud asociados al cambio climático. // Adaptation Contribution No. 3: A3—By 2030, the resilience of the Health sector to the consequences of climate change will be enhanced; the climate resilience of health services will be promoted; and significant progress will be made in reducing climate-related morbidity and mortality, particularly in the most vulnerable communities. This entails the following commitments: a) By 2029, Chile will have completed an assessment of climate risks within the Health sector to support the updating of Chile’s National Health Strategy and the Health Sector Adaptation Plan, among other public policies related to health—both physical and mental—and to climate change. b) By 2030, Chile will have established a national epidemiological surveillance system platform to monitor health effects associated with climate change; this platform will enable the monitoring, analysis, and alerting of health impacts related to extreme temperatures, vector-borne diseases, water- and food-borne diseases, as well as other extreme hydrometeorological events, thereby providing key information to support public health decision-making. c) By 2030, Chile will develop intersectoral regional work plans addressing the effects of climate change on the population's mental health, to be implemented through the Intersectoral Technical Roundtables on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Disaster Risk Management. d) By 2030, Chile will have designed and implemented national regulations and/or protocols in the field of occupational health and safety to address risks associated with high temperatures and extreme heat events, with the aim of protecting the lives and health of the working population. e) By 2035, Chile will have evaluated and implemented improvements to the national epidemiological surveillance system platform regarding health effects associated with climate change. **According to ILO data (2023), the healthcare sector in Chile accounts for 12.45% of women's employment compared to just 3.65% of men's, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
Health
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Adaptation | Health |
| Chile | Contribución en adaptación N°6: A6- A 2035, Chile fortalecerá la capacidad de adaptación al cambio climático de su producción agropecuaria, y de alimentos de la pesca y acuicultura, así como el suministro, la distribución y el acceso físico de alimentos, a través de la implementación de la Estrategia Nacional de Soberanía para la Seguridad Alimentaria y su Plan, así como del Plan de Adaptación al Cambio Climático del sector Silvoagropecuario. En particular: a) A 2026, se habrá formalizado la gobernanza nacional de la Comisión Nacional de Sistemas Alimentarios. b) A 2028, se habrá implementado el “Programa de Innovación y Fortalecimiento Institucional para la Seguridad Alimentaria”, el que tiene como objetivo general contribuir a mejorar la seguridad alimentaria nacional a través del fortalecimiento de los servicios públicos agropecuarios. c) A 2035, se habrá establecido un sistema de trazabilidad y certificaciones de origen de productos pesqueros en, al menos, el 50% de las cadenas alimentarias que suministran y abastecen mercados nacionales. d) A 2035, se habrá avanzado en la consolidación del consumo de productos del mar al menos una vez a la semana, en instituciones públicas que compren y proveen alimentos a la ciudadanía. e) Al 2035, se habrá avanzado en la promoción del acceso a alimentos saludables, inocuos y culturalmente pertinentes, a través de la implementación del 60% de las acciones relacionadas a Guías Alimentarias para Chile, de acuerdo con lo comprometido en el Plan de Implementación de la Estrategia de Soberanía para la Seguridad Alimentaria. // Adaptation Contribution No. 6: A6- By 2035, Chile will strengthen the climate change adaptation capacity of its agricultural and livestock production—as well as food derived from fisheries and aquaculture—along with the supply, distribution, and physical access to food, through the implementation of the National Strategy for Sovereignty for Food Security and its corresponding Plan, as well as the Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the Silvo-agricultural Sector. In particular: a) By 2026, the national governance framework for the National Food Systems Commission will have been formalized. b) By 2028, the “Program for Innovation and Institutional Strengthening for Food Security” will have been implemented; its general objective is to contribute to improving national food security by strengthening public agricultural services. c) By 2035, a traceability and origin certification system for fishery products will have been established in at least 50% of the food supply chains that serve and supply domestic markets. d) By 2035, progress will have been made toward consolidating the consumption of seafood products—at least once a week—within public institutions that purchase and provide food to the citizenry. e) By 2035, progress will have been made in promoting access to healthy, safe, and culturally appropriate foods through the implementation of 60% of the actions related to the Dietary Guidelines for Chile, in accordance with the commitments set forth in the Implementation Plan for the Strategy for Sovereignty for Food Security. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Chile | ANEXO SEGUNDA COMUNICACIÓN DE ADAPTACIÓN DE CHILE 3. Prioridades (...) Respecto del Plan Nacional de Adaptación al Cambio Climático, este orienta las medidas sectoriales y regionales con un enfoque inclusivo que prioriza a grupos vulnerables. Se enfatiza un enfoque interseccional para reducir desigualdades estructurales, incluyendo análisis que consideren género, etnia, edad, discapacidad y situación socioeconómica, entre otras. La participación inclusiva y el diseño de medidas con indicadores interseccionales destacan como herramientas para una adaptación justa y eficaz. // ANNEX: CHILE’S SECOND ADAPTATION COMMUNICATION 3. Priorities (...) With regard to the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan, it guides sectoral and regional measures through an inclusive approach that prioritizes vulnerable groups. Emphasis is placed on an intersectional approach to reduce structural inequalities, incorporating analyses that consider gender, ethnicity, age, disability, and socioeconomic status, among other factors. Inclusive participation and the design of measures incorporating intersectional indicators stand out as key tools for just and effective adaptation. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Chile | Contribución en adaptación N°1: A1) Se establecen los siguientes compromisos respecto al ciclo de la adaptación, que considera:i) evaluación del impacto, del riesgo y de la vulnerabilidad; ii) la elaboración de planes; iii) la implementación de los planes; y iv) monitoreo, evaluación y aprendizaje. (...) b) A 2028, se contará con un inventario nacional de impactos del cambio climático en Chile, que incluirá la evaluación de costos de la inacción y de las pérdidas y daños, y que será parte de la Plataforma de Adaptación Climática. j) A 2035, Chile contará con un reporte público-privado de evaluaciones de riesgo climático, daños y pérdidas, con la colaboración del sector financiero y asegurador (p.29) ANEXO SEGUNDA COMUNICACIÓN DE ADAPTACIÓN DE CHILE 3. Prioridades (...) En relación con lo anterior, las pérdidas y daños no económicos constituyen una prioridad creciente en la acción climática de Chile, dado su impacto profundo y, en muchos casos, irreversible sobre las personas, comunidades y ecosistemas. Estos incluyen la pérdida de vidas humanas, salud física y mental, bienestar, identidad cultural, conocimientos tradicionales, patrimonio natural y elementos esenciales para la cohesión social, como las redes de apoyo comunitarias, particularmente en contextos de desastre. Asimismo, se reconocen como pérdidas relevantes los desplazamientos forzados y las migraciones inducidas por el cambio climático, que afectan tanto a quienes migran como a las comunidades de acogida. Estos impactos no siempre son cuantificables en términos económicos, pero son fundamentales para comprender la magnitud de la vulnerabilidad climática de Chile. (...) Entre las prioridades nacionales del PNACC destacan, entre otras: (...) 3. Avanzar en la identificación de las pérdidas y daños, incluyendo enfoques para evitarlas, minimizarlas y abordarlas. En particular, se propone la creación de un inventario de impactos del cambio climático y evaluación de costos de inacción. // Adaptation Contribution No. 1: A1) The following commitments are established regarding the adaptation cycle, which comprises: i) assessment of impact, risk, and vulnerability; ii) plan development; iii) plan implementation; and iv) monitoring, evaluation, and learning. (...) b) By 2028, a national inventory of climate change impacts in Chile will be established; this inventory will include an assessment of the costs of inaction as well as of losses and damages, and will form part of the Climate Adaptation Platform. j) By 2035, Chile will produce a public-private report on climate risk assessments, damages, and losses, developed in collaboration with the financial and insurance sectors (p. 29). ANNEX: CHILE’S SECOND ADAPTATION COMMUNICATION 3. Priorities (...) In light of the foregoing, non-economic losses and damages constitute a growing priority within Chile’s climate action, given their profound—and, in many cases, irreversible—impact on individuals, communities, and ecosystems. These include the loss of human life, physical and mental health, well-being, cultural identity, traditional knowledge, natural heritage, and elements essential for social cohesion—such as community support networks—particularly in the context of disasters. Likewise, forced displacement and climate change-induced migration are recognized as significant losses, affecting both those who migrate and the host communities. These impacts are not always quantifiable in economic terms, yet they are fundamental to understanding the magnitude of Chile’s climate vulnerability. (...) Among the national priorities of the PNACC [National Adaptation Plan for Climate Change], the following stand out, among others: (...) 3. Advance the identification of losses and damages, including approaches to avoid, minimize, and address them. In particular, the creation of an inventory of climate change impacts—along with an assessment of the costs of inaction—is proposed. **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. |
Economic security
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Chile | 1. PRÓLOGO Esta nueva NDC profundiza este trabajo con la incorporación de una Estrategia Nacional de Transición Socioecológica Justa (ENTSEJ), que recoge una visión del futuro desarrollo para el país en la próxima década en el contexto de la triple crisis planetaria, y del proceso de transición que se inicia a partir de ella. La ENTSEJ está orientada a promover un modelo económico y social sostenible, inclusivo y resiliente al clima; se alinea con los principios de la LMCC, y en ella se adoptan las medidas necesarias para garantizar un proceso justo, informado y participativo a trabajadoras y trabajadores, comunidades y territorios. Lo anterior, en línea con los principios y directrices del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales (Acuerdo de Escazú) adoptado por Chile en 2022. Esta ENTSEJ busca aprovechar los beneficios de sectores o actividades que puedan tener un efecto multiplicador en el empleo y beneficios sociales, a la vez que ayudan a la descarbonización y a la resiliencia de la economía nacional. Al mismo tiempo, pone un foco y considera medidas especiales en 5 territorios en transición del país. (p.8) 3.2 Compromisos en la aplicación del pilar de transición socioecológica justa Teniendo en cuenta los principios, criterios y lineamientos definidos en los principales instrumentos de gestión climática de Chile (LMCC, ECLP y PNACC), se proponen compromisos relacionados con la transversalidad y coherencia en la gestión del cambio climático, la equidad y justicia climática, la Estrategia Nacional de Transición Socioecológica Justa (ENTSEJ), la reconversión productiva sostenible y el trabajo decente. Contribución en transición socioecológica justa y desarrollo sostenible N°1: (...) PTSEJ 3) A 2028, Chile contará con una metodología de medición de la afectación de los empleos producto del cambio climático, para gestionar procesos de reconversión laboral, cumpliendo con los principios de trabajo decente. PTSEJ 4) A 2029, los informes de evaluación de los instrumentos de gestión de cambio climático nacionales medirán los costos y beneficios económicos, ambientales y sociales de las políticas climáticas, integrando indicadores de salud, empleo, equidad de género y pobreza, entre otros. Asimismo, incorporarán información desagregada por grupos vulnerables, de acuerdo con una metodología estandarizada que se pondrá a disposición a más tardar el año 2027. PTSEJ 5) A 2035, cada Plan Sectorial de Mitigación y/o de Adaptación al Cambio Climático, en función de su pertinencia, habrá implementado al menos una medida que contribuya a la protección del empleo, la intermediación laboral y/o a la reconversión laboral en actividades productivas vulnerables al cambio climático, o que sean intensivas en la emisión de GEI. // 1. FOREWORD This new NDC deepens this work through the incorporation of a National Strategy for a Just Socio-ecological Transition (ENTSEJ), which encapsulates a vision for the country's future development over the coming decade within the context of the triple planetary crisis and the transition process stemming from it. The ENTSEJ is aimed at promoting a sustainable, inclusive, and climate-resilient economic and social model; it aligns with the principles of the Framework Law on Climate Change (LMCC) and adopts the necessary measures to ensure a just, informed, and participatory process for workers, communities, and territories. This is in line with the principles and guidelines of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Escazú Agreement), adopted by Chile in 2022. This ENTSEJ seeks to leverage the benefits of sectors or activities that may have a multiplier effect on employment and social benefits, while simultaneously contributing to the decarbonization and resilience of the national economy. At the same time, it places a specific focus on—and considers special measures for—five territories in transition within the country. (p.8) 3.2 Commitments regarding the implementation of the Just Socio-ecological Transition pillar Taking into account the principles, criteria, and guidelines defined in Chile’s key climate management instruments (LMCC, ECLP, and PNACC), commitments are proposed regarding cross-cutting integration and coherence in climate change management, climate equity and justice, the National Strategy for a Just Socio-ecological Transition (ENTSEJ), sustainable productive reconversion, and decent work. Contribution to Just Socio-ecological Transition and Sustainable Development No. 1: (...) PTSEJ 3) By 2028, Chile will have in place a methodology for measuring the impact of climate change on employment, in order to manage labor reconversion processes in compliance with decent work principles. PTSEJ 4) By 2029, evaluation reports on national climate change management instruments will measure the economic, environmental, and social costs and benefits of climate policies, incorporating indicators related to health, employment, gender equity, and poverty, among others. Furthermore, these reports will incorporate information disaggregated by vulnerable groups, in accordance with a standardized methodology that will be made available no later than 2027. PTSEJ 5) By 2035, each Sectoral Climate Change Mitigation and/or Adaptation Plan—based on its relevance—will have implemented at least one measure contributing to employment protection, labor intermediation, and/or labor retraining within productive activities that are vulnerable to climate change or that are greenhouse gas (GHG) emission-intensive. |
Economic security
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Colombia | 4.3 Fomento de capacidades: Enfoques diferenciales e inclusión La construcción de capacidades para la acción climática se orienta bajo un enfoque diferencial, reconociendo el papel de las mujeres, juventudes, pueblos indígenas, comunidades afrodescendientes y campesinado, y personas en situación de vulnerabilidad. La NDC 3.0 reafirma que la formación y la educación climática deben responder a las realidades socioculturales del país, integrando el conocimiento científico con los saberes locales y ancestrales para enriquecer los procesos educativos y garantizar una transición justa y equitativa. Fomento de capacidades - Apuestas estratégicas La NDC 3.0 proyecta como apuestas estratégicas de Colombia: consolidar una educación climática transversal, formar científicas y científicos del cambio climático, fortalecer la transición justa con programas de reconversión laboral y profesionalización de competencias, gestionar un fortalecimiento institucional y territorial continuo con recursos estables que permitan integrar el cambio climático en la gestión sectorial y local, y potenciar la gestión del conocimiento científico y ancestral como base para decisiones informadas y soluciones adaptadas a la diversidad del país. // 4.3 Capacity Building: Differential Approaches and Inclusion Capacity building for climate action is guided by a differential approach, recognizing the role of women, youth, indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant communities, the peasantry, and people in vulnerable situations. NDC 3.0 reaffirms that climate training and education must respond to the country's sociocultural realities, integrating scientific knowledge with local and ancestral wisdom to enrich educational processes and ensure a just and equitable transition. Capacity Building – Strategic Priorities NDC 3.0 outlines Colombia's strategic priorities as follows: consolidating cross-cutting climate education; training climate change scientists; strengthening the just transition through programs for workforce retraining and skills professionalization; fostering continuous institutional and territorial strengthening—supported by stable resources—to enable the integration of climate change into sectoral and local management; and enhancing the management of scientific and ancestral knowledge to serve as a foundation for informed decision-making and solutions tailored to the country's diversity. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Colombia | 3. Fomento de capacidades - Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible MEDIO DE IMPLEMENTACIÓN: Fortalecer el rol de las mujeres Indígenas como base fundamental para la pervivencia de los sistemas de conocimiento de los Pueblos Indígenas como contribución a la acción climática, integrando su conocimiento y liderazgo en los procesos de mitigación y adaptación climática. Entidades responsables: Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible Aliados estratégicos: Gobiernos Indígenas Alcance: Las mujeres Indígenas estarán reconocidas y posicionadas como actoras centrales en la gobernanza climática integrando su conocimiento y liderazgo en los procesos de mitigación y adaptación climática. Aporte acción climática MITIGACIÓN: Preservación de sumideros de carbono mediante conocimiento especializado: El conocimiento profundo de las mujeres sobre los ecosistemas locales permite identificar y proteger áreas críticas de almacenamiento de carbono que podrían pasar desapercibidas en enfoques técnicos convencionales. Fortalecimiento de sistemas agroforestales biodiversos: Las mujeres, como principales responsables de las chagras y huertas familiares, implementan y perfeccionan sistemas agroalimentarios que capturan carbono mientras proveen alimentos. Transmisión de prácticas de manejo forestal sostenible: Su rol en la educación familiar y comunitaria asegura que las prácticas de uso sostenible del bosque se mantengan, previniendo la degradación y pérdida de reservorios de carbono. ADAPTACIÓN: Conservación in situ de agrobiodiversidad resiliente: Las mujeres, como guardianas de semillas, mantienen variedades de cultivos con rasgos de tolerancia a sequías, inundaciones y plagas, constituyendo un seguro alimentario frente a la variabilidad climática. Fortalecimiento de la medicina tradicional y salud comunitaria: Su conocimiento de plantas medicinales y prácticas de salud provee resiliencia ante enfermedades exacerbadas por el cambio climático cuando el acceso a servicios de salud formal se dificulta. Gesón comunitaria del agua basada en conocimiento ancestral: Las mujeres aplican técnicas tradicionales de conservación de fuentes hídricas y manejo eficiente del agua para el consumo y la producción agrícola. Sistemas de alerta temprana basados en observación biocultural: Su aguda capacidad de observación de señales naturales (comportamiento animal, floración, cambios atmosféricos) enriquece los sistemas locales de predicción climática. // 3. Capacity Building – Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION: Strengthen the role of Indigenous women as a fundamental basis for the survival of Indigenous Peoples' knowledge systems as a contribution to climate action, by integrating their knowledge and leadership into climate mitigation and adaptation processes. Responsible Entities: Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development Strategic Partners: Indigenous Governments Scope: Indigenous women will be recognized and positioned as central actors in climate governance, integrating their knowledge and leadership into climate mitigation and adaptation processes. Contribution to Climate Action MITIGATION: Preservation of carbon sinks through specialized knowledge: Women's deep knowledge of local ecosystems enables the identification and protection of critical carbon storage areas that might otherwise go unnoticed in conventional technical approaches. Strengthening of biodiverse agroforestry systems: As the primary caretakers of *chagras* (traditional cultivation plots) and family gardens, women implement and refine agri-food systems that capture carbon while providing food. Transmission of sustainable forest management practices: Their role in family and community education ensures that sustainable forest use practices are maintained, thereby preventing the degradation and loss of carbon reservoirs. ADAPTATION: *In situ* conservation of resilient agrobiodiversity: As guardians of seeds, women maintain crop varieties possessing traits that confer tolerance to droughts, floods, and pests, thereby serving as a form of food security in the face of climate variability. Strengthening of traditional medicine and community health: Their knowledge of medicinal plants and health practices provides resilience against diseases exacerbated by climate change, particularly when access to formal health services is limited. Community-based water management grounded in ancestral knowledge: Women apply traditional techniques for conserving water sources and managing water efficiently for both consumption and agricultural production. Biocultural observation-based early warning systems: Their acute capacity for observing natural signals (animal behavior, flowering, atmospheric changes) enriches local climate prediction systems. |
Unpaid care work
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Colombia | 3. Fomento de capacidades - Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible MEDIO DE IMPLEMENTACIÓN: Garantizar la participación de las mujeres Indígenas en los espacios de decisión e intercambio de conocimiento a nivel global, regional, nacional y local en la acción climática articulando con los compromisos de otros tratados internacionales Entidades responsables: Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible Aliados estratégicos: Gobiernos Indígenas Alcance: Las mujeres Indígenas participarán activamente en los espacios para la transmisión de conocimiento y la toma de decisiones sobre el clima. Se buscará realizar un plan que lleve a la participación plena y efectiva de las mujeres Indígenas. Aporte acción climática MITIGACIÓN: Incidencia en mecanismos de financiamiento climático: Su participación directa en espacios globales permite influir en el diseño de fondos climáticos para que respondan a realidades locales y apoyen iniciativas lideradas por mujeres Indígenas. Posicionamiento de enfoques de mitigación culturalmente apropiados: Su voz en foros internacionales visibiliza modelos de conservación basados en conocimiento tradicional que son efectivos para proteger sumideros de carbono. Fortalecimiento de salvaguardas en proyectos de mitigación: Su participación asegura que los proyectos REDD+ y otros mecanismos respeten derechos colectivos y generen beneficios equitativos para mujeres y hombres. ADAPTACIÓN: Integración de conocimientos locales en políticas globales: Su participación permite que soluciones ancestrales de adaptación sean consideradas en marcos internacionales y replicadas en otros contextos. Fortalecimiento de sistemas de alerta temprana con enfoque de género: Su liderazgo asegura que los sistemas de alerta consideren las vulnerabilidades y roles diferenciales de mujeres y hombres. Acceso directo a tecnologías y prácticas adaptativas: Su participación en redes globales facilita el intercambio de soluciones adaptativas con otras comunidades Indígenas del mundo. Influencia en agendas de financiamiento para adaptación: Su presencia en espacios de decisión asegura que los fondos prioricen acciones que aborden las cargas diferenciales del cambio climático sobre las mujeres. // 3. Capacity Building – Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION: Ensure the participation of Indigenous women in decision-making and knowledge-exchange spaces—at global, regional, national, and local levels—regarding climate action, while aligning with the commitments of other international treaties. Responsible Entities: Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development Strategic Partners: Indigenous Governments Scope: Indigenous women will actively participate in spaces dedicated to knowledge transmission and climate-related decision-making. Efforts will be directed toward developing a plan to ensure the full and effective participation of Indigenous women. Contribution to Climate Action MITIGATION: Influence on Climate Finance Mechanisms: Their direct participation in global spaces allows them to influence the design of climate funds, ensuring these funds respond to local realities and support initiatives led by Indigenous women. Promotion of Culturally Appropriate Mitigation Approaches: Their voices in international forums bring visibility to conservation models based on traditional knowledge, which are effective in protecting carbon sinks. Strengthening of Safeguards in Mitigation Projects: Their participation ensures that REDD+ projects and other mechanisms respect collective rights and generate equitable benefits for both women and men. ADAPTATION: Integration of Local Knowledge into Global Policies: Their participation ensures that ancestral adaptation solutions are considered within international frameworks and can be replicated in other contexts. Strengthening of Gender-Responsive Early Warning Systems: Their leadership ensures that early warning systems take into account the distinct vulnerabilities and roles of women and men. Direct Access to Adaptive Technologies and Practices: Their participation in global networks facilitates the exchange of adaptive solutions with other Indigenous communities worldwide. Influence on Adaptation Finance Agendas: Their presence in decision-making spaces ensures that funding prioritizes actions that address the disproportionate burdens of climate change on women. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Colombia | SECTOR AGROPECUARIO - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de agricultura y desarrollo rural NOMBRE MEDIDA: NAMA DE GANADERÍA BOVINA SOSTENIBLE DESCRIPCIÓN: La medida busca transformar la producción ganadera hacia un modelo más eficiente y bajo en emisiones, combinando mejoras productivas con acciones de conservación y restauración en los predios ganaderos. Su implementación se centra en promover sistemas silvopastoriles (intensivos y no intensivos), el manejo sostenible de los potreros y la gestión adecuada de los residuos ganaderos para reducir metano y aprovechar su energía. Asimismo, la medida articula prácticas de ordenamiento ambiental y productivo a nivel regional, incluyendo la liberación de áreas para restauración ecológica, la conservación de ecosistemas estratégicos al interior de las fincas y la optimización de las cadenas logísticas, especialmente en la comercialización de leche cruda.// AGRICULTURAL SECTOR - Sectoral Measures - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development MEASURE NAME: SUSTAINABLE CATTLE FARMING NAMA DESCRIPTION: This measure seeks to transform cattle production toward a more efficient and low-emission model by combining productivity improvements with conservation and restoration actions on cattle farms. Its implementation focuses on promoting silvopastoral systems (both intensive and non-intensive), the sustainable management of pastures, and the proper management of livestock waste to reduce methane emissions and harness the energy contained therein. Furthermore, the measure integrates environmental and productive planning practices at the regional level, including the designation of areas for ecological restoration, the conservation of strategic ecosystems within farms, and the optimization of logistics chains—particularly regarding the commercialization of raw milk. Activities: 1. Sustainable intensification of cattle production through knowledge management and the establishment of intensive and non-intensive silvopastoral systems. 2. Restoration of natural areas within cattle farms for the conservation and/or restoration of natural ecosystems. 3. Manure management and the utilization of methane gas generated by solid and liquid waste at the country's livestock auction centers and slaughterhouses. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Promote the participation of women in the implementation of silvopastoral systems, living fences, and pasture management through training programs and access to "green credits" designed specifically for rural female producers. This reduces historical gaps in access to land, technology, and financing, while fostering female leadership within sustainable value chains and ensuring that women are direct beneficiaries of incentives and payment mechanisms for environmental services. This initiative is framed within the agricultural sector's gender commitments under the PAGCC-CO, as well as the differentiated approach outlined in the agricultural sector's PIGCCS. And in accordance with strategic lines 5.4 and 5.5 regarding gender, and measure 4.2 to integrate the gender approach into sectoral climate change management. Actividades: 1. Intensificación sostenible de la producción ganadera a través de la gestión del conocimiento y el establecimiento de sistemas silvopastoriles intensivos y no intensivos. 2. Restauración de áreas naturales dentro de predios ganaderos para la conservación y/o restauración de ecosistemas naturales. 3. Manejo de estiércol y aprovechamiento del gas metano generado por los residuos sólidos y líquidos en las subastas ganaderas y centrales de beneficio del país. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Promover la participación de mujeres en la implementación de sistemas silvopastoriles, cercas vivas y manejo de pasturas, mediante programas de capacitación y acceso a créditos verdes diseñados para productoras rurales. Esto reduce brechas históricas en el acceso a tierra, tecnología y financiamiento, y fomenta el liderazgo femenino en cadenas de valor sostenibles, asegurando que las mujeres sean beneficiarias directas de los incentivos y mecanismos de pago por servicios ambientales. En el marco de los compromisos de género del sector agropecuario en el PAGCC-CO y con el planteamiento de enfoque diferencial del PIGCCS del sector agropecuario. Y de acuerdo con la líneas estratégicas 5.4 y 5.5 sobre género y la medida 4.2 para Integrar el enfoque de género en la gestión del cambio climático sectorial. |
Economic security
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| Colombia | SECTOR AGROPECUARIO - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de agricultura y desarrollo rural NOMBRE MEDIDA: DESARROLLO Y CONSOLIDACIÓN DE LA CADENA PRODUCTIVA DE LAS PLANTACIONES FORESTALES CON FINES COMERCIALES COMO CONTRIBUCIÓN A LA CAPTURA DE GEI DESCRIPCIÓN: La medida busca fortalecer la cadena productiva de las plantaciones forestales con fines comerciales, mediante la articulación técnica y económica con el plan de acción de la cadena Plan Forestal Comercial- PFC. Su propósito es consolidar un modelo de producción de madera basado en prácticas sostenibles, mayor productividad y contribución a la captura de GEI. La zonificación de áreas aptas para plantaciones forestales con fines comerciales realizada en 2014-2015 precisó dónde se ubican 24,5 millones de hectáreas aptas para este tipo de plantaciones y cuáles son sus características físicas, ambientales y socioeconómicas. Paquetes tecnológicos en un estado avanzado de desarrollo para al menos 8 especies forestales 5 están disponibles. Sin embargo, el Certificado de Incentivo Forestal CIF es determinante para dar connuidad al proceso de incremento de las plantaciones forestales comerciales en Colombia; la tasa de crecimiento representada en esta proyección dependerá de la viabilidad de recursos y la apertura de financiamiento para el cumplimiento de la meta. Actividades: Planes de siembra de plantaciones forestales con fines comerciales (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: En línea con el PAGCC-CO, el PIGCCS agropecuario y la Dirección de Mujer Rural del MADR, impulsa inclusión efectiva de mujeres en la cadena forestal, acceso a financiamiento verde, capacitación en manejo silvicultural, liderazgo en asociaciones forestales y reducción de brechas en acceso a tecnología, propiedad y toma de decisiones. // AGRICULTURAL SECTOR - Sectoral Measures - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development MEASURE NAME: DEVELOPMENT AND CONSOLIDATION OF THE COMMERCIAL FORESTRY PLANTATION PRODUCTION CHAIN AS A CONTRIBUTION TO GHG SEQUESTRATION DESCRIPTION: This measure seeks to strengthen the production chain for commercial forestry plantations through technical and economic alignment with the chain's action plan—the Commercial Forestry Plan (PFC). Its purpose is to consolidate a timber production model based on sustainable practices, increased productivity, and a contribution to GHG sequestration. The zoning of areas suitable for commercial forestry plantations—carried out in 2014–2015—identified the location of 24.5 million hectares suitable for this type of plantation, as well as their physical, environmental, and socioeconomic characteristics. Technological packages—currently in an advanced stage of development—are available for at least eight forest species. However, the Forestry Incentive Certificate (CIF) is crucial for ensuring the continuity of the process to expand commercial forestry plantations in Colombia; the growth rate reflected in this projection will depend on the availability of resources and the securing of financing to achieve the established goal. Activities: Planting plans for commercial forestry plantations (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: In alignment with the PAGCC-CO, the agricultural PIGCCS, and the Rural Women Directorate of the MADR, this measure promotes the effective inclusion of women within the forestry chain, access to green financing, training in silvicultural management, leadership roles in forestry associations, and the reduction of gaps regarding access to technology, property ownership, and decision-making processes. |
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| Colombia | SECTOR AGROPECUARIO - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de agricultura y desarrollo rural NOMBRE MEDIDA: ESTRATEGIAS DE REDUCCIÓN DE EMISIONES DE GEI EN EL CICLO DE VIDA DE LA PRODUCCIÓN DE CACAO (Theobroma cacao). DESCRIPCIÓN: La medida espera que, con el aumento de áreas dedicado al cultivo de cacao bajo sistemas agroforestales, así como la renovación y rehabilitación incremente el stock de carbono y se absorba CO2 provenientes de otras fuentes de emisiones. Según el estudio realizado por CIAT - USDA (2019) y según el Plan Nacional Cacaotero se estiman 31,475 ha para renovación y rehabilitación las cuales hacen parte de la renovación planteada de 80.000 y 150.000 ha en sistemas agroforestales (SAF). Dado que para el sector productivo solamente el 7,6% de las unidades productivas utilizan fertilizantes químicos y el 6,5% aplican fertilizantes orgánicos CIAT - USDA (2019), no se tendrá en cuenta el uso de fertilizantes en la cuantificación de reducción de emisiones. Así mismo, dentro de las acciones planteadas no se analizaron proyecciones para sistema poscosecha y beneficio de cacao. Actividades: 1. Renovación y rehabilitación de hectáreas establecidas 2. Conversión de pastizales a cultivos de cacao 3. Manejo de sistemas agroforestales (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Promover participación de mujeres en la cadena de valor del cacao y acceso a financiamiento. De acuerdo con los compromisos de género del sector agropecuario en el PAGCC-CO y con el planteamiento de enfoque diferencial del PIGCCS del sector agropecuario. Y de acuerdo con las líneas estratégicas 5.4 y 5.5 sobre género y la medida 4.2 para Integrar el enfoque de género en la gesón del cambio climático sectorial. // AGRICULTURAL SECTOR - Sectoral Measures - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development MEASURE NAME: STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING GHG EMISSIONS IN THE LIFE CYCLE OF COCOA PRODUCTION (*Theobroma cacao*). DESCRIPTION: This measure anticipates that, through an increase in the area dedicated to cocoa cultivation under agroforestry systems—as well as through renovation and rehabilitation efforts—carbon stocks will increase and CO2 from other emission sources will be absorbed. According to a study conducted by CIAT–USDA (2019) and in accordance with the National Cocoa Plan, an estimated 31,475 hectares are targeted for renovation and rehabilitation; these hectares constitute a portion of the proposed renovation of 80,000 to 150,000 hectares within agroforestry systems (AFS). Given that, within the productive sector, only 7.6% of production units utilize chemical fertilizers and 6.5% apply organic fertilizers (CIAT–USDA, 2019), the use of fertilizers will not be taken into account when quantifying emission reductions. Furthermore, the proposed actions did not include an analysis of projections regarding post-harvest systems or cocoa processing. Activities: 1. Renovation and rehabilitation of established hectares 2. Conversion of pastures to cocoa crops 3. Management of agroforestry systems (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Promote women's participation in the cocoa value chain and their access to financing. This aligns with the agricultural sector's gender commitments outlined in the PAGCC-CO, as well as with the differential approach proposed in the agricultural sector's PIGCCS. It also aligns with strategic lines 5.4 and 5.5 regarding gender, and with Measure 4.2, which aims to integrate a gender perspective into sectoral climate change management. |
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| Colombia | SECTOR AGROPECUARIO - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de agricultura y desarrollo rural NOMBRE MEDIDA: NAMA CAFÉ DE COLOMBIA DESCRIPCIÓN: Proponer e implementar estrategias para la mitigación de Gases Efecto Invernadero generados en las etapas de producción, cosecha y poscosecha del café de Colombia a nivel de finca. La NAMA Café de Colombia define las medidas y acciones de mitigación al cambio climático en la producción de café, parcularmente en los procesos llevados a cabo en las fincas (cultivo y poscosecha) hasta obtener el café pergamino seco. También identifica y cuantifica las potenciales reducciones de GEI, y de los co-beneficios ambientales, económicos y sociales asociados, que contribuyen a los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible del país.Adicionalmente, plantea los mecanismos de financiamiento de las medidas y acciones propuestas, establece un sistema de Monitoreo, Reporte y Verificación (MRV) para el seguimiento, y lineamientos para la implementación. Actividades: 1. Implementar sistemas agroforestales en los predios donde se cultiva el café: reestructurar áreas establecidas con café a libre exposición solar en zonas marginales para el cultivo mediante la implementación de sistemas agroforestales.2. Optimizar las prácticas en el proceso de postcosecha del café y cambio de combustibles en secadores mecánicos de café.3. Aumento de las densidades de siembra de cultivos a libre exposición.4. Uso eficiente de fertilizantes: Fomentar las mejores prácticas de aplicación de fertilizantes. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: promover participación de mujeres en la cadena de valor del café. De acuerdo con los compromisos de género del sector agropecuario en el PAGCC-CO. Y de acuerdo con la líneas estratégicas 5.4 y 5.5 sobre género y la medida 4.2 para Integrar el enfoque de género en la gestión del cambio climático sectorial. Todo esto en coordinación con la Dirección de Mujer Rural del Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural. // AGRICULTURAL SECTOR - Sectoral Measures - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development MEASURE NAME: COLOMBIA COFFEE NAMA DESCRIPTION: To propose and implement strategies for the mitigation of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) generated during the production, harvesting, and post-harvest stages of Colombian coffee at the farm level. The Colombia Coffee NAMA defines climate change mitigation measures and actions within coffee production—specifically regarding processes carried out on farms (cultivation and post-harvest) up to the point of obtaining dry parchment coffee. It also identifies and quantifies potential GHG reductions, as well as the associated environmental, economic, and social co-benefits that contribute to the country's sustainable development goals. Additionally, it outlines financing mechanisms for the proposed measures and actions, establishes a Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) system for tracking purposes, and provides guidelines for implementation. Activities: 1. Implement agroforestry systems on coffee-growing properties: restructure areas currently under full sun exposure—particularly in zones marginal for coffee cultivation—through the implementation of agroforestry systems. 2. Optimize practices within the coffee post-harvest process and transition fuel sources in mechanical coffee dryers. 3. Increase planting densities for full-sun coffee crops. 4. Efficient use of fertilizers: promote best practices regarding fertilizer application. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Promote the participation of women throughout the coffee value chain. This aligns with the agricultural sector's gender commitments as outlined in the PAGCC-CO (Sectoral Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Plan). It also aligns with strategic lines 5.4 and 5.5 regarding gender, as well as measure 4.2, which aims to integrate a gender perspective into sectoral climate change management. All these efforts are carried out in coordination with the Directorate for Rural Women within the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. |
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| Colombia | SECTOR AGROPECUARIO - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de agricultura y desarrollo rural NOMBRE MEDIDA: REDUCCIÓN DE EMISIONES DE GEI EN PRODUCCIÓN DE ARROZ A TRAVÉS DE LA ADOPCIÓN MASIVA DE TECNOLOGÍA (AMTEC 2.0) EN COLOMBIA. DESCRIPCIÓN: Los GEI implicados en el sistema de producción de arroz son el gas metano (CH4), el óxido nitroso (N2O) y el dióxido de carbono (CO2), cuyas concentraciones en el ámbito nacional tienden a aumentar año a año contribuyendo así a ahondar el problema del calentamiento del sistema climático. El método AMTEC es un modelo de transferencia de tecnología basado en la sostenibilidad y la responsabilidad social que propende por la organización, la competitividad y la rentabilidad del productor, implementando tecnologías en forma integral masiva para aumentar los rendimientos y reducir los costos de producción en el cultivo del arroz. incluye pronosticos del tiempo - modelamiento de cultivo, agricultura de precisión y el sistema de riego MIRI, Actividades: 1. Manejo de consumo volumétrico de agua: Reducir la profundidad de la lámina de agua en arrozal AWD (ALTERNATE WET -DRY: A través de la técnica de riego alterno seco-húmedo (Alternate Wetting and Drying - AWD), se disminuye la lámina de agua en el arrozal, reduciendo la producción de CH4. 2. Reducción en el uso de fertilizantes: Al implementar una menor densidad de siembra, se disminuye el uso de fertilizantes nitrogenados por unidad de área, reduciendo las emisiones de N2O. 3. Manejo de residuos de cosecha: Descomposición de residuos en lugar de quema física incluyendo labranza mínima y aprovechamiento del tamo (Menos materia orgánica en agua para producción de CH4, incremento de carbono en suelo). (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Promover inclusión de mujeres en capacitación y acceso a créditos. De acuerdo con los compromisos de género del sector agropecuario en el PAGCC-C. Y de acuerdo con las líneas estratégicas 5.4 y 5.5 sobre género y la medida 4.2 para Integrar el enfoque de género en la gestión del cambio climático sectorial. Todo esto en coordinación con la Dirección de Mujer Rural del Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural. // AGRICULTURAL SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development MEASURE NAME: REDUCTION OF GHG EMISSIONS IN RICE PRODUCTION THROUGH THE MASS ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGY (AMTEC 2.0) IN COLOMBIA. DESCRIPTION: The GHGs involved in the rice production system are methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and carbon dioxide (CO2); their concentrations at the national level tend to increase year after year, thereby contributing to exacerbating the problem of global warming within the climate system. The AMTEC method is a technology transfer model grounded in sustainability and social responsibility that aims to foster organization, competitiveness, and profitability for producers by implementing technologies on a comprehensive, mass scale to increase yields and reduce production costs in rice cultivation. Includes weather forecasts, crop modeling, precision agriculture, and the MIRI irrigation system. Activities: 1. Management of volumetric water consumption: Reduce the water depth in rice paddies using AWD (Alternate Wetting and Drying). Through the AWD technique, the water depth in the rice paddy is lowered, thereby reducing CH4 production. 2. Reduction in fertilizer use: By implementing a lower planting density, the use of nitrogenous fertilizers per unit area is decreased, thereby reducing N2O emissions. 3. Crop residue management: Decomposition of residues instead of open burning—including minimum tillage and the utilization of rice straw (resulting in less organic matter in the water available for CH4 production, and an increase in soil carbon). (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Promote the inclusion of women in training programs and in accessing credit. This aligns with the gender commitments of the agricultural sector as outlined in the PAGCC-C, as well as with strategic lines 5.4 and 5.5 regarding gender, and measure 4.2 aimed at integrating a gender perspective into sectoral climate change management. All these efforts are carried out in coordination with the Directorate for Rural Women at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. |
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| Colombia | SECTOR AGROPECUARIO - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de agricultura y desarrollo rural NOMBRE MEDIDA: ESTRATEGIA INTEGRAL DEL SUBSECTOR PANELERO PARA LA MITIGACIÓN DEL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO Y EL DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE DE LA CADENA PRODUCTIVA (NAMA PANELA) DESCRIPCIÓN: La NAMA incorpora diferentes medidas para las fases de cultivo, procesamiento, y manejo de subproductos de la cadena productiva. En el componente asociado al cultivo, la NAMA busca el incentivar el uso eficiente de fertilizantes sintéticos, la disminución de las quemas, así como menor gasto energético en el laboreo del suelo, adicionalmente se asocia un componente de restauración de plantaciones forestales aledañas a las zonas de producción panelera; en el componente de procesos pretende desarrollar acciones para la sustitución de motores Diesel por eléctricos y el uso más eficiente de la energía en la combustión de bagazo en las hornillas, reduciendo el consumo de combustibles adicionales fortalecimiento de capacidades para la adopción tecnológica y finalmente un componente de MRV. Actividades: 1. Planes de reforestación con especies nativas (Restauración ecológica). 2. Implementación de sistemas de tratamiento de aguas residuales del proceso productivo y manejo de productos de desecho residuales del proceso de producción. 3. Proceso de mejoramiento de eficiencia térmica de hornillas, recambio de motores diésel por motores eléctricos. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: En línea con el PAGCC-CO y el enfoque diferencial del PIGCCS Agropecuario, impulsa la participación de mujeres paneleras en procesos de capacitación, acceso a créditos verdes y adopción tecnológica. Contribuye a cerrar brechas en acceso a tierra, financiamiento y tecnologías limpias, y se integra con las líneas estratégicas 5.4, 5.5 y la medida 4.2 de género sectorial del MADR, en coordinación con la Dirección de Mujer Rural. // AGRICULTURAL SECTOR - Sectoral Measures - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development MEASURE NAME: COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY FOR THE PANELA SUB-SECTOR FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRODUCTION CHAIN (PANELA NAMA) DESCRIPTION: The NAMA incorporates various measures covering the cultivation, processing, and by-product management phases of the production chain. In the component associated with cultivation, the NAMA seeks to incentivize the efficient use of synthetic fertilizers, reduce the practice of burning, and lower energy consumption in soil tillage; additionally, it includes a component for the restoration of forest plantations adjacent to panela production zones. In the processing component, the initiative aims to implement actions for the replacement of diesel engines with electric ones and to promote more efficient energy use in the combustion of bagasse within furnaces, thereby reducing the consumption of supplementary fuels. It also includes capacity-building efforts to facilitate technology adoption, and, finally, an MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification) component. Activities: 1. Reforestation plans using native species (Ecological restoration). 2. Implementation of wastewater treatment systems for the production process, as well as the management of residual waste products generated during production. 3. Process to improve the thermal efficiency of furnaces, and the replacement of diesel engines with electric motors. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: In alignment with the PAGCC-CO (National Climate Change Adaptation Plan) and the differential approach of the Agricultural PIGCCS (Sectoral Climate Change Management Plan), this initiative promotes the participation of women involved in panela production in training processes, access to green credits, and technology adoption. It contributes to closing gaps in access to land, financing, and clean technologies, and integrates with strategic lines 5.4 and 5.5—as well as sectoral gender measure 4.2—of the MADR (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), in coordination with the Directorate for Rural Women. |
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| Colombia | SECTOR AGROPECUARIO - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de agricultura y desarrollo rural NOMBRE MEDIDA: ACCIONES PARA AUMENTAR LAS ABSORCIONES DE GEI, MEDIANTE LA PROMOCIÓN DE CULTIVOS AGRO-ENERGÉTICOS Y APROVECHAMIENTO DE BIOMASA PARA LA PRODUCCIÓN DE BIOCOMBUSTIBLES Y BIOENERGÍA DESCRIPCIÓN: La medida impulsa el aumento de absorciones de GEI en el sector agropecuario mediante el establecimiento y manejo sostenible de cultivos agro-energéticos y el aprovechamiento de biomasa residual para la producción de biocombustibles y bioenergía. Se orienta a promover prácticas que capturen carbono en biomasa vegetal, sustituyan combustibles fósiles y reduzcan emisiones asociadas a la quema o disposición inadecuada de residuos. El alcance incluye acciones de promoción, asistencia técnica, lineamientos y articulación interinstitucional, sin financiar directamente la instalación de plantas o sistemas. Actividades: 1. Elaboración de lineamientos técnicos y normativos para cultivos agro-energéticos y uso de biomasa. 2. Programas de capacitación y asistencia técnica para productores agropecuarios sobre bioenergía y biocombustibles. 3. Promoción de incentivos y mecanismos financieros para la adopción de prácticas sostenibles. 4. Articulación con entidades públicas y privadas para facilitar cadenas de valor de bioenergía. 5. Monitoreo y reporte de áreas establecidas y biomasa aprovechada. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Asegurar inclusión activa de mujeres en capacitación y acceso equitativo a beneficios, con indicadores de participación. De acuerdo los compromisos de género del sector agropecuario en el PAGCC-CO y con el planteamiento de enfoque diferencial del PIGCCS del sector agropecuario. Y de acuerdo con las líneas estratégicas 5.4 y 5.5 sobre género y la medida 4.2 para Integrar el enfoque de género en la gestión del cambio climático sectorial. Todo esto en coordinación con la Dirección de Mujer Rural del Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural. // AGRICULTURAL SECTOR - Sectoral Measures - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development MEASURE NAME: ACTIONS TO INCREASE GHG ABSORPTION THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF AGRO-ENERGY CROPS AND THE UTILIZATION OF BIOMASS FOR BIOFUEL AND BIOENERGY PRODUCTION DESCRIPTION: This measure drives an increase in GHG absorption within the agricultural sector through the establishment and sustainable management of agro-energy crops, as well as the utilization of residual biomass for the production of biofuels and bioenergy. It aims to promote practices that sequester carbon in plant biomass, displace fossil fuels, and reduce emissions associated with the burning or improper disposal of waste. Its scope encompasses promotional activities, technical assistance, the development of guidelines, and inter-institutional coordination; however, it does not directly finance the installation of plants or systems. Activities: 1. Development of technical and regulatory guidelines for agro-energy crops and biomass utilization. 2. Training and technical assistance programs for agricultural producers regarding bioenergy and biofuels. 3. Promotion of incentives and financial mechanisms to encourage the adoption of sustainable practices. 4. Coordination with public and private entities to facilitate bioenergy value chains. 5. Monitoring and reporting on established crop areas and utilized biomass. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Ensure the active inclusion of women in training initiatives and equitable access to benefits, supported by participation indicators. This aligns with the agricultural sector's gender commitments outlined in the PAGCC-CO, as well as the differential approach framework established in the agricultural sector's PIGCCS. Furthermore, it adheres to Strategic Lines 5.4 and 5.5 regarding gender, and Measure 4.2, which focuses on integrating a gender perspective into sectoral climate change management. All these efforts are carried out in coordination with the Directorate for Rural Women (Dirección de Mujer Rural) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. |
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| Colombia | SECTOR AGROPECUARIO - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de agricultura y desarrollo rural NOMBRE MEDIDA: ACCIONES PARA REDUCIR LAS EMISIONES DE GEI EN LA AGROINDUSTRIA, FOMENTANDO LA IMPLEMENTACIÓN DE SISTEMAS DE CAPTURA Y USO DE BIOGÁS DERIVADO DE LA BIOMASA RESIDUAL DE LOS PROCESOS AGROINDUSTRIALES DESCRIPCIÓN: La medida consiste en promover la adopción de sistemas para la captura y aprovechamiento de biogás generado a partir de la biomasa residual de los procesos agroindustriales, con el fin de reducir las emisiones de Gases de Efecto Invernadero (GEI) en el sector. Esta acción se orienta a incentivar el uso eficiente de residuos orgánicos como fuente de energía renovable, disminuyendo emisiones de metano y dióxido de carbono, y contribuyendo a la sustitución parcial de combustibles fósiles en operaciones agroindustriales. El alcance de esta meta se limita a la promoción, asistencia técnica y generación de condiciones habilitantes para la implementación de dichos sistemas, sin incluir la financiación o instalación directa, que corresponde a otras carteras. Actividades: 1. Elaboración de lineamientos técnicos y normativos para el aprovechamiento de biomasa residual en la agroindustria. 2. Desarrollo de programas de capacitación y asistencia técnica para empresas agroindustriales sobre captura y uso de biogás. 3. Articulación con otras carteras y entidades para facilitar la implementación de proyectos de biogás. 4. Monitoreo y reporte de avances en la adopción de sistemas de biogás en el sector agroindustrial. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Inclusión activa de mujeres en los procesos de capacitación, asistencia técnica y oportunidades derivadas de la bioenergía, asegurando igualdad en el acceso a beneficios e incentivos. Se incorporan indicadores para monitorear la participación femenina en la adopción de tecnologías. De acuerdo con los compromisos de género del sector agropecuario en el PAGCC-CO y con el planteamiento de enfoque diferencial del PIGCCS del sector agropecuario. Y de acuerdo con las líneas estratégicas 5.4 y 5.5 sobre género y la medida 4.2 para Integrar el enfoque de género en la gestión del cambio climático sectorial. // AGRICULTURAL SECTOR - Sectoral Measures - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development MEASURE NAME: ACTIONS TO REDUCE GHG EMISSIONS IN AGROINDUSTRY BY PROMOTING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SYSTEMS FOR THE CAPTURE AND UTILIZATION OF BIOGAS DERIVED FROM RESIDUAL BIOMASS IN AGROINDUSTRIAL PROCESSES DESCRIPTION: This measure consists of promoting the adoption of systems for the capture and utilization of biogas generated from residual biomass within agroindustrial processes, with the aim of reducing Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in the sector. This action is designed to incentivize the efficient use of organic waste as a source of renewable energy, thereby reducing methane and carbon dioxide emissions and contributing to the partial substitution of fossil fuels in agroindustrial operations. The scope of this objective is limited to promotion, technical assistance, and the creation of enabling conditions for the implementation of such systems; it does not include direct financing or installation, which fall under the purview of other ministries. Activities: 1. Development of technical and regulatory guidelines for the utilization of residual biomass in agroindustry. 2. Development of training and technical assistance programs for agroindustrial enterprises regarding biogas capture and utilization. 3. Coordination with other ministries and entities to facilitate the implementation of biogas projects. 4. Monitoring and reporting on progress regarding the adoption of biogas systems within the agroindustrial sector. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Active inclusion of women in training processes, technical assistance, and opportunities arising from bioenergy, ensuring equal access to benefits and incentives. Indicators are incorporated to monitor female participation in the adoption of these technologies. This approach aligns with the gender commitments of the agricultural sector as outlined in the PAGCC-CO, as well as with the differential approach framework established in the agricultural sector's PIGCCS. And in accordance with Strategic Lines 5.4 and 5.5 regarding gender, and Measure 4.2 to integrate the gender approach into sectoral climate change management. |
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| Colombia | SECTOR AGROPECUARIO - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de agricultura y desarrollo rural NOMBRE MEDIDA: REDUCCIÓN DE QUEMAS AGRÍCOLAS DESCRIPCIÓN: Reconociendo los efectos ambientales y los riesgos para la salud pública asociados a las quemas abiertas, el Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, desde el año 1995 a través del Decreto 948 compilado en el Decreto 1076 de 2015, estableció una serie de prohibiciones y excepciones orientadas a prevenir y controlar esta práctica. En particular, la normativa prohíbe las quemas abiertas en el perímetro urbano de ciudades, centros poblados y asentamientos humanos, así como en las zonas aledañas definidas por la autoridad ambiental competente. Asimismo, se prohíben las quemas abiertas en áreas rurales, excepto cuando se trate de quemas controladas en actividades agrícolas que cuenten con las autorizaciones y condiciones establecidas por la autoridad ambiental. De igual forma, de acuerdo con lo establecido en el artículo 10 numeral 5 de la Ley 2169 de 2021, “Por medio de la cual se impulsa el desarrollo bajo en carbono del país mediante el establecimiento de metas y medidas mínimas en materia de carbono neutralidad y resiliencia climática y se dictan otras disposiciones”, se asigna al sector agropecuario, en cabeza del Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, la responsabilidad de adelantar acciones orientadas a la disminución de las quemas agrícolas. Por lo anterior y con el fin de contribuir con la meta nacional de mitigación de emisiones de Carbono Negro se adoptó como medida la reducción de quemas agrícolas, toda vez que esta actividad representa una fuente crítica de carbono negro, clasificado como un contaminante climático de vida corta. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Las mujeres rurales desempeñan un papel crucial en la agricultura y son a menudo las más afectadas por la degradación ambiental, por eso la medida mejora las condiciones de este grupo. De acuerdo con con el planteamiento de enfoque diferencial del PIGCCS del sector agropecuario el cual establece que la gestión del cambio climático tiene en cuenta que la reducción de vulnerabilidad debe ser pensada bajo una perspectiva de género y de forma interseccional, reconociendo la necesidad de avanzar en la eliminación de la pobreza y del hambre, la igualdad de género y la adopción de medidas para combatir el cambio climático y sus efectos. Y de acuerdo con las líneas estratégicas 5.4 y 5.5 sobre género y la medida 4.2 para Integrar el enfoque de género en la gestión del cambio climático sectorial. Todo esto en coordinación con la Dirección de Mujer Rural del Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural // AGRICULTURAL SECTOR - Sectoral Measures - Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development MEASURE NAME: REDUCTION OF AGRICULTURAL BURNING DESCRIPTION: Recognizing the environmental effects and public health risks associated with open burning, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development—since 1995, through Decree 948 (codified in Decree 1076 of 2015)—established a series of prohibitions and exceptions aimed at preventing and controlling this practice. Specifically, the regulations prohibit open burning within the urban perimeters of cities, populated centers, and human settlements, as well as in adjacent zones defined by the competent environmental authority. Likewise, open burning is prohibited in rural areas, except in cases involving controlled burns for agricultural activities that possess the necessary authorizations and meet the conditions established by the environmental authority. Furthermore, in accordance with Article 10, Paragraph 5 of Law 2169 of 2021—titled "Whereby the country's low-carbon development is promoted through the establishment of minimum targets and measures regarding carbon neutrality and climate resilience, and other provisions are enacted"—the agricultural sector, led by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, is assigned the responsibility of undertaking actions aimed at reducing agricultural burning. Consequently, and with the aim of contributing to the national mitigation target for Black Carbon emissions, the reduction of agricultural burning was adopted as a specific measure, given that this activity represents a critical source of Black Carbon—classified as a short-lived climate pollutant. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Rural women play a crucial role in agriculture and are often the group most affected by environmental degradation; therefore, this measure serves to improve conditions for this group. In accordance with the differential approach framework of the PIGCCS for the agricultural sector—which establishes that climate change management must recognize that vulnerability reduction should be conceived from a gender perspective and through an intersectional lens, acknowledging the need to advance toward the eradication of poverty and hunger, gender equality, and the adoption of measures to combat climate change and its effects—and in accordance with strategic lines 5.4 and 5.5 regarding gender, as well as measure 4.2 aimed at integrating a gender approach into sectoral climate change management; all of the foregoing is carried out in coordination with the Directorate for Rural Women of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. |
Health
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Mitigation | Agriculture |
| Colombia | SECTOR AMBIENTE - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible NOMBRE MEDIDA: RESTAURACIÓN ECOLÓGICA DESCRIPCIÓN: Iniciativa para la masificación de la restauración ecológica, busca comenzar o acelerar procesos de restablecimiento de un área de ecosistema boscoso degradada, dañada o destruida en relación con su función, estructura y composición, en línea con el Plan Nacional de Restauración. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Incorporar la importancia de los roles, capacidades y necesidades de hombres y mujeres en las acciones de restauración de acuerdo con el Plan de Acción de Biodiversidad al 2030 el cual promueve acciones transversales de género para el reconocimiento de las mujeres, comunidades y territorios a partir de las acciones desarrolladas en el marco de las 6 metas que contribuyen al cumplimiento de las 23 metas globales del Marco Kunming-Montreal. // ENVIRONMENT SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development MEASURE NAME: ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION DESCRIPTION: An initiative aimed at the widespread implementation of ecological restoration; it seeks to initiate or accelerate processes for the re-establishment of a degraded, damaged, or destroyed forested ecosystem area—specifically regarding its function, structure, and composition—in alignment with the National Restoration Plan. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Incorporating the importance of the roles, capacities, and needs of men and women into restoration actions, in accordance with the Biodiversity Action Plan to 2030. This Plan promotes cross-cutting gender actions to ensure the recognition of women, communities, and territories, based on actions developed within the framework of the six targets that contribute to the fulfillment of the 23 global targets of the Kunming-Montreal Framework. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Mitigation | Biodiversity and ecosystems |
| Colombia | SECTOR AMBIENTE - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible NOMBRE MEDIDA: SUSTITUCIÓN DE FOGONES TRADICIONALES DE LEÑA POR ESTUFAS EFICIENTES DESCRIPCIÓN: Se busca prevenir la degradación de los bosques por la disminución del uso de leña en los hogares rurales mediante la implementación de estufas eficientes que utilizan una menor cantidad de este combustible para la misma demanda de energía. De igual manera, se reconoce el impacto de esta medida en la reducción de emisiones de carbono negro y sus co-beneficios en salud. Esta acción se articulará con las apuestas planteadas desde el Plan Nacional de Sustitución de Leña. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Desarrollar de acciones estratégicas orientadas a la protección de la salud y a la transformación cultural con enfoque diferencial de género y étnico para el reconocimiento de los impactos diferenciados en las mujeres por las labores de cocción de alimentos en los hogares y la disminución de enfermedades respiratorias y de la carga de trabajo de acuerdo con el plan nacional de sustitución de leña y otros combustibles de uso ineficiente y altamente contaminante para la cocción doméstica de alimentos de la Unidad de Planeación Minero Energética UPME (...) SECTOR AMBIENTE - Medidas territoriales NOMBRE MEDIDA: Construcción de estufas ecoeficientes más huerto leñero en el Departamento del Tolima DESCRIPCIÓN: Disminuir el consumo de leña proveniente de bosques naturales mediante la implementación de estufas ecoeficientes en comunidades rurales del Departamento del Tolima, promoviendo el uso de tecnologías energéticas limpias y sostenibles. Esta medida contribuye a la mitigación del cambio climático al reducir emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero y a la adaptación mediante la mejora en la calidad de vida y salud de la población vulnerable. La población objetivo son hogares rurales que dependen de la leña como principal fuente de energía. Se busca fomentar la transición hacia una economía baja en carbono, proteger los ecosistemas y fortalecer capacidades locales en sostenibilidad ambiental. MEDIDA DE MITIGACIÓN: Cuatro mil (4.000) estufas ecoeficientes instaladas en el Departamento del Tolima, como acción de mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático. Permite evaluar la implementación de tecnologías limpias que reducen el consumo de leña, disminuyen emisiones contaminantes y mejoran la salud y el bienestar de las familias rurales. // ENVIRONMENT SECTOR - Sectoral Measures - Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development MEASURE NAME: REPLACEMENT OF TRADITIONAL WOOD-BURNING STOVES WITH EFFICIENT STOVES DESCRIPTION: The aim is to prevent forest degradation by reducing the use of firewood in rural households through the implementation of efficient stoves, which consume a smaller quantity of this fuel to meet the same energy demand. Likewise, the impact of this measure on reducing black carbon emissions—as well as its co-benefits for public health—is duly recognized. This initiative will be coordinated with the strategic priorities outlined in the National Firewood Substitution Plan. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: To develop strategic actions aimed at health protection and cultural transformation—incorporating a differential gender and ethnic perspective—in order to acknowledge the disproportionate impacts faced by women due to household cooking duties, and to reduce the incidence of respiratory diseases as well as their overall workload. These actions are aligned with the National Plan for the Substitution of Firewood and Other Inefficient, Highly Polluting Fuels for Domestic Cooking, developed by the Mining-Energy Planning Unit (UPME). (...) ENVIRONMENT SECTOR - Territorial Measures MEASURE NAME: Construction of Eco-efficient Stoves and Establishment of Firewood Plantations in the Department of Tolima DESCRIPTION: To reduce the consumption of firewood sourced from natural forests through the implementation of eco-efficient stoves in rural communities within the Department of Tolima, thereby promoting the use of clean and sustainable energy technologies. This measure contributes to climate change mitigation by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and to climate change adaptation by improving the quality of life and health of vulnerable populations. The target population consists of rural households that rely on firewood as their primary energy source. The objective is to foster a transition toward a low-carbon economy, protect ecosystems, and strengthen local capacities in environmental sustainability. MITIGATION MEASURE: Four thousand (4,000) eco-efficient stoves installed in the Department of Tolima as a climate change mitigation and adaptation action. This initiative enables the evaluation of the implementation of clean technologies that reduce firewood consumption, decrease pollutant emissions, and improve the health and well-being of rural families. |
Unpaid care work
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Mitigation | Other |
| Colombia | SECTOR AMBIENTE - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible NOMBRE MEDIDA: PROMOCIÓN DE DISTRITOS TÉRMICOS PARA LA SUSTITUCIÓN DE SISTEMAS DE ENFRIAMIENTO EN CIUDADES DESCRIPCIÓN: La medida promueve la adopción de distritos térmicos como solución centralizada para la climatización en zonas urbanas, reemplazando sistemas individuales de enfriamiento por alternativas más eficientes y con menor intensidad de emisiones. Liderada por el Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible (MADS), con apoyo del Ministerio de Minas y Energía (MME), se busca impulsar el uso eficiente de la energía, la incorporación de buenas prácticas tecnológicas en climatización, incluyendo refrigeración doméstica y aire acondicionado. Los distritos térmicos integran la planificación urbana y energética, permitiendo aprovechar fuentes de energía residual o renovable, reducir la demanda eléctrica y mejorar la calidad del aire en las ciudades. Esta medida contribuye directamente a la mitigación del cambio climático, a la modernización de la infraestructura energética urbana, y al fortalecimiento de la competitividad y sostenibilidad de los sectores comercial, institucional y residencial (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Fomenta la inclusión de mujeres en el diseño, operación y gestión de sistemas energéticos urbanos sostenibles, de acuerdo con el documento del ministerio de ambiente para la incorporación del enfoque de género en los proyectos del sector de la refrigeración y el acondicionamiento del aire en el cual se establecen los lineamientos y protocolos necesarios para avanzar en la integración del enfoque de género en las políticas, programas, proyectos y acciones del sector de la refrigeración y el aire acondicionado // ENVIRONMENT SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development MEASURE NAME: PROMOTION OF DISTRICT COOLING SYSTEMS FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF COOLING SYSTEMS IN CITIES DESCRIPTION: This measure promotes the adoption of district cooling systems as a centralized solution for climate control in urban areas, replacing individual cooling systems with more efficient, lower-emission alternatives. Led by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADS)—with support from the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME)—the initiative seeks to drive efficient energy use and the incorporation of technological best practices in climate control, including domestic refrigeration and air conditioning. District cooling systems integrate urban and energy planning, enabling the utilization of waste or renewable energy sources, a reduction in electricity demand, and an improvement in air quality within cities. This measure contributes directly to climate change mitigation, the modernization of urban energy infrastructure, and the strengthening of the competitiveness and sustainability of the commercial, institutional, and residential sectors (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Fosters the inclusion of women in the design, operation, and management of sustainable urban energy systems, in accordance with the Ministry of Environment’s document regarding the incorporation of a gender perspective into projects within the refrigeration and air conditioning sector. This document establishes the necessary guidelines and protocols to advance the integration of a gender perspective into the policies, programs, projects, and actions of the refrigeration and air conditioning sector. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Mitigation | Other |
| Colombia | SECTOR AMBIENTE - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible NOMBRE MEDIDA: REDUCCIÓN DE EMISIONES DE GEI POR EL USO DE PRODUCTOS SUSTITUTOS DE LAS SUSTANCIAS QUE AGOTAN LA CAPA DE OZONO (HFC) DESCRIPCIÓN: Acciones que promuevan la reducción de emisiones de GEl debido al uso de productos sustitutos de Ias sustancias que agotan la capa de ozono (HFC) con alto potencial de calentamiento global, en diversos ámbitos del uso de estas sustancias. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Promoción y desarrollo de buenas prácticas y uso eficiente del recurso energético en usuarios finales de productos sustitutos de las sustancias que agotan la capa de ozono (HFC) con alto potencial de calentamiento global De acuerdo con el documento del ministerio de ambiente para la incorporación del enfoque de género en los proyectos del sector de la refrigeración y el acondicionamiento del aire en el cual se establecen los lineamientos y protocolos necesarios para avanzar en la integración del enfoque de género en las políticas, programas, proyectos y acciones del sector de la refrigeración y el aire acondicionado. // ENVIRONMENT SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development MEASURE NAME: REDUCTION OF GHG EMISSIONS THROUGH THE USE OF SUBSTITUTE PRODUCTS FOR OZONE-DEPLETING SUBSTANCES (HFCs) DESCRIPTION: Actions promoting the reduction of GHG emissions resulting from the use of substitute products for ozone-depleting substances (HFCs)—which possess a high global warming potential—across various spheres where these substances are utilized. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Promotion and development of best practices and the efficient use of energy resources among end-users of substitute products for ozone-depleting substances (HFCs) with high global warming potential. This aligns with the Ministry of Environment’s document regarding the incorporation of a gender perspective into projects within the refrigeration and air conditioning sector, which establishes the necessary guidelines and protocols to advance the integration of a gender perspective into the policies, programs, projects, and actions of the refrigeration and air conditioning sector. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Mitigation | Other |
| Colombia | SECTOR AMBIENTE - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible NOMBRE MEDIDA: NAMA PARA EL SECTOR DE REFRIGERACIÓN DOMÉSTICA EN COLOMBIA DESCRIPCIÓN: Acciones destinadas a la promoción y desarrollo de buenas prácticas y uso eficiente del recurso energético en usuarios finales de productos sustitutos de las sustancias que agotan la capa de ozono (HFC) con alto potencial de calentamiento global. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Promoción y desarrollo de buenas prácticas y uso eficiente del recurso energético en usuarios finales de productos sustitutos de las sustancias que agotan la capa de ozono (HFC) con alto potencial de calentamiento global De acuerdo con el documento del ministerio de ambiente para la incorporación del enfoque de género en los proyectos del sector de la refrigeración y el acondicionamiento del aire en el cual se establecen los lineamientos y protocolos necesarios para avanzar en la integración del enfoque de género en las políticas, programas, proyectos y acciones del sector de la refrigeración y el aire acondicionado. // ENVIRONMENT SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development MEASURE NAME: NAMA for the Domestic Refrigeration Sector in Colombia DESCRIPTION: Actions aimed at the promotion and development of best practices and the efficient use of energy resources among end-users of products that serve as substitutes for ozone-depleting substances (HFCs) with high global warming potential. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Promotion and development of best practices and the efficient use of energy resources among end-users of products that serve as substitutes for ozone-depleting substances (HFCs) with high global warming potential. This aligns with the Ministry of Environment’s document regarding the incorporation of a gender perspective into projects within the refrigeration and air conditioning sector, which establishes the necessary guidelines and protocols to advance the integration of a gender perspective into the policies, programs, projects, and actions of the refrigeration and air conditioning sector. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Mitigation | Other |
| Colombia | SECTOR AMBIENTE - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible NOMBRE MEDIDA: ECONOMÍA CIRCULAR Y REDUCCIÓN DE PÉRDIDAS Y DESPERDICIOS DE ALIMENTOS DESCRIPCIÓN: Acciones que promuevan la implementación de estrategias de economía circular y su monitoreo en términos de reducciones de GEI. Acciones encaminadas a la reducción de pérdidas y desperdicios. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Crear oportunidades para que las mujeres participen de manera justa en los sectores del aprovechamiento de biomasa. Cerrar brechas que limitan el acceso de las mujeres a modelos de producción y consumo sostenibles. De acuerdo con la Estrategia Nacional de Economía Circular del Ministerio de ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible Teniendo en cuenta el avance y fortalecimiento de la gestión de residuos, donde los envases y empaques conforman un flujo prioritario que requiere desarrollos normativos y procesos, sociales y culturales en torno al aprovechamiento de residuos, principalmente un mayor compromiso por parte de las entidades territoriales frente al diseño de sus planes integrales de gestión de residuos sólidos, en donde se incluyan proyectos de fortalecimiento de la actividad de aprovechamiento y programas de formalización de la población recicladora ( hombres y mujeres) de oficio (SSPD & DNP , 2018) (...) SECTOR AMBIENTE - Otras NOMBRE MEDIDA: Economía circular y salud ambiental DESCRIPCIÓN: Esta medida tiene como alcance implementar un modelo piloto de economía circular socialmente inclusiva que beneficiará a niñas, niños, adolescentes, madres comunitarias y familias en territorios prioritarios con desafios en gestión de residuos y salud ambiental como La Guajira, Atlántico, Antioquia, Meta, Putumayo y Amazonas. La iniciativa se desarrollará durante el horizonte 2025-2030 en los entornos del ICBF -Centros de Desarrollo Infantil, hogares comunitarios y centros de protección- mediante una articulación interinstitucional que involucra a MADS, Corporaciones Autónomas Regionales, universidades, asociaciones de recicladores y cooperación internacional como UNICEF y PNUD, para el diseño e implementación de sistemas circulares que integren gestión de residuos con producción agroecológica. El alcance técnico se centra en dos componentes principales: 1) La implementación del Modelo de Medición y Prevención de Desperdicio de Alimentos del ICBF para reducir pérdidas en los servicios de alimentación, y 2) La transformación de residuos orgánicos en compost y biopreparados para fortalecer huertas comunitarias, cerrando ciclos entre consumo responsable y producción sostenible. Como resultados centrales, se espera reducir en un 30% los residuos no aprovechados en entornos ICBF priorizados, incrementar la producción de abonos orgánicos, crear una red de ecoemprendedores juveniles y mejorar los indicadores de salud ambiental infantil, contribuyendo simultáneamente al ODS 12, la Estrategia Nacional de Economía Circular y los pilares de Transformación Productiva y Social de la NDC 3.0. // ENVIRONMENT SECTOR - Sectoral Measures - Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development MEASURE NAME: CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND REDUCTION OF FOOD LOSS AND WASTE DESCRIPTION: Actions that promote the implementation of circular economy strategies and their monitoring in terms of GHG reductions. Actions aimed at reducing food loss and waste. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Create opportunities for women to participate equitably in biomass utilization sectors. Close gaps that limit women's access to sustainable production and consumption models. In accordance with the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development's National Circular Economy Strategy—and taking into account the advancement and strengthening of waste management, wherein containers and packaging constitute a priority waste stream requiring regulatory, social, and cultural developments and processes surrounding waste utilization—this entails, primarily, a greater commitment from territorial entities regarding the design of their comprehensive solid waste management plans. These plans must include projects aimed at strengthening waste utilization activities as well as formalization programs for professional recyclers (both men and women) (SSPD & DNP, 2018). (...) ENVIRONMENT SECTOR - Other MEASURE NAME: Circular Economy and Environmental Health DESCRIPTION: The scope of this measure is to implement a pilot model of a socially inclusive circular economy. This model will benefit children, adolescents, community mothers, and families residing in priority territories facing challenges in waste management and environmental health—specifically, La Guajira, Atlántico, Antioquia, Meta, Putumayo, and Amazonas. The initiative will be carried out during the 2025–2030 timeframe within ICBF settings—specifically Child Development Centers, community homes, and protection centers—through an inter-institutional collaborative framework. This framework involves the MADS, Regional Autonomous Corporations, universities, associations of recyclers, and international partners such as UNICEF and the UNDP, with the aim of designing and implementing circular systems that integrate waste management with agroecological production. The technical scope focuses on two main components: 1) The implementation of the ICBF’s Food Waste Measurement and Prevention Model to reduce losses within food service operations; and 2) The transformation of organic waste into compost and biopreparations to bolster community gardens, thereby closing the loop between responsible consumption and sustainable production. The expected core outcomes include a 30% reduction in unutilized waste within prioritized ICBF settings, an increase in the production of organic fertilizers, the establishment of a network of youth eco-entrepreneurs, and an improvement in indicators regarding children's environmental health. Simultaneously, these efforts will contribute to SDG 12, the National Circular Economy Strategy, and the Productive and Social Transformation pillars of the NDC 3.0. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Waste |
| Colombia | SECTOR AMBIENTE - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible NOMBRE MEDIDA: FUENTES MÓVILES DE USO FUERA DE RUTA DESCRIPCIÓN: De acuerdo con lo dispuesto en la Ley 2169 de 2021, “Por medio de la cual se impulsa el desarrollo bajo en carbono del país mediante el establecimiento de metas y medidas mínimas en materia de carbono neutralidad y resiliencia climática y se dictan otras disposiciones”, se fijó como compromiso nacional reducir las emisiones de carbono negro en un cuarenta por ciento (40%) respecto al año 2014. En aras de integrar la gestión del cambio climático y la calidad del aire, y, con la intención de avanzar hacia la reducción de emisiones de carbono negro, el sector ambiente junto con el apoyo de otros sectores ha promovido acciones encaminadas a la adopción progresiva de estándares de emisión más estrictos para fuentes móviles terrestres con motor ciclo diésel de uso fuera de carretera con rango de operación en el territorio nacional, entre otras. Con el fin de contribuir al cumplimiento de la meta nacional se adoptó la medida de la introducción obligatoria de fuentes móviles terrestres de uso fuera de carretera (incluida la maquinaria) con límites máximos permisibles de emisión correspondientes al estándar Tier 4 Interim (Stage IIIB), con rango de operación nacional. Esta medida fue implementada mediante la Resolución 0762 de 2022 del Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: La contaminación atmosférica aumenta riesgos para la salud, enfermedades cardiovasculares y respiratorias, efectos que afectan de manera desproporcionada a mujeres en edad reproductiva y a niñas y niños bajo su cuidado.De acuerdo con los compromisos en la implementación de las acciones del Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia. // ENVIRONMENT SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development MEASURE NAME: OFF-ROAD MOBILE SOURCES DESCRIPTION: In accordance with the provisions of Law 2169 of 2021—titled "Whereby the country's low-carbon development is fostered through the establishment of minimum targets and measures regarding carbon neutrality and climate resilience, and other provisions are enacted"—a national commitment was established to reduce black carbon emissions by forty percent (40%) relative to the year 2014. With a view to integrating climate change management and air quality, and with the intention of advancing toward the reduction of black carbon emissions, the environment sector—with the support of other sectors—has promoted actions aimed at the progressive adoption of stricter emission standards for land-based mobile sources powered by diesel engines for off-road use operating within the national territory, among others. In order to contribute to the fulfillment of the national target, a measure was adopted mandating the introduction of land-based mobile sources for off-road use (including machinery) featuring maximum permissible emission limits corresponding to the Tier 4 Interim (Stage IIIB) standard, for operation within the national territory. This measure was implemented through Resolution 0762 of 2022 issued by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Air pollution increases health risks—specifically cardiovascular and respiratory diseases—effects that disproportionately affect women of reproductive age as well as the children under their care. This aligns with the commitments regarding the implementation of actions outlined in Colombia's Gender and Climate Change Action Plan. |
Health
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Colombia | SECTOR AMBIENTE - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible NOMBRE MEDIDA: IMPLEMENTACIÓN DE ESTÁNDARES DE EMISIÓN EURO IV Y EURO VI DESCRIPCIÓN: En el marco de las acciones orientadas al mejoramiento de la calidad del aire, el Gobierno Nacional expidió el CONPES 3943 de 2018 “Política para el Mejoramiento de la Calidad del Aire”, cuyo objetivo general es reducir las concentraciones de contaminantes atmosféricos que afectan la salud de la población y el ambiente. Entre sus objetivos específicos, dicha política contempla la disminución de las emisiones contaminantes generadas por fuentes móviles, con el fin de mitigar sus impactos y avanzar hacia un aire más limpio en el territorio nacional. En aras de integrar la gestión del cambio climático y la calidad del aire, y, con la intención de avanzar hacia la reducción de emisiones de carbono negro, el sector ambiente junto con el apoyo de otros sectores ha promovido acciones encaminadas a la adopción progresiva de estándares de emisión más estrictos para fuentes móviles terrestres de carretera con motor ciclo diésel que circulen dentro del territorio nacional, entre otras.Con el fin de contribuir al cumplimiento de la meta nacional, se adoptó la medida de implementación de límites máximos permisibles de emisión equivalentes al estándar Euro IV (a partir de 2015) y Euro VI (a partir de 2023) para las fuentes móviles terrestres de carreta equipadas con motor ciclo diésel. Esta medida fue implementada mediante la Resolución 0762 de 2022 del Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Mejorar la calidad del aire con énfasis en la reducción de material particulado en áreas urbanas, garantizando así la protección del ambiente y la salud de colombianos(as) de acuerdo con la Estrategia Nacional de Calidad del Aire del Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible en la cual se establece la necesidad de fortalecer el conocimiento referente al impacto en salud por mala calidad del aire. desarrollando nuevos estudios para determinar y medir la asociación entre la contaminación atmosférica y los efectos en la salud, incluyendo las parcularidades de la población colombiana. Fundamento de análisis: Esta medida constituye una acción estructural de gobernanza para contener la deforestación mediante instrumentos multisectoriales, fortalecimiento del Estado en el territorio y cooperación con comunidades. Contribuye a la paz positiva al reducir economías ilegales asociadas a conflictividades, impulsa la cohesión territorial, protege el patrimonio natural estratégico y garantiza los derechos de poblaciones locales, mujeres y niñez, mediante la corresponsabilidad y la gobernanza forestal. // ENVIRONMENT SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development MEASURE NAME: IMPLEMENTATION OF EURO IV AND EURO VI EMISSION STANDARDS DESCRIPTION: Within the framework of actions aimed at improving air quality, the National Government issued CONPES 3943 of 2018, "Policy for the Improvement of Air Quality," the general objective of which is to reduce concentrations of atmospheric pollutants that affect public health and the environment. Among its specific objectives, this policy envisages the reduction of pollutant emissions generated by mobile sources, with the aim of mitigating their impacts and advancing toward cleaner air throughout the national territory. In the interest of integrating climate change management with air quality management—and with the intention of advancing toward the reduction of black carbon emissions—the environment sector, with the support of other sectors, has promoted actions aimed at the progressive adoption of stricter emission standards for on-road land-based mobile sources equipped with diesel-cycle engines operating within the national territory, among others. To contribute to the fulfillment of the national target, the measure establishing maximum permissible emission limits equivalent to the Euro IV standard (effective 2015) and Euro VI standard (effective 2023) was adopted for on-road land-based mobile sources equipped with diesel-cycle engines. This measure was implemented through Resolution 0762 of 2022, issued by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: To improve air quality, with an emphasis on reducing particulate matter in urban areas, thereby ensuring the protection of the environment and the health of Colombians, in accordance with the National Air Quality Strategy of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, which establishes the need to strengthen knowledge regarding the health impacts of poor air quality. ...developing new studies to determine and measure the association between air pollution and health effects, including the specific characteristics of the Colombian population. Basis for Analysis: This measure constitutes a structural governance action aimed at curbing deforestation through multisectoral instruments, strengthening State presence within the territory, and fostering cooperation with communities. It contributes to positive peace by curtailing illicit economies linked to conflict; it promotes territorial cohesion; it safeguards strategic natural heritage; and it guarantees the rights of local populations—including women and children—through shared responsibility and forest governance. |
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| Colombia | SECTOR COMERCIO, INDUSTRIA Y TURISMO - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo NOMBRE MEDIDA: PROMOCIÓN DE PROYECTOS DE GESTIÓN DE LA ENERGÍA Y EFICIENCIA ENERGÉTICA EN EL SECTOR INDUSTRIA DESCRIPCIÓN: Fortalecer la gestión de la energía y la eficiencia energética, impulsando la sustitución de combustibles fósiles por alternativas más limpias, alineado con la política de reindustrialización y de turismo sostenible y el Programa de Uso Racional y Eficiente de la Energía (PROURE). (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Fomentar la participación de las mujeres en la gestión energética industrial. Promover la igualdad de oportunidades en los programas de formación técnica, de acuerdo con la Resolución 273 de 2021, por medio de la cual se crea el Comité de asuntos de Género y empoderamiento económico de la mujer del Sector Comercio, Industria y Turismo. // COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, AND TOURISM SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism MEASURE NAME: PROMOTION OF ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECTS IN THE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR DESCRIPTION: To strengthen energy management and energy efficiency by driving the substitution of fossil fuels with cleaner alternatives, in alignment with the reindustrialization and sustainable tourism policy, as well as the Program for the Rational and Efficient Use of Energy (PROURE). (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: To foster women's participation in industrial energy management. To promote equal opportunities in technical training programs, in accordance with Resolution 273 of 2021, which established the Committee on Gender Affairs and Women's Economic Empowerment within the Commerce, Industry, and Tourism Sector. |
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| Colombia | SECTOR COMERCIO, INDUSTRIA Y TURISMO - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo NOMBRE MEDIDA: GESTIÓN PARA EL DESARROLLO INTEGRAL DE LAS LADRILLERAS DESCRIPCIÓN: En línea con la política de reindustrialización y las directrices y lineamientos para el mejoramiento de la calidad del aire, se busca fomentar el desarrollo integral de unidades productivas de fabricación de ladrillos a través de fortalecimiento de capacidades en gestión de la energía y/o mejora de hornos ladrilleros. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Asegurar la participación equitativa de mujeres en los programas de fortalecimiento de capacidades técnicas y de gestión de la energía/huella de carbono, de acuerdo con la Resolución 273 de 2021, por medio de la cual se crea el Comité de asuntos de Género y empoderamiento económico de la mujer del Sector Comercio, Industria y Turismo // COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, AND TOURISM SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism MEASURE NAME: MANAGEMENT FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF BRICKWORKS DESCRIPTION: In alignment with the reindustrialization policy and the directives and guidelines for air quality improvement, this initiative seeks to foster the comprehensive development of brick-manufacturing production units by strengthening capabilities in energy management and/or improving brick kilns. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Ensure the equitable participation of women in programs aimed at strengthening technical capabilities and skills related to energy management and/or carbon footprint reduction, in accordance with Resolution 273 of 2021, which established the Committee on Gender Affairs and Women's Economic Empowerment within the Commerce, Industry, and Tourism Sector. |
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| Colombia | SECTOR COMERCIO, INDUSTRIA Y TURISMO - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo NOMBRE MEDIDA: GESTIÓN PARA LA IMPLEMENTACIÓN DE TECNOLOGÍAS DE ABATIMIENTO DE EMISIONES DE N2O EN LA PRODUCCIÓN DE MATERIAS PRIMAS DE FERTILIZANTES DESCRIPCIÓN: La medida se orienta a promover la adopción de tecnologías de abatimiento de N₂O en la producción de materias primas para fertilizantes, mediante acciones coordinadas con la industria para facilitar la transferencia tecnológica y asegurar la viabilidad técnica y financiera de su implementación. Incluye el fortalecimiento de mecanismos que permitan sostener en el empo la reducción de emisiones, así como la incorporación de un sistema de Monitoreo, Reporte y Verificación (MRV) que garantice la trazabilidad y transparencia de los resultados. Estas acciones buscan avanzar hacia una producción más sostenible en el sector de fertilizantes y contribuir a la disminución de emisiones de N₂O en procesos industriales. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Promover la participación de mujeres en roles técnicos relacionados con la operación y el mantenimiento de las tecnologías de abatimiento y en la gestión del sistema MRV, de acuerdo con la Resolución 273 de 2021. // COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, AND TOURISM SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism MEASURE NAME: MANAGEMENT FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF N₂O EMISSION ABATEMENT TECHNOLOGIES IN FERTILIZER RAW MATERIAL PRODUCTION DESCRIPTION: This measure aims to promote the adoption of N₂O abatement technologies in the production of fertilizer raw materials through actions coordinated with the industry, designed to facilitate technology transfer and ensure the technical and financial viability of their implementation. It includes strengthening mechanisms to sustain emission reductions over time, as well as incorporating a Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) system to guarantee the traceability and transparency of results. These actions seek to advance toward more sustainable production within the fertilizer sector and contribute to the reduction of N₂O emissions in industrial processes. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Promote the participation of women in technical roles related to the operation and maintenance of abatement technologies, as well as in the management of the MRV system, in accordance with Resolution 273 of 2021. |
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| Colombia | SECTOR COMERCIO, INDUSTRIA Y TURISMO - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo NOMBRE MEDIDA: PROCESOS DE PRODUCCIÓN SOSTENIBLE EN EL SECTOR CEMENTO DESCRIPCIÓN: Impulsar el desarrollo productivo sostenible y la competitividad del sector cemento a través de proyectos que promuevan la descarbonización en su producción mediante el incremento del coprocesamiento, entre otras mejoras prácticas, en línea con la hoja de ruta de reducción de emisiones 2030 y hoja de ruta de la industria del cemento hacia la carbono neutralidad en el concreto 2050 en Colombia. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Promover la participación equitativa de las mujeres en los programas de capacitación técnica y en los cargos operativos y de toma de decisiones en la gestión de la eficiencia energética y la sostenibilidad de las plantas, de acuerdo con la Resolución 273 de 2021, por medio de la cual se crea el Comité de asuntos de Género y empoderamiento económico de la mujer del Sector Comercio, Industria y Turismo, en la cual se reconoce la necesidad arcular esfuerzos en materia de coordinación y medidas dirigidas a promover la igualdad entre los géneros, el empoderamiento económico de la mujer y la eliminación de estereotipos en los diferentes sectores de la economía y que el Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo tiene como objetivo primordial dentro del marco de su competencia formular, adoptar, dirigir y coordinar las políticas generales en materia de desarrollo económico y social del país, estableciendo un modelo de negocio que permite adquirir bienes o contratar servicios de empresas de origen local o que pertenezcan a mujeres o minorías de la población. // COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, AND TOURISM SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism MEASURE NAME: SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION PROCESSES IN THE CEMENT SECTOR DESCRIPTION: To drive sustainable productive development and competitiveness within the cement sector through projects that promote the decarbonization of production—specifically by increasing co-processing, among other best practices—in alignment with the 2030 Emissions Reduction Roadmap and the Cement Industry Roadmap toward Carbon Neutrality in Concrete by 2050 in Colombia. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: To promote the equitable participation of women in technical training programs, as well as in operational and decision-making roles regarding energy efficiency management and plant sustainability. This initiative aligns with Resolution 273 of 2021, which established the Committee on Gender Affairs and Women's Economic Empowerment within the Commerce, Industry, and Tourism Sector. This resolution acknowledges the need to coordinate efforts and implement measures aimed at promoting gender equality, women's economic empowerment, and the elimination of stereotypes across various economic sectors. Furthermore, it recognizes that the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism—within the scope of its authority—has the primary objective of formulating, adopting, directing, and coordinating general policies regarding the country's economic and social development, including the establishment of a business model that facilitates the procurement of goods or services from locally-based companies or from enterprises owned by women or population minorities. |
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| Colombia | SECTOR COMERCIO, INDUSTRIA Y TURISMO - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo NOMBRE MEDIDA: GESTIÓN DE PROYECTOS PARA MEJORA DE LAS OPERACIONES LOGÍSTICAS Y MANEJO DE PRODUCTO EN CENTROS DE ABASTECIMIENTO DESCRIPCIÓN: Desarrollar acciones y proyectos para promover la descarbonización de modelos logíscos en la industria, fomentando la mejora de la productividad, competitividad y el fortalecimiento de cadenas de valor. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: promover activamente la participación de mujeres en roles operativos, técnicos y de liderazgo en la cadena logística, de acuerdo con la Resolución 273 de 2021, por medio de la cual se crea el Comité de asuntos de Género y empoderamiento económico de la mujer del Sector Comercio, Industria y Turismo. // COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, AND TOURISM SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism MEASURE NAME: PROJECT MANAGEMENT FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LOGISTICS OPERATIONS AND PRODUCT HANDLING IN SUPPLY CENTERS DESCRIPTION: To develop actions and projects aimed at promoting the decarbonization of logistics models within the industry, fostering improvements in productivity and competitiveness, and strengthening value chains. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Actively promote the participation of women in operational, technical, and leadership roles within the logistics chain, in accordance with Resolution 273 of 2021, which established the Committee on Gender Affairs and Women's Economic Empowerment for the Commerce, Industry, and Tourism Sector. |
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| Colombia | SECTOR MINERO ENERGÉTICO - Medidas sectoriales – Ministerio de Minas y Energía NOMBRE MEDIDA: EFICIENCIA ENERGÉTICA DESCRIPCIÓN: Busca identificar lineamientos para optimizar el despacho de energía eléctrica, con el fin de promover el aumento de eficiencia en las centrales que permitan reducir emisiones de GEI de forma costo-efectiva, sin afectar las condiciones del mercado eléctrico ni la confiabilidad de la prestación del servicio. La eficiencia energética se ha planteado como una opción transversal a los tres subsectores (energía eléctrica, hidrocarburos y minería). Lo anterior es logrado a partir de las siguientes acciones concretas: • Fortalecimiento del Programa de Uso Racional y Eficiente de la Energía (PROURE) • Gestión de la Oferta (...) NOMBRE MEDIDA: EMISIONES FUGITIVAS DESCRIPCIÓN: Esta línea estratégica busca promover la adecuada gestión de las emisiones fugitivas asociadas a la cadena productiva de los hidrocarburos, y aprovechar el gas natural capturado para otros fines. Así mismo fomenta el aprovechamiento de estas emisiones para que las actividades de estos sectores sean sostenibles, lo cual puede representar un beneficio económico para las empresas. Reducir 3,24 MtCO2e mediante apriete y cambio de accesorios, instalación de Unidades Recuperadoras de Vapor para aprovechar el gas de diferentes maneras. (...) NOMBRE MEDIDA: GESTIÓN DE LA DEMANDA DESCRIPCIÓN: Esta línea estratégica busca reducir la diferencia de consumo de energía eléctrica entre horas pico y valle, gestionar la generación de energía eléctrica en horas valle a partir de fuentes no contaminantes y promover para la futura implementación de tecnologías como las redes inteligentes y las tarifas dinámicas. (...) NOMBRE MEDIDA: GENERACIÓN ELÉCTRICA DESCRIPCIÓN: Esta línea estratégica tiene como objetivo la diversificación de la matriz energética colombiana, la promoción de la autogeneración de energía mediante fuentes alternativas y la transformación de la generación energética en el Sistema Interconectado Nacional y las Zonas No Interconectadas. (...) NOMBRE MEDIDA: ESTRATEGIA INTEGRAL PARA LA REDUCCIÓN DE EMISIONES DEL SECTOR CARBÓN DESCRIPCIÓN: Para estimular la conversión del carbón, los agentes del sector minero energético podrán viabilizar nuevos proyectos o ampliaciones que promuevan: i) la electrificación y captura y aprovechamiento de las emisiones fugitivas asociadas a la minería de carbón y aprovechar el metano capturado para otros usos, ii) la electrificación de operaciones mineras y el despliegue de FNCER en actividades del sector y iii) la transición gradual de centrales termoeléctricas a carbón. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Guía para la integración de Enfoque de Género en Proyectos, Programas, Planes y Políticas para la gestión del cambio climático. Sector Minero energético Plan Nacional de. Desarrollo 2018-2022 “Pacto por Colombia, Pacto por la Equidad”. Plan de acción de género y cambio climático de Colombia - Acciones para la igualdad de género, la sostenibilidad y la justicia climática. De acuerdo con los lineamientos de género del sector minero energético y la implementación del PIGCCME a 2050 del sector de Minas y Energía // MINING AND ENERGY SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Mines and Energy MEASURE NAME: ENERGY EFFICIENCY DESCRIPTION: Seeks to identify guidelines for optimizing electricity dispatch, with the aim of promoting increased efficiency in power plants to enable cost-effective reductions in GHG emissions, without adversely affecting electricity market conditions or the reliability of service provision. Energy efficiency has been established as a cross-cutting option applicable to all three subsectors (electricity, hydrocarbons, and mining). This is achieved through the following concrete actions: • Strengthening of the Program for the Rational and Efficient Use of Energy (PROURE) • Supply-side Management (...) MEASURE NAME: FUGITIVE EMISSIONS DESCRIPTION: This strategic line seeks to promote the proper management of fugitive emissions associated with the hydrocarbon production chain, and to utilize captured natural gas for other purposes. Likewise, it encourages the utilization of these emissions to ensure the sustainability of activities within these sectors, which may also represent an economic benefit for the companies involved. Reduce 3.24 MtCO2e through the tightening and replacement of fittings, and the installation of Vapor Recovery Units to utilize the gas in various ways. (...) MEASURE NAME: DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT DESCRIPTION: This strategic line seeks to reduce the disparity in electricity consumption between peak and off-peak hours, manage electricity generation during off-peak hours using non-polluting sources, and promote the future implementation of technologies such as smart grids and dynamic pricing. (...) MEASURE NAME: ELECTRICITY GENERATION DESCRIPTION: This strategic line aims to diversify Colombia's energy matrix, promote energy self-generation using alternative sources, and transform energy generation within both the National Interconnected System and the Non-Interconnected Zones. (...) MEASURE NAME: COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY FOR REDUCING EMISSIONS IN THE COAL SECTOR DESCRIPTION: To incentivize the transformation of the coal sector, stakeholders within the mining-energy sector may facilitate new projects or expansions that promote: i) the electrification of—as well as the capture and utilization of—fugitive emissions associated with coal mining, and the utilization of captured methane for other purposes; ii) the electrification of mining operations and the deployment of Non-Conventional Sources of Renewable Energy (NCSRE) within sector activities; and iii) the gradual transition of coal-fired thermal power plants. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Guide for Integrating a Gender Perspective into Projects, Programs, Plans, and Policies for Climate Change Management. Mining-Energy Sector: National Development Plan 2018–2022, “Pact for Colombia, Pact for Equity.” Colombia’s Gender and Climate Change Action Plan—Actions for Gender Equality, Sustainability, and Climate Justice. In accordance with the gender guidelines of the mining-energy sector and the implementation of the Mining and Energy Sector’s Integrated Climate Change Management Plan (PIGCCME) through 2050. |
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| Colombia | SECTOR MINERO ENERGÉTICO - Medidas sectoriales – Ministerio de Minas y Energía NOMBRE MEDIDA: SUSTITUCIÓN PROGRESIVA DE COMBUSTIBLES FÓSILES DESCRIPCIÓN: A través de esta meta, el MME busca construir una hoja de ruta para la sustitución progresiva de combustibles fósiles y sus subsidios, consolidando un mensaje claro que establezca las condiciones, técnicas, financieras, fiscales, jurídicas de la implementación planificada de la salida de este tipo de combustibles, la no suscripción de nuevos contratos de hidrocarburos y minería de carbón y la estructuración de un mecanismo de monitoreo para una evaluación periódica de sus logros. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) • Derechos Humanos: Esta medida reconoce los impactos de las actividades extractivas de los combustibles fósiles en los territorios para el goce pleno de derechos humanos. En esa medida, en línea con lo emitido por la CIDH (OC-32/25), esta medida promueve el derecho a la salud; los derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas, las comunidades locales, los migrantes, las personas en situaciones vulnerables, las mujeres, las y los niños; y la equidad intergeneracional. • Género: Se incluirán mecanismos de participación para mujeres en la gobernanza climática y en las mesas técnicas, garantizando su acceso a procesos de capacitación en tecnologías de mitigación, y desarrollar estrategias de reconversión laboral que consideren sus necesidades y capacidades. La participación de las mujeres fortalece la sostenibilidad territorial, incorpora perspectivas diversas en la toma de decisiones y contribuye a que los beneficios de la mitigación se distribuyan de manera equitativa • Niñez: La medida se articula con los siguientes indicadores MISNI: DI9, DI13, JE2 y JE6. Al construirse mediante participación territorial y mesas técnicas, abre espacios para que comunidades incluidas niñas, niños, adolescentes y jóvenes sean escuchadas e inciden en las decisiones sobre el futuro energético del país // MINING AND ENERGY SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Mines and Energy MEASURE NAME: PROGRESSIVE SUBSTITUTION OF FOSSIL FUELS DESCRIPTION: Through this objective, the MME seeks to construct a roadmap for the progressive substitution of fossil fuels and the subsidies associated with them. This initiative aims to consolidate a clear message establishing the technical, financial, fiscal, and legal conditions for the planned implementation of a phase-out of these types of fuels; the cessation of new hydrocarbon and coal mining contracts; and the structuring of a monitoring mechanism for the periodic evaluation of achievements. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) • Human Rights: This measure acknowledges the impacts of fossil fuel extraction activities on local territories regarding the full enjoyment of human rights. Accordingly—and in line with the guidance issued by the IACHR (OC-32/25)—this measure promotes the right to health; the rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, migrants, persons in vulnerable situations, women, and children; and intergenerational equity. • Gender: Participation mechanisms for women will be incorporated into climate governance and technical working groups, guaranteeing their access to training processes regarding mitigation technologies, and fostering the development of workforce retraining strategies that take into account their specific needs and capabilities. Women's participation strengthens territorial sustainability, integrates diverse perspectives into decision-making processes, and helps ensure that the benefits of mitigation efforts are distributed equitably. • Childhood and Youth: This measure aligns with the following MISNI indicators: DI9, DI13, JE2, and JE6. By being developed through territorial participation and technical working groups, it creates spaces where communities—including girls, boys, adolescents, and young people—can be heard and can influence decisions regarding the country's energy future. |
Economic security
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| Colombia | SECTOR MINERO ENERGÉTICO - Medidas sectoriales – Ministerio de Minas y Energía NOMBRE MEDIDA: PLAN NACIONAL DE SUSTITUIÓN DE LEÑA DESCRIPCIÓN: Brindar elementos técnicos para orientar la actuación del sector energético para avanzar en la sustitución del uso de combustibles altamente contaminantes utilizados para la cocción de alimentos en los hogares colombianos, con énfasis en aquellos localizados en las zonas rurales del país. El plan analiza el uso ineficiente de energéticos para la cocción doméstica que son considerados altamente nocivos para la salud pública y para la calidad del aire, en función de las emisiones de contaminantes criterio y de gases de efecto invernadero, respectivamente. En este orden de ideas, específicamente se busca lograr la sustitución progresiva de leña, madera, carbón de leña, carbón mineral, petróleo, gasolina, kerosene, alcohol y materiales de desecho. Por practicidad y claridad, los energéticos que se busca sustituir se denominan Combustibles de uso Ineficiente y Altamente Contaminantes (CIAC). (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Las acciones del PNSL les ayuda a las mujeres a tener oportunidades de apropiación del tiempo a través de nuevas alternativas de energía en el hogar, lo cual impacta su bienestar y calidad de vida al ser el género que más involucrado está en la cocción de alimentos. Lo que se traduce en una mayor atención en el desarrollo económico local, tanto en el desarrollo personal de las mujeres como en los adultos mayores, de acuerdo con los compromisos de género del Ministerio de Minas y Energía en el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombi, los lineamientos de género del sector minero energético y la implementación del PIGCCME a 2050 del sector de Minas y Energía. // MINING AND ENERGY SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Mines and Energy MEASURE NAME: NATIONAL WOOD FUEL SUBSTITUTION PLAN DESCRIPTION: To provide technical inputs to guide the energy sector's actions in advancing the substitution of highly polluting fuels used for cooking in Colombian households, with a specific emphasis on those located in the country's rural areas. The plan analyzes the inefficient use of energy sources for domestic cooking—sources considered highly detrimental to both public health and air quality due to their emissions of criteria pollutants and greenhouse gases, respectively. In this context, the specific objective is to achieve the progressive substitution of firewood, wood, charcoal, mineral coal, petroleum, gasoline, kerosene, alcohol, and waste materials. For the sake of practicality and clarity, the energy sources targeted for substitution are collectively referred to as Inefficient and Highly Polluting Fuels (CIAC). (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: The actions outlined in the PNSL help women gain opportunities to reclaim their time through the adoption of new household energy alternatives. This has a direct impact on their well-being and quality of life, given that women are the demographic most heavily involved in food preparation. This, in turn, translates into a heightened focus on local economic development—benefiting both the personal development of women and that of older adults—in alignment with the gender commitments established by the Ministry of Mines and Energy within Colombia’s Gender and Climate Change Action Plan, the gender guidelines for the mining and energy sector, and the implementation of the sector’s PIGCCME (Integrated Management Plan for Climate Change in the Mining and Energy Sector) through 2050. |
Unpaid care work
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| Colombia | SECTOR TRANSPORTE - Medidas sectoriales – Ministerio de Transporte NOMBRE MEDIDA: MOVILIDAD ACTIVA DESCRIPCIÓN: Implementación integral de la Estrategia Nacional de Movilidad Activa con enfoque de género y diferencial a través de las siete líneas de acción que promueven la movilidad activa en las ciudades colombianas, y que incremente la participación modal de los modos activos (caminata y bicicleta) en 5,5 puntos porcentuales, estas acciones se desarrollarán en coordinación con el Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, el Ministerio de Vivienda, Ciudad y Territorio, el Departamento Nacional de Planeación y los gobiernos locales. Actividades: 1. Realizar eventos, reuniones y encuentros orientados a la articulación, planeación e implementación de las medidas de la ENMA, complementado con la implementación del Ciclo de Fortalecimiento Territorial como estrategia de gobernanza para consolidar capacidades institucionales y territoriales. De manera articulada, se prevé la creación de una instancia de coordinación intersectorial de movilidad activa y la actualización del plan de implementación de la ENMA, fortaleciendo los mecanismos de gobernanza. Adicionalmente, en el componente normativo, se contempla la evaluación de la pertinencia para la formulación y expedición de instrumentos normativos que promuevan el transporte de carga en modos activos a nivel nacional, contribuyendo a un marco regulatorio habilitante para la movilidad sostenible. 2. Implementación y seguimiento de la Gestión de la Información, Monitoreo y Seguimiento de la ENMA comprende la recolección, sistematización y análisis de la información asociada a los indicadores, así como el seguimiento a las acciones de la estrategia tanto a nivel nacional como territorial. De manera complementaria, se contempla la estructuración del sistema de gestión de recursos para la creación del SIMA, y su posterior puesta en funcionamiento, lo cual incluye la definición del flujo de reporte, los procesos de verificación y la estructuración de datos abiertos para la descarga de información y generación de reportes. Este conjunto de actividades se articula con la elaboración periódica de reportes de indicadores de movilidad activa en el marco de la ENMA, con el fin de fortalecer la toma de decisiones basada en evidencia. 3. Implementación y seguimiento de los Lineamientos Técnicos para la Infraestructura, la Gestión de la Movilidad y la Planeación Territorial en el marco de la ENMA comprende la socialización de guías y lineamientos orientados al desarrollo de proyectos de movilidad activa, así como la estructuración técnica, legal y financiera de dichas iniciativas, que incluyen componentes de infraestructura, sistemas de movilidad compartida, estrategias de promoción y gestión de la demanda. De manera articulada, se contempla la implementación de los proyectos de movilidad activa y el seguimiento y evaluación de los impactos generados, con el fin de medir su alcance, efectividad y contribución al fortalecimiento de la movilidad activa en Colombia. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Incluir el enfoque de género en los indicadores de movilidad activa dispuestos en la ENMA, como por ejemplo los porcentajes de viajes de mujeres en modos activos que sirve para direccionar políticas, programas y proyectos que promuevan de forma sectorizada una movilidad activa más segura, conforme con el compromiso del sector Transporte dispuesto en el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia (PAGCC-CO). // TRANSPORT SECTOR - Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Transport MEASURE NAME: ACTIVE MOBILITY DESCRIPTION: Comprehensive implementation of the National Active Mobility Strategy (ENMA), incorporating a gender and differential approach across seven lines of action designed to promote active mobility in Colombian cities. This initiative aims to increase the modal share of active modes (walking and cycling) by 5.5 percentage points. These actions will be carried out in coordination with the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, the Ministry of Housing, City and Territory, the National Planning Department, and local governments. Activities: 1. Conduct events, meetings, and gatherings aimed at the coordination, planning, and implementation of the ENMA measures, complemented by the implementation of the Territorial Strengthening Cycle as a governance strategy to consolidate institutional and territorial capacities. In a coordinated manner, plans include the creation of an intersectoral coordination body for active mobility and the updating of the ENMA implementation plan, thereby strengthening governance mechanisms. Additionally, regarding the regulatory component, consideration is being given to assessing the feasibility of formulating and issuing regulatory instruments that promote freight transport via active modes at the national level, thereby contributing to an enabling regulatory framework for sustainable mobility. 2. Implementation and oversight of the ENMA's Information Management, Monitoring, and Tracking system. This entails the collection, systematization, and analysis of data associated with key indicators, as well as the monitoring of the strategy's actions at both the national and territorial levels. Complementing this effort, plans include structuring a resource management system to facilitate the creation of the SIMA (Active Mobility Information System) and its subsequent operational launch. This process involves defining reporting workflows, establishing verification protocols, and structuring open data formats to enable information downloads and report generation. This set of activities is integrated with the periodic generation of active mobility indicator reports within the framework of the ENMA, with the aim of strengthening evidence-based decision-making. 3. The implementation and monitoring of the Technical Guidelines for Infrastructure, Mobility Management, and Territorial Planning—within the framework of the ENMA—entails the dissemination of guides and guidelines aimed at the development of active mobility projects, as well as the technical, legal, and financial structuring of such initiatives. These initiatives include components related to infrastructure, shared mobility systems, and strategies for promotion and demand management. In a coordinated manner, the process encompasses the implementation of active mobility projects, as well as the monitoring and evaluation of the impacts generated, with the aim of measuring their scope, effectiveness, and contribution to strengthening active mobility in Colombia. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Incorporating a gender perspective into the active mobility indicators established within the ENMA—such as the percentage of trips made by women using active modes—serves to guide policies, programs, and projects that promote safer active mobility in a sector-specific manner, in accordance with the Transportation sector's commitment as set forth in Colombia's Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (PAGCC-CO). |
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| Colombia | SECTOR TRANSPORTE - Medidas sectoriales – Ministerio de Transporte NOMBRE MEDIDA: FONDO PARA LA PROMOCIÓN DEL ASCENSO TECNOLÓGICO - FOPAT DESCRIPCIÓN: Fortalecimiento institucional y operativo para la implementación efectiva del Fondo para el Ascenso Tecnológico del Transporte (FOPAT). Esta medida contempla el fortalecimiento de las capacidades técnicas, administrativas y operativas de las entidades nacionales y territoriales involucradas en su ejecución. Incluye el diseño e implementación de estrategias de comunicación dirigidas a los beneficiarios y autoridades locales, la optimización de procesos administrativos asociados al acceso y gestión de recursos, el impulso a la coordinación interinstitucional con actores clave del sector transporte y ambiental, y la incorporación de metodologías innovadoras de monitoreo, reporte y verificación (MRV) que permitan asegurar la trazabilidad y evaluación del impacto de la medida. Las siguientes son las subcuentas del FOPAT: - Transporte de pasajeros público individual -Taxis - Sistemas de transporte estratégico, integral y masivo - Vehículos livianos de carga y volquetas - Modernización de vehículos de carga pesada Actividades: Realizar la socialización y divulgación del FOPAT mediante la elaboración del plan de socializaciones, la convocatoria a los potenciales beneficiarios y el desarrollo de jornadas de socialización, contactando directamente a los actores identificados para garantizar su comprensión, participación y acceso a los beneficios del Fondo. Llevar a cabo la operativización del FOPAT en cada una de sus subcuentas mediante la realización de mesas de trabajo con los actores involucrados (productores, proveedores, beneficiarios, gremios, cooperación internacional, instituciones y entidades financieras); el desarrollo de lineamientos operativos y técnicos que permitan la expedición de los actos administrativos requeridos; y la generación de dichos actos administrativos para habilitar la operación de cada subcuenta. Adicionalmente, se realizará la socialización con los Organismos de Tránsito para optimizar los tiempos de trámite y los servicios de atención, articulando esfuerzos con municipios, agremiaciones y el sector privado. Finalmente, se adelantará la articulación con las endades territoriales para desarrollar los lineamientos de promoción de vehículos cero y bajas emisiones en el marco del Fondo. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Fortalecer las capacidades de las personas involucradas en procesos de Transporte de pasajeros público individual -Taxis, Sistemas de transporte estratégico, integral y masivo, Vehículos livianos de carga y volquetas y Programas de renovación de vehículos de carga tomando en cuenta las necesidades, roles, habilidades e intereses de todas las poblaciones, incluyendo rutas para el fortalecimiento de capacidades para mujeres en su diversidad Conforme con el compromiso del sector Transporte dispuesto en el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia (PAGCC-CO). // TRANSPORT SECTOR - Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Transport MEASURE NAME: FUND FOR THE PROMOTION OF TECHNOLOGICAL UPGRADING - FOPAT DESCRIPTION: Institutional and operational strengthening to ensure the effective implementation of the Fund for the Technological Upgrading of Transport (FOPAT). This measure entails strengthening the technical, administrative, and operational capabilities of the national and sub-national entities involved in its execution. It includes the design and implementation of communication strategies targeting beneficiaries and local authorities; the optimization of administrative processes related to resource access and management; the promotion of inter-institutional coordination with key stakeholders in the transport and environmental sectors; and the incorporation of innovative Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) methodologies to ensure the traceability and impact assessment of the measure. The following are the FOPAT sub-accounts: - Individual Public Passenger Transport (Taxis) - Strategic, Comprehensive, and Mass Transport Systems - Light Cargo Vehicles and Dump Trucks - Modernization of Heavy Cargo Vehicles Activities: Conduct outreach and dissemination activities for FOPAT by developing an outreach plan, issuing calls for potential beneficiaries, and organizing information sessions—directly contacting identified stakeholders to ensure their understanding of, participation in, and access to the Fund's benefits. Operationalize FOPAT across each of its sub-accounts by holding working groups with involved stakeholders (manufacturers, suppliers, beneficiaries, industry associations, international cooperation agencies, and financial institutions); developing operational and technical guidelines to facilitate the issuance of necessary administrative acts; and generating said administrative acts to enable the operation of each sub-account. Additionally, outreach will be conducted with Traffic Authorities to optimize processing times and customer service, thereby coordinating efforts with municipalities, industry associations, and the private sector. Finally, coordination with subnational entities will be advanced to develop guidelines for promoting zero- and low-emission vehicles within the framework of the Fund. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Strengthen the capacities of individuals involved in processes related to individual public passenger transport (taxis), strategic, integrated, and mass transit systems, light-duty cargo vehicles and dump trucks, and cargo vehicle renewal programs—taking into account the needs, roles, skills, and interests of all populations, including pathways for capacity-building for women in their diversity. This aligns with the Transport sector's commitment as set forth in Colombia's Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (PAGCC-CO). |
Economic security
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| Colombia | SECTOR TRANSPORTE - Medidas sectoriales – Ministerio de Transporte NOMBRE MEDIDA: MOVILIDAD ELÉCTRICA DESCRIPCIÓN: La transición hacia la movilidad eléctrica en Colombia requiere no solo el impulso normativo y técnico, sino también el respaldo financiero necesario para dinamizar el mercado. En este sentido, la medida consiste en desarrollar instrumentos financieros que contribuyan en lograr la circulación de 600.000 vehículos eléctricos en Colombia para 2030, mediante esquemas como fondos de apoyo, promoviendo la participación y articulación con actores estratégicos y alineándose con los objetivos de descarbonización y transición energética del país. Este componente financiero se articula con el marco regulatorio y de políticas públicas que permitirá consolidar un ecosistema favorable para la adopción masiva de tecnologías limpias. De esta manera, esta medida busca acelerar la transición hacia la movilidad eléctrica mediante el establecimiento de políticas públicas que definan estándares regulatorios y técnicos para la comercialización y operación de vehículos eléctricos de 2, 3 y 4 o más ruedas. Asimismo, busca promover incentivos que faciliten el acceso a estos vehículos, fomentando la reducción de emisiones, mejorar la calidad del aire y fortalecer la movilidad sostenible en el país. Actividades: 1. Estudio técnico para la actualización de los lineamientos para RTM de vehículos eléctricos y Adopción mediante acto administrativo y/o reglamento técnico. 2. Estudio técnico sobre estándares de eficiencia energética para vehículos nuevos con menos de 3.500 kg de peso bruto vehicular y Adopción mediante acto administrativo. 3. Estudio técnico sobre estándares de eficiencia energética para vehículos nuevos de carga y adopción mediante acto administrativo. 4. Modificación del artículo 2 de la Ley 310 de 1996 para la cofinanciación de los sistemas de transporte, incluyendo la expedición del artículo 172 del PND 2023–2026 y la emisión del acto administrativo correspondiente. 5. Modificación del artículo 2 de la Ley 310 de 1996 para la cofinanciación de componentes de los sistemas de transporte, mediante la expedición del PND 2023-2026 y la posterior expedición del acto administrativo correspondiente. 6. Apoyo a la sostenibilidad de los sistemas de transporte público en operación (Artículo 183 del PND). Consiste en la expedición del PND 2023–2026 y la posterior expedición del acto administrativo que reglamenta y habilita este apoyo. 7. Desarrollo de un mecanismo de socialización para difundir los avances en transporte sostenible y promover la participación de los actores involucrados en el ascenso tecnológico, mediante la estructuración e implementación de dicho mecanismo 8. Desarrollo de un mecanismo financiero orientado a facilitar el acceso a recursos para impulsar la meta de 600.000 vehículos eléctricos en el país, con especial prioridad en esquemas de financiación para vehículos de taxi y carga liviana (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: La electromovilidad ofrece una oportunidad para reducir brechas de género en el sector transporte. Se promoverá la participación de mujeres en toda la cadena de valor desde la innovación y la conducción hasta la operación técnica mediante incentivos, formación y espacios de liderazgo. Implementar el enfoque de seguridad y accesibilidad con perspectiva de género en el diseño de estaciones y espacios públicos asociados a la movilidad eléctrica en el marco del compromiso del sector Transporte dispuesto en el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia (PAGCC-CO) Acciones para la Igualdad de Género, la Sostenibilidad y la Justicia Climática en el marco de la implementación de la Estrategia de movilidad activa con enfoque de género. // TRANSPORT SECTOR - Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Transport MEASURE NAME: ELECTRIC MOBILITY DESCRIPTION: The transition toward electric mobility in Colombia requires not only regulatory and technical impetus but also the financial backing necessary to stimulate the market. In this regard, this measure consists of developing financial instruments designed to contribute to achieving a circulation volume of 600,000 electric vehicles in Colombia by 2030. This will be accomplished through mechanisms such as support funds, by promoting the participation of—and coordination with—strategic stakeholders, and by aligning with the country's decarbonization and energy transition objectives. This financial component is integrated with the regulatory and public policy framework, which will enable the consolidation of an ecosystem conducive to the mass adoption of clean technologies. Thus, this measure seeks to accelerate the transition toward electric mobility by establishing public policies that define regulatory and technical standards for the commercialization and operation of electric vehicles with 2, 3, or 4 or more wheels. Likewise, it aims to promote incentives that facilitate access to these vehicles, thereby encouraging emission reductions, improving air quality, and strengthening sustainable mobility within the country. Activities: 1. Technical study to update the guidelines for the Technical-Mechanical Review (RTM) of electric vehicles; adoption of said guidelines via administrative act and/or technical regulation. 2. Technical study regarding energy efficiency standards for new vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) of less than 3,500 kg; adoption of said standards via administrative act. 3. Technical study regarding energy efficiency standards for new freight vehicles; adoption of said standards via administrative act. 4. Modification of Article 2 of Law 310 of 1996 regarding the co-financing of transport systems, including the issuance of Article 172 of the 2023–2026 National Development Plan (PND) and the issuance of the corresponding administrative act. 5. Modification of Article 2 of Law 310 of 1996 regarding the co-financing of transport system components, through the issuance of the 2023–2026 National Development Plan (NDP) and the subsequent issuance of the corresponding administrative act. 6. Support for the sustainability of public transport systems currently in operation (Article 183 of the NDP). This consists of the issuance of the 2023–2026 NDP and the subsequent issuance of the administrative act that regulates and enables this support. 7. Development of a dissemination mechanism to publicize advancements in sustainable transport and promote the participation of stakeholders involved in technological upgrading, through the structuring and implementation of said mechanism. 8. Development of a financial mechanism aimed at facilitating access to resources to drive the target of 600,000 electric vehicles in the country, with special priority given to financing schemes for taxi and light-duty freight vehicles (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Electromobility offers an opportunity to reduce gender gaps within the transport sector. The participation of women will be promoted throughout the entire value chain—from innovation and driving to technical operations—through incentives, training, and leadership opportunities. Implement a safety and accessibility approach with a gender perspective in the design of stations and public spaces associated with electric mobility, within the framework of the Transport sector’s commitment as set forth in Colombia’s Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (PAGCC-CO)—*Actions for Gender Equality, Sustainability, and Climate Justice*—and within the context of implementing the Active Mobility Strategy with a gender focus. |
Economic security
Gender-based violence
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| Colombia | SECTOR TRANSPORTE - Medidas sectoriales – Ministerio de Transporte NOMBRE MEDIDA: CAMBIO A MODO TRANSPORTE DE CARGA CARRETERO A FLUVIAL RIO MAGDALENA DESCRIPCIÓN: Acciones para fortalecer la navegabilidad fluvial del río Magdalena a cargo de la Corporación Autónoma Regional del Río Grande de la Magdalena (CORMAGDALENA). Actividades: 1. Construcción de las obras que fortalezcan la navegabilidad del río Magdalena 2. Adjudicación de los contratos del dragado de mantenimiento del canal navegable en el río Magdalena 3. Compra de los equipos propios para los dragados de mantenimiento del canal navegable en el río Magdalena 4. Desarrollo e implementación de herramientas tecnológicas de monitoreo y seguimiento Aumento de la carga transportada por el río Magdalena (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Promover la modernización del transporte servicios asociados fluvial y el fortalecimiento de terminales y espacios para la vinculación laboral y empresarial de mujeres en actividades logísticas, operativas, administrativas y tecnológicas dentro de la cadena del río, Conforme con el compromiso del sector Transporte dispuesto en el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia (PAGCC-CO). // TRANSPORT SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Transport MEASURE NAME: SHIFT FROM ROAD TO RIVERINE FREIGHT TRANSPORT MODE ON THE MAGDALENA RIVER DESCRIPTION: Actions to strengthen the riverine navigability of the Magdalena River, under the responsibility of the Regional Autonomous Corporation of the Greater Magdalena River (CORMAGDALENA). Activities: 1. Construction of infrastructure works to enhance the navigability of the Magdalena River. 2. Awarding of contracts for the maintenance dredging of the navigable channel within the Magdalena River. 3. Procurement of proprietary equipment for the maintenance dredging of the navigable channel within the Magdalena River. 4. Development and implementation of technological tools for monitoring and tracking. Increase in cargo transported via the Magdalena River (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: To promote the modernization of riverine transport and associated services, as well as the strengthening of terminals and spaces to facilitate the labor and entrepreneurial integration of women into logistical, operational, administrative, and technological activities within the river's value chain, in accordance with the Transport Sector's commitment as set forth in Colombia's Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (PAGCC-CO). |
Economic security
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| Colombia | SECTOR TRANSPORTE - Medidas sectoriales – Ministerio de Transporte NOMBRE MEDIDA: REHABILITACIÓN DEL CORREDOR FÉRREO LA DORADA – CHIRIGUANA – SANTA MARTA DESCRIPCIÓN: Acciones que promuevan la rehabilitación de la infraestructura existente en el corredor férreo de la Dorada – Chiriguana con el fin de mejorar las condiciones técnicas, operacionales, de viabilidad comercial y sostenibilidad ambiental y social, para mejorar y aumentar el transporte de carga en el corredor férreo, que tenga el mayor potencial de movilización de carga, de acuerdo con las estructuraciones técnicas. Actividades: 1. Estructuración del proyecto: Productos del componente Técnico, avance de los productos del componente Jurídico, Avance de los productos del componente Financiero, Revisión y aprobación de entidades nacionales. Aprobación MT- Riesgos MHCP - DNP - Comparador Público Privado. 2. Formalización del inicio de la ejecución del contrato APP mediante la firma del acta de inicio. 3. Definición de Indicadores de seguimiento de la etapa preoperativa. 4. Desarrollo de la etapa preoperativa, conformada por la Fase de Preconstrucción y la Fase de Construcción, incluyendo la suscripción del acta de entrega de la infraestructura al futuro Concesionario y la suscripción de las actas de entrega y recibo de las Unidades Funcionales. 5. Inicio de la etapa de operación y mantenimiento (entrega total de las UFVF definidas: Suscripción acta de inicio etapa operativa. 6. Reparación y repotenciación de locomotoras de motor eléctrodiésel. (electricidad proviene de una batería cargada por el motor diésel en lugar de una fuente externa: seguimiento a la reparación y repotenciación de equipos del proyecto. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Mejorar las condiciones técnicas, operacionales, de viabilidad comercial y sostenibilidad ambiental y social teniendo en cuenta el análisis de género sobre los roles laborales, el fortalecimiento de capacidades técnicas y la inclusión de las mujeres en su diversidad, Conforme con el compromiso del sector Transporte dispuesto en el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia (PAGCC-CO). // TRANSPORT SECTOR – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Transport MEASURE NAME: REHABILITATION OF THE LA DORADA – CHIRIGUANA – SANTA MARTA RAIL CORRIDOR DESCRIPTION: Actions aimed at promoting the rehabilitation of existing infrastructure within the La Dorada – Chiriguana rail corridor, with the objective of improving technical, operational, commercial viability, and environmental and social sustainability conditions. The goal is to enhance and increase freight transport along this rail corridor—identified as having the greatest potential for cargo mobilization—in accordance with technical structuring studies. Activities: 1. Project Structuring: Deliverables for the Technical component; progress on deliverables for the Legal component; progress on deliverables for the Financial component; review and approval by national entities. Approval by the Ministry of Transport (MT); Risk Assessment by the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (MHCP) and the National Planning Department (DNP); Public-Private Comparator analysis. 2. Formalization of the commencement of the PPP contract execution phase through the signing of the official Start-up Certificate. 3. Definition of monitoring indicators for the pre-operational stage. 4. Execution of the pre-operational stage, comprising the Pre-construction Phase and the Construction Phase, including the signing of the infrastructure handover certificate to the future Concessionaire, as well as the signing of the handover and acceptance certificates for the Functional Units. 5. Commencement of the Operation and Maintenance Phase (total handover of the defined UFVFs): Signing of the Operational Phase Commencement Certificate. 6. Repair and repowering of electro-diesel locomotives (electricity is supplied by a battery charged by the diesel engine rather than an external source): Monitoring of the repair and repowering of project equipment. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: To improve technical, operational, commercial viability, and environmental and social sustainability conditions, taking into account a gender analysis regarding work roles, the strengthening of technical capacities, and the inclusion of women in their diversity, in accordance with the Transport sector’s commitment as set forth in Colombia’s Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (PAGCC-CO). |
Gender mainstreaming
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| Colombia | SECTOR TRANSPORTE - Medidas sectoriales – Ministerio de Transporte NOMBRE MEDIDA: NAVEGACIÓN BASADA EN DESEMPEÑO - PBN DESCRIPCIÓN: Esta medida busca la adopción de la Navegación Basada en el Desempeño (PBN, por sus siglas en inglés) como estándar operativo en todos los aeropuertos y vuelos nacionales que cuentan con la capacidad tecnológica y de infraestructura, los cuales son: Barranquilla, Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Cúcuta, Pereira, Riohacha, Rionegro, San Andrés, y Leticia para el año 2030. Actividades: 1. Implementación de procedimientos de vuelo basados en PBN en: Barranquilla, Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Cúcuta, Pereira, Riohacha, Rionegro, San Andrés, y Leticia. 2. Diseño de procedimientos y publicación AIP. 3. Flota aérea de la aviación civil certificada para operar con procedimientos PBN. 4. Socialización y mesas técnicas con los explotadores aéreos. 5. Verificación de capacidad operativa en los explotadores. 6. Implementación de procedimientos PBN en la red de rutas ATS en las áreas de control superior de las FIR/UIR Barranquilla y Bogotá, para niveles superiores a 24.500 pies. 7. Diseño de procedimientos. Publicación AIP. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: propiciar las condiciones necesarias para el aprovechamiento de la capacidad RNAV (Navegación de Área) y RNP (Performance de Navegación Requerida), tomando en cuenta las necesidades, roles, habilidades e intereses de todas las poblaciones, incluyendo rutas para el fortalecimiento de capacidades para mujeres en su diversidad Conforme con el compromiso del sector Transporte dispuesto en el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia (PAGCC-CO). // TRANSPORT SECTOR - Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Transport MEASURE NAME: PERFORMANCE-BASED NAVIGATION - PBN DESCRIPTION: This measure seeks the adoption of Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) as an operational standard at all airports and for all domestic flights possessing the necessary technological and infrastructure capabilities. These locations are: Barranquilla, Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Cúcuta, Pereira, Riohacha, Rionegro, San Andrés, and Leticia, with a target date of 2030. Activities: 1. Implementation of PBN-based flight procedures at: Barranquilla, Bogotá, Bucaramanga, Cali, Cartagena, Cúcuta, Pereira, Riohacha, Rionegro, San Andrés, and Leticia. 2. Design of procedures and AIP publication. 3. Certification of the civil aviation fleet to operate using PBN procedures. 4. Stakeholder engagement and technical working groups with air operators. 5. Verification of operational capability among air operators. 6. Implementation of PBN procedures within the ATS route network in the upper control areas of the Barranquilla and Bogotá FIR/UIRs, for flight levels above 24,500 feet. 7. Design of procedures. AIP publication. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Fostering the necessary conditions to leverage RNAV (Area Navigation) and RNP (Required Navigation Performance) capabilities, while taking into account the needs, roles, skills, and interests of all populations—including establishing pathways for capacity building among women in all their diversity—in accordance with the Transport Sector's commitment as set forth in Colombia's Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (PAGCC-CO). |
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| Colombia | SECTORES VIVIENDA, AGUA Y SANEAMIENTO BÁSICO - Medidas sectoriales - Ministerio de Vivienda, Ciudad y Territorio NOMBRE MEDIDA: GESTIÓN INTEGRAL DE RESIDUOS SÓLIDOS GIRS DESCRIPCIÓN: Esta medida se enmarca en el Decreto 0670 de 2025 – Programa Basura Cero, el Plan Integral de Gestión del Cambio Climático Sectorial (PIGCCS) del sector vivienda, la Política de Crecimiento Verde y los lineamientos nacionales de Gestión Integral de Residuos Sólidos Municipales. Su propósito es promover el diseño, implementación y operación de tecnologías de tratamiento y aprovechamiento de residuos sólidos como actividad complementaria al servicio público de aseo, contribuyendo a reducir progresivamente la disposición final de residuos potencialmente aprovechables y las emisiones asociadas a su gestión. Las principales acciones comprendidas en esta medida son: 1. Gestión y promoción de Sistemas de Tratamiento Mecánico Biológico (TMB): impulsar la implementación de tecnologías que permitan la separación, tratamiento y valorización de residuos orgánicos e inorgánicos, favoreciendo la reducción del volumen dispuesto en rellenos sanitarios. 2. Aprovechamiento de materiales reciclables: fortalecer los procesos de separación en la fuente y reciclaje, integrados al Decreto Basura Cero, con el fin de disminuir las emisiones de GEI, ahorrar energía y materias primas, y consolidar la economía circular bajo criterios de viabilidad económica y sostenibilidad ambiental. 3. Captación, conducción y quema de biogás en rellenos sanitarios: promover la instalación de sistemas para el control y manejo del biogás, en articulación con el PIGCCS Vivienda y el Decreto Basura Cero, con el objetivo de reducir emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero, diversificar fuentes de energía renovable y generar beneficios ambientales y económicos. 4. Aprovechamiento de biogás: fomentar el diseño e implementación de sistemas de uso y aprovechamiento del biogás (cogeneración eléctrica o térmica, y la producción de biometano) capturado en rellenos sanitarios existentes y nuevas celdas, contribuyendo a la transición energética y la mitigación del cambio climático. (...) NOMBRE MEDIDA: CONSTRUCCIÓN SOSTENIBLE DESCRIPCIÓN: Esta medida busca “Promover edificaciones sostenibles, mediante la implementación de estrategias para el uso eficiente del agua y la energía en las edificaciones nuevas del país”, en el marco del ámbito de aplicación y gradualidad establecido en la Resolución 0194 de 2025 del Ministerio de Vivienda, Ciudad y Territorio. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Promueve el avance hacia la igualdad de género de acuerdo con la guía para la inclusión del enfoque de género para las mujeres en el ciclo de planeación y presupuestación sector vivienda, ciudad y territorio, tomando en cuenta los enfoques dispuestos en la resolución 0467 22 JUL 2025 se analizará cómo las diversas condiciones y características de las personas y grupos (sociales, económicas, de género, etarias, étnico-raciales, de discapacidad, de identidad de género, de orientación sexual, pertenencia al campesinado, entre otras) interactúan generando situaciones particulares de vulnerabilidad, exclusión o discriminación en relación con el hábitat y el acceso a servicios (...) NOMBRE MEDIDA: APROVECHAMIENTO ENERGÉTICO DEL BIOGÁS EN EL TRATAMIENTO DE AGUAS RESIDUALES DESCRIPCIÓN: La medida busca fortalecer la gestión del biogás generado en las Plantas de Tratamiento de Aguas Residuales (PTAR) que emplean procesos anaerobios, promoviendo su aprovechamiento energético y el establecimiento de lineamientos técnicos y regulatorios para su manejo seguro y eficiente. Más que ampliar la cobertura del tratamiento, esta acción se enfoca en optimizar la gestión del biogás existente, reduciendo las emisiones fugitivas de metano (CH₄) mediante la captura, conducción y uso energético o quema controlada del gas producido durante los procesos de digestión. El objetivo central es impulsar la adopción de tecnologías de valorización del biogás —como la cogeneración eléctrica o térmica, y la producción de biometano— en plantas que ya disponen de infraestructura anaerobia, promoviendo criterios de eficiencia, sostenibilidad y cumplimiento normativo. Estas acciones contribuirán a fortalecer la economía circular del sector de saneamiento y a mejorar su desempeño climático sin incrementar las emisiones netas por expansión de la cobertura de tratamiento. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) Género: Promueve el avance hacia la igualdad de género de acuerdo con la guía para la inclusión del enfoque de género para las mujeres en el ciclo de planeación y presupuestación sector vivienda, ciudad y territorio, tomando en cuenta los enfoques dispuestos en la resolución 0467 22 JUL 2025 se analizará cómo las diversas condiciones y características de las personas y grupos (sociales, económicas, de género, etarias, étnico-raciales, de discapacidad, de identidad de género, de orientación sexual, pertenencia al campesinado, entre otras) interactúan generando situaciones particulares de vulnerabilidad, exclusión o discriminación en relación con el hábitat y el acceso a servicios Niñez: La medida se articula con los siguientes indicadores MISNI: DI9, DI13, JE2 y JE6. Al construirse mediante participación territorial y mesas técnicas, permite que niñas, niños, adolescentes y jóvenes sean escuchados en decisiones sobre la sustitución de combustibles fósiles La medida incorpora la experiencia de proyectos nacionales de aprovechamiento de biogás en plantas de gran escala como referencia técnica, buscando replicar y ampliar estas soluciones a otros sistemas de tratamiento en el país. Asimismo, se prevé la definición de metas específicas de captura, quema y uso energéco del biogás una vez se actualice el modelo nacional de migación y se disponga de información detallada sobre las capacidades tecnológicas y operavas de las PTAR a nivel nacional, con proyecciones a 2030 y 2035. // HOUSING, WATER, AND BASIC SANITATION SECTORS – Sectoral Measures – Ministry of Housing, City, and Territory MEASURE NAME: INTEGRAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT (GIRS) DESCRIPTION: This measure falls within the framework of Decree 0670 of 2025—the "Zero Waste" Program—the Sectoral Integral Climate Change Management Plan (PIGCCS) for the housing sector, the Green Growth Policy, and national guidelines for Integral Municipal Solid Waste Management. Its purpose is to promote the design, implementation, and operation of technologies for the treatment and recovery of solid waste as an activity complementary to the public sanitation service, thereby contributing to the progressive reduction of the final disposal of potentially recoverable waste and the emissions associated with its management. The main actions encompassed by this measure are: 1. Management and promotion of Mechanical-Biological Treatment (MBT) Systems: driving the implementation of technologies that enable the separation, treatment, and valorization of organic and inorganic waste, thereby favoring a reduction in the volume of waste disposed of in landfills. 2. Recovery of recyclable materials: strengthening source separation and recycling processes—integrated with the "Zero Waste" Decree—with the aim of reducing GHG emissions, conserving energy and raw materials, and consolidating the circular economy based on criteria of economic viability and environmental sustainability. 3. Capture, conveyance, and flaring of biogas in landfills: promoting the installation of systems for the control and management of biogas, in coordination with the Housing PIGCCS and the "Zero Waste" Decree, with the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, diversifying renewable energy sources, and generating environmental and economic benefits. 4. Biogas recovery: fostering the design and implementation of systems for the utilization and recovery of biogas (for electrical or thermal cogeneration, and biomethane production) captured in existing landfills and new disposal cells, thereby contributing to the energy transition and climate change mitigation. (...) MEASURE NAME: SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION DESCRIPTION: This measure seeks to “Promote sustainable buildings through the implementation of strategies for the efficient use of water and energy in new buildings nationwide,” within the scope of application and phased implementation framework established in Resolution 0194 of 2025 issued by the Ministry of Housing, City, and Territory. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Promotes progress toward gender equality in accordance with the *Guide for the Inclusion of a Gender Approach for Women in the Planning and Budgeting Cycle for the Housing, City, and Territory Sector.* Taking into account the approaches set forth in Resolution 0467 of July 22, 2025, an analysis will be conducted regarding how the diverse conditions and characteristics of individuals and groups (including social, economic, gender, age, ethno-racial, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and peasant status, among others) interact to generate specific situations of vulnerability, exclusion, or discrimination in relation to habitat and access to services. (...) MEASURE NAME: ENERGY UTILIZATION OF BIOGAS IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT DESCRIPTION: This measure seeks to strengthen the management of biogas generated at Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) that employ anaerobic processes, promoting its energy utilization and the establishment of technical and regulatory guidelines for its safe and efficient handling. Rather than expanding treatment coverage, this action focuses on optimizing the management of existing biogas by reducing fugitive methane (CH₄) emissions through the capture, conveyance, and subsequent energy utilization or controlled flaring of the gas produced during digestion processes. The central objective is to drive the adoption of biogas valorization technologies—such as electrical or thermal cogeneration and biomethane production—in plants that already possess anaerobic infrastructure, thereby promoting criteria of efficiency, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. These actions will contribute to strengthening the circular economy within the sanitation sector and improving its climate performance without increasing net emissions resulting from the expansion of treatment coverage. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) Gender: Promotes progress toward gender equality in accordance with the *Guidelines for Incorporating a Gender Perspective for Women into the Planning and Budgeting Cycle for the Housing, City, and Territory Sector*—taking into account the approaches set forth in Resolution 0467 of July 22, 2025—by analyzing how the diverse conditions and characteristics of individuals and groups (social, economic, gender-related, age-related, ethno-racial, disability-related, gender identity-related, sexual orientation-related, peasant status, etc.) |
Gender mainstreaming
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Mitigation | Infrastructure |
| Colombia | Anexo 4. Metas y Medidas de Adaptación, y Pérdidas y Daños : Metas y medidas Pérdidas y Daños : SECTOR AMBIENTE Compromiso climático NDC3PYD01 Medida de pérdidas y daños: Para 2030 implementar la metodología de Evaluación de Daños y Análisis de Necesidades Ambientales pos desastre (EDANA), garanzando que el 100% de los eventos de desastre registrados en el sistema de Parques Nacionales de Colombia, sean evaluados de manera articulada con procesos nacionales de evaluación de riesgo de desastre y considerando impactos en medios de vida, servicios ecosistémicos, identidad cultural y biodiversidad. Entidades responsables: Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia (PNNC) Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible (DCCGR) Aliados estratégicos: Unidad Nacional para la Gestión de Riesgo de Desastres (UNGRD) Autoridades Ambientales Alcance: Aunque el país ha avanzado en el desarrollo de análisis de daños y pérdidas económicas, aún falta evaluar los daños y las pérdidas no económicas por esta razón desde el Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible se viene desarrollando la metodología de Evaluación de Daños y Análisis de Necesidades Ambientales pos desastre (EDANA C), la cual tiene como objetivo principal evaluar de una forma cuantitava el daño ambiental, así como realizar una valoración económica del mismo y de esta manera poder consolidar datos de pérdidas a nivel país para el sector ambiental. Esta herramienta se diseñó para ser implementada por las Autoridades Ambientales en su función complementaria y subsidiaria a la labor de alcaldías y gobernaciones, proveyendo un insumo técnico crucial para la planificación de la recuperación pos desastre con criterios de sostenibilidad ambiental.La adopción de la EDANA-C también fue influenciada por la experiencia del país en la atención de fenómenos climáticos extremos, como los asociados a "La Niña". Estos eventos pusieron de manifiesto la vulnerabilidad de los ecosistemas y la necesidad de contar con mecanismos para cuantificar sus afectaciones y definir las acciones prioritarias para su restauración. Desde su implementación, la EDANA-C se ha convertido en un instrumento fundamental para orientar las inversiones y los esfuerzos hacia una recuperación que no solo restablezca las condiciones previas al desastre, sino que también fomente la resiliencia de los territorios y sus ecosistemas frente a futuras amenazas. Además, en 2024 la metodología fue actualizada para incorporar más indicadores que permitan evaluar el daño ambiental. Necesidades de apoyo: 1. Financiamiento climático: • Presupuesto nacional ambiental y cooperación internacional (GEF, GCF, cooperación bilateral). • Fondo de Pérdidas y Daños • Fondo Nacional para la Gestión de Riesgo de Desastres • Fondo para la Vida 2. Capacidades: • Capacitación de las Direcciones Territoriales y Áreas Protegidas para la implementación de la metodología EDANA • Capacitación de Direcciones Territoriales y Áreas Protegidas y comunidades locales en identificación de necesidades ambientales pos desastre • Capacitación de Direcciones Territoriales y Áreas Protegidas y comunidades locales en procesos de recuperación y restauración de ecosistemas 3. Tecnología: • Monitoreo satelital y SIG para evaluar cambios en cobertura pre y post evento • Implementación de sistemas de monitoreo satelital de medidas de recuperación y restauración pos-desastre • Aplicativo de implementación y manejo de la metodología EDANA 4. Planificación, gobernanza y otros: • Articulación de la metodología con estrategias de respuesta frente a eventos de desastre a nivel municipal y departamental • Coordinación interinstitucional (MinAmbiente, Autoridades Ambientales, UNGRD) Otras dimensiones SIIVRA: N/A // Annex 4. Adaptation Goals and Measures, and Loss and Damage: Goals and Measures for Loss and Damage: ENVIRONMENT SECTOR Climate Commitment: NDC3PYD01 Loss and Damage Measure: By 2030, implement the Post-Disaster Environmental Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis (EDANA) methodology, ensuring that 100% of disaster events recorded within Colombia’s National Parks system are assessed in a manner articulated with national disaster risk assessment processes, and taking into account impacts on livelihoods, ecosystem services, cultural identity, and biodiversity. Responsible Entities: National Natural Parks of Colombia (PNNC); Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (DCCGR) Strategic Partners: National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD); Environmental Authorities Scope: Although the country has made progress in developing analyses of economic damages and losses, the assessment of non-economic damages and losses remains pending. For this reason, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development has been developing the Post-Disaster Environmental Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis (EDANA-C) methodology. Its primary objective is to quantitatively assess environmental damage—as well as to conduct an economic valuation thereof—thereby enabling the consolidation of loss data at the national level for the environment sector. This tool was designed to be implemented by Environmental Authorities in a role that is complementary and subsidiary to the work of municipal and departmental administrations, providing crucial technical input for post-disaster recovery planning based on environmental sustainability criteria. The adoption of EDANA-C was also influenced by the country's experience in responding to extreme climatic phenomena, such as those associated with "La Niña." These events underscored the vulnerability of ecosystems and the need for mechanisms to quantify the impacts affecting them and to define priority actions for their restoration. Since its implementation, the EDANA-C has become a fundamental instrument for guiding investments and efforts toward a recovery that not only restores pre-disaster conditions but also fosters the resilience of territories and their ecosystems in the face of future threats. Furthermore, in 2024, the methodology was updated to incorporate additional indicators enabling the assessment of environmental damage. Support Needs: 1. Climate Finance: • National environmental budget and international cooperation (GEF, GCF, bilateral cooperation). • Loss and Damage Fund • National Disaster Risk Management Fund • Fund for Life (Fondo para la Vida) 2. Capacity Building: • Training for Territorial Directorates and Protected Areas staff on the implementation of the EDANA methodology • Training for Territorial Directorates, Protected Areas staff, and local communities on identifying post-disaster environmental needs • Training for Territorial Directorates, Protected Areas staff, and local communities on ecosystem recovery and restoration processes 3. Technology: • Satellite monitoring and GIS for assessing changes in land cover pre- and post-event • Implementation of satellite monitoring systems for post-disaster recovery and restoration measures • Application/tool for the implementation and management of the EDANA methodology 4. Planning, Governance, and Other: • Integration of the methodology with disaster response strategies at the municipal and departmental levels • Inter-institutional coordination (MinAmbiente, Environmental Authorities, UNGRD) Other SIIVRA Dimensions: N/A **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. |
Economic security
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Colombia | INTERSECTORIAL NOMBRE MEDIDA: REDUCCIÓN INTERSECTORIAL DE LA DEFORESTACIÓN DESCRIPCIÓN: Colombia reconoce que para disminuir el cambio en la superficie cubierta por bosque natural debida a deforestación a 50.000 ha a 2030, debe mantener y acelerar las acciones establecidas en los instrumentos de política nacional para la reducción de la deforestación y gestión sostenible de los bosques. El país mantiene su ambición y compromiso con la contención de la deforestación, buscando a 2035 una tasa entre 37.500 y 49.999 ha a nivel nacional. (...) Enfoques transversales (...) • Género: Involucramiento de las asociaciones de mujeres indígenas y campesinas. Visibilización del rol de la mujer en los procesos de participación efectiva en la toma de decisiones sobre las acciones para reducción de la deforestación de acuerdo con el Plan de Acción de Biodiversidad al 2030 el cual promueve acciones transversales de género para el reconocimiento de las mujeres, comunidades y territorios a partir de las acciones desarrolladas en el marco de las 6 metas que contribuyen al cumplimiento de las 23 metas globales del Marco Kunming-Montreal. • Niñez: La medida se articula con los siguientes indicadores MISNI: DI9, DI13, JE2, JE5 y JE6. Al fortalecer la gobernanza forestal comunitaria, abre espacios para que niñas, niños y adolescentes sean escuchados e inciden en decisiones sobre el bosque y el territorio (DI9, JE2). // INTERSECTORAL MEASURE NAME: INTERSECTORAL REDUCTION OF DEFORESTATION DESCRIPTION: Colombia recognizes that, in order to reduce the change in natural forest cover—resulting from deforestation—to 50,000 hectares by 2030, it must maintain and accelerate the actions established in national policy instruments for deforestation reduction and sustainable forest management. The country maintains its ambition and commitment to containing deforestation, aiming for a national rate of between 37,500 and 49,999 hectares by 2035. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches (...) • Gender: Involvement of indigenous and peasant women's associations. Highlighting the role of women in processes of effective participation in decision-making regarding deforestation reduction actions, in accordance with the 2030 Biodiversity Action Plan. This Plan promotes cross-cutting gender actions to ensure the recognition of women, communities, and territories, based on actions developed within the framework of the six goals contributing to the fulfillment of the 23 global targets of the Kunming-Montreal Framework. • Childhood: This measure aligns with the following MISNI indicators: DI9, DI13, JE2, JE5, and JE6. By strengthening community-based forest governance, it creates spaces where children and adolescents can be heard and influence decisions regarding forests and territories (DI9, JE2). |
Participation and leadership
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Mitigation | Multisectoral |
| Colombia | 1. Biodiversidad y servicios ecosistémicos - SECTOR AMBIENTE Compromiso Climático NDC3A01: Título: Ampliación de la representatividad ecológica del SINAP al 2030 Meta de adaptación: Incrementar al 2030, en un 15% con relación a la línea base de representatividad del 2021, los ecosistemas o unidades de análisis ecosistémicos no representados o sub-representados en el Sistema Nacional de Áreas protegidas (SINAP). (...) Necesidades de apoyo: 4. Planificación, gobernanza y otros: (...) • Participación de grupos étnicos, comunidades locales y sociedad civil en procesos de declaratoria y manejo. Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: de acuerdo con el Plan de Acción de Biodiversidad al 2030 el cual promueve acciones transversales de género para el reconocimiento de las mujeres, comunidades y territorios a partir de las acciones desarrolladas en el marco de las 6 metas que contribuyen al cumplimiento de las 23 metas globales del Marco Kunming-Montreal. // 1. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – ENVIRONMENT SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A01: Title: Expansion of the Ecological Representativeness of SINAP by 2030 Adaptation Goal: By 2030, increase by 15%—relative to the 2021 baseline of representativeness—the ecosystems or ecosystem analysis units that are unrepresented or underrepresented within the National System of Protected Areas (SINAP). (...) Support Needs: 4. Planning, Governance, and Other: (...) • Participation of ethnic groups, local communities, and civil society in designation and management processes. Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the Biodiversity Action Plan to 2030, which promotes cross-cutting gender actions aimed at recognizing women, communities, and territories through actions developed within the framework of the six goals contributing to the fulfillment of the 23 global targets of the Kunming-Montreal Framework. |
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Biodiversity and ecosystems |
| Colombia | 1. Biodiversidad y servicios ecosistémicos - SECTOR AMBIENTE Compromiso Climático NDC3A02: Título: Rehabilitación, recuperación o restauración en áreas del Sistema de Parques Nacionales al 2030 Meta de adaptación: Incrementar al 2030, en 100.000 hectáreas, las áreas en proceso de rehabilitación, recuperación o restauración en las áreas del Sistema de Parques Nacionales y sus zonas de influencia. (...) Necesidades de apoyo: 4. Planificación, gobernanza y otros: (...) • Participación de grupos étnicos y comunidades locales en los procesos de restauración. Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: principio de distribución justa y equitativa de los costos y beneficios derivados del establecimiento y la gestión de las áreas protegidas tal como lo establece el Sistema Nacional de Áreas Protegidas (SNAP). Dicha distribución debe garantizar la no discriminación, la igualdad intergeneracional y de género, así como el reconocimiento de la dignidad intrínseca y de los derechos humanos iguales e inalienables de todas las personas, con especial atención a las poblaciones que habitan estos territorios. // 1. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – ENVIRONMENT SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A02: Title: Rehabilitation, recovery, or restoration in areas of the National Parks System by 2030 Adaptation Goal: To increase, by 2030, by 100,000 hectares, the areas undergoing rehabilitation, recovery, or restoration within the National Parks System and its zones of influence. (...) Support Needs: 4. Planning, governance, and other areas: (...) • Participation of ethnic groups and local communities in restoration processes. Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: The principle of fair and equitable distribution of the costs and benefits derived from the establishment and management of protected areas, as established by the National System of Protected Areas (SNAP). Such distribution must guarantee non-discrimination, intergenerational and gender equality, as well as the recognition of the intrinsic dignity and the equal and inalienable human rights of all persons, with special attention to the populations inhabiting these territories. |
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Biodiversity and ecosystems |
| Colombia | 1. Biodiversidad y servicios ecosistémicos - SECTOR AMBIENTE Compromiso Climático NDC3A03: Título: Incorporación de cambio climático en instrumentos de manejo y control ambiental de la ANLA al 2030 Meta de adaptación: Al 2030 se incluyen consideraciones de cambio climático en el 100% de los instrumentos de manejo y control ambiental de proyectos obras y/o actividades en los que se identifique su aplicación y que son competencia de la Autoridad Nacional de Licencias Ambientales (ANLA), esto corresponde a las licencias ambientales nuevas y modificaciones de licencias o de instrumentos equivalentes con un claro potencial de contribuir en la reducción de emisiones y/o en la adaptación al cambio climático en pro de la conservación de la biodiversidad y la restauración de ecosistemas afectados. (...) Necesidades de apoyo: 4. Planificación, gobernanza y otros: (...) • Participación de la sociedad civil y comunidades en la veeduría de procesos de control ambiental. Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: La implementación de esta medida de acuerdo con la estrategia de participación de la ANLA la cual incluye en enfoque diferencial y de género en la cual se establece que las acciones desarrolladas comprenderán y abordarán las desigualdades y brechas existentes en términos de género, etnia, edad, condición de discapacidad y otras características para garantizar la igualdad de oportunidades y acceso equitativo a la participación especialmente de los grupos en condición de vulnerabilidad. (...) Fundamento del análisis: Esta medida fortalece la gestión ambiental del país al asegurar que todos los instrumentos de manejo y control evaluados por la ANLA integren consideraciones de cambio climático de manera coherente con los enfoques transversales de derechos humanos y género. Al incorporar estos criterios se orientará la toma de decisiones hacia proyectos más resilientes y mayor capacidad de adaptación. // 1. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – ENVIRONMENT SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A03: Title: Incorporation of climate change into ANLA’s environmental management and control instruments by 2030 Adaptation Goal: By 2030, climate change considerations will be included in 100% of the environmental management and control instruments for projects, works, and/or activities where such application is deemed relevant and which fall under the jurisdiction of the National Environmental Licensing Authority (ANLA). This applies to new environmental licenses, as well as modifications to existing licenses or equivalent instruments that demonstrate clear potential to contribute to emissions reduction and/or climate change adaptation, with the aim of conserving biodiversity and restoring affected ecosystems. (...) Support Needs: 4. Planning, Governance, and Other: (...) • Participation of civil society and local communities in the oversight of environmental control processes. Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: The implementation of this measure will be carried out in accordance with ANLA’s participation strategy—which incorporates a differential and gender-sensitive approach—stipulating that the actions undertaken will acknowledge and address existing inequalities and gaps regarding gender, ethnicity, age, disability status, and other characteristics. This ensures equal opportunities and equitable access to participation, particularly for groups in vulnerable situations. (...) Basis for Analysis: This measure strengthens the country's environmental management by ensuring that all management and control instruments evaluated by ANLA integrate climate change considerations in a manner consistent with cross-cutting human rights and gender approaches. By incorporating these criteria, decision-making processes will be steered toward projects that are more resilient and possess greater adaptive capacity. |
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Biodiversity and ecosystems |
| Colombia | 1. Biodiversidad y servicios ecosistémicos - SECTOR AMBIENTE Compromiso Climático NDC3A04: Título: Actualización del Programa Nacional de Uso Sostenible, Manejo y Conservación de los Ecosistemas de Manglar Meta de adaptación: Actualizar e implementar, a 2030, el 50% del Programa Nacional de Uso Sostenible, Manejo y Conservación de los Ecosistemas de Manglar, incorporando criterios de adaptación al cambio climático para reducir la vulnerabilidad de comunidades costeras y fortalecer la resiliencia de los servicios ecosistémicos, beneficiando a las principales zonas costeras del Caribe y el Pacífico. (...) Necesidades de apoyo: 4. Planificación, gobernanza y otros: (...) • Participación activa de comunidades locales y pueblos étnicos en actualización e implementación. Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: conforme a la ley 2243 de 2022 por medio de la cual se protegen los ecosistemas de manglar y se dictan otras disposiciones relacionadas con conciliar el mantenimiento de la función ecológica, la capacidad productiva y los servicios ecosistémicos que brinda el manglar con la posibilidad de dar solución a las necesidades de las comunidades, hombres y mujeres directamente relacionados con este sistema socio ecológico contando con la participación y concertación de las comunidades locales campesinas, indígenas, raizales y negras para la zonificación de áreas de preservación, uso sostenible y restauración. Niñez: impulsa los indicadores DI9, JE2 y JE7 de NDC sensibles a la Niñez de UNICEF Global, relacionados con educación ambiental costera y protección de medios de vida sostenibles y participación de niños, niñas, adolescentes y jóvenes en las comunidades y acceso a mecanismos de denuncia y reparación ante la vulneración de derechos. // 1. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – ENVIRONMENT SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A04: Title: Updating of the National Program for the Sustainable Use, Management, and Conservation of Mangrove Ecosystems Adaptation Goal: To update and implement, by 2030, 50% of the National Program for the Sustainable Use, Management, and Conservation of Mangrove Ecosystems, incorporating climate change adaptation criteria to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities and strengthen the resilience of ecosystem services, benefiting the main coastal zones of the Caribbean and the Pacific. (...) Support Needs: 4. Planning, Governance, and Others: (...) • Active participation of local communities and ethnic groups in the updating and implementation process. Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with Law 2243 of 2022—which protects mangrove ecosystems and establishes other provisions regarding the reconciliation of the maintenance of ecological function, productive capacity, and ecosystem services provided by mangroves with the possibility of addressing the needs of communities (men and women) directly linked to this socio-ecological system—and relying on the participation and consensus-building of local peasant, indigenous, Raizal, and Black communities for the zoning of areas designated for preservation, sustainable use, and restoration. Children and Youth: Promotes NDC indicators DI9, JE2, and JE7—identified as "Child-Sensitive" by UNICEF Global—which relate to coastal environmental education; the protection of sustainable livelihoods; the participation of children, adolescents, and youth within their communities; and access to mechanisms for reporting grievances and seeking redress in cases of rights violations. |
Economic security
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Biodiversity and ecosystems |
| Colombia | 1. Biodiversidad y servicios ecosistémicos - SECTOR AMBIENTE Compromiso Climático NDC3A05: Título: Adaptación en Unidades Ambientales Costeras Meta de adaptación: (...) Necesidades de apoyo: A 2030 las zonas costeras e insulares han promovido acciones de adaptación ante el cambio climático, en las Unidades Ambientales Costeras – UAC, para reducir la vulnerabilidad frente al cambio climático y fortalecer la resiliencia socioecológica de las zonas marino-costeras 4. Planificación, gobernanza y otros: (...) • Participación de comunidades costeras y pueblos étnicos en priorización y ejecución. Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: de acuerdo con lo establecido en la Meta Nacional 5: Gobernanza de todos los sectores y toda la sociedad Al 2030, del Plan de Acción de Biodiversidad, la cual plantea que Colombia habrá alcanzado el 34 % de la conservación y gestión de las zonas terrestres, aguas continentales y marino costeras, mediante sistemas de áreas protegidas, OMEC y territorios indígenas, afrocolombianos y campesinos, consolidando derechos territoriales étnicos, así como medidas de protección a defensores y defensoras ambientales, teniendo en cuenta la participación de las mujeres y las niñas, la infancia y la juventud y las personas con discapacidad, respetando sus culturas y sus derechos sobre las tierras, los territorios, los recursos y sus Sistemas de Conocimiento tradicional. Niñez: de acuerdo con los indicadores DI9, DI12, JE2 y JE9 de NDC sensibles a la Niñez de UNICEF Global, relacionados con educación para la gestión del riesgo, conciencia ambiental en zonas costeras y asegurando la participación de niños, niñas, adolescentes y jóvenes en las comunidades y el Empoderamiento a través de la educación, la información y la capacitación. // 1. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – ENVIRONMENT SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A05: Title: Adaptation in Coastal Environmental Units Adaptation Goal: (...) Support Needs: By 2030, coastal and island zones will have promoted climate change adaptation actions within Coastal Environmental Units (UACs) in order to reduce vulnerability to climate change and strengthen the socio-ecological resilience of marine-coastal areas. 4. Planning, Governance, and Other Areas: (...) • Participation of coastal communities and ethnic groups in prioritization and implementation. Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the provisions of National Goal 5—"Governance across all sectors and society as a whole by 2030"—of the Biodiversity Action Plan. This goal states that, by 2030, Colombia will have achieved 34% conservation and management coverage of terrestrial areas, inland waters, and marine-coastal zones through systems of protected areas, OECMs (Other Effective Area-based Conservation Measures), and indigenous, Afro-Colombian, and peasant territories. This effort entails consolidating ethnic territorial rights, as well as implementing protection measures for environmental defenders, while ensuring the participation of women and girls, children and youth, and persons with disabilities—all while respecting their cultures and their rights regarding lands, territories, resources, and traditional knowledge systems. Children and Youth: In accordance with indicators DI9, DI12, JE2, and JE9 of UNICEF Global’s "Child-Sensitive NDCs" framework. These indicators relate to education for risk management, environmental awareness in coastal zones, and ensuring the participation of children, adolescents, and youth within their communities, as well as their empowerment through education, information, and training. |
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Adaptation | Biodiversity and ecosystems |
| Colombia | 1. Biodiversidad y servicios ecosistémicos - SECTOR AMBIENTE Compromiso Climático NDC3A06: Título: Iniciativas integrales de adaptación en ecosistemas de manglar Meta de adaptación: Al 2030, implementar al menos seis iniciativas integrales de adaptación al cambio climático y gestión del riesgo en ecosistemas de manglar, orientadas a su uso sostenible, la reducción de vulnerabilidades locales y la conservación de servicios ecosistémicos clave. (...) Necesidades de apoyo: 4. Planificación, gobernanza y otros: (...) • Participación de comunidades locales en procesos de SAT comunitarios. Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: conforme a la ley 2243 de 2022 por medio de la cual se protegen los ecosistemas de manglar y se dictan otras disposiciones relacionadas con conciliar el mantenimiento de la función ecológica, la capacidad productiva y los servicios ecosistémicos que brinda el manglar con la posibilidad de dar solución a las necesidades de las comunidades, hombres y mujeres directamente relacionados con este sistema socio ecológico contando con la participación y concertación de las comunidades locales campesinas, indígenas, raizales y negras para la zonificación de áreas de preservación, uso sostenible y restauración // 1. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – ENVIRONMENT SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A06: Title: Comprehensive Adaptation Initiatives in Mangrove Ecosystems Adaptation Goal: By 2030, implement at least six comprehensive initiatives for climate change adaptation and risk management in mangrove ecosystems, aimed at their sustainable use, the reduction of local vulnerabilities, and the conservation of key ecosystem services. (...) Support Needs: 4. Planning, Governance, and Other: (...) • Participation of local communities in community-based Early Warning System (EWS) processes. Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with Law 2243 of 2022, which protects mangrove ecosystems and establishes other provisions regarding the reconciliation of the maintenance of ecological function, productive capacity, and ecosystem services provided by mangroves with the possibility of addressing the needs of communities—specifically men and women—directly linked to this socio-ecological system; this is to be achieved through the participation and consensus-building of local peasant, indigenous, Raizal, and Black communities regarding the zoning of areas for preservation, sustainable use, and restoration. |
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| Colombia | 1. Biodiversidad y servicios ecosistémicos - SECTOR AMBIENTE Compromiso Climático NDC3A07: Título: Áreas Marinas Protegidas incorporando Adaptación basada en Ecosistemas Meta de adaptación: A 2030, el 100% de las Áreas Marinas Protegidas del Sistema Nacional de Áreas Protegidas incorporarán medidas de Adaptación basada en Ecosistemas en sus planes de manejo, fortaleciendo la resiliencia de los ecosistemas marinos y de las comunidades costeras que dependen de sus servicios ecosistémicos. (...) Necesidades de apoyo: 4. Planificación, gobernanza y otros: (...) • Participación de comunidades locales, pescadores y pueblos étnicos en la priorización e implementación. Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: De acuerdo con Política Nacional Ambiental para el Desarrollo Sostenible de los Espacios Oceánicos y las Zonas Costeras e Insulares de Colombia la cual establece que se considerará el conocimiento acumulado de comunidades locales y poblaciones nativas, sobre las cuales debe construirse la existencia de innovaciones y prácticas, así como la adopción de medidas que permitan ampliar y promover el uso y aprovechamiento sostenible de productos y servicios provenientes del entorno natural para el beneficio de las comunidades, incluyendo indígenas, comunidades negras, pescadores, mujeres y jóvenes, entre otros. // 1. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – ENVIRONMENT SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A07: Title: Marine Protected Areas Incorporating Ecosystem-based Adaptation Adaptation Goal: By 2030, 100% of the Marine Protected Areas within the National System of Protected Areas will incorporate Ecosystem-based Adaptation measures into their management plans, thereby strengthening the resilience of marine ecosystems and of the coastal communities that depend on their ecosystem services. (...) Support Needs: 4. Planning, Governance, and Other: (...) • Participation of local communities, fishers, and ethnic groups in prioritization and implementation. Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy for the Sustainable Development of Colombia’s Oceanic Spaces and Coastal and Insular Zones—which establishes that the accumulated knowledge of local communities and native populations shall be taken into account, serving as the foundation upon which innovations and practices are built—as well as the adoption of measures designed to expand and promote the sustainable use and utilization of products and services derived from the natural environment for the benefit of communities, including indigenous peoples, Afro-Colombian communities, fishers, women, and youth, among others. |
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| Colombia | 1. Biodiversidad y servicios ecosistémicos - SECTOR AMBIENTE Compromiso Climático NDC3A08: Título: Colombia 30x30: 30% del territorio bajo figuras de protección antes del 2030 Meta de adaptación: A 2030, al menos el [30%] del territorio nacional (continental y marino) estará bajo figuras de protección o conservación complementaria, con procesos activos de gestión que contribuyan a la conservación de la biodiversidad y a la adaptación frente al cambio climático. (...) Necesidades de apoyo: 4. Planificación, gobernanza y otros: (...) • Participación de pueblos étnicos, comunidades locales y sociedad civil en declaratoria y gestión. Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: De acuerdo con Política Nacional Ambiental para el Desarrollo Sostenible de los Espacios Oceánicos y las Zonas Costeras e Insulares de Colombia la cual establece que se considerará el conocimiento acumulado de comunidades locales y poblaciones nativas, sobre las cuales debe construirse la existencia de innovaciones y prácticas, así como la adopción de medidas que permitan ampliar y promover el uso y aprovechamiento sostenible de productos y servicios provenientes del entorno natural para el beneficio de las comunidades, incluyendo indígenas, comunidades negras, pescadores, mujeres y jóvenes, entre otros. // 1. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – ENVIRONMENT SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A08: Title: Colombia 30x30: 30% of the territory under protection schemes by 2030 Adaptation Goal: By 2030, at least [30%] of the national territory (continental and marine) will be under protection schemes or complementary conservation measures, with active management processes that contribute to biodiversity conservation and adaptation to climate change. (...) Support Needs: 4. Planning, Governance, and Other: (...) • Participation of ethnic peoples, local communities, and civil society in designation and management processes. Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy for the Sustainable Development of Colombia’s Oceanic Spaces and Coastal and Insular Zones—which establishes that the accumulated knowledge of local communities and native populations shall be taken into account as a foundation for developing innovations and practices—measures shall be adopted to expand and promote the sustainable use and utilization of products and services derived from the natural environment for the benefit of communities, including indigenous peoples, Afro-Colombian communities, fishers, women, and youth, among others. |
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| Colombia | 1. Biodiversidad y servicios ecosistémicos - SECTOR AMBIENTE Compromiso Climático NDC3A09: Título: Restauración y resiliencia hídrica en ecosistemas de páramo y bosque altoandino priorizados Meta de adaptación: Al 2030, reducir la vulnerabilidad y fortalecer la resiliencia socio ecológica de los ecosistemas de páramo y bosque altoandino de Chingaza, Guerrero y Santurbán u otros páramos frente a la degradación y pérdida de servicios hídricos asociadas al cambio y la variabilidad climática, mediante la implementación de Soluciones basadas en la Naturaleza orientadas a la restauración y conservación (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: Reducir la vulnerabilidad y fortalecer la resiliencia socioecológica de las personas que cuidan y/o habitan los ecosistemas de páramo y bosque altoandino de Chingaza, Guerrero y Santurbán u otros páramos de acuerdo con observación 15 del Comité de los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales (CDESC) sobre el acceso equitativo al agua y a los sistemas de gestión del agua. // 1. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – ENVIRONMENT SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A09: Title: Restoration and Water Resilience in Prioritized Páramo and High-Andean Forest Ecosystems Adaptation Goal: By 2030, reduce vulnerability and strengthen the socio-ecological resilience of the páramo and high-Andean forest ecosystems of Chingaza, Guerrero, and Santurbán—or other páramos—in the face of degradation and the loss of water services associated with climate change and variability, through the implementation of Nature-based Solutions aimed at restoration and conservation (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: Reduce vulnerability and strengthen the socio-ecological resilience of the people who care for and/or inhabit the páramo and high-Andean forest ecosystems of Chingaza, Guerrero, and Santurbán—or other páramos—in accordance with General Comment No. 15 of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) regarding equitable access to water and water management systems. |
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| Colombia | 1. Biodiversidad y servicios ecosistémicos - SECTOR MINERO ENERGÉTICO Compromiso Climático NDC3A10: Título: Acciones de conservación y restauración en ecosistemas estratégicos en Colombia Meta de adaptación: Al 2030, implementar acciones de conservación y restauración ecológica en al menos 500 hectáreas de ecosistemas estratégicos priorizados, incluyendo actividades de recuperación, remediación y rehabilitación, con el fin de reducir la vulnerabilidad territorial y fortalecer la resiliencia frente al cambio climático, mediante intervenciones desarrolladas bajo el enfoque de Soluciones Basadas en la Naturaleza (SbN), garantizando la participación efectiva de las comunidades locales, la articulación interinstitucional y la sostenibilidad de las acciones. (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: Desarrollar acciones para disminuir la vulnerabilidad de mujeres y hombres frente al cambio climático generando condiciones para la resiliencia de las personas y los territorios de acuerdo con lo planteado en el programa de diversidad, equidad e inclusión de Ecopetrol en el marco de los compromisos del sector minero energético en el CONPES 4080 y el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático en lo relacionado con las alianzas público-privadas para la equidad de género. // 1. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – MINING AND ENERGY SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A10: Title: Conservation and restoration actions in strategic ecosystems in Colombia Adaptation Goal: By 2030, implement conservation and ecological restoration actions on at least 500 hectares of prioritized strategic ecosystems—including recovery, remediation, and rehabilitation activities—with the aim of reducing territorial vulnerability and strengthening resilience to climate change. These actions shall be carried out through interventions developed under the Nature-based Solutions (NbS) approach, ensuring the effective participation of local communities, inter-institutional coordination, and the sustainability of the actions. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: Develop actions to reduce the vulnerability of women and men to climate change by fostering conditions for the resilience of individuals and territories. These actions shall align with the principles outlined in Ecopetrol’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program, within the framework of the mining and energy sector’s commitments under CONPES 4080 and the Gender and Climate Change Action Plan—specifically regarding public-private partnerships for gender equity. |
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| Colombia | 2. Recursos hídricos - SECTOR AGUA Y SANEAMIENTO BÁSICO Compromiso Climático NDC3A11: Título: Protección y conservación de microcuencas Meta de adaptación: Desarrollar a 2030 acciones de protección y conservación en veinticuatro (24) microcuencas abastecedoras de acueductos en los municipios susceptibles al desabastecimiento por temporada de bajas precipitaciones y temporada de lluvia. (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A12: Título: Acciones de adaptación para municipios susceptibles a desabastecimiento de agua Meta de adaptación: Desarrollar a 2030 acciones estructurales y no estructurales de gestión del riesgo para la adaptación al cambio climático en el treinta por ciento (30%) de los municipios priorizados por susceptibilidad al desabastecimiento por temporada seca y temporada de lluvias. (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A13: Título: Manejo y tratamiento de aguas residuales domésticas Meta de adaptación: Alcanzar a 2030 el sesenta y ocho por ciento (68%) del tratamiento de las aguas residuales urbanas domésticas. (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: conforme con la guía para la inclusión del enfoque de género para las mujeres en el ciclo de planeación y presupuestación sector vivienda, ciudad y territorio en la cual se establece la Línea estratégica Agua Potable y Saneamiento Básico, la cual agrupa áreas de intervención racionadas con abastecimiento de Agua y Saneamiento Rural, Coordinación con entidades territoriales en torno a Planes Departamentales de Agua y Planes de Gestión Social para proyectar las propuestas de instrumentos normativos para la incorporación del enfoque de género en la gestión sectorial del derecho al agua y el acceso al saneamiento básico. Tomando en cuenta los enfoques dispuestos en la resolución 0467 22 JUL 2025 la cual plantea que mediante la integración del Enfoque Diferencial, Interseccional, Étnico y Campesino se analizará cómo las diversas condiciones y características de las personas y grupos (sociales, económicas, de género, etarias, étnico-raciales, de discapacidad, de identidad de género, de orientación sexual, pertenencia al campesinado, entre otras) interactúan generando situaciones particulares de vulnerabilidad, exclusión o discriminación en relación con el hábitat y el acceso a servicios. // 2. Water Resources – WATER AND BASIC SANITATION SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A11: Title: Protection and conservation of micro-watersheds Adaptation Goal: By 2030, develop protection and conservation actions in twenty-four (24) micro-watersheds that supply water utility systems in municipalities susceptible to water shortages during periods of low rainfall and during the rainy season. (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A12: Title: Adaptation actions for municipalities susceptible to water shortages Adaptation Goal: By 2030, develop structural and non-structural risk management actions for climate change adaptation in thirty percent (30%) of the municipalities prioritized based on their susceptibility to water shortages during the dry season and the rainy season. (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A13: Title: Management and treatment of domestic wastewater Adaptation Goal: By 2030, achieve a sixty-eight percent (68%) rate of treatment for urban domestic wastewater. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the *Guide for the Inclusion of a Gender Approach for Women in the Planning and Budgeting Cycle of the Housing, City, and Territory Sector*—which establishes the "Drinking Water and Basic Sanitation" Strategic Line—this commitment encompasses intervention areas related to Rural Water Supply and Sanitation, as well as coordination with territorial entities regarding Departmental Water Plans and Social Management Plans, with the aim of formulating proposals for regulatory instruments to incorporate a gender approach into the sectoral management of the right to water and access to basic sanitation. Taking into account the approaches set forth in Resolution 0467 of July 22, 2025—which posits that, through the integration of the Differential, Intersectional, Ethnic, and Peasant Approaches—an analysis will be conducted regarding how the diverse conditions and characteristics of individuals and groups (including social, economic, gender, age, ethno-racial, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and peasant affiliation factors, among others) interact to generate specific situations of vulnerability, exclusion, or discrimination in relation to habitat and access to services. |
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| Colombia | 2. Recursos hídricos - SECTOR AGUA Y SANEAMIENTO BÁSICO Compromiso Climático NDC3A14: Título: Reuso de aguas residuales domésticas Meta de adaptación: Reusar a 2035 el diez por ciento (10%) de las aguas residuales domésticas tratadas por parte de los prestadores del servicio público de alcantarillado, para fines no potables, en cumplimiento con estándares de calidad y normativa vigente, contribuyendo a la resiliencia hídrica en los municipios. (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: en coherencia con el Plan de Acción de Género de la CMNUCC, fomenta la participación de mujeres en la innovación tecnológica y en la toma de decisiones sobre el reúso del agua en comunidades urbanas. // 2. Water Resources – WATER AND BASIC SANITATION SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A14: Title: Reuse of Domestic Wastewater Adaptation Goal: By 2035, reuse ten percent (10%) of domestic wastewater treated by public sewerage service providers for non-potable purposes, in compliance with quality standards and current regulations, thereby contributing to water resilience in municipalities. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In alignment with the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan, promotes the participation of women in technological innovation and in decision-making regarding water reuse in urban communities. |
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| Colombia | 2. Recursos hídricos - SECTOR AMBIENTE Compromiso Climático NDC3A15: Título: POMCA con consideraciones de cambio climático Meta de adaptación: Formular o ajustar a 2030, un mínimo de ciento treinta y cinco (135) Planes de Ordenación y Manejo de Cuencas Hidrográficas (POMCA) incorporando consideraciones que variabilidad y cambio climático, de conformidad con la priorización que establezca el Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible. (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A16: Título: Acotamiento de cuerpos de agua priorizados al 2030 Meta de adaptación: Acotar a 2030, los cuerpos de agua priorizados por parte de las Autoridades Ambientales competentes, de conformidad con la guía técnica para el acotamiento de rondas hídricas (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A17: Título: Implementación de medidas climáticas en Planes Estratégicos de Macrocuencas al 2030 Meta de adaptación: Al 2030 promover acciones priorizadas en los Planes Estratégicos de Macrocuencas, que aporten a la implementación de medidas de adaptación y mitigación del cambio climático de cada Macrocuenca. (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A18: Título: Aumento en la disponibilidad de agua para riego y uso doméstico Meta de adaptación: Al 2030, implementar programas de captación de agua lluvia (120.000 m3) en la jurisdicción de la CAR para incrementar la disponibilidad de agua para riego y uso doméstico con el fin de reducir el impacto de los periodos de sequía. (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: Género: De acuerdo con la observación 15 del Comité de los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales (CDESC) mediante la cual se establece que los Estados deben “hacer lo posible para asegurar que los agricultores desfavorecidos y marginados, en particular las mujeres, tengan un acceso equitativo al agua y a los sistemas de gestión del agua, incluidas las técnicas sostenibles de recogida de agua de lluvia y de irrigación” (CDESC, 2002) e incluso en situaciones de grave escasez de recursos los Estados deben proteger a las poblaciones vulnerables de la sociedad a través de programas específicos, en el ámbito de esta obligación se inscribe el Programa Agua es Vida. (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A19: Título: Conservación de cuencas abastecedoras Meta de adaptación: Al 2030, implementar un esquema de Pago por Servicios Ambientales (PSA) en cuencas abastecedoras del departamento de Cundinamarca, con el fin de conservar 20.000 hectáreas de ecosistemas estratégicos y fortalecer la regulación hídrica en municipios priorizados (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: De acuerdo con lo dispuesto en el Programa Nacional de Pago por Servicios Ambientales en el cual se dispone el esquema de personas beneficiarias, propietarias de los predios, poseedoras regulares, grupos étnicos y ocupantes de predios según lo dispuesto en la ley a Ley 160 de 1994 la cual establece la consideración sobre las necesidades y los intereses específicos de las mujeres campesinas, afrocolombianas e indígenas, y de las juventudes rurales; así como las garantias de los derechos territoriales de los Pueblos Indígenas y de las comunidades negras, afrocolombianas, raizales y palenqueras, y comunidades campesinas // 2. Water Resources - ENVIRONMENT SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A15: Title: POMCAs incorporating climate change considerations Adaptation Goal: By 2030, formulate or update a minimum of one hundred thirty-five (135) Watershed Management and Planning Plans (POMCAs), incorporating considerations regarding climate variability and change, in accordance with the prioritization established by the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A16: Title: Delimitation of prioritized water bodies by 2030 Adaptation Goal: By 2030, delimit the water bodies prioritized by the competent Environmental Authorities, in accordance with the technical guidelines for the delimitation of riparian zones (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A17: Title: Implementation of climate measures in Strategic Macro-basin Plans by 2030 Adaptation Goal: By 2030, promote prioritized actions within the Strategic Macro-basin Plans that contribute to the implementation of climate change adaptation and mitigation measures for each Macro-basin. (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A18: Title: Increase in water availability for irrigation and domestic use Adaptation Goal: By 2030, implement rainwater harvesting programs (120,000 m³) within the jurisdiction of the CAR [Regional Autonomous Corporation] to increase water availability for irrigation and domestic use, with the aim of reducing the impact of drought periods. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: Gender: In accordance with General Comment No. 15 of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)—which establishes that States must “take steps to ensure that disadvantaged and marginalized farmers, particularly women, have equitable access to water and water management systems, including sustainable techniques for rainwater harvesting and irrigation” (CESCR, 2002)—and noting that even in situations of severe resource scarcity States must protect vulnerable populations within society through specific programs, the *Agua es Vida* (Water is Life) Program falls within the scope of this obligation. (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A19: Title: Conservation of Water-Supplying Watersheds Adaptation Goal: By 2030, implement a Payment for Environmental Services (PES) scheme in water-supplying watersheds within the Department of Cundinamarca, with the aim of conserving 20,000 hectares of strategic ecosystems and strengthening water regulation in prioritized municipalities. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the provisions of the National Payment for Environmental Services Program—which outlines the beneficiary scheme encompassing property owners, lawful possessors, ethnic groups, and property occupants, as stipulated by Law 160 of 1994—due consideration is given to the specific needs and interests of rural, Afro-Colombian, and Indigenous women, as well as rural youth; furthermore, the Program guarantees the territorial rights of Indigenous Peoples, Black, Afro-Colombian, Raizal, and Palenquero communities, and rural peasant communities. |
Economic security
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| Colombia | 3. Seguridad alimentaria y producción agropecuaria - SECTOR AGROPECUARIO Compromiso Climático NDC3A20: Título: Incorporación de consideraciones climáticas en la planificación agropecuaria y adaptación al 2030 Meta de adaptación: Adoptar a 2030 consideraciones de cambio climático en los instrumentos de planificación del sector agropecuario (PIGCCS) e implementar acciones de adaptación. (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A21: Título: Implementación de modelos de adaptación en 11 subsectores agropecuarios al 2030 Meta de adaptación: Implementar a 2030, en al menos once (11) subsectores agropecuarios (arroz, maíz, papa, ganadería de carne, ganadería de leche, caña panelera, cacao, banano, café, caña de azúcar y palma de aceite), modelos que mejoren sus capacidades para adaptarse a la variabilidad y cambio climático, a través de la investigación, el desarrollo tecnológico y la adopción de prácticas de transformación productiva de las actividades agrícolas y ganaderas para hacerlas más resilientes. (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A22: Título: Ampliación de cobertura y participación en mesas técnicas agroclimáticas al 2030 Meta de adaptación: Ampliar a 2030 la cobertura y participación en las mesas técnicas agroclimáticas a cinco (5) regiones naturales del país (Andina, Caribe, Amazonía, Pacífica y Orinoquía), en articulación con la mesa agroclimática nacional, y suministrar información agroclimática a todos los productores agropecuarios del territorio nacional. (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: De acuerdo con el planteamiento de enfoque diferencial del PIGCCS del sector agropecuario el cual establece que la gestión del cambio climático tiene en cuenta que la reducción de vulnerabilidad debe ser pensada bajo una perspectiva de género y de forma interseccional, reconociendo la necesidad de avanzar en la eliminación de la pobreza y del hambre, la igualdad de género y la adopción de medidas para combatir el cambio climático y sus efectos. Y de acuerdo con la líneas estratégicas 5.4 y 5.5 sobre género y la medida 4.2 para Integrar el enfoque de género en la gestión del cambio climático sectorial. Todo esto en coordinación con la Dirección de Mujer Rural del Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural. (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A23: Título: Transición agroecológica nacional para la adaptación y la soberanía alimentaria Meta de adaptación: Para 2035, al menos el 50 % de las cadenas productivas agrícolas y forestales habrán iniciado y documentado procesos de transición agroecológica y climáticamente inteligentes, incorporando prácticas regenerativas de suelo, diversificación productiva, control biológico y conservación de la biodiversidad funcional, con mecanismos de seguimiento y verificación. Este enfoque de transición permitirá promover la restauración productiva y la conservación de servicios ecosistémicos clave (polinizadores, controladores biológicos, conectividad ecológica y corredores agroforestales) y el fortalecimiento de la agricultura campesina, familiar, étnica y comunitaria. Ambos aspectos como base de la resiliencia agroecológica y la productividad. (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: Esta medida se desarrollará de acuerdo con los compromisos de género en el PAGCC-CO y con el planteamiento de enfoque diferencial del PIGCCS del sector agropecuario el cual establece que la gestión del cambio climático tiene en cuenta que la reducción de vulnerabilidad debe ser pensada bajo una perspectiva de género y de forma interseccional, reconociendo la necesidad de avanzar en la eliminación de la pobreza y del hambre, la igualdad de género y la adopción de medidas para combatir el cambio climático y sus efectos. Y de acuerdo con la líneas estratégicas 5.4 y 5.5 sobre género y la medida 4.2 para Integrar el enfoque de género en la gestión del cambio climático sectorial. Todo esto en coordinación con la Dirección de Mujer Rural del Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural. // 3. Food Security and Agricultural Production - AGRICULTURAL SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A20: Title: Incorporation of climate considerations into agricultural planning and adaptation by 2030 Adaptation Goal: By 2030, adopt climate change considerations within the agricultural sector’s planning instruments (PIGCCS) and implement adaptation actions. (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A21: Title: Implementation of adaptation models in 11 agricultural subsectors by 2030 Adaptation Goal: By 2030, implement—in at least eleven (11) agricultural subsectors (rice, corn, potatoes, beef cattle, dairy cattle, *panela* sugarcane, cocoa, bananas, coffee, industrial sugarcane, and oil palm)—models designed to enhance their capacities to adapt to climate variability and change. This will be achieved through research, technological development, and the adoption of practices for the productive transformation of agricultural and livestock activities, thereby making them more resilient. (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A22: Title: Expansion of coverage and participation in agro-climatic technical roundtables by 2030 Adaptation Goal: By 2030, expand coverage and participation in agro-climatic technical roundtables to five (5) of the country's natural regions (Andean, Caribbean, Amazon, Pacific, and Orinoquía), in coordination with the national agro-climatic roundtable, and provide agro-climatic information to all agricultural producers throughout the national territory. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the differential approach outlined in the agricultural sector’s PIGCCS—which establishes that climate change management must recognize that vulnerability reduction should be conceived from a gender perspective and through an intersectional lens—this commitment acknowledges the need to advance toward the eradication of poverty and hunger, the achievement of gender equality, and the adoption of measures to combat climate change and its effects. And in accordance with strategic lines 5.4 and 5.5 regarding gender, and measure 4.2, aimed at integrating a gender perspective into sectoral climate change management. All of this is to be carried out in coordination with the Directorate for Rural Women at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A23: Title: National Agroecological Transition for Adaptation and Food Sovereignty Adaptation Goal: By 2035, at least 50% of agricultural and forestry production chains will have initiated and documented agroecological and climate-smart transition processes, incorporating regenerative soil practices, productive diversification, biological control, and the conservation of functional biodiversity, supported by monitoring and verification mechanisms. This transitional approach will facilitate the promotion of productive restoration and the conservation of key ecosystem services (pollinators, biological control agents, ecological connectivity, and agroforestry corridors), as well as the strengthening of peasant, family, ethnic, and community-based agriculture. Both aspects serve as the foundation for agroecological resilience and productivity. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: This measure will be implemented in accordance with the gender commitments outlined in the PAGCC-CO, as well as the differential approach framework established in the agricultural sector’s PIGCCS. This framework stipulates that climate change management must recognize that vulnerability reduction efforts must be conceived through a gender lens and an intersectional perspective—acknowledging the imperative to advance toward the eradication of poverty and hunger, the achievement of gender equality, and the adoption of measures to combat climate change and its impacts. Furthermore, it aligns with strategic lines 5.4 and 5.5 regarding gender, and measure 4.2, aimed at integrating a gender perspective into sectoral climate change management. All of this is to be carried out in coordination with the Directorate for Rural Women at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. |
Economic security
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Colombia | 4. Salud humana - SECTOR SALUD Y PROTECCIÓN SOCIAL Compromiso Climático NDC3A24: Título: Acciones para reducir los casos de enfermedades sensibles al clima Meta de adaptación: Formular a 2030 acciones de adaptación en prevención de la enfermedad y promoción de la salud, que aporten a reducir los casos de enfermedades sensibles al clima en el cien por ciento (100%) de las entidades del sector salud a nivel departamental, distrital y municipal. Adicionalmente, a 2030 estarán implementadas las acciones en un cuarenta por ciento (40%) de las citadas entidades (...) Necesidades de apoyo: 2. Capacidades: • Formación de equipos de salud pública en identificación y prevención de enfermedades sensibles al clima. 4. Planificación, gobernanza y otros: (...) •Participación comunitaria y enfoque diferencial (poblaciones rurales, étnicas y en pobreza extrema). Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: conforme con el compromiso del sector salud dispuesto en el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia (PAGCC-CO) Acciones para la Igualdad de Género, la Sostenibilidad y la Justicia Climática en el marco de la implementación de acciones para la prevención de la enfermedad y promoción de la salud. (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A25: Título: Implementación de acciones de adaptación en instituciones prestadoras de servicios de salud Meta de adaptación: A 2030 el cuarenta por ciento (40%) de las instituciones prestadoras de servicios de salud del sector público habrán implementado acciones de adaptación ante los posibles eventos asociados a la variabilidad y cambio climático. (...) Necesidades de apoyo: 2. Capacidades: • Capacitación de personal de salud en protocolos de respuesta a eventos climáticos extremos. 4. Planificación, gobernanza y otros: (...) • Participación comunitaria en planes de contingencia sanitaria. Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: conforme con el compromiso del sector salud dispuesto en el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia (PAGCC-CO) Acciones para la Igualdad de Género, la Sostenibilidad y la Justicia Climática en el marco de la implementación de acciones para la prevención de la enfermedad y promoción de la salud y las PIGCC del sector Salud según lo planteado en la línea estratégica de atenciones sobre las acciones intencionadas y efectivas, encaminadas a la promoción de la salud, detección temprana, protección específica, diagnóstico, tratamiento, rehabilitación, paliación y educación para la salud, dirigidas a las personas, familias y comunidades en cada uno de los entornos en los que transcurre su vida, con el propósito de desarrollar capacidades y promover el más alto nivel de bienestar, individual y colectivo. (...0 Compromiso Climático NDC3A26: Título: Evaluación y análisis de la vulnerabilidad por cambio climático en el sector salud Meta de adaptación: Al 2035, realizar evaluaciones y análisis de vulnerabilidad climática en salud en al menos el 30% de los departamentos del país, utilizando metodologías estandarizadas de la OMS, integrando resultados al SIIVRA y al sistema nacional de vigilancia en salud pública, con un hito intermedio de 15% de cobertura al 2030. (...) Necesidades de apoyo: 2. Capacidades: • Capacitación de epidemiólogos, profesional de ciencias sociales y humanas, profesionales de la salud y equipos técnicos en las metodologías OMS de vulnerabilidad climática. 4. Planificación, gobernanza y otros: (...) • Participación comunitaria y enfoque diferencial (poblaciones rurales, étnicas, niños y adultos mayores). Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: conforme con el compromiso del sector salud dispuesto en el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia (PAGCC-CO) Acciones para la Igualdad de Género, la Sostenibilidad y la Justicia Climática en el marco de la implementación de acciones para la prevención de la enfermedad y promoción de la salud. // 4. Human Health – HEALTH AND SOCIAL PROTECTION SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A24: Title: Actions to reduce cases of climate-sensitive diseases Adaptation Goal: By 2030, formulate adaptation actions regarding disease prevention and health promotion that contribute to reducing cases of climate-sensitive diseases in one hundred percent (100%) of health sector entities at the departmental, district, and municipal levels. Additionally, by 2030, these actions will have been implemented in forty percent (40%) of the aforementioned entities (...) Support Needs: 2. Capacities: • Training of public health teams in the identification and prevention of climate-sensitive diseases. 4. Planning, Governance, and Others: (...) • Community participation and a differential approach (rural, ethnic, and extreme poverty populations). Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the health sector's commitment set forth in Colombia’s Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (PAGCC-CO)—*Actions for Gender Equality, Sustainability, and Climate Justice*—within the framework of implementing actions for disease prevention and health promotion. (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A25: Title: Implementation of adaptation actions in health service provider institutions Adaptation Goal: By 2030, forty percent (40%) of public sector health service provider institutions will have implemented adaptation actions to address potential events associated with climate variability and change. (...) Support Needs: 2. Capacities: • Training of health personnel in response protocols for extreme climatic events. 4. Planning, Governance, and Others: (...) • Community participation in health contingency plans. Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the health sector’s commitment set forth in Colombia’s Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (PAGCC-CO)—*Actions for Gender Equality, Sustainability, and Climate Justice*—within the framework of implementing actions for disease prevention and health promotion; and in accordance with the health sector’s specific Gender and Climate Change actions (PIGCC), as outlined in the strategic line regarding care services. This line focuses on intentional and effective actions aimed at health promotion, early detection, specific protection, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, palliation, and health education—directed at individuals, families, and communities within every setting where their lives unfold—with the purpose of building capacities and fostering the highest possible level of individual and collective well-being. (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A26: Title: Assessment and Analysis of Climate Change Vulnerability in the Health Sector Adaptation Goal: By 2035, conduct assessments and analyses of climate vulnerability in health in at least 30% of the country's departments, utilizing standardized WHO methodologies, and integrating the results into the SIIVRA system and the national public health surveillance system, with an intermediate milestone of 15% coverage by 2030. (...) Support Needs: 2. Capacities: • Training for epidemiologists, social and human science professionals, health professionals, and technical teams in WHO methodologies for climate vulnerability assessment. 4. Planning, Governance, and Other: (...) • Community participation and a differential approach (focusing on rural populations, ethnic groups, children, and older adults). Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the health sector’s commitment set forth in Colombia’s Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (PAGCC-CO)—*Actions for Gender Equality, Sustainability, and Climate Justice*—within the framework of implementing actions for disease prevention and health promotion. |
Health
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Adaptation | Health |
| Colombia | 5 Infraestructura - SECTOR TRANSPORTE Compromiso Climático NDC3A27: Título: Incorporar los Lineamientos de Infraestructura Verde Vial y el concepto de Corredor Geotécnico Meta de adaptación: Incorporar los Lineamientos de Infraestructura Verde Vial y el concepto de Corredor Geotécnico en la estructuración de nuevos proyectos viales a cargo del sector transporte a partir del 2026 (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A28: Título: Implementar el plan de acción de la política de gestión del riesgo de desastres y adaptación al cambio climático Medida de adaptación: Implementar las actividades establecidas para su ejecución a 2030 del plan de acción de la política de gestión del riesgo de desastres y adaptación al cambio climático. (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A29: Título: Lineamientos de infraestructura verde ferroviaria Medida de adaptación: Formular los lineamientos de infraestructura verde para el modo férreo y la estructuración en un proyecto piloto (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: Conforme con el compromiso del sector Transporte dispuesto en el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia (PAGCC-CO) Acciones para la Igualdad de Género, la Sostenibilidad y la Justicia Climática en el marco de la implementación de la Estrategia de movilidad activa con enfoque de género la cual desarrolla acciones que permitan promover e impulsar la movilidad activa con enfoque de género diferencial en el territorio nacional, generando beneficios en materia ambiental, seguridad vial, salud y principalmente en materia de género y diferencial para responder a las necesidades de movilidad activa de todas las personas en el marco de la Resolución 20223040064995 de 2022 "Por la cual se adiciona y modifica la Resolución 000283010 de 2019 del Ministerio de Transporte. // 5 Infrastructure - TRANSPORT SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A27: Title: Incorporate Road Green Infrastructure Guidelines and the Geotechnical Corridor concept Adaptation Goal: Incorporate Road Green Infrastructure Guidelines and the Geotechnical Corridor concept into the structuring of new road projects under the responsibility of the transport sector, starting in 2026 (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A28: Title: Implement the action plan for the disaster risk management and climate change adaptation policy Adaptation Measure: Implement the activities established for execution by 2030 within the action plan for the disaster risk management and climate change adaptation policy. (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A29: Title: Railway Green Infrastructure Guidelines Adaptation Measure: Formulate green infrastructure guidelines for the railway mode and structure a pilot project (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the Transport sector's commitment set forth in Colombia's Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (PAGCC-CO)—"Actions for Gender Equality, Sustainability, and Climate Justice"—within the framework of implementing the "Active Mobility Strategy with a Gender Focus." This strategy develops actions designed to promote and drive active mobility with a differentiated gender approach across the national territory, generating benefits in terms of the environment, road safety, and health—and primarily regarding gender and differentiated approaches—in order to address the active mobility needs of all individuals, within the framework of Resolution 20223040064995 of 2022, "Whereby Resolution 000283010 of 2019 of the Ministry of Transport is added to and amended." |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Transportation |
| Colombia | 6. Riesgo de desastres - SECTOR AMBIENTE Compromiso Climático NDC3A30: Título: Fortalecimiento de la red nacional de monitoreo y alertas tempranas al 2030 Meta de adaptación: Incrementar a 2030, del 24% al 35% la red de monitoreo con transmisión en tiempo real conectada a sistemas de alerta temprana, y coordinar con la Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres el fortalecimiento de las capacidades territoriales para el monitoreo, vigilancia y evaluación permanente de amenazas, así como la emisión y difusión oportuna de alertas tempranas (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: Conforme con el compromiso del IDEAM dispuesto en el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia (PAGCC-CO) Acciones para la Igualdad de Género, la Sostenibilidad y la Justicia Climática en el marco de la implementación de la acción climática para crear y fortalecer la capacidad nacional para el monitoreo, registro y verificación de información cuantitativa y cualitativa sobre los impactos diferenciales del cambio climático, impulsando la creación de estrategias, alianzas, procesos, sinergias de trabajo interinstitucionales y otras dinámicas, que permitan la triangulación de información ambiental, meteorológica y estadística que permita evidenciar el impacto del cambio climático con un enfoque poblacional, diferencial y de género. // 6. Disaster Risk – ENVIRONMENT SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A30: Title: Strengthening of the National Monitoring and Early Warning Network by 2030 Adaptation Goal: By 2030, increase the monitoring network featuring real-time transmission—and connected to early warning systems—from 24% to 35%; and coordinate with the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management to strengthen territorial capacities for the monitoring, surveillance, and continuous assessment of hazards, as well as the timely issuance and dissemination of early warnings (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the commitment of IDEAM—as set forth in Colombia’s Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (PAGCC-CO), *Actions for Gender Equality, Sustainability, and Climate Justice*—within the framework of implementing climate action to create and strengthen national capacity for the monitoring, recording, and verification of quantitative and qualitative information regarding the differential impacts of climate change; thereby fostering the creation of strategies, partnerships, processes, inter-institutional working synergies, and other dynamics that enable the triangulation of environmental, meteorological, and statistical information, allowing for the demonstration of climate change impacts through a population-based, differential, and gender-sensitive approach. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Disasters |
| Colombia | 6. Riesgo de desastres - SECTOR AMBIENTE Compromiso Climático NDC3A31: Título: Reducción de áreas afectadas por incendios forestales al 2030 Meta de adaptación: A 2030 el país reducirá en un 30% las áreas afectadas por incendios forestales, respecto al 2019, de manera articulada e interinstitucional, operativizando los procesos para la gestión, conocimiento y reducción del riesgo de incendios forestales y el manejo de los desastres, a través de las siete estrategias5 definidas en la NDC en materia de incendios forestales. (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: De acuerdo con la resolución 0670 del 17 de julio de 2025 del Fondo Nacional para la gestión de Riesgo de Desastres en la cual se reconoce que los incendios forestales tienen consecuencias multisectoriales. Ambientalmente, provocan la pérdida de servicios ecosistémicos esenciales, como la regulación hídrica y la conservación de suelos. Socialmente, afectan desproporcionadamente a Pueblos Indígenas, comunidades Negras, Afrocolombianas, Raizales, Palenqueras y comunidades campesinas, mujeres rurales y jóvenes, comprometiendo sus medios de vida, salud y seguridad alimentaria y que estos impactos se ven amplificados por factores como el cambio climático, que incrementa las temperaturas y prolonga las sequías, y la deforestación, que reduce la resiliencia de los ecosistemas. // 6. Disaster Risk – ENVIRONMENT SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A31: Title: Reduction of areas affected by forest fires by 2030 Adaptation Goal: By 2030, the country will reduce the areas affected by forest fires by 30% relative to 2019. This will be achieved through a coordinated and inter-institutional approach, operationalizing processes for the management, knowledge, and reduction of forest fire risks, as well as disaster management, through the seven strategies defined in the NDC regarding forest fires. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with Resolution 0670 of July 17, 2025, issued by the National Fund for Disaster Risk Management, which recognizes that forest fires have multisectoral consequences. Environmentally, they cause the loss of essential ecosystem services, such as water regulation and soil conservation. Socially, they disproportionately affect Indigenous Peoples, Black, Afro-Colombian, Raizal, and Palenquero communities, as well as peasant communities, rural women, and youth—compromising their livelihoods, health, and food security. Furthermore, these impacts are amplified by factors such as climate change—which increases temperatures and prolongs droughts—and deforestation, which reduces ecosystem resilience. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Disasters |
| Colombia | 6. Riesgo de desastres - SECTOR AMBIENTE Compromiso Climático NDC3A32: Título: Localidades gestionadas frente al Plan Maestro de Erosión Costera Meta de adaptación: Al 2035, Puntos o localidades de erosión costera gestionadas en el marco del Plan Maestro de Erosión Costera actualizado. (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: De acuerdo con Política Nacional Ambiental para el Desarrollo Sostenible de los Espacios Oceánicos y las Zonas Costeras e Insulares de Colombia la cual establece que se considerará el conocimiento acumulado de comunidades locales y poblaciones nativas, sobre las cuales debe construirse la existencia de innovaciones y prácticas, así como la adopción de medidas que permitan ampliar y promover el uso y aprovechamiento sostenible de productos y servicios provenientes del entorno natural para el beneficio de las comunidades, incluyendo indígenas, comunidades negras, pescadores, mujeres y jóvenes, entre otros. // 6. Disaster Risk – ENVIRONMENT SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A32: Title: Localities Managed under the Coastal Erosion Master Plan Adaptation Goal: By 2035, coastal erosion hotspots or localities managed within the framework of the updated Coastal Erosion Master Plan. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the National Environmental Policy for the Sustainable Development of Colombia’s Oceanic Spaces and Coastal and Insular Zones, which establishes that the accumulated knowledge of local communities and native populations shall be taken into account—knowledge upon which the development of innovations and practices must be built—as well as the adoption of measures that enable the expansion and promotion of the sustainable use and utilization of products and services derived from the natural environment for the benefit of communities, including indigenous peoples, Afro-Colombian communities, fisherfolk, women, and youth, among others. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Disasters |
| Colombia | 7. Patrimonio cultural - SECTOR AMBIENTE Compromiso Climático NDC3A33: Título: Plan de Gestión del Riesgo para el Patrimonio Cultural considerando adaptación al cambio climático Meta de adaptación: A 2030, Formular el Plan de Gestión del Riesgo para el Patrimonio Cultural que contiene las estrategias para el conocimiento, reducción del riesgo y adaptación al cambio climático del Patrimonio cultural. (...) Necesidades de apoyo: 4. Planificación, gobernanza y otros: • Trabajo en territorio y con comunidades negras, afrodescendientes, raizales, palenqueras, Pueblos Indígenas, RROM y campesinos para la formulación del plan. (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: De acuerdo con la guía para la transversalización del enfoque de género del ministerio de las culturas, las artes y los saberes en la cual se resalta la necesidad de abordar las representaciones de las mujeres desde una mirada interseccional e identificar sus contextos considerando que las narrativas son herramientas de transformación y representación social, ambiental y cultural. // 7. Cultural Heritage – ENVIRONMENT SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A33: Title: Cultural Heritage Risk Management Plan, incorporating climate change adaptation Adaptation Goal: By 2030, formulate the Cultural Heritage Risk Management Plan, which outlines strategies for understanding, reducing risk to, and adapting cultural heritage to climate change. (...) Support Needs: 4. Planning, Governance, and Other: • Fieldwork and engagement with Black, Afro-descendant, Raizal, and Palenquero communities, Indigenous Peoples, the Rrom, and peasant communities for the formulation of the plan. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the guidelines for mainstreaming the gender approach issued by the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Knowledge—which underscore the need to address representations of women through an intersectional lens and to identify their specific contexts—recognizing that narratives serve as tools for social, environmental, and cultural transformation and representation. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Other |
| Colombia | 8. Hábitat humano - SECTORES VIVIENDA, AGUA Y SANEAMIENTO BÁSICO Compromiso Climático NDC3A34: Título: Adaptación al cambio climático en instrumentos del sector Vivienda, Ciudad y Territorio Meta Medios de Implementación: Incorporar a 2030 la adaptación al cambio climático en los instrumentos territoriales, a través del desarrollo de lineamientos, herramientas y criterios que orienten la gestión de la adaptación en el sector. (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: Conforme con la guía para la inclusión del enfoque de género para las mujeres en el ciclo de planeación y presupuestación sector vivienda, ciudad y territorio. Tomando en cuenta los enfoques dispuestos en la resolución 0467 22 JUL 2025 la cual plantea que mediante la integración del Enfoque Diferencial, Interseccional, Étnico y Campesino se analizará cómo las diversas condiciones y características de las personas y grupos (sociales, económicas, de género, etarias, étnico-raciales, de discapacidad, de identidad de género, de orientación sexual, pertenencia al campesinado, entre otras) interactúan generando situaciones particulares de vulnerabilidad, exclusión o discriminación en relación con el hábitat y el acceso a servicios // 8. Human Habitat – HOUSING, WATER, AND BASIC SANITATION SECTORS Climate Commitment NDC3A34: Title: Climate Change Adaptation within Instruments of the Housing, City, and Territory Sector Means of Implementation Target: By 2030, incorporate climate change adaptation into territorial instruments through the development of guidelines, tools, and criteria designed to guide adaptation management within the sector. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the guidelines for integrating a gender perspective—specifically regarding women—into the planning and budgeting cycle of the Housing, City, and Territory sector. This approach takes into account the frameworks established in Resolution 0467 (July 22, 2025), which stipulates that, through the integration of Differential, Intersectional, Ethnic, and Peasant-focused approaches, an analysis will be conducted to determine how the diverse conditions and characteristics of individuals and groups (including social, economic, gender, age, ethno-racial, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and peasant affiliation factors, among others) interact to generate specific situations of vulnerability, exclusion, or discrimination in relation to human habitat and access to services. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Infrastructure |
| Colombia | 8. Hábitat humano - SECTOR COMERCIO, INDUSTRIA Y TURISMO Compromiso Climático NDC3A35: Título: Estrategias de adaptación para pequeñas, medianas y grandes empresas Meta de adaptación: Implementar a 2030, como mínimo en el diez por ciento (10%) de las empresas de los sectores priorizados con estrategias, acciones o proyectos de adaptación al cambio climático, abarcando pequeñas, medianas y grandes empresas de acuerdo con su nivel de vulnerabilidad. (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: De acuerdo con los compromisos del sector comercio industria y turismo en el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia y con la Resolución 273 de 2021, por medio de la cual se crea el Comité de asuntos de Género y empoderamiento económico de la mujer del Sector Comercio, Industria y Turismo, en la cual se reconoce la necesidad articular esfuerzos en materia de coordinación y medidas dirigidas a promover la igualdad entre los géneros, el empoderamiento económico de la mujer y la eliminación de estereotipos en los diferentes sectores de la economía y que el Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo tiene como objetivo primordial dentro del marco de su competencia formular, adoptar, dirigir y coordinar las políticas generales en materia de desarrollo económico y social del país, estableciendo un modelo de negocio que permite adquirir bienes o contratar servicios de empresas de origen local o que pertenezcan a mujeres o minorías de la población. // 8. Human Habitat – COMMERCE, INDUSTRY, AND TOURISM SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A35: Title: Adaptation Strategies for Small, Medium, and Large Enterprises Adaptation Goal: By 2030, implement climate change adaptation strategies, actions, or projects in at least ten percent (10%) of the enterprises within the prioritized sectors, encompassing small, medium, and large enterprises according to their level of vulnerability. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the commitments of the Commerce, Industry, and Tourism Sector outlined in Colombia’s Gender and Climate Change Action Plan, and pursuant to Resolution 273 of 2021—which established the Committee on Gender Affairs and Women’s Economic Empowerment within the Commerce, Industry, and Tourism Sector—the need is recognized to coordinate efforts regarding coordination and measures aimed at promoting gender equality, women’s economic empowerment, and the elimination of stereotypes across the various sectors of the economy. Furthermore, it is recognized that the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Tourism has, as a primary objective within its scope of competence, the formulation, adoption, direction, and coordination of general policies regarding the country’s economic and social development, including the establishment of a business model that facilitates the procurement of goods or the contracting of services from locally-based enterprises or from enterprises owned by women or population minorities. |
Economic security
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| Colombia | 9. Soberanía y democratización energética - SECTOR MINERO ENERGÉTICO Compromiso Climático NDC3A36: Título: Sistema de seguimiento para la reducción de vulnerabilidades y riesgos climáticos asociados a la energía Meta de adaptación: Al 2035 implementar el Sistema de Monitoreo y evaluación (M&E) del sector minero-energético que permita identificar, reportar y reducir vulnerabilidades climáticas en las cadenas de valor y en los territorios, con acceso público a información bajo el acuerdo de Escazú y articulado al SIIVRA/SNICC. (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: De acuerdo con los compromisos de género del Ministerio de Minas y Energía en el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia; y con los lineamientos de género del sector minero energético los cuales establecen que el Ministerio de Minas y Energía, a través de la Oficina de Asuntos Ambientales y Sociales o quien haga sus veces, cada 6 meses realizará el seguimiento del avance en la implementación de las actividades a cargo de las diferentes dependencias del Ministerio y las entidades adscritas, las empresas, gremios, con base en los indicadores propuestos en los lineamientos de género. Niñez: Aporta a DI5, DI6, DI9, DI12, JE2, JE3 y JE9 al anticipar riesgos que comprometen servicios básicos clave para niños, niñas y adolescentes (salud, educación, agua, protección), y garantiza la participación de los niños, niñas, adolescentes y jóvenes y su derecho a acceso a información. Fundamento de análisis: El sistema M&E permite decisiones preventivas sobre la infraestructura y operación energética, arculando información climática, riesgo y juscia energéca, y fortaleciendo la rendición de cuentas pública. // 9. Energy Sovereignty and Democratization – MINING AND ENERGY SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A36: Title: Monitoring system for the reduction of climate vulnerabilities and risks associated with energy Adaptation Goal: By 2035, implement a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) System for the mining and energy sector that enables the identification, reporting, and reduction of climate vulnerabilities within value chains and territories, ensuring public access to information in accordance with the Escazú Agreement and articulated with the SIIVRA/SNICC. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the gender commitments of the Ministry of Mines and Energy as outlined in Colombia’s Gender and Climate Change Action Plan; and with the gender guidelines of the mining and energy sector, which establish that the Ministry of Mines and Energy—through the Office of Environmental and Social Affairs (or its designated successor)—shall, every six months, monitor progress on the implementation of activities assigned to the Ministry’s various departments, its affiliated entities, companies, and industry associations, based on the indicators proposed in said gender guidelines. Childhood: Contributes to DI5, DI6, DI9, DI12, JE2, JE3, and JE9 by anticipating risks that could compromise basic services critical to children and adolescents (health, education, water, and protection), and by guaranteeing the participation of children, adolescents, and youth, as well as their right to access information. Analytical Basis: The M&E system facilitates preventive decision-making regarding energy infrastructure and operations by integrating information on climate, risk, and energy justice, while simultaneously strengthening public accountability. |
Participation and leadership
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Energy |
| Colombia | 9. Soberanía y democratización energética - SECTOR MINERO ENERGÉTICO Compromiso Climático NDC3A37: Título: Sistema de alertas tempranas de variabilidad climática para garantizar la operación del sector y la prestación de servicios energéticos esenciales Meta de adaptación: Al 2035, operativizar una herramienta de predicción climática intra-estacional e interanual, orientada a anticipar impactos de la variabilidad en la operación sectorial y en la prestación de servicios energéticos esenciales, a través de un sistema de alertas tempranas para la toma de decisiones de corto plazo (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A38: Título: Trayectorias adaptativas subsectoriales fundamentadas en la reducción de la vulnerabilidad de las cadenas de valor Meta de adaptación: Al 2035, diseñar e implementar trayectorias adaptativas específicas para los subsectores de energía, hidrocarburos y minería, fundamentadas en análisis de riesgo climático y orientadas a reducir la vulnerabilidad de las cadenas de valor y de los territorios asociados, con hitos intermedios de implementación al 2030 y alineación con el Plan Energético Nacional y el PIGCCS sectorial. (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A39: Título: Fortalecimiento de la capacidad de Trasmisión Nacional y Regional para reducir la vulnerabilidad energética territorial Meta de adaptación: Al 2035, implementar medidas de adaptación basadas en el análisis de riesgo por cambio climático para aumentar la capacidad adaptativa del Sistema de Transmisión Nacional (STN) y los Sistemas de Transmisión regional (STR) del sistema interconectado nacional, así como en la red de distribución, con hitos intermedios de implementación a 2030 y alineación con el Plan de Expansión de Trasmisión. (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A40: Título: Trayectorias adaptativas territorializadas para el confort climático en áreas urbanas y rurales Meta de adaptación: Al 2035, diseñar e implementar trayectorias adaptativas territorializadas orientadas a la reducción de la vulnerabilidad del hábitat humano y al mejoramiento del confort climático en áreas urbanas y rurales priorizadas, articulando los instrumentos de gestión climática territoriales con los sectoriales, con hitos intermedios de implementación al 2030. (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A41: Título: Comercialización y Regulación para una Transición con Criterios de Justicia Energética Meta de adaptación: Al 2035, formular, promover e implementar reformas regulatorias orientadas a reducir la vulnerabilidad energética de las poblaciones y al mejoramiento de las necesidades básicas de energía en contextos de cambio climático, con hitos intermedios de implementación al 2030. (...) Compromiso Climático NDC3A42: Título: Energización creciente para la reducción de vulnerabilidades energéticas en contextos de cambio climático Meta de adaptación: Al 2035, promover e implementar acciones para una energización creciente orientada a atender la demanda de energía en contextos de cambio climático y reducir la vulnerabilidad energética de las poblaciones, los bienes y servicios fundamentales y los renglones productivos para la trasformación social y económica de los territorios, con hitos intermedios de implementación al 2030. (...) Enfoques y elementos transversales: (...) Género: De acuerdo con los compromisos de género del Ministerio de Minas y Energía en el Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia; con los lineamientos de género del sector minero energético los cuales establecen que el Ministerio de Minas y Energía en los cuales se reconoce que es fundamental integrar enfoque de género en todos los niveles de la gestión del cambio climático y, enfatiza que, para lograr los objetivos climáticos de largo plazo, es vital promover la participación plena, genuina e igualitaria de la mujer, así como su liderazgo en las políticas y medidas referidas al clima en los ámbitos nacional y local; y con el PIGCCME a 2050 del sector de Minas y Energía de acuerdo con las líneas estratégicas para aportar activamente al desarrollo de políticas transversales nacionales, tales como equidad de género, transición justa laboral, entre otros. // 9. Energy Sovereignty and Democratization – MINING AND ENERGY SECTOR Climate Commitment NDC3A37: Title: Early warning system for climate variability to ensure sector operations and the provision of essential energy services Adaptation Goal: By 2035, operationalize an intra-seasonal and inter-annual climate prediction tool, aimed at anticipating the impacts of climate variability on sector operations and the provision of essential energy services, through an early warning system designed to support short-term decision-making (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A38: Title: Sub-sectoral adaptive pathways grounded in reducing the vulnerability of value chains Adaptation Goal: By 2035, design and implement specific adaptive pathways for the energy, hydrocarbons, and mining sub-sectors—grounded in climate risk analysis and aimed at reducing the vulnerability of associated value chains and territories—including intermediate implementation milestones by 2030 and alignment with the National Energy Plan and the sectoral PIGCCS. (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A39: Title: Strengthening National and Regional Transmission capacity to reduce territorial energy vulnerability Adaptation Goal: By 2035, implement adaptation measures—based on climate change risk analysis—to enhance the adaptive capacity of the National Transmission System (STN) and the Regional Transmission Systems (STR) within the national interconnected system, as well as the distribution network; this includes intermediate implementation milestones by 2030 and alignment with the Transmission Expansion Plan. (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A40: Title: Territorialized Adaptive Pathways for Climate Comfort in Urban and Rural Areas Adaptation Goal: By 2035, design and implement territorialized adaptive pathways aimed at reducing the vulnerability of human habitat and improving climate comfort in prioritized urban and rural areas, by articulating territorial climate management instruments with sectoral ones, with intermediate implementation milestones set for 2030. (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A41: Title: Commercialization and Regulation for a Transition Guided by Energy Justice Criteria Adaptation Goal: By 2035, formulate, promote, and implement regulatory reforms aimed at reducing the energy vulnerability of populations and improving access to basic energy needs within the context of climate change, with intermediate implementation milestones set for 2030. (...) Climate Commitment NDC3A42: Title: Incremental Electrification for the Reduction of Energy Vulnerabilities in the Context of Climate Change Adaptation Goal: By 2035, promote and implement actions for incremental electrification aimed at meeting energy demand within the context of climate change and reducing the energy vulnerability of populations, fundamental goods and services, and productive sectors, in support of the social and economic transformation of territories, with intermediate implementation milestones set for 2030. (...) Cross-cutting Approaches and Elements: (...) Gender: In accordance with the gender commitments of the Ministry of Mines and Energy as outlined in Colombia’s Gender and Climate Change Action Plan; and with the gender guidelines of the mining-energy sector—which recognize that integrating a gender perspective at all levels of climate change management is fundamental, and emphasize that, to achieve long-term climate objectives, it is vital to promote the full, genuine, and equal participation of women, as well as their leadership in climate-related policies and measures at both the national and local levels; and in alignment with the Mining and Energy Sector’s PIGCCME 2050, in accordance with strategic guidelines designed to actively contribute to the development of cross-cutting national policies—such as gender equity and a just labor transition—among others. |
Participation and leadership
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| Colombia | 3. Fomento de capacidades - Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible MEDIO DE IMPLEMENTACIÓN: Integrar a 2030 en las políticas, normatividad e instrumentos de cambio climático, procesos de formación, capacitación y sensibilización con enfoque en derechos humanos, diferencial, étnico de género e intergeneracional. Entidades responsables: Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible Aliados estratégicos: Corporaciones autónomas regionales, Gobernaciones, Ministerio de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo, Ministerio de Hacienda y Crédito Público, Ministerio de Minas y Energía, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Ministerio de Transporte, Ministerio de Vivienda, Ciudad y Territorio, Ministerio del Interior Alcance: Se espera que los instrumentos de cambio climático generados o actualizados incorporen la educación, formación y sensibilización desde la educación formal, educación para el trabajo y el desarrollo humano y educación informal con enfoque de derechos humanos, diferencial, de género e intergeneracional. // 3. Capacity Building – Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION: By 2030, integrate into climate change policies, regulations, and instruments—training, capacity-building, and awareness-raising processes with a focus on human rights, as well as differential, ethnic, gender, and intergenerational perspectives. Responsible Entities: Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development Strategic Partners: Regional Autonomous Corporations, Departmental Governments, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Ministry of Mines and Energy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Housing, City and Territory, Ministry of the Interior Scope: It is expected that the climate change instruments generated or updated will incorporate education, training, and awareness-raising—spanning formal education, education for work and human development, and informal education—with a focus on human rights, as well as differential, gender, and intergenerational perspectives. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Colombia | 3. Fomento de capacidades - Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible MEDIO DE IMPLEMENTACIÓN: Estrategia de fortalecimiento de capacidades en resiliencia climática para mujeres cuidadoras del ambiente Entidades responsables: Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible - DCCGR Aliados estratégicos: Ministerios Sectoriales Alcance: Fortalecimiento de capacidades en resiliencia climática de mujeres cuidadoras del ambiente priorizadas en zonas rurales de Colombia desde una perspectiva interseccional. Esta medida a incluir en la NDC hace parte del Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia (PAGCC-CO) formulado en 2023 y se reportará mediante los mecanismos de verificación del compromiso de implementación el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2022-2026, el CONPES 4080 de 2022 y el CONPES 4143. Aporte acción climática MITIGACIÓN: Protección y expansión de sumideros de carbono: Las mujeres, como gestoras directas de recursos naturales en sus territorios, pueden implementar acciones de conservación y restauración que mantienen y aumentan las reservas de carbono en bosques y suelos. Promoción de sistemas agroforestales y agrícolas bajos en carbono: La estrategia puede fomentar práccas agroecológicas que las mujeres aplican en sus parcelas, las cuales secuestran carbono y reducen el uso de insumos con alta huella de carbono. Transmisión de conocimientos para la mitigación: Las mujeres formadas actúan como multiplicadoras de técnicas y tecnologías bajas en carbono dentro de sus comunidades y familias. ADAPTACIÓN: Fortalecimiento de la seguridad hídrica y alimentaria: Las mujeres, responsables principales de la provisión de agua y alimentos, adquieren capacidades para gestionar estos recursos de manera más eficiente y resiliente ante la variabilidad climática. Incremento de la capacidad adaptativa de los hogares: Con mejores conocimientos, las mujeres diversifican los medios de vida, implementan huertas resilientes y toman decisiones que reducen la vulnerabilidad de sus familias a los impactos climáticos. Conservación de la agrobiodiversidad y los conocimientos tradicionales: La estrategia valora y fortalece el papel de las mujeres como guardianas de semillas nativas y técnicas ancestrales de adaptación, que son un seguro frente al cambio climático. Reducción de la vulnerabilidad diferencial de las mujeres: El enfoque interseccional aborda las cargas específicas que el cambio climático impone a las mujeres y les provee herramientas concretas para enfrentarlas, lo que construye una resiliencia más equitativa. // 3. Capacity Building – Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION: Strategy for strengthening climate resilience capacities among women environmental stewards Responsible Entities: Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development – DCCGR Strategic Partners: Sectoral Ministries Scope: Strengthening climate resilience capacities among prioritized women environmental stewards in rural areas of Colombia, approached from an intersectional perspective. This measure—to be included in the NDC—forms part of Colombia’s Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (PAGCC-CO), formulated in 2023. It will be reported through the verification mechanisms established for the implementation commitments outlined in the National Development Plan 2022–2026, CONPES 4080 of 2022, and CONPES 4143. Contribution to Climate Action MITIGATION: Protection and expansion of carbon sinks: As direct managers of natural resources within their territories, women can implement conservation and restoration actions that maintain and increase carbon stocks in forests and soils. Promotion of low-carbon agroforestry and agricultural systems: The strategy can foster agroecological practices applied by women on their plots—practices that sequester carbon and reduce the use of inputs with a high carbon footprint. Knowledge transfer for mitigation: Trained women act as multipliers of low-carbon techniques and technologies within their communities and families. ADAPTATION: Strengthening water and food security: As primary providers of water and food, women acquire the capacities to manage these resources more efficiently and with greater resilience in the face of climate variability. Increasing household adaptive capacity: Armed with enhanced knowledge, women diversify their livelihoods, establish climate-resilient gardens, and make decisions that reduce their families' vulnerability to climate impacts. Conservation of Agrobiodiversity and Traditional Knowledge: The strategy values and strengthens the role of women as guardians of native seeds and ancestral adaptation techniques, which serve as a safeguard against climate change. Reduction of Women's Differential Vulnerability: The intersectional approach addresses the specific burdens that climate change imposes on women and provides them with concrete tools to cope with them, thereby building more equitable resilience. |
Economic security
Unpaid care work
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Colombia | 3. Fomento de capacidades - Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible MEDIO DE IMPLEMENTACIÓN: Diseñar e implementar estrategias comunitarias para el cuidado y protección de las mujeres, las comunidades y los territorios Indígenas frente a impactos asociados al cambio y la variabilidad climáticas en el marco de la transición justa Entidades responsables: Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible Aliados estratégicos: Gobiernos Indígenas Alcance: Se busca aumentar las estrategias de cuidado y protección consolidadas como acción de justicia climática y transición justa. Aporte acción climática MITIGACIÓN: Protección de sumideros de carbono mediante gestión comunitaria: Las estrategias de cuidado territorial que implementen las comunidades ayudarán a conservar bosques, turberas y otros ecosistemas que almacenan carbono. Fortalecimiento de economías locales bajas en carbono: Las estrategias comunitarias promoverán medios de vida sostenibles que no dependan de actividades de alta huella de carbono. Prevención de emisiones por degradación ambiental: La protección comunitaria del territorio evitará la degradación de ecosistemas que conllevaría la liberación de gases de efecto invernadero. Transmisión de conocimientos para la mitigación: Las mujeres formadas actúan como multiplicadoras de técnicas y tecnologías bajas en carbono dentro de sus comunidades y familias. ADAPTACIÓN: Fortalecimiento de la seguridad hídrica y alimentaria: Las mujeres, responsables principales de la provisión de agua y alimentos, adquieren capacidades para gestionar estos recursos de manera más eficiente y resiliente ante la variabilidad climática. Incremento de la capacidad adaptativa de los hogares: Con mejores conocimientos, las mujeres diversifican los medios de vida, implementan huertas resilientes y toman decisiones que reducen la vulnerabilidad de sus familias a los impactos climáticos. Conservación de la agrobiodiversidad y los conocimientos tradicionales: La estrategia valora y fortalece el papel de las mujeres como guardianas de semillas nativas y técnicas ancestrales de adaptación, que son un seguro frente al cambio climático. Reducción de la vulnerabilidad diferencial de las mujeres: El enfoque interseccional aborda las cargas específicas que el cambio climático impone a las mujeres y les provee herramientas concretas para enfrentarlas, lo que construye una resiliencia más equitativa. // 3. Capacity Building – Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION: Design and implement community-based strategies for the care and protection of women, communities, and Indigenous territories against impacts associated with climate change and variability, within the framework of a just transition. Responsible Entities: Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development Strategic Partners: Indigenous Governments Scope: The aim is to expand care and protection strategies that are established as actions for climate justice and a just transition. Contribution to Climate Action MITIGATION: Protection of carbon sinks through community-based management: Territorial care strategies implemented by communities will help conserve forests, peatlands, and other carbon-storing ecosystems. Strengthening of low-carbon local economies: Community-based strategies will promote sustainable livelihoods that do not rely on activities with a high carbon footprint. Prevention of emissions resulting from environmental degradation: Community-based protection of the territory will prevent ecosystem degradation that would otherwise lead to the release of greenhouse gases. Knowledge transfer for mitigation: Trained women act as multipliers of low-carbon techniques and technologies within their communities and families. ADAPTATION: Strengthening of water and food security: Women—who are primarily responsible for providing water and food—acquire the skills to manage these resources more efficiently and with greater resilience in the face of climate variability. Increasing household adaptive capacity: Armed with enhanced knowledge, women diversify their livelihoods, establish climate-resilient gardens, and make decisions that reduce their families' vulnerability to climate impacts. Conservation of agrobiodiversity and traditional knowledge: The strategy values and strengthens the role of women as guardians of native seeds and ancestral adaptation techniques, which serve as a safeguard against climate change. Reducing women's differential vulnerability: The intersectional approach addresses the specific burdens that climate change imposes on women and provides them with concrete tools to cope with them, thereby building more equitable resilience. |
Unpaid care work
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Colombia | 3. Fomento de capacidades - Ministerio de Educación Nacional MEDIO DE IMPLEMENTACIÓN: Actualizar a 2030 la Política Nacional de Educación Ambiental para resignificarla y evidenciar en ella la importancia y premura del abordaje en todos los niveles de la educación del cambio climático, de acuerdo con el contexto nacional, regional y local, desde los enfoques de derechos humanos, intergeneracional, diferencial, étnico y de género. Entidades responsables: Ministerio de Educación Nacional Aliados estratégicos: Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible Alcance: Busca actualizar y resignificar la Política Nacional de Educación Ambiental y normatividad asociada para el desarrollo de acciones de mejora que permitan evidenciar la importancia y premura del cambio climático de acuerdo con su realidad a nivel global, nacional y local y su integralidad con la gestión ambiental. (...) MEDIO DE IMPLEMENTACIÓN: Incorporar a 2030 el cambio climático en la educación formal (preescolar, básica primaria y secundaria, media y superior) y en la educación para el trabajo y el desarrollo humano, en el marco de la autonomía institucional, como componente esencial para promover una transición justa, desde los enfoques en derechos humanos, intergeneracional, diferencial, étnico y de género. Entidades responsables: Ministerio de Educación Nacional Aliados estratégicos: Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, Agencias de cooperación internacionales, ONGs Alcance: Busca incorporar de manera efectiva el cambio climático en la educación formal y la educación para el trabajo y el desarrollo humano, brindando ciclos continuos de formación en cambio climático desde los primeros años de vida hasta la edad productiva para fortalecer la conciencia pública y las capacidades especialmente de los jóvenes, formadores, futuros profesionales y tomadores de decisión. // 3. Capacity Building – Ministry of National Education MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION: By 2030, update the National Environmental Education Policy to redefine its significance and to highlight therein the importance and urgency of addressing climate change at all levels of education—in accordance with national, regional, and local contexts—based on human rights, intergenerational, differential, ethnic, and gender approaches. Responsible Entities: Ministry of National Education Strategic Partners: Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development Scope: Seeks to update and redefine the National Environmental Education Policy and associated regulations to facilitate the development of improvement actions that demonstrate the importance and urgency of climate change—in light of its global, national, and local reality—and its integral connection with environmental management. (...) MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION: By 2030, incorporate climate change into formal education (preschool, primary and secondary basic education, upper secondary, and higher education) and into education for work and human development—within the framework of institutional autonomy—as an essential component for promoting a just transition, based on human rights, intergenerational, differential, ethnic, and gender approaches. Responsible Entities: Ministry of National Education Strategic Partners: Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, International Cooperation Agencies, NGOs Scope: Seeks to effectively incorporate climate change into formal education and education for work and human development by providing continuous cycles of climate change education—spanning from early childhood through the productive years—in order to strengthen public awareness and capacities, particularly among youth, educators, future professionals, and decision-makers. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Other |
| Colombia | 3. Fomento de capacidades - Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar MEDIO DE IMPLEMENTACIÓN: Fortalecer las capacidades institucionales y técnicas del ICBF para la prevención y gestión de afectaciones emocionales derivadas del cambio climático en la primera infancia, infancia, adolescencia, juventud, familias y comunidades, mediante la implementación de estrategias comunitarias de cuidado, resiliencia y adaptación, integrando enfoques diferenciales, interculturales y de derechos en la preparación y respuesta a emergencias climáticas. Entidades responsables: Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF) Aliados estratégicos: Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social, UNICEF, Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo, Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, Secretarías de salud territoriales Alcance: Esta medida tiene como alcance central fortalecer el bienestar psicosocial y las capacidades de afrontamiento emocional de la primera infancia, infancia, adolescencia, juventud, familias y comunidades en territorios prioritarios con alta incidencia de emergencias climáticas como La Guajira, Chocó, Bolívar, Meta, Putumayo, Arauca, Norte de Santander y Vichada. Bajo el liderazgo del ICBF y en articulación con MinSalud, UNICEF, la UNGRD y las secretarías de salud territoriales, la medida busca integrar protocolos de atención psicosocial en los programas de atención integral del ICBF, hogares múltiples y centros de protección, con un horizonte de implementación 2025-2030. El enfoque se basa en diálogos interculturales que articulan los saberes comunitarios con las competencias técnicas del sector salud, para abordar específicamente afectaciones como la eco ansiedad, el estrés post-desastre y el duelo ecológico derivados de desplazamientos ambientales, pérdida de medios de vida y desastres climáticos. El alcance operativo se concreta mediante dos estrategias principales: 1) La creación de espacios seguros y pedagógicos en los entornos del ICBF donde niñas, niños, adolescentes y comunidades puedan expresar y transformar sus emociones frente a la crisis climática, fomentando la resiliencia comunitaria y el cuidado mutuo; y 2) El desarrollo conjunto de capacidades institucionales, guías y rutas específicas de atención psicosocial para emergencias climáticas, articuladas con los sistemas de alerta temprana y respuesta humanitaria. Como resultado central, se espera la incorporación formal de los aspectos de salud mental climática en los planes institucionales del ICBF y en la política pública sectorial, dando cumplimiento a los compromisos de Colombia frente a la Observación General N.º 26 del Comité de los Derechos del Niño y garantizando el derecho al bienestar emocional en contextos de crisis ambiental. Aporte acción climática MITIGACIÓN: Fortalecimiento de la acción climática colectiva: La salud mental comunitaria es un requisito para la organización social efectiva, que es la base de iniciativas de mitigación a nivel local. Reducción de conductas de alto consumo: El abordaje de la ecoansiedad y la promoción del bienestar psicosocial pueden disminuir las conductas de consumo compensatorio, que generan altas emisiones, al fomentar una relación más sana con el entorno. Construcción de capital social para la transición: Una comunidad resiliente emocionalmente está mejor preparada para asumir los cambios conductuales y tecnológicos que requiere la descarbonización, sin caer en respuestas de negación o resistencia. ADAPTACIÓN: Fortalecimiento de la resiliencia psicosocial: Las capacidades de afrontamiento emocional permiten a las personas y comunidades recuperarse con mayor rapidez y eficacia después de un evento climático extremo, lo que es uno de los pilares de la adaptación. Prevención de un proceso cíclico de vulnerabilidad: La atención a la salud mental climáca evita que el trauma o el estrés crónico derivado de un desastre debiliten permanentemente la capacidad de una comunidad para planificar y responder a futuras amenazas. Protección del tejido social: Al fomentar el cuidado mutuo y los espacios seguros, la medida preserva las redes de apoyo comunitario, que son la primera línea de defensa y adaptación ante cualquier crisis. Facilitación de la toma de decisiones adaptativas: Una persona o comunidad con salud mental preservada puede evaluar mejor los riesgos, planificar a largo plazo y participar de forma proactiva en la implementación de medidas de adaptación, en lugar de reaccionar desde el pánico o la parálisis. // 3. Capacity Building – Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION: To strengthen the institutional and technical capacities of the ICBF for the prevention and management of emotional impacts stemming from climate change among early childhood populations, children, adolescents, youth, families, and communities, through the implementation of community-based strategies for care, resilience, and adaptation—integrating differential, intercultural, and rights-based approaches into the preparation for and response to climate emergencies. Responsible Entities: Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) Strategic Partners: Ministry of Health and Social Protection, UNICEF, National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD), Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Territorial Health Secretariats Scope: The central scope of this measure is to strengthen the psychosocial well-being and emotional coping capacities of early childhood populations, children, adolescents, youth, families, and communities in priority territories with a high incidence of climate emergencies—specifically La Guajira, Chocó, Bolívar, Meta, Putumayo, Arauca, Norte de Santander, and Vichada. Under the leadership of the ICBF and in coordination with the Ministry of Health (MinSalud), UNICEF, the UNGRD, and the territorial health secretariats, this measure seeks to integrate psychosocial care protocols into the ICBF’s comprehensive care programs, *Hogares Múltiples* (Multiple-Family Homes), and protection centers, with an implementation horizon spanning 2025–2030. The approach is grounded in intercultural dialogues that bridge community knowledge with the technical expertise of the health sector, specifically addressing impacts such as eco-anxiety, post-disaster stress, and ecological grief resulting from environmental displacement, loss of livelihoods, and climate-related disasters. The operational scope is realized through two primary strategies: 1) The creation of safe and educational spaces within ICBF settings where children, adolescents, and communities can express and process their emotions regarding the climate crisis, thereby fostering community resilience and mutual care; and 2) The joint development of institutional capacities, guidelines, and specific psychosocial care pathways for climate emergencies, integrated with early warning and humanitarian response systems. As a central outcome, the formal incorporation of climate mental health aspects into the ICBF’s institutional plans and sectoral public policy is expected; this fulfills Colombia’s commitments regarding General Comment No. 26 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and guarantees the right to emotional well-being in contexts of environmental crisis. Contribution to Climate Action MITIGATION: Strengthening Collective Climate Action: Community mental health is a prerequisite for effective social organization, which serves as the foundation for local-level mitigation initiatives. Reduction of High-Consumption Behaviors: Addressing eco-anxiety and promoting psychosocial well-being can reduce compensatory consumption behaviors—which generate high emissions—by fostering a healthier relationship with the environment. Building Social Capital for the Transition: An emotionally resilient community is better prepared to embrace the behavioral and technological changes required for decarbonization without succumbing to denial or resistance. ADAPTATION: Strengthening Psychosocial Resilience: Emotional coping capacities enable individuals and communities to recover more quickly and effectively following an extreme weather event—a key pillar of adaptation. Preventing a Cyclical Process of Vulnerability: Addressing climate mental health prevents trauma or chronic stress resulting from a disaster from permanently undermining a community's capacity to plan for and respond to future threats. Protecting the Social Fabric: By fostering mutual care and safe spaces, this measure preserves community support networks, which serve as the first line of defense and adaptation in the face of any crisis. Facilitating Adaptive Decision-Making: An individual or community with preserved mental health can better assess risks, plan for the long term, and proactively participate in the implementation of adaptation measures, rather than reacting out of panic or paralysis. |
Unpaid care work
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| Colombia | 3. Fomento de capacidades - Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar MEDIO DE IMPLEMENTACIÓN: Fortalecer el liderazgo y la participación significativa de niñas, niños, adolescentes y jóvenes en la acción climática nacional y territorial mediante acciones institucionales e intersectoriales, articuladas en una red intergeneracional de participación climática. Entidades responsables: Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF) Aliados estratégicos: Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible, Ministerio de Educación, Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales – IDEAM, Corporaciones Autónomas Regionales (CARS), Departamento Nacional de Planeación, PNUD, UNICEF, Ministerio del Interior, Consejos de Juventud, Gobiernos locales Alcance: El alcance de esta acción se orienta a consolidar procesos de liderazgo y participación significativa de niñas, niños, adolescentes y jóvenes en la acción climática nacional y territorial, tomando como plataforma principal la estrategia “Atrapasueños” del ICBF y articulando con espacios existentes como Consejos de Juventud, mesas ambientales locales y procesos del Ministerio de Educación. Su implementación se desarrollará en los territorios priorizados del ICBF durante el horizonte 2025-2030, mediante una coordinación interinstitucional que involucra a MinAmbiente, Corporaciones Autónomas Regionales, PNUD y UNICEF para el diseño de rutas de formación, y con gobiernos locales para incluir la participación juvenil en los Planes Territoriales de Adaptación al Cambio Climático. El proceso formativo se fundamentará en enfoques lúdicos, pedagógicos y artisticos, se desarrollarán competencias verdes, pensamiento crítico y conciencia ambiental, evitando la creación de nuevas estructuras y fortaleciendo los espacios participatuvos existentes. Como resultado principal, se espera la creación de una Red Nacional de niñas, niños, adolescentes y jóvenes por la Acción Climática, su formación integral en derechos ambientales y liderazgo comunitario, y su participación efectiva en los mecanismos de gobernanza del SISCLIMA, comités regionales y foros internacionales, materializando así el principio de justicia intergeneracional y los compromisos de la Observación General Nº 26 de la ONU. Este mecanismo y sus alcances se articularan dentro de la Estrategia Nacional de Educación, Formación y Sensibilización de Públicos en Cambio Climático y harán parte de su Plan de Acción y Seguimiento. Aporte acción climática MITIGACIÓN: Formación de ciudadanos para una economía baja en carbono: La educación climática desarrolla las competencias y la conciencia necesarias para que las nuevas generaciones impulsen y se adapten a los cambios tecnológicos, productivos y de consumo que exige la descarbonización. Promoción de estilos de vida sostenibles: El enfoque lúdico y pedagógico incentiva la adopción de hábitos de movilidad, consumo y alimentación con menor huella de carbono desde edades tempranas, creando una cultura de mitigación. Fortalecimiento de la veeduría ciudadana climática: Una juventud formada y organizada puede ejercer un control social más efectivo sobre el cumplimiento de las políticas y metas de mitigación a nivel territorial y sectorial. ADAPTACIÓN: Fortalecimiento de la resiliencia comunitaria con base local: Los jóvenes líderes actúan como multiplicadores de conocimiento, llevando información sobre riesgos climáticos y prácticas de adaptación a sus hogares y comunidades, fortaleciendo las capacidades de respuesta local. Innovación en soluciones adaptativas: La participación de jóvenes en la gobernanza climática introduce perspectivas frescas, creatividad y mayor apertura a soluciones innovadoras y basadas en la naturaleza para los desafios de adaptación territorial. Construcción de capital social intergeneracional: La red de participación climática conecta el conocimiento ancestral de los mayores con la energía y la visión a largo plazo de los jóvenes, creando un tejido social más fuerte y cohesionado para enfrentar crisis climáticas. Preparación de la fuerza laboral para la adaptación: La formación en "competencias verdes" prepara a los jóvenes para los empleos del futuro en sectores críticos para la adaptación, como la gestión del agua, la agricultura resiliente y la restauración ecológica. // 3. Capacity Building – Colombian Institute of Family Welfare MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION: To strengthen the leadership and meaningful participation of children, adolescents, and youth in national and territorial climate action through institutional and intersectoral initiatives, articulated within an intergenerational network for climate participation. Responsible Entities: Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) Strategic Partners: Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Ministry of Education, Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (IDEAM), Regional Autonomous Corporations (CARs), National Planning Department, UNDP, UNICEF, Ministry of the Interior, Youth Councils, Local Governments. Scope: The scope of this initiative is aimed at consolidating processes for the leadership and meaningful participation of children, adolescents, and youth in national and territorial climate action. It utilizes the ICBF’s “Atrapasueños” (Dreamcatchers) strategy as its primary platform and integrates with existing spaces—such as Youth Councils, local environmental roundtables, and Ministry of Education initiatives. Implementation will take place in ICBF-prioritized territories during the 2025–2030 timeframe. This will be achieved through interinstitutional coordination involving the Ministry of Environment, Regional Autonomous Corporations, UNDP, and UNICEF to design training pathways, as well as coordination with local governments to incorporate youth participation into Territorial Climate Change Adaptation Plans. The educational process will be grounded in playful, pedagogical, and artistic approaches, fostering the development of green competencies, critical thinking, and environmental awareness, while avoiding the creation of new structures and instead strengthening existing participatory spaces. The primary expected outcome is the establishment of a National Network of Children, Adolescents, and Youth for Climate Action. This includes their comprehensive training in environmental rights and community leadership, as well as their effective participation in SISCLIMA governance mechanisms, regional committees, and international forums—thereby giving concrete expression to the principle of intergenerational justice and the commitments outlined in UN General Comment No. 26. This mechanism and its scope will be integrated into the National Strategy for Education, Training, and Public Awareness regarding Climate Change, and will form part of its Action and Monitoring Plan. Contribution to Climate Action MITIGATION: Educating citizens for a low-carbon economy: Climate education fosters the competencies and awareness necessary for new generations to drive—and adapt to—the technological, production, and consumption shifts required by decarbonization. Promoting sustainable lifestyles: A playful and pedagogical approach encourages the adoption of mobility, consumption, and dietary habits with a lower carbon footprint from an early age, thereby cultivating a culture of mitigation. Strengthening citizen oversight of climate action: An educated and organized youth population can exercise more effective social oversight regarding compliance with mitigation policies and targets at both territorial and sectoral levels. ADAPTATION: Strengthening community resilience through local action: Young leaders act as knowledge multipliers, disseminating information on climate risks and adaptation practices within their homes and communities, thereby bolstering local response capabilities. Innovation in adaptive solutions: Youth participation in climate governance introduces fresh perspectives, creativity, and a greater openness to innovative and nature-based solutions for territorial adaptation challenges. Building intergenerational social capital: The climate participation network bridges the ancestral knowledge of elders with the energy and long-term vision of the youth, forging a stronger, more cohesive social fabric for confronting climate crises. Preparing the workforce for adaptation: Training in "green skills" prepares young people for the jobs of the future in sectors critical to adaptation—such as water management, resilient agriculture, and ecological restoration. |
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| Colombia | 4. Transparencia climática - Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible MEDIO DE IMPLEMENTACIÓN: Sistema de información de impactos diferenciales del Cambio Climático Entidades responsables: Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible - DCCGR Aliados estratégicos: IDEAM, DANE y DNP Alcance: Reportes bienales sobre los impactos diferenciales del cambio climático con perspectiva de género e interseccional. Esta medida hace parte del Plan de Acción de Género y Cambio Climático de Colombia (PAGCC-CO) formulado en 2023 y se reportará mediante los mecanismos de verificación del compromiso de implementación el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2022-2026, el CONPES 4080 de 2022 y el CONPES 4143 de 2025 Aporte acción climática MITIGACIÓN: Diseño de políticas de mitigación con justicia social: La información sobre impactos diferenciales permite que las medidas de reducción de emisiones consideren las necesidades específicas de grupos vulnerables, evitando que amplíen las desigualdades existentes. Identificación de co-beneficios sociales en la mitigación: El sistema ayuda a priorizar acciones de mitigación que, además de reducir emisiones, generen beneficios tangibles en salud, empleo o calidad de vida para poblaciones en situación de vulnerabilidad. Fortalecimiento de la gobernanza inclusiva: La data desagregada facilita la participación informada de mujeres, grupos étnicos y comunidades locales en la planificación de la acción climática, lo que aumenta la legitimidad y efectividad de las políticas de mitigación. ADAPTACIÓN: Identificación de vulnerabilidades específicas: Los reportes bienales permiten detectar con precisión cómo el cambio climático afecta de manera distinta a mujeres, grupos étnicos, personas con discapacidad y otros grupos, según su contexto territorial y socioeconómico. Focalización de recursos de adaptación: La información interseccional orienta la inversión pública hacia las poblaciones y territorios con mayor nivel de vulnerabilidad, maximizando el impacto de las acciones de adaptación. Monitoreo de la efectividad de las políticas: El sistema permite evaluar si las medidas de adaptación logran reducir efectivamente las brechas de vulnerabilidad entre diferentes grupos poblacionales. Empoderamiento de grupos vulnerables: El acceso a información oficial sobre impactos diferenciales fortalece la capacidad de incidencia de estas poblaciones en la planificación del desarrollo territorial y la gestión del riesgo climático. // 4. Climate Transparency – Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development MEANS OF IMPLEMENTATION: Information System on Differential Impacts of Climate Change Responsible Entities: Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development – DCCGR Strategic Partners: IDEAM, DANE, and DNP Scope: Biennial reports on the differential impacts of climate change, incorporating a gender and intersectional perspective. This measure is part of Colombia’s Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (PAGCC-CO), formulated in 2023. Reporting on its implementation will be conducted through the verification mechanisms established by the National Development Plan 2022–2026, CONPES 4080 of 2022, and CONPES 4143 of 2025. Contribution to Climate Action MITIGATION: Design of socially just mitigation policies: Information regarding differential impacts enables emission reduction measures to take into account the specific needs of vulnerable groups, thereby preventing such measures from exacerbating existing inequalities. Identification of social co-benefits in mitigation: The system helps prioritize mitigation actions that—in addition to reducing emissions—generate tangible benefits in terms of health, employment, or quality of life for vulnerable populations. Strengthening inclusive governance: Disaggregated data facilitates the informed participation of women, ethnic groups, and local communities in climate action planning, thereby enhancing the legitimacy and effectiveness of mitigation policies. ADAPTATION: Identification of specific vulnerabilities: The biennial reports enable the precise detection of how climate change affects women, ethnic groups, persons with disabilities, and other groups in distinct ways, depending on their specific territorial and socioeconomic contexts. Targeting of adaptation resources: Intersectional information guides public investment toward the populations and territories exhibiting the highest levels of vulnerability, thereby maximizing the impact of adaptation actions. Monitoring of policy effectiveness: The system allows for the evaluation of whether adaptation measures are effectively succeeding in reducing vulnerability gaps among different population groups. Empowerment of Vulnerable Groups: Access to official information regarding differential impacts strengthens the advocacy capacity of these populations in territorial development planning and climate risk management. |
Gender mainstreaming
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| Cuba | 1.3.4. Transicion justa (...) A nivel nacional, la vision de la transicion justa de Cuba abarca la generacion de beneficios para toda la sociedad, con particular atencion a consideraciones de genero, y a la ninez y la juventud, e incluyendo el desarrollo de empleos verdes y la consideracion del enfoque de "una Salud" entre otras visiones adoptadas de manera consistente con nuestro modelo socialista de desarrollo (...) **EN: 1.3.4. Just Transition (...) At the national level, Cuba's vision of a just transition encompasses the generation of benefits for all of society, with particular attention to gender considerations, and to children and youth, including the development of green jobs and the consideration of the "One Health" approach, among other visions adopted in a manner consistent with our socialist development model (...) |
Economic security
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| Cuba | 1.3.4. Transicion justa (...) A nivel nacional, la vision de la transicion justa de Cuba abarca la generacion de beneficios para toda la sociedad, con particular atencion a consideraciones de genero, y a la ninez y la juventud, e incluyendo (...) * Reducir las brechas de desigualdades territoriales y sociales que se experimentan en el enfrentamiento al cambio climatico considerandolas en el diseno de politicas publicas y en las estrategias de adaptacion y mitigacion. * Fortalecer el conocimiento, la sensibilización, y la participación de la población ante los impactos negativos del cambio climático, que permita incrementar la resiliencia, la participación ciudadana, la equidad y la responsabilidad de la sociedad cubana, fomentando su estudio en los diferentes niveles de enseñanza. **EN: 1.3.4. Just Transition (...) At the national level, Cuba's vision of a just transition encompasses the generation of benefits for all of society, with particular attention to gender considerations, and to children and youth, and including (...) * Reduce the territorial and social inequality gaps experienced in addressing climate change by considering them in the design of public policies and in adaptation and mitigation strategies. * Strengthen knowledge, awareness, and participation of the population in the face of the negative impacts of climate change, which will increase resilience, citizen participation, equity, and responsibility in Cuban society, promoting its study at different educational levels. |
Gender mainstreaming
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| Cuba | 4. 4. Contribuciones en mitigación: 4.5. Reduccion de emisiones de GEI a traves del tratamiento de residuales de la industria de la cana de azucar. Breve descripcion de la contribucion: En el marco de la revalorizacion de la industria de la cana de azucar en el contexto actual de cambio climatico y aprovechando las potencialidades de circularidad se propone la reduccion de emisiones a partir del tratamiento de residuos solidos y liquidos en esta industria. En el pais existen 11 destilerias, con emisiones de vinazas contaminantes. Los efluentes van a una laguna de oxidacion sin tratamiento anaerobio. El metano que se produce va directamente a la atmosfera. Se preve que en el periodo 2025- 2030 se preparen las condiciones para el inicio de la implementacion de un programa de tratamiento de residuales. A partir de enero del 2031 se pretende avanzar con el tratamiento de los residuales tratados hasta el 2035. AZCUBA propone reducir el 50 % del potencial de emision de biometano, con el tratamiento anaerobico del residual existente en el ano base generada por 11 destilerias, con emisiones de vinazas contaminantes, que no tienen tratamiento para el destino final de esos desechos. (...) 8. Cobeneficios: Los cobeneficios principales identificados son: Produccion de biofertilizantes, mejoramientos de suelos, incrementos de fuentes de empleo en el ambito rural, uso domestico del biogas, mejoramiento de las condiciones de vida y las familias y la mujer rural. **EN: 4. Contributions to mitigation: 4.5. Reducing GHG emissions through the treatment of sugarcane industry waste. Brief description of the contribution: Within the framework of the revaluation of the sugarcane industry in the current context of climate change and taking advantage of the potential for circularity, we propose reducing emissions through the treatment of solid and liquid waste in this industry. There are 11 distilleries in the country, with emissions of polluting vinasse. The effluents go to an oxidation lagoon without anaerobic treatment. The methane produced goes directly into the atmosphere. It is expected that in the period 2025-2030, the conditions will be prepared for the start of implementation of a waste treatment program. Starting in January 2031, the plan is to advance the treatment of treated waste by 2035. AZCUBA proposes reducing the potential biomethane emissions by 50% through anaerobic treatment of the existing waste generated in the base year by 11 distilleries, which produce polluting vinasse emissions and are not treated for final disposal. (...) 8. Co-benefits: The main co-benefits identified are: biofertilizer production, soil improvements, increased sources of employment in rural areas, domestic use of biogas, and improved living conditions for rural families and women. |
Economic security
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| Ecuador | 4. Componente de Mitigación: 4.1 Descripción del Enfoque Adoptado. (...) La Segunda NDC también contribuye a la implementación del Plan Nacional de Mitigación que no solo persigue la reducción de emisiones, sino que busca reducir la pobreza, disminuir la inequidad y avanzar hacia un desarrollo sostenible en armonía con la naturaleza. Se promueve un modelo de desarrollo competitivo, inclusivo, resiliente y bajo en carbono, en consonancia con los derechos de la naturaleza consagrados en la Constitución. **EN: 4. Mitigation Component: 4.1 Description of the Approach Adopted. (...) The Second NDC also contributes to the implementation of the National Mitigation Plan, which not only seeks to reduce emissions but also seeks to reduce poverty, reduce inequality, and advance toward sustainable development in harmony with nature. It promotes a competitive, inclusive, resilient, and low-carbon development model, in line with the rights of nature enshrined in the Constitution. **The mitigation plan has a social and gender strategy that includes five strategic pillars and seven lines of action targeting women's inclusion. |
Gender mainstreaming
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| Ecuador | 5. Componente de Adaptación – Segunda Comunicación de Adaptación del Ecuador: 5.5 La aplicación de medidas y planes de adaptación, en particular: 5.5.1 Los procesos y resultados obtenidos Un hito en la gestión de la adaptación del cambio climático en Ecuador es la oficialización del Plan Nacional de Adaptación 2023-2027 como un instrumento que orienta y facilita la gestión de la adaptación en el país desde una perspectiva sectorial priorizada en la ENCC (Asentamientos Humanos; Patrimonio Hídrico; Patrimonio Natural; Salud; Sectores Productivos y Estratégicos; y, Soberanía Alimentaria, Agricultura, Ganadería, Acuacultura y Pesca) incluyendo los enfoques transversales. Este primer Plan Nacional de Adaptación al Cambio Climático del Ecuador es un instrumento de política pública que orienta y facilita la gestión de la adaptación en el país desde una perspectiva sectorial y territorial a nivel nacional. Sus objetivos específicos son: * Promover el acceso y uso de la información climática y oceánica histórica y futura. * Facilitar y fomentar la identificación de impactos actuales y futuros del cambio climático mediante análisis de riesgo climático que consideren la utilización de modelos de impacto biofísico. * Orientar la implementación de medidas de adaptación que reduzcan el riesgo climático, fomentando el enfoque de género. * Guiar la incorporación de la adaptación al cambio climático en la planificación del desarrollo y en los presupuestos institucionales a nivel sectorial y local. **EN: 5.5.1 Processes and results achieved A milestone in climate change adaptation management in Ecuador is the officialization of the 2023-2027 National Adaptation Plan as an instrument that guides and facilitates adaptation management in the country from a sectoral perspective prioritized in the National Climate Change Framework (ENCC) (Human Settlements; Water Heritage; Natural Heritage; Health; Productive and Strategic Sectors; and Food Sovereignty, Agriculture, Livestock, Aquaculture, and Fisheries), including cross-cutting approaches. This first National Climate Change Adaptation Plan in Ecuador is a public policy instrument that guides and facilitates adaptation management in the country from a sectoral and territorial perspective at the national level. Its specific objectives are: * Promote access to and use of historical and future climate and ocean information. * Facilitate and encourage the identification of current and future climate change impacts through climate risk analyses that consider the use of biophysical impact models. * Guide the implementation of adaptation measures that reduce climate risk, promoting a gender perspective. * Guide the incorporation of climate change adaptation into development planning and institutional budgets at the sectoral and local levels. |
Gender mainstreaming
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| Ecuador | 8. Ejes transversales: género, intergeneracionalidad e interculturalidad: 8.1 Abordaje de los enfoques de género, intergeneracionalidad e interculturalidad en la Segunda NDC (...) Las Contribuciones Determinadas a Nivel Nacional en el Ecuador y sus procesos de formulación han resaltado acciones para transversalizar el enfoque de género como un compromiso demostrado por el Estado en la Primera NDC y su implementación. Este proceso ha dejado aprendizajes relevantes para el avance del país en la materia y con base en esta experiencia anterior, la Segunda NDC ha fortalecido los alcances de este enfoque en una participación efectiva de mujeres en espacios de territorialización, buscando también la paridad de género, la accesibilidad a los beneficios de las iniciativas de adaptación y mitigación y la garantía de que el lenguaje en este instrumento es inclusivo y respetuoso con las identidades de género. **EN: 8. Cross-cutting themes: gender, intergenerationality, and interculturality: 8.1 Addressing gender, intergenerationality, and interculturality in the Second NDC (...) Ecuador's Nationally Determined Contributions and their formulation processes have highlighted actions to mainstream the gender approach, a commitment demonstrated by the State in the First NDC and its implementation. This process has yielded relevant lessons for the country's progress in this area. Based on this previous experience, the Second NDC has strengthened the scope of this approach through the effective participation of women in territorialization spaces, also seeking gender parity, accessibility to the benefits of adaptation and mitigation initiatives, and ensuring that the language in this instrument is inclusive and respectful of gender identities. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Ecuador | 8. Ejes transversales: género, intergeneracionalidad e interculturalidad: 8.1 Abordaje de los enfoques de género, intergeneracionalidad e interculturalidad en la Segunda NDC (...) Desde las NDC se busca no solo contribuir a disminuir los gases de efecto invernadero y crear resiliencia en la población, sino a que las mujeres sean igualmente beneficiadas que los hombres por las acciones e iniciativas sobre cambio climático, que adquieran más poder de decisión y control sobre los recursos naturales, económicos y culturales y que desarrollen más capacidades de resiliencia y adaptación frente a los impactos y riesgos del cambio climático. **EN: 8. Cross-cutting themes: gender, intergenerationality, and interculturality: 8.1 Addressing gender, intergenerationality, and interculturality in the Second NDC (...) The NDCs seek not only to contribute to reducing greenhouse gases and building resilience in the population, but also to ensure that women benefit equally as much as men from climate change actions and initiatives, gain greater decision-making power and control over natural, economic, and cultural resources, and develop greater resilience and adaptation capacities to the impacts and risks of climate change. |
Economic security
Gender mainstreaming
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| Ecuador | 9. Información de cómo considera la Parte que su Contribución Determinada a Nivel Nacional es justa y ambiciosa a la luz de las circunstancias nacionales: 9.2 Consideraciones de Equidad, incluida una reflexión sobre la equidad (...) Ecuador reconoce que la equidad es un principio fundamental en la lucha contra el cambio climático. Por lo tanto, busca garantizar que los beneficios de las acciones climáticas se distribuyan de manera justa y equitativa, priorizando a los grupos más vulnerables. Se ha trabajado de la mano con los pueblos indígenas, las comunidades afroecuatorianas y las mujeres rurales como grupos particularmente vulnerables a los impactos del cambio climático. Por ello, el país ha desarrollado líneas de acción y medidas para fortalecer su resiliencia y promover su participación en la toma de decisiones. **EN: 9. Information on how the Party considers its Nationally Determined Contribution to be fair and ambitious in light of national circumstances: 9.2 Equity Considerations, including a reflection on equity (...) Ecuador recognizes that equity is a fundamental principle in the fight against climate change. Therefore, it seeks to ensure that the benefits of climate action are distributed fairly and equitably, prioritizing the most vulnerable groups. Ecuador has worked closely with Indigenous peoples, Afro-Ecuadorian communities, and rural women, as groups particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Therefore, the country has developed lines of action and measures to strengthen their resilience and promote their participation in decision-making. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Ecuador | 2. Procesos de planificación: 2.5 Medida en la que se ha basado la preparación de su contribución determinada a nivel nacional en los resultados del balance mundial (...) Así también, el país ejecuta el proyecto Pago por Resultados REDD+ Ecuador (2020-2026) que busca contribuir a la implementación del PA REDD+ a través de acciones que promueven la transversalización del enfoque de derechos, interculturalidad y género, además de cumplir con los lineamientos establecidos en el alcance nacional de salvaguardas. (p. 43) 4. Componente de Mitigación: 4.4.1 Descripción general de la meta (...) Las líneas de acción de la Segunda NDC para el sector USCUSS fueron construidas tomando como base el Plan de Acción REDD+ “Bosques para el Buen Vivir” (2016-2025), que es una PolíticaNacional para contribuir a la mitigación del cambio climático en el sector forestal, a través de la reducción de la deforestación y degradación de los bosques mediante la conservación, manejo forestal sostenible y la optimización de otros usos de suelo para reducir la presión sobre los bosques, aportando de esta forma a la reducción de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero asociadas. Gracias a esta estrategia, el país se ha consolidado como líder en REDD+ con un enfoque nacional que contempla la implementación de medidas y acciones REDD+ dentro y fuera de bosques, transitando exitosamente por sus tres fases y logrando acceder a fondos de cooperación no reembolsable del Fondo Verde del Clima (GCF), Fondo Mundial para el Medio Ambiente (GEF), además, de Pagos por Resultados REDD+ bajo mecanismos financieros de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (CMNUCC) y otros. En este contexto, Ecuador considera al Plan de Acción REDD+ como una política nacional principal para contribuir a las metas nacionales de reducción de emisiones en el sector USCUSS, desde una visión multisectorial y a través de un trabajo mancomunado con Gobiernos Autónomos Descentralizados, Pueblos y Nacionalidades Indígenas, Comunidades Locales, sector privado, financiero y otros representantes de la sociedad civil. Por ello, se ha previsto un proceso participativo de actualización del Plan en 2025. Una vez finalizado y oficializado, sus metas serán incorporadas en la Segunda NDC a través de los mecanismos establecidos por la Autoridad Ambiental Nacional. (pgs. 56-57) **EN: 2. Planning processes: 2.5 Extent to which the preparation of its nationally determined contribution has been based on the results of the global stocktake (...) Likewise, the country is implementing the Payment for Results REDD+ Ecuador project (2020-2026), which seeks to contribute to the implementation of the REDD+ AP through actions that promote the mainstreaming of the rights-based, intercultural, and gender approach, in addition to complying with the guidelines established in the national scope of safeguards. (p. 43) 4. Mitigation Component: 4.4.1 General description of the goal (...) The lines of action of the Second NDC for the USCUSS sector were built on the REDD+ Action Plan "Forests for Good Living" (2016-2025), which is a National Policy to contribute to climate change mitigation in the forestry sector by reducing deforestation and forest degradation through conservation, sustainable forest management, and the optimization of other land uses to reduce pressure on forests, thus contributing to the reduction of associated greenhouse gas emissions. Thanks to this strategy, the country has established itself as a leader in REDD+ with a national approach that includes the implementation of REDD+ measures and actions inside and outside forests, successfully moving through its three phases and gaining access to non-reimbursable cooperation funds from the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Global Environment Facility (GEF), as well as REDD+ Results-Based Payments under financial mechanisms of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and others. In this context, Ecuador considers the REDD+ Action Plan a key national policy to contribute to national emission reduction goals in the USCUSS sector, from a multisectoral perspective and through joint work with Decentralized Autonomous Governments, Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities, Local Communities, the private sector, the financial sector, and other representatives of civil society. Therefore, a participatory process to update the Plan has been planned for 2025. Once finalized and formalized, its goals will be incorporated into the Second NDC through the mechanisms established by the National Environmental Authority. (pgs. 56-57) |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Land use and forestry |
| Ecuador | 4. Componente de Mitigación: 4.4 Alcance y cobertura: 4.4.1 Descripción general de la meta (...) Con miras a incrementar la ambición climática y reducir las brechas de grupos vulnerables, se incentiva que las líneas de acción incorporen de manera transversal, en medida de sus capacidades, los enfoques de género, intergeneracionalidad e interculturalidad. (...) (p. 57) 4.6 El modo en que las acciones de mitigación contribuyen a otros marcos y/o convenciones A manera de ejemplo, las acciones que conforman la Segunda NDC en el Sector Energía, construidas de forma participativa, impulsan el desarrollo y consumo de energía renovable, promueven la movilidad sostenible y la implementación de acciones de eficiencia energética que en conjunto contribuyen a garantizar el acceso universal a servicios energéticos asequibles, fiables y modernos (ODS 7), aumentar considerablemente el uso eficiente de los recursos hídricos en todos los sectores (ODS 6), así como sistemas de transporte sostenibles (ODS 11), utilizar recursos con mayor eficacia y promoviendo la adopción de tecnologías limpias (ODS 12), modernizar la infraestructura energética (ODS 9) y asegurar la participación plena y efectiva de mujeres y hombres (ODS 5). (pg. 68) **EN: 4. Mitigation Component: 4.4 Scope and Coverage: 4.4.1 General description of the goal (...) With a view to increasing climate ambition and reducing gaps for vulnerable groups, lines of action are encouraged to incorporate gender, intergenerational, and intercultural approaches in a cross-cutting manner, to the extent of their capabilities. (...) (pg. 57) 4.6 How mitigation actions contribute to other frameworks and/or conventions For example, the actions that comprise the Second NDC in the Energy Sector, constructed in a participatory manner, promote the development and consumption of renewable energy, promote sustainable mobility, and the implementation of energy efficiency actions that together contribute to ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services (SDG 7), significantly increasing the efficient use of water resources across all sectors (SDG 6), as well as sustainable transportation systems (SDG 11), using resources more efficiently and promoting the adoption of clean technologies (SDG 12), modernizing energy infrastructure (SDG 9), and ensuring the full and effective participation of women and men (SDG 5). (pg. 68) **The lines of action refer specifically to the following sectors: energy, industrial processes, land use, land use change and forestry, and waste. See Tables 2 and 3 (pgs. 55 - 56). |
Gender mainstreaming
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Mitigation | Multisectoral |
| Ecuador | 5. Componente de Adaptación – Segunda Comunicación de Adaptación del Ecuador: 5.3 Prioridades, estrategias, políticas, planes, objetivo y medidas nacionales de adaptación Desde la perspectiva de adaptación, el objetivo específico que se persigue con la Segunda NDC de Ecuador es contribuir, a escala nacional y subnacional, con los esfuerzos globales de incrementar la capacidad de adaptación, promover la resiliencia al clima y reducir el riesgo ante los efectos adversos del cambio climático, en un contexto de equidad, desarrollo sostenible y erradicación de la pobreza, respetando el principio de responsabilidades comunes pero diferenciadas, y en concordancia con las capacidades del país. La Contribución Determinada a Nivel Nacional será progresiva y se implementará mediante un enfoque participativo y transparente, basado en la realidad nacional y tomando en cuenta aspectos como: * La necesidad de reducir las brechas de género exacerbadas por el cambio climático. * La incidencia de la adaptación sobre grupos de atención prioritaria. * La necesidad de construir políticas, normativas, acuerdos ministeriales y documentos que promuevan la conservación y recuperación de los recursos naturales. * La necesidad de información científica con suficiente rigor. * La consideración de conocimientos tradicionales/ancestrales de actores locales. (pgs. 83-84) (...) Con miras a incrementar la ambición climática y reducir las brechas de grupos vulnerables, se incentiva que las medidas de adaptación incorporen de manera transversal, en función de sus capacidades, los enfoques de género, intergeneracionalidad e interculturalidad. (p.87) **EN: 5. Adaptation Component – Ecuador's Second Adaptation Communication: 5.3 National adaptation priorities, strategies, policies, plans, objectives, and measures From an adaptation perspective, the specific objective pursued by Ecuador's Second NDC is to contribute, at the national and subnational levels, to global efforts to increase adaptive capacity, promote climate resilience, and reduce the risk of the adverse effects of climate change, within a context of equity, sustainable development, and poverty eradication, respecting the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and in accordance with the country's capabilities. The Nationally Determined Contribution will be progressive and will be implemented through a participatory and transparent approach, based on the national reality and taking into account aspects such as: * The need to reduce gender gaps exacerbated by climate change. * The impact of adaptation on priority groups. * The need to develop policies, regulations, ministerial agreements, and documents that promote the conservation and recovery of natural resources. * The need for scientific information with sufficient rigor. * Consideration of the traditional/ancestral knowledge of local actors. (pp. 83-84) (...) With a view to increasing climate ambition and reducing gaps for vulnerable groups, adaptation measures are encouraged to incorporate gender, intergenerational, and intercultural approaches across the board, based on their capacities. (p. 87) |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Ecuador | 5. Componente de Adaptación – Segunda Comunicación de Adaptación del Ecuador: 5.3 Prioridades, estrategias, políticas, planes, objetivo y medidas nacionales de adaptación En este sentido la Segunda NDC de Ecuador 2026-2035, alineada al Plan Nacional de Adaptación, propone las siguientes medidas con un enfoque sectorial: SALUD 1. Implementar un modelo territorial para el manejo integral de vectores que se adapta a las condiciones propias de cada lugar y a las amenazas medioambientales producidas por el cambio y la variabilidad climática, que se compone de medidas ajustadas para reducir el riesgo climático y fortalecer los procesos de adaptación tanto en la población como en el sistema para el servicio integral de salud. 1.1. Reforzar la capacidad de respuesta sanitaria ante situaciones vinculadas con la presencia de enfermedades sensibles al clima. 1.2. Promover la planificación, diseño, edificación y mantenimiento de infraestructuras sanitarias nuevas y repotenciar la infraestructura existente contemplando variables climáticas presentes y futuras para que sean resilientes al clima. 1.3. Fortalecer los sistemas de alerta temprana, que permitan la generación de estrategias de promoción, prevención, vigilancia, control y respuesta a enfermedades sensibles al clima. 1.4. Implementar estrategias de manejo integrado de vectores, considerando los escenarios de variabilidad climática. 1.5. Impulsar el mapeo de amenazas y vulnerabilidades a la salud por los efectos del cambio climático. 5. Adaptation Component – Second Adaptation Communication of Ecuador: 5.3 National adaptation priorities, strategies, policies, plans, objectives and measures In this regard, Ecuador's Second NDC 2026-2035, aligned with the National Adaptation Plan, proposes the following measures with a sectoral approach: HEALTH 1. Implement a territorial model for comprehensive vector management that adapts to the conditions of each location and the environmental threats produced by climate change and variability. This model is composed of tailored measures to reduce climate risk and strengthen adaptation processes in both the population and the comprehensive health service system. 1.1. Strengthen health response capacity to situations associated with the presence of climate-sensitive diseases. 1.2. Promote the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of new health infrastructure and upgrade existing infrastructure, considering current and future climate variables to ensure climate resilience. 1.3. Strengthen early warning systems to enable the development of strategies for promoting, preventing, monitoring, controlling, and responding to climate-sensitive diseases. 1.4. Implement integrated vector management strategies, considering climate variability scenarios. 1.5. Promote the mapping of health threats and vulnerabilities due to the effects of climate change. **According to ILO data (2024), there are more than two men for every one woman employed in the healthcare sector in Ecuador, meaning that measures aimed at improving climate preparedness in the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
Health
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Adaptation | Health |
| Eswatini | 3.1.2 Energy – Clean Cooking Solutions Sector: Energy Outcome: Universal Access to Clean and Efficient Cooking Solutions for Health, Equity and Climate Action. Target (Gases covered) : 72.19 ktCO2eq - Efficient cooking; 11.54ktCO2eq - Clean Cooking; Total: 83.74 ktCO2eq CO2, CH4 and N2O Actions planned: *Promote a large-scale transition from traditional biomass and inefficient cooking technologies to clean and energy-efficient alternatives country-wide, with a 50% reduction in the share of inefficient cooking technologies by 2035. *100% access to affordable clean modern energy for cooking at household-level by 2035. **Expanding access to clean and efficient household energy in Eswatini is likely to benefit women by easing unpaid care burdens and improving health through safer, more sustainable cooking and energy solutions. |
Unpaid care work
Health
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Eswatini | 4.1 Disaster Risk Reduction Sector: Disaster Risk Management Outcome: Climate risk management strengthened to avert and minimize economic and non-economic losses, safeguarding climate resilient communities and livelihoods. Target: Limit economic losses from climate-related events to no more than 3% of GDP in any given year by 2035. Actions planned: *Enactment of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Bill and operationalization of a DRM Fund (e.g. use of Climate Disaster Risk Finance Instruments).; *Establishment of a Disaster Risk Management Information System (DRMIS) for the collection, analysis, sharing, and use of disaster-related data across sectors and regions and damage & loss tracking.; *Update and revise risk and hazard maps and collect data through research for informed risk reduction.; *Develop an inclusive multi hazard early warning system covering all sectors with climate hazard monitoring, ensuring that women, children and people with disabilities are included in early warning systems, evacuation protocols, and public consultations.; *Modernise meteorological services to improve access to high quality weather data and support risk assessments.; *Build capacity to monitor climate and disaster risks within relevant institutions including capacity building of communities.; *Promote chiefdom-based and inclusive disaster risk management by empowering local actors (especially women, youth and marginalized groups) to assess risks, co-design solutions, and implement adaptive measures, including nature-based solutions and integration of indigenous knowledge systems. |
Economic security
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Disasters |
| Eswatini | 4.2 Agriculture Sector: Agriculture Outcome: 1. Enhanced resilience of the agricultural sector to climate risks through adoption of climate-smart practices, thereby increasing its contribution to food security and sustainable income generation, particularly for women, youth, persons with disabilities, and any marginalized producers. 2. Improved and equitable livelihoods, food security, sovereignty and resilience for all - especially women, youth, and marginalized groups — through sustainable resource use, fair and inclusive market access, and stronger risk management systems. Target 1.Climate-related shocks do not reduce agricultural yields by more than 15% annually by 2035. 2.Number of people facing acute food insecurity is less than 5% by 2035. Actions planned Outcome 1: *Converting flood irrigation systems to water efficient systems and adopt water saving practices to increase water availability, equity and security. *Promote climate-resilient irrigation expansion for rainfed farms by prioritizing the deployment of high-efficiency systems in vulnerable agro-ecological zones. *Supporting development of on-farm water harvesting (including small earth dams, ferro-cement tanks, underground tanks, tie-ridges) and move to more efficient technologies for intensive farming methods to improve food security. *Develop enterprises that will utilise invasive species for economic value and agriculture byproducts to reduce GHGs. *Diversifying from heavy water consuming crops varieties to drought tolerant commercial crops (e.g. cultivars), trees and small livestock. *Developing sustainable utilization and management of rangeland practices to reduce GHG emission with support from women and youth. *Strengthening Integrated Pest Management Systems (IPMS) to enhance pest surveillance, support climate-responsive early warning mechanisms and reduce reliance on chemical controls through ecological and locally adapted approaches. *Ensuring compliance with biosafety protocols in GMO use through systematic monitoring, with the aim of preventing biodiversity degradation and minimizing ecological risks. *Promoting solar powered irrigation systems to overcome high energy running costs of irrigation. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Eswatini | 4.2 Agriculture Sector: Agriculture Outcome: 1.Enhanced resilience of the agricultural sector to climate risks through adoption of climate-smart practices, thereby increasing its contribution to food security and sustainable income generation, particularly for women, youth, persons with disabilities, and any marginalized producers. 2.Improved and equitable livelihoods, food security, sovereignty and resilience for all - especially women, youth, and marginalized groups — through sustainable resource use, fair and inclusive market access, and stronger risk management systems. Target 1.Climate-related shocks do not reduce agricultural yields by more than 15% annually by 2035. 2.Number of people facing acute food insecurity is less than 5% by 2035. Actions planned Outcome 2: *Restoring, protecting and managing degraded land for adaptation benefits and mitigation co-benefits. *Conduct fish surveys in degraded areas and restock depleted fish stocks. *Developing an inclusive integrated early warning and timely response climate information management system to help farmers and value chain actors take informed decision and improve their adaptive capacity using the DRMIS. *Facilitating production of diverse foods, biofortification and fortification to meet the nutritional needs of the population in consultation with key stakeholders. *Improving alternative nutrition security with special focus on all vulnerable groups. *Upscaling and replicating climate smart agriculture for improved food security, nutrition security and higher income. *Strengthening institutional arrangements to enforce sustainable agroecosystem adaptation practices. *Managing alien/invasive species using the National Invasive Alien Plant Species Strategy to enhance productivity of rangeland, riparian areas, and preservation of endemic species. *Building the capacities and support communities towards diversification of livelihoods to alleviate the economic burden on women. *Intensifying post-harvest loss reduction through crop and food preservation and processing to increase availability of food. *Promoting healthy eating and healthy lifestyles in line with adaptation needs. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Eswatini | 4.3 Health Sector: Health Outcome: 1.National health system maintains continuity and quality of essential services during climate-related shocks. 2. Communities in Eswatini demonstrate enhanced human health resilience through strengthened systems, adaptive capacity, and integrated risk management, effectively minimizing the adverse impacts of extreme weather events (e.g., floods, droughts, heatwaves) and slow-onset events (e.g., vector-borne disease shifts, malnutrition) on population health and well-being. Target 1. Ensure 80% of health facilities remain operational during climate-related disasters by 2035, through resilient infrastructure (e.g. renewable energy and water storage) and emergency preparedness. 2. Reduce climate-related mortality (from heatwaves, floods, and vector-borne diseases) by 50% by 2035 compared to 2026 baseline. Actions planned Outcome 1 *Mainstreaming climate change into the national health policies and other strategic documents. *Strengthening climate-informed disease control programs and surveillance systems using climate services to target vector control. *Improving and integrating the health management information system with other systems from relevant sectors to achieve a centralized Monitoring Review and Verification (MRV) system. *Strengthening the inclusiveness, preparedness and resilience of the health sector to respond to climate related emergencies and illnesses through preparedness plans and programs (e.g. supply risk management). *Promoting capacity building through research and development, education, awareness, and training in climate change related issues for health sector. *Mainstreaming gender responsive climate policies and emphasize special efforts to support vulnerable groups (women, youth, and children) in climate change adaptation efforts within the health sector. *Upgrade of Health Care Facilities to be low-carbon and climate resilient, including use of solar PV back-ups. Outcome 2 *Strengthening institutional capacity of healthcare workers on the adverse impacts of climate change on human health and service delivery. *Educating and informing the public of the needed measures to protect health from the adverse impacts of climate change. *Adopting sustainable climate smart technologies to enhance the resilience of communities to the adverse effects of climate change in the health sector. *Financing health actions to address inequities and climate related vulnerabilities. *Using co-benefits from mitigation measures for health sector air pollution reduction, clean technologies in waste and wastewater management, energy, etc. |
Health
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Adaptation | Health |
| Eswatini | 4.5 Water Sanitation and Hygiene Sector: Water Sanitation and Hygiene Outcome: Enhanced climate resilience and adaptive capacity of all communities and households by ensuring sustainable, equitable, and safely managed WASH services. Target: 100% access to basic water supply by 2035 Actions planned *Finalize and operationalize the National Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Masterplan for the continued development of potable water schemes. *Strengthen governance and coordination of WASH activities to promote resilience against climate change (e.g. capacity building in WASH regulation, monitoring, water reuse option, non-revenue water). *Assess sustainable water supply options beyond 2030 through conducting water assessments/studies to identify potable water supply sources, opportunities, and constraints with a climate lens. *Secure and climate proof water infrastructure including through developing resilient/ climate proof WASH infrastructure to increase community resilience and boost adaptive capacity. **This measure has a universal target of 100% access to water by 2035. As primary providers of domestic labour, women would likely see their care burdens reduced through these measures, which improve access to and management of household water for drinking, cooking, and hygiene. |
Unpaid care work
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Eswatini | 4.6 Ecosystems and Biodiversity Sector: Ecosystems and Biodiversity Outcome: The resilience and adaptive capacity of ecosystems are enhanced through the scaled-up protection, restoration and the sustainable management of ecological infrastructure to conserve biodiversity integrity and support community livelihoods with the active participation of women, youth and other vulnerable groups. Target By 2035, effectively conserve 174,000 ha terrestrial and inland water ecosystems and restore 150,000 ha of Eswatini's degraded terrestrial and inland water ecosystems to enhance biodiversity, ecological health, and ecosystem services, ensuring connectivity and integrity. Actions planned *Finalise and gazette Draft Forestry Bill by 2030. *Amend the National Trust Commission Act of 1973 by 2030. *Develop and implement standardized protocols for assessing the impacts of climate actions on biodiversity. *Provide training for decision-makers and practitioners on integrating biodiversity considerations into climate actions. *Increase and strengthen the management of the Protected Area Network to support the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) ambition. *Improving conservation of genetic resources (indigenous trees and land races) *Restoring, protecting and sustainably managing critical ecosystems (e.g. wetlands). *Reduce pressures driving biodiversity loss (deforestation, human settlements) through alternative use interventions to improve carbon sinks and promote eco-tourism. *Manage and control invasive species and ecological pest management. *Conduct research, innovation, and knowledge sharing for income generation through use of tree resources and non-timber forest products (NTFP). *Design and implement a "payment for ecosystem services" programme. *Facilitate disclosure of corporate activities with negative impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity. *Include underrepresented groups in the governance and management of Ecosystems and Protected areas. *Capacity building for the integration of stronger climate adaptation elements into project Environmental Assessments. |
Economic security
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Biodiversity and ecosystems |
| Eswatini | 5.1.1 Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Sector: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Outcome: Women and vulnerable groups are empowered as central agents of climate resilience through inclusive governance, equitable access to climate resources, services and opportunities, and integrated systems that ensure protection, data-driven decision-making, and responsive service delivery tailored to their diverse needs. Target By 2035, all national climate governance bodies include formal representation of women, and persons with disabilities (and other marginalized groups), who are informed with the skills and capacity to be enabled to advocate and make decisions for gender-just and inclusive programming. Actions planned *Promote the development of gender responsive planning and budgeting tools, training and their application by respective ministries, departments and implementing partners. (...) *Develop gender responsive policies and strategies in natural resource management and disaster risk reduction (...) *Promote the collection and analysis of gender disaggregated data by Ministries, departments and implementing partners to enable identification of gender inequality issues and differentiated impacts in the context of climate change. *Codifying gender and vulnerable groups mandate in climate governance structures and sectoral ministries. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Eswatini | 5.1.1 Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Sector: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Outcome: Women and vulnerable groups are empowered as central agents of climate resilience through inclusive governance, equitable access to climate resources, services and opportunities, and integrated systems that ensure protection, data-driven decision-making, and responsive service delivery tailored to their diverse needs. Target By 2035, all national climate governance bodies include formal representation of women, and persons with disabilities (and other marginalized groups), who are informed with the skills and capacity to be enabled to advocate and make decisions for gender-just and inclusive programming. Actions planned (...) *Enhance capacity-building and participation of women and girls in decision making to facilitate representation of gender issues and finding solutions to gender-differentiated problems |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Eswatini | 5.1.1 Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Sector: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Outcome: Women and vulnerable groups are empowered as central agents of climate resilience through inclusive governance, equitable access to climate resources, services and opportunities, and integrated systems that ensure protection, data-driven decision-making, and responsive service delivery tailored to their diverse needs. Target By 2035, all national climate governance bodies include formal representation of women, and persons with disabilities (and other marginalized groups), who are informed with the skills and capacity to be enabled to advocate and make decisions for gender-just and inclusive programming. Actions planned (...) *Promote equitable access to knowledge and skills training to better prepare for climate impacts and improve adaptive capacity *Build capacity of women on waste management, renewable energy, green entrepreneurship and link them to financing mechanisms. *Support women focused climate financing schemes (grants, loans and savings groups). |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Eswatini | 5.1.2 Youth and Children Sector: Youth and Children Outcome: Meaningful participation and representation of young people in national and local decision-making processes for the low carbon and resilience transition is guaranteed. Target By 2035, ensure that at least 25% representatives in national and local decision-making bodies related to climate change adaptation and mitigation are young people, with focus on equitable representation of young women, marginalised youth and youth from vulnerable communities. Actions planned *Strengthen youth capacity in the formulation of climate policies and project design, supported by representation targets and inclusive consultation mechanisms through capacity enhancement on effective youth inclusion and engagement skills. *Capacitate and support youth with skills to access and manage climate finance, enabling them to lead and participate in income-generating climate actions utilising digital tools, mobile platforms and community-based grant writing. *Implement entrepreneurship programmes focused on: - Energy-efficient technologies and maintenance services; - Climate-smart livestock and urban gardening; -Rainwater harvesting and sustainable apiculture; - Greenhouse systems and agroecological farming; -Agri-processing, water resource management, and industrial efficiency; - Integrated waste management and community-based waste solutions; - Integrate climate resilience and low carbon modules into the national school curricula. *Support school-based climate clubs and youth-led community awareness campaigns on adaptation and mitigation. *Support the creation of youth-led awareness campaigns on climate change adaptation and mitigation, tailored to local contexts and community needs. *Foster youth innovation in climate-smart technologies through: - Provide technical and financial support for research and development.; - Implementation and upscaling of National Innovation Forums *Support youth-driven initiatives in climate-smart resource management, including waste systems, water conservation, and sustainable land use with technical and financial support. |
Economic security
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Ethiopia | 2.4 Adaptation: 2.4.1. Agriculture Access to climate information empowers farmers to make informed decisions and reduces the risk of crop failure. Early‑warning systems and climate services will be strengthened to ensure that farmers and communities have timely information. It is planned to expand the hydro-meteorological networks and weather monitoring systems to enable the government to deliver more accurate forecasts and advisories, which are critical for planning planting dates, managing water resources, and issuing drought or flood warnings. These efforts support plans to expand irrigated agriculture, with irrigated areas projected to increase from 4.3 million hectares in 2025 to 8 million hectares by 2035. Livelihood diversification is another key pillar of adaptation. Ethiopia will continue investing in diversifying income sources such as beekeeping, agro‑processing, ecotourism, and fisheries to reduce dependence on rain‑fed agriculture. Aquaculture and fish production are set to increase markedly over the next decade, reflecting a concerted effort to tap underused water resources and meet growing domestic demand for protein. Importantly, livelihood programmes will have a strong focus on women and youth; targeted support aims to ensure that marginalized groups can benefit from new opportunities. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Ethiopia | 2.4 Adaptation: 2.4.7. Education and Health In addition to that it is planned to increase early warning systems for climate-sensitive diseases from 14 facilities in 2025 to 54 facilities by 2035, and training of at least 200 health professionals and community health workers annually on climate and health linkages. These actions position health facilities as both service hubs and nodes of climate risk surveillance to ensure reliable, low-carbon power, to ensure that essential health services remain uninterrupted and adaptable to climate-related shocks. **Women are likely to benefit from measures targeting community healthworkers because they make up a large share of workers in this group. |
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Adaptation | Health |
| Ethiopia | 2.4 Adaptation: 2.4.7. Education and Health Education and its infrastructure systems will be designed to enhance adaptive capacity and resilience. In this regard, school infrastructure will prioritize establishing an up-to-date regulatory framework supported by dissemination, training, and enforcement mechanisms to ensure consistent standards. The school infrastructure development will integrate gender-responsive and disability-inclusive guidelines and select locations that are safe from heat stress, flooding, and landslides, and environmentally sustainable. Furthermore, the adoption of renewable and clean energy solutions, such as solar power, will be expanded to enhance energy efficiency and conservation across educational facilities. |
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Adaptation | Health |
| Ethiopia | 2.4 Adaptation: 2.4.8. Equity and Social Inclusion Social inclusion and gender equality are not afterthoughts but integral to Ethiopia’s adaptation effort. The NDC 3.0 mainstreams gender across all actions and explicitly tracks indicators of women’s participation and benefits. The equity and social inclusion aspects are embedded in the NDC 3.0. Adaptation measures seek to reduce burdens on women, such as through closer water points and cleaner cooking, and enhance food security for smallholders. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Ethiopia | 2.4 Adaptation: 2.4.8. Equity and Social Inclusion Women’s participation is prioritized in nurseries, cooperatives, and extension services, while youth are engaged through tree-planting and green job initiatives. Ethiopia’s NDC 3.0 emphasizes that climate action must benefit all citizens, not just a few. Social inclusion is therefore mainstreamed across sectors and programmes. The share of households adopting modern agricultural techniques is expected to increase steadily, with special outreach to women and smallholder farmers. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Ethiopia | 2.4 Adaptation: 2.4.8. Equity and Social Inclusion Social inclusion and gender equality are not afterthoughts but integral to Ethiopia’s adaptation effort. The NDC 3.0 mainstreams gender across all actions and explicitly tracks indicators of women’s participation and benefits. The Equity and social inclusion aspects are embedded in the NDC 3.0. Adaptation measures seek to reduce burdens on women, such as through closer water points and cleaner cooking, and enhance food security for smallholders. (...) Access to clean water reduces the burden on women and girls who traditionally collect water, while climate-smart farming and diversified livelihoods enhance food security and income for female-headed households. Ethiopia views these measures not only as a moral imperative but to mobilize the full talents of its population for climate resilience. |
Unpaid care work
Health
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Ethiopia | 2.4 Adaptation: 2.4.8. Equity and Social Inclusion Children are among the most vulnerable to climate change in Ethiopia. Climate change threatens their rights to health, education, and protection, so their inclusion is a central concern in Ethiopia’s NDC 3.0. Rising temperatures are spreading malaria to new areas, and droughts are worsening malnutrition, which currently affects about one million children. Climate shocks also disrupt education, forcing many children, especially girls, to leave school and increasing the risk of child marriage and exploitation. The NDC3.0 will respond to these by strengthening disease surveillance, expanding vaccination campaigns, and building solar-powered and climate-resilient health facilities. Nutrition programs such as school feeding will be expanded. New water, sanitation, and hygiene systems will be introduced in schools and communities to prevent waterborne diseases and reduce the burden on children. |
Gender-based violence
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Honduras | Salud y Asistencia Sanitaria Meta: A 2035, Honduras habrá impulsado acciones para aumentar la resiliencia del Sector Salud, incorporando la adaptación al cambio climático en los instrumentos estratégicos y fortaleciendo el sistema de monitoreo y prevención de enfermedades sensibles al clima. MEDIDA 25: Para 2030, actualizar y aprobar la Estrategia de Adaptación al Cambio Climático del Sector Salud. Actualizar y aprobar la Estrategia de Adaptación al Cambio Climático del Sector Salud, incorporando nuevos enfoques, prioridades y acciones orientadas a fortalecer la resiliencia del sistema de salud frente a los impactos del cambio climático. Esta estrategia incorpora elementos como la gestión de recursos, la mejora de la infraestructura sanitaria, la formación del personal de salud y la planificación de acciones preventivas y de respuesta. MEDIDA 26: Para 2035, fortalecer el Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia de la Salud (SNVS) mediante la incorporación del módulo de enfermedades sensibles al clima, a fin de implementar acciones de control efectivas. Fortalecer el SNVS mediante la incorporación de un módulo sobre enfermedades sensibles al clima, que permita monitorear, analizar y responder oportunamente a los efectos del cambio climático sobre la salud pública. Esta medida busca mejorar la vigilancia epidemiológica, priorizar acciones preventivas y de control y fortalecer la capacidad de respuesta del sistema sanitario frente al incremento y a la aparición de enfermedades asociadas a eventos climáticos. // Health and Healthcare Goal: By 2035, Honduras will have advanced actions to increase the resilience of the Health Sector by incorporating climate change adaptation into strategic instruments and strengthening the monitoring and prevention system for climate-sensitive diseases. MEASURE 25: By 2030, update and approve the Health Sector Climate Change Adaptation Strategy. Update and approve the Health Sector Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, incorporating new approaches, priorities, and actions aimed at strengthening the health system's resilience in the face of climate change impacts. This strategy incorporates elements such as resource management, the improvement of health infrastructure, the training of health personnel, and the planning of preventive and response actions. MEASURE 26: By 2035, strengthen the National Health Surveillance System (SNVS) by incorporating a module on climate-sensitive diseases, in order to implement effective control actions. Strengthen the SNVS by incorporating a module on climate-sensitive diseases, enabling the timely monitoring, analysis, and response to the effects of climate change on public health. This measure seeks to improve epidemiological surveillance, prioritize preventive and control actions, and strengthen the health system's response capacity regarding the increase and emergence of diseases associated with climatic events. **According to ILO data (2023), there are more than 2.75 women employed for every man in the healthcare sector, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
Health
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Adaptation | Health |
| Honduras | 01. Gobernanza inclusiva y participación ciudadana Acción Estratégica 1 - Institucionalización de mecanismos de participación climática inclusiva. Consolidar espacios permanentes que aseguren la presencia efectiva de los grupos vulnerables en la toma de decisiones. En este marco, la creación y el fortalecimiento de una instancia dentro del CTICC constituyen un paso estratégico para transversalizar estos enfoques en la gobernanza climática, brindando asesoramiento técnico, revisiones normativas, lineamientos y seguimiento participativo de la NDC. Para su sostenibilidad, este grupo debe contar con representatividad equilibrada, procesos democráticos transparentes de designación, recursos dedicados y articulación con sectores gubernamentales. *Grupos de personas o individuos expuestos a un estrés como resultado de los efectos adversos del cambio climático, que no pueden superarlo autónomamente; incluyen a la niñez y juventudes, las mujeres, los Pueblos Originarios y Afrohondureños (POA), los migrantes climáticos, las personas sin acceso a protección social, y las personas que habitan en territorios que no han progresado al mismo ritmo que otras áreas de su región. // 01. Inclusive Governance and Citizen Participation Strategic Action 1 – Institutionalization of Inclusive Climate Participation Mechanisms. Consolidate permanent spaces that ensure the effective presence of vulnerable groups in decision-making processes. Within this framework, the creation and strengthening of a specific body within the CTICC constitute a strategic step toward mainstreaming these approaches into climate governance, providing technical advice, regulatory reviews, guidelines, and participatory monitoring of the NDC. To ensure its sustainability, this group must feature balanced representation, transparent and democratic appointment processes, dedicated resources, and effective coordination with government sectors. *Groups of people or individuals exposed to stress as a result of the adverse effects of climate change, who are unable to overcome it autonomously; these include children and youth, women, Indigenous and Afro-Honduran Peoples (POA), climate migrants, persons without access to social protection, and persons residing in territories that have not progressed at the same pace as other areas within their region. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Honduras | 01. Gobernanza inclusiva y participación ciudadana Acción Estratégica 2 - Desarrollo y generación de información que oriente la adaptación sensible al conflicto. Implementar una herramienta estratégica que garantice que las intervenciones climáticas consideren explícitamente las dinámicas sociales, territoriales, culturales y políticas que pueden generar tensiones o exacerbar conflictos existentes. Esta herramienta debe ofrecer criterios, metodologías y protocolos prácticos que permitan identificar riesgos socioambientales, reconocer actores clave y comprender las relaciones de poder presentes en cada territorio, incorporando enfoques de género, interculturalidad y derechos humanos. Su aplicación permitirá diseñar medidas de adaptación más seguras, pertinentes y sostenibles, promoviendo procesos participativos informados y fomentando la prevención, la transformación y la gestión pacífica de conflictos vinculados al uso de recursos naturales, a la asignación de beneficios y a los impactos diferenciales del cambio climático. Implementarla implica capacitar a equipos técnicos, establecer rutas de coordinación interinstitucional, integrar mecanismos y generar evidencia que retroalimente las políticas públicas y los planes climáticos sectoriales y territoriales. // 01. Inclusive Governance and Citizen Participation Strategic Action 2 – Development and generation of information to guide conflict-sensitive adaptation. Implement a strategic tool to ensure that climate interventions explicitly consider the social, territorial, cultural, and political dynamics that may generate tensions or exacerbate existing conflicts. This tool must provide practical criteria, methodologies, and protocols that enable the identification of socio-environmental risks, the recognition of key stakeholders, and an understanding of the power dynamics present in each territory, while incorporating gender, intercultural, and human rights perspectives. Its application will facilitate the design of safer, more relevant, and sustainable adaptation measures, promoting informed participatory processes and fostering the prevention, transformation, and peaceful management of conflicts linked to natural resource use, benefit allocation, and the differential impacts of climate change. Implementing this action entails training technical teams, establishing inter-institutional coordination channels, integrating relevant mechanisms, and generating evidence to inform public policies as well as sectoral and territorial climate plans. |
Participation and leadership
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Honduras | 01. Gobernanza inclusiva y participación ciudadana Acción Estratégica 3 - Implementación de una estrategia integral de inclusión social y de género. Desarrollar e implementar una estrategia integral de inclusión social, de género y de cambio climático para la implementación de la NDC, orientada a asegurar la participación efectiva y representativa de grupos vulnerables en la toma de decisiones y en la definición de medidas climáticas. La estrategia deberá incluir un diagnóstico de brechas y capacidades diferenciadas; criterios claros de representatividad territorial, cultural y etaria; mecanismos de participación permanente y espacios de diálogo multiactor. Asimismo, deberá contemplar lineamientos para la implementación de la NDC de manera género-responsiva, rutas de articulación interinstitucional, un plan de fortalecimiento de capacidades y acciones orientadas a garantizar el acceso equitativo a tecnologías limpias, empleos verdes, mercados sostenibles y oportunidades de financiamiento climático. La estrategia también deberá incluir un sistema de seguimiento participativo y mecanismos de retroalimentación para asegurar mejoras continuas y una transición climática justa, inclusiva y culturalmente pertinente, que implique el registro de información climática desagregada. // 01. Inclusive Governance and Citizen Participation Strategic Action 3 – Implementation of a comprehensive social and gender inclusion strategy. Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for social, gender, and climate change inclusion to support the implementation of the NDC, aimed at ensuring the effective and representative participation of vulnerable groups in decision-making processes and in the definition of climate measures. The strategy must include an assessment of gaps and differentiated capacities; clear criteria for territorial, cultural, and age-based representativeness; mechanisms for ongoing participation; and multi-stakeholder dialogue spaces. Furthermore, it must incorporate guidelines for implementing the NDC in a gender-responsive manner, pathways for inter-institutional coordination, a capacity-building plan, and actions designed to guarantee equitable access to clean technologies, green jobs, sustainable markets, and climate finance opportunities. The strategy must also include a participatory monitoring system and feedback mechanisms to ensure continuous improvement and a just, inclusive, and culturally relevant climate transition—one that entails the recording of disaggregated climate data. |
Participation and leadership
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Honduras | 02. Acceso equitativo a recursos, tecnologías y financiamiento Acción Estratégica 4 - Diseño e implementación de un protocolo de inversión, de seguridad financiera y de incentivos para la acción climática inclusiva de la NDC. Elaborar un protocolo que oriente la asignación y la gestión de recursos climáticos bajo los principios de equidad, transparencia y eficiencia, asegurando que los beneficios financieros lleguen de manera proporcional a los grupos vulnerables. Estos protocolos deberán incluir lineamientos para la evaluación ex-ante de impactos sociales diferenciados, criterios para la priorización territorial basada en las vulnerabilidades climáticas y socioeconómicas, salvaguardas para prevenir la exclusión y la discriminación, y mecanismos de seguimiento financiero sensibles al género y a la interculturalidad. Asimismo, deberán definir estándares de trazabilidad del uso de fondos, alertas tempranas ante riesgos financieros y procedimientos para garantizar la seguridad económica de los proyectos en contextos de alta vulnerabilidad climática. // 02. Equitable Access to Resources, Technologies, and Financing Strategic Action 4 – Design and implementation of a protocol for investment, financial security, and incentives for inclusive climate action under the NDC. Develop a protocol to guide the allocation and management of climate resources based on principles of equity, transparency, and efficiency, ensuring that financial benefits reach vulnerable groups in a proportional manner. These protocols must include guidelines for the ex-ante assessment of differentiated social impacts; criteria for territorial prioritization based on climate and socioeconomic vulnerabilities; safeguards to prevent exclusion and discrimination; and financial monitoring mechanisms that are sensitive to gender and interculturality. Furthermore, they must define standards for the traceability of fund usage, early warning systems for financial risks, and procedures to guarantee the economic security of projects in contexts of high climate vulnerability. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Honduras | 02. Acceso equitativo a recursos, tecnologías y financiamiento Acción Estratégica 5 - Creación de una instancia de Cambio Climático y Movilidad Humana Establecer una instancia permanente que articule entidades gubernamentales, gobiernos subnacionales, organismos internacionales, la sociedad civil y organizaciones de pueblos originarios y afrohondureños para abordar de manera integral la relación entre el cambio climático y la movilidad humana. Esta instancia deberá desarrollar lineamientos para la prevención, protección y respuesta ante desplazamientos y migraciones inducidos por eventos climáticos, promover la armonización normativa, impulsar protocolos interculturales de atención y fortalecer la coordinación entre los sectores. Además, deberá generar evidencia sobre patrones migratorios climáticos, incorporar enfoques de género y derechos humanos, y formular propuestas para incluir la movilidad humana en los instrumentos de planificación climática y de gestión del riesgo de desastres, así como en los de conflictos. // 02. Equitable Access to Resources, Technologies, and Financing Strategic Action 5 – Creation of a Body on Climate Change and Human Mobility Establish a permanent body to coordinate government entities, subnational governments, international organizations, civil society, and organizations representing Indigenous and Afro-Honduran peoples, in order to comprehensively address the relationship between climate change and human mobility. This body shall develop guidelines for the prevention of, protection against, and response to displacement and migration induced by climate-related events; promote regulatory harmonization; foster intercultural care protocols; and strengthen coordination among sectors. Furthermore, it shall generate evidence regarding climate-related migration patterns, incorporate gender and human rights perspectives, and formulate proposals to integrate human mobility into climate planning and disaster risk management instruments, as well as into conflict management frameworks. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Honduras | 02. Acceso equitativo a recursos, tecnologías y financiamiento Acción Estratégica 6 - Integración de información social desagregada en el Sistema Nacional de Monitoreo de Cambio Climático (SNMCC) Incorporar datos sociales desagregados por sexo, edad, etnia, condición socioeconómica y territorio en los sistemas del SNMCC, en el Marco Nacional de Salvaguardas para Iniciativas de Cambio Climático y en el Submódulo de Salvaguardas Sociales y Ambientales para REDD+, para asegurar una comprensión integral de los impactos diferenciados y los beneficios de la acción climática. Esta integración debe incluir metodologías para la recolección segura y ética de datos, instrumentos estandarizados para su análisis y procedimientos para vincular esta información con la toma de decisiones sectoriales y territoriales. Asimismo, el sistema debe garantizar transparencia activa con enfoque de género, asegurando que la información generada sea accesible, comprensible y oportuna para mujeres, pueblos originarios, juventudes y otros grupos históricamente excluidos, permitiendo monitorear desigualdades, visibilizar aportes y fortalecer la rendición de cuentas en todas las etapas de la acción climática, en concordancia con la acción estratégica 3. // 02. Equitable Access to Resources, Technologies, and Financing Strategic Action 6 – Integration of Disaggregated Social Information into the National Climate Change Monitoring System (SNMCC) Incorporate social data—disaggregated by sex, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and territory—into the SNMCC systems, the National Safeguards Framework for Climate Change Initiatives, and the Social and Environmental Safeguards Sub-module for REDD+, to ensure a comprehensive understanding of the differentiated impacts and benefits of climate action. This integration must include methodologies for the safe and ethical collection of data, standardized instruments for its analysis, and procedures to link this information with sectoral and territorial decision-making. Furthermore, the system must guarantee active transparency with a gender perspective, ensuring that the information generated is accessible, understandable, and timely for women, Indigenous peoples, youth, and other historically excluded groups, thereby enabling the monitoring of inequalities, making contributions visible, and strengthening accountability at all stages of climate action, in accordance with Strategic Action 3. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Honduras | 02. Acceso equitativo a recursos, tecnologías y financiamiento Acción Estratégica 7 - Promoción de instrumentos financieros inclusivos para la resiliencia climática Impulsar la creación, adaptación y difusión de instrumentos financieros inclusivos, como microcréditos verdes, fondos rotatorios comunitarios, seguros paramétricos, garantías para emprendimientos climáticos liderados por mujeres y jóvenes, y bonos de resiliencia, que permitan a poblaciones en situación de vulnerabilidad enfrentar y recuperarse de los impactos climáticos. Esta acción estratégica contempla la articulación con la banca pública y privada, mecanismos innovadores de financiamiento climático, incentivos para in- versiones sostenibles y la integración de salvaguardas sociales que garanticen la accesibilidad, tasas justas y requisitos adecuados a las realidades de los grupos vulnerables. También busca fomentar modelos financieros comunitarios que integren saberes locales con instrumentos modernos de gestión del riesgo climático. // 02. Equitable Access to Resources, Technologies, and Financing Strategic Action 7 – Promotion of Inclusive Financial Instruments for Climate Resilience Promote the creation, adaptation, and dissemination of inclusive financial instruments—such as green microcredits, community revolving funds, parametric insurance, guarantees for climate-related ventures led by women and youth, and resilience bonds—that enable vulnerable populations to cope with and recover from climate impacts. This strategic action entails coordination with public and private banking sectors, innovative climate finance mechanisms, incentives for sustainable investments, and the integration of social safeguards to ensure accessibility, fair interest rates, and requirements tailored to the realities of vulnerable groups. It also seeks to foster community-based financial models that integrate local knowledge with modern climate risk management instruments. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Honduras | 03. Medios de vida y empleos verdes Acción Estratégica 8 - Programas de formación técnica en empleos verdes para grupos vulnerables. Implementar programas especializados de capacitación técnica y certificación laboral orientados a fortalecer las habilidades de los grupos vulnerables para incorporarse a sectores vinculados a la economía verde y a la adaptación climática, en concordancia con la acción estratégica 3. Estos programas deben incluir módulos sobre energías renovables, agroecología y agricultura resiliente, manejo forestal sostenible, bioeconomía, turismo responsable, soluciones basadas en la naturaleza, tecnologías limpias y digitalización. La formación deberá combinar teoría y práctica mediante talleres, escuelas de campo, laboratorios de innovación y pasantías, garantizando la pertinencia cultural, los métodos interculturales y la accesibilidad lingüística. Con ello se busca ampliar las oportunidades laborales, reducir las brechas de género y generacionales y fortalecer la resiliencia económica local. // 03. Livelihoods and Green Jobs Strategic Action 8 – Technical Training Programs in Green Jobs for Vulnerable Groups. Implement specialized technical training and occupational certification programs aimed at strengthening the skills of vulnerable groups to enable their integration into sectors linked to the green economy and climate adaptation, in alignment with Strategic Action 3. These programs must include modules on renewable energy, agroecology and resilient agriculture, sustainable forest management, bioeconomy, responsible tourism, nature-based solutions, clean technologies, and digitalization. The training shall combine theory and practice through workshops, field schools, innovation labs, and internships, ensuring cultural relevance, intercultural methods, and linguistic accessibility. The objective is to expand employment opportunities, reduce gender and generational gaps, and strengthen local economic resilience. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Honduras | 03. Medios de vida y empleos verdes Acción Estratégica 9 - Promoción de estándares laborales sostenibles y seguros con enfoque de equidad. Desarrollar e implementar estándares laborales que garanticen condiciones de trabajo seguras, dignas y alineadas con la transición verde, incorporando principios de equidad de género, interculturalidad y no discriminación. Esto incluye establecer criterios para la prevención de riesgos laborales en actividades sostenibles, garantizar la igualdad salarial, promover la corresponsabilidad en los cuidados, prevenir el hostigamiento y el acoso sexual laboral y asegurar la accesibilidad para personas con discapacidad. La acción debe articularse con entidades laborales, el sector privado y los gobiernos subnacionales, integrando mecanismos de supervisión, certificación y sensibilización que permitan consolidar empleos verdes de calidad y contribuyan a una transición climática justa. // 03. Livelihoods and Green Jobs Strategic Action 9 – Promotion of Sustainable and Safe Labor Standards with an Equity Focus. Develop and implement labor standards that guarantee safe and dignified working conditions aligned with the green transition, incorporating principles of gender equity, interculturality, and non-discrimination. This includes establishing criteria for occupational risk prevention in sustainable activities, ensuring equal pay, promoting shared responsibility for caregiving, preventing workplace harassment and sexual harassment, and ensuring accessibility for persons with disabilities. This action must be coordinated with labor entities, the private sector, and subnational governments, integrating mechanisms for oversight, certification, and awareness-raising that serve to consolidate quality green jobs and contribute to a just climate transition. |
Unpaid care work
Gender-based violence
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Honduras | 03. Medios de vida y empleos verdes Acción Estratégica 10 - Incentivos para emprendimientos verdes liderados por grupos vulnerables. Diseñar y poner en marcha mecanismos de incentivos financieros, fiscales y técnicos dirigidos a emprendimientos verdes liderados por grupos vulnerables, reconociendo su potencial para dinamizar las economías locales y aportar soluciones innovadoras a la crisis climática. Los incentivos pueden incluir fondos concursables, capital semilla, microcréditos verdes, garantías financieras, asistencia técnica especializada y programas de incubación y aceleración. *Grupos de personas o individuos expuestos a un estrés como resultado de los efectos adversos del cambio climático, que no pueden superarlo autónomamente; incluyen a la niñez y juventudes, las mujeres, los Pueblos Originarios y Afrohondureños (POA), los migrantes climáticos, las personas sin acceso a protección social, y las personas que habitan en territorios que no han progresado al mismo ritmo que otras áreas de su región. // 03. Livelihoods and Green Jobs Strategic Action 10 – Incentives for Green Ventures Led by Vulnerable Groups. Design and implement financial, fiscal, and technical incentive mechanisms targeted at green ventures led by vulnerable groups, recognizing their potential to revitalize local economies and provide innovative solutions to the climate crisis. These incentives may include competitive grants, seed capital, green microcredits, financial guarantees, specialized technical assistance, and incubation and acceleration programs. *Groups of people or individuals exposed to stress as a result of the adverse effects of climate change, who are unable to overcome it autonomously; these include children and youth, women, Indigenous and Afro-Honduran Peoples (POA), climate migrants, persons without access to social protection, and persons residing in territories that have not progressed at the same pace as other areas within their region. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Honduras | Medidas de Mitigación - Sector Energía Medida 4 - Al 2030, reducir el consumo de leña por hogar en un 39% respecto al nivel de consumo registrado en 2012. Reducir el consumo de leña mediante la ampliación de programas de estufas mejoradas, priorizando a los hogares vulnerables y el manejo sostenible de la biomasa. // Mitigation Measures – Energy Sector Measure 4 – By 2030, reduce household firewood consumption by 39% relative to the consumption level recorded in 2012. Reduce firewood consumption through the expansion of improved stove programs, prioritizing vulnerable households and the sustainable management of biomass. **The introduction of improved stoves is likely to benefit women by reducing their unpaid care workload—particularly time and physical effort spent collecting firewood and cooking—while improving their health by lowering exposure to indoor air pollution, and enhancing their adaptive capacity through safer, cleaner, and more reliable household energy access. |
Unpaid care work
Health
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Honduras | Meta del componente de pérdidas y daños Para el año 2035, Honduras habrá establecido las bases institucionales, técnicas y financieras para un Mecanismo Nacional de Pérdidas y Daños operativo. Descripción de la meta: Honduras habrá establecido las bases institucionales, técnicas y financieras del Mecanismo Nacional de Pérdidas y Daños, fortaleciendo sus capacidades para comprender, actuar, apoyar y acceder a financiamiento con el fin de evitar, minimizar y afrontar las pérdidas y daños económicos y no económicos asociados con los efectos adversos del cambio climático, tanto por eventos de evolución lenta como por eventos meteorológicos extremos. Acción Estratégica 2 - Evaluación del riesgo climático sectoriales en sitios priorizados. Realizar evaluaciones integrales de riesgo climático para los sectores y sitios priorizados, utilizando escenarios climáticos y socioeconómicos. Estas incorporarán proyecciones de cambio climático, la actualización y elaboración de mapas de amenaza (incluidas inundaciones, deslizamientos y el aumento del nivel del mar) en coordinación con COPECO, así como la construcción de escenarios específicos de amenaza, exposición y vulnerabilidad en sitios piloto. La integración de estos análisis permitirá generar proyecciones cuantitativas de pérdidas y daños, tanto económicos como no económicos, bajo diferentes condiciones futuras, orientando las acciones de prevención, adaptación y gestión del riesgo climático. (...) Acción Estratégica 4 - Integración del abordaje de pérdidas y daños en la planificación nacional. Incorporar las acciones para afrontar pérdidas y daños (económicos y no económicos) entre los principales instrumentos de planificación nacional, considerando relevante avanzar hacia metodologías comunes para su identificación, cuantificación y valoración, así como la inclusión de medidas prioritarias en políticas, estrategias, planes y programas sectoriales. Se prevé el desarrollo de mecanismos de seguimiento y evaluación alineados con el SNMCC, iniciando con el diseño metodológico y la recopilación de información clave y avanzando hacia indicadores que permitan valorar la eficacia de las acciones. Este proceso facilitará la integración de la evaluación ex ante del riesgo climático y de la estimación de las pérdidas evitadas en la formulación de proyectos e inversiones públicas. Acción Estratégica 5 - Operativización del registro nacional de pérdidas y daños (SNMCC). Operativizar el módulo de pérdidas y daños del SNMCC para la cuantificación y el registro sistemático de la información a nivel sectorial, considerando relevante avanzar en metodologías homogéneas de cuantificación y en protocolos estandarizados de reporte que permitan la comparabilidad entre sectores y eventos. Asimismo, se prevé el desarrollo de una plataforma interoperable para el registro nacional de pérdidas y daños, integrada al SNMCC y capaz de recopilar datos económicos y no económicos desagregados por tipo de evento, sector, región y población afectada. De forma complementaria, se propone incorporar mecanismos de verificacióny control de calidad de la información reportada, a fin de fortalecer la validez, la consistencia y la trazabilidad de los datos. Esta acción permitirá contar con información consolidada a nivel nacional, facilitando los reportes de transparencia y el acceso a financiamiento orientado a abordar pérdidas y daños. // Loss and Damage Component Goal By the year 2035, Honduras will have established the institutional, technical, and financial foundations for an operational National Loss and Damage Mechanism. Goal Description: Honduras will have established the institutional, technical, and financial foundations of the National Loss and Damage Mechanism, strengthening its capacities to understand, act upon, support, and access financing in order to avoid, minimize, and address economic and non-economic losses and damages associated with the adverse effects of climate change—arising from both slow-onset events and extreme weather events. Strategic Action 2 – Sectoral Climate Risk Assessment in Prioritized Sites. Conduct comprehensive climate risk assessments for prioritized sectors and sites, utilizing climate and socioeconomic scenarios. These assessments will incorporate climate change projections; the updating and development of hazard maps (including those for floods, landslides, and sea-level rise) in coordination with COPECO; and the construction of specific scenarios regarding hazard, exposure, and vulnerability at pilot sites. The integration of these analyses will enable the generation of quantitative projections of losses and damages—both economic and non-economic—under various future conditions, thereby guiding actions related to prevention, adaptation, and climate risk management. (...) Strategic Action 4 – Integration of the Loss and Damage Approach into National Planning. Incorporate actions to address losses and damages (both economic and non-economic) into key national planning instruments, recognizing the importance of advancing toward common methodologies for their identification, quantification, and valuation, as well as the inclusion of priority measures within sectoral policies, strategies, plans, and programs. The development of monitoring and evaluation mechanisms aligned with the SNMCC is envisaged, beginning with methodological design and the collection of key information, and progressing toward the establishment of indicators that allow for the assessment of action effectiveness. This process will facilitate the integration of *ex ante* climate risk assessments—along with estimates of avoided losses—into the formulation of public projects and investments. Strategic Action 5 – Operationalization of the National Loss and Damage Registry (SNMCC). Operationalize the SNMCC’s Loss and Damage Module to enable the quantification and systematic recording of information at the sectoral level, prioritizing progress on uniform quantification methodologies and standardized reporting protocols that facilitate comparability across sectors and events. Furthermore, plans include the development of an interoperable platform for the national registry of losses and damages—integrated into the SNMCC—capable of collecting economic and non-economic data disaggregated by event type, sector, region, and affected population. Complementing this, it is proposed to incorporate verification and quality control mechanisms for reported information in order to strengthen data validity, consistency, and traceability. This initiative will ensure the availability of consolidated information at the national level, thereby facilitating transparency reporting and access to financing aimed at addressing losses and damages. **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. |
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| Jamaica | 4. PLANNING PROCESS: ii. Contextual matters, including, inter alia, as appropriate: a. ...National circumstances, such as geography, climate, economy, sustainable development, and poverty eradication Poverty eradication: Jamaica is actively working towards poverty eradication, with a stated goal of ending absolute poverty. The commitment to eradicating or substantially reducing poverty through the implementation of the National Policy on Poverty and the National Poverty Reduction Programme. The country has already seen a significant decline in poverty rates, with the prevalence of poverty decreasing from 16.7% in 2021 to a record low of 8.2% in 2023. This reduction is attributed to various government policies and programs aimed at social protection, employment, and education. The government's commitment to poverty alleviation is further demonstrated in its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), which emphasises the importance of improving agricultural output, generating employment, increasing productivity, sustainably managing forest resources, and implementing adaptation strategies. Jamaica aims to advance poverty eradication efforts while simultaneously supporting global emission reduction objectives. **Jamaica's National Poverty Reduction Programme includes several gender objectives or targets, including targeting pregnant and lactating women through strengthening the social safety nets and inproving food security and nutrition. |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Japan | Information to facilitate clarity, transparency and understanding of nationally determined contributions: 4. Planning processes: Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation and engagement with local communities and indigenous peoples, in a gender-responsive manner: Towards the achievement of a sustainable society, Japan is proactively working to incorporate gender perspectives, including gender equal participation, into concrete actions while aiming at enhanced participation of women in policy decision-making processes for responding to environmental problems, including climate change, in line with ongoing international trends. For example, Japan is promoting the participation of women in councils and other bodies. One initiative ensures that half of the members of the meeting ― a joint meeting of the Climate Change Countermeasures towards Net Zero by 2050 Subcommittee of the Global Environment Committee under the Central Environment Council and the Working Group for Consideration of Mid- and Long-term Global Warming Countermeasures of the Global Environment Subcommittee of the Committee on Innovation and Environment under the Industrial Structural Council―are women. |
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| Jordan | Economy-Wide Approach Jordan's Economic Modernization Vision (2023-2033) provides the enabling framework for this climate transition, positioning the green economy as a central pillar of growth, investment, and job creation. The Vision identifies renewable energy, sustainable transport, water efficiency, and circular-economy industries as priority drivers of competitiveness. By embedding the NDC 3.0 into the EMV, Jordan ensures that climate action is not treated as a parallel agenda but as an engine of modernization, mobilizing private capital, enhancing energy security, and creating opportunities for youth and women in future-oriented sectors. This alignment gives NDC 3.0 stronger institutional backing and direct relevance to national socio-economic goals. |
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| Jordan | Economy-Wide Approach The health sector, the NDC 3.0 will integrate the newly launched national strategy for health sector adaptation to climate change, embedding climate resilience into service delivery. This includes gender-responsive planning, the expansion of early-warning systems for climate-related health risks, and infrastructure upgrades designed to withstand extreme heat and flooding events. Across urban systems, the rollout of green-infrastructure projects and nature based solutions will mitigate heat-island effects, improve livability, and deliver co-benefits for both mitigation and adaptation. Jordan's NDC 3.0 will integrate the climate change strategies and action plans of its major cities and municipalities, including Greater Amman Municipality, Greater Irbid Municipality, Greater Mafraq Municipality, Madaba, Karak, Tafila and the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority, as core components of the national implementation framework. Municipal measures will be aligned with NDC 3.0 targets, monitored through the MRV system, and supported by the National Climate Finance Strategy. This integration will ensure that local climate action directly contributes to national targets, unlocks access to green finance, and reflects the diverse needs and opportunities across Jordan's urban and regional contexts |
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| Jordan | Stakeholder Engagement: A Whole-of-Society Approach The Global Stocktake has made clear that lasting climate ambition depends on broad-based ownership and inclusive governance. Building on this lesson, Jordan's NDC 3.0 will embed stakeholder engagement as a permanent feature of both the formulation and implementation process (...) Gender inclusion will be mainstreamed throughout the process. Building on Jordan's Gender Action Plan and National Strategy for Women, women-led CSOs, female researchers, and gender experts will be invited into consultations and NCCC technical groups. Practical measures, such as scheduling consultations at times accessible for women, providing local-language facilitators, and collecting sex-disaggregated data, will ensure that women's perspectives shape both policies and projects (p. 8-9) // Assumption: Gender mainstreaming in all measures Rationale: Jordan's Gender Action Plan & National Strategy for Women Implication: Promotes equity, ensures female participation in climate leadership (p.11) |
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| Kenya | The NDC Development Process (...) Cognisant that there exists gender differentiated vulnerabilities due to climate change impacts, and that men and women contribute differently to the same due to their respective gender roles, Kenya will implement the outlined adaptation and mitigation priorities in a gender responsive manner in order to promote inclusivity in climate action. To do this, Kenya will advance meaningful participation and representation of vulnerable populations in climate action through capacity building and skills development, technology and innovations as well as targeted inclusive access to climate finance, among other initiatives. |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Kenya | 3.1 Mitigation (...) The mitigation goal will be achieved through the promotion and implementation of key priority mitigation initiatives, including but not limited to the following: Undertake energy sector reforms aimed at universal access to, adequate, reliable, and affordable energy services, to enable the achievement of, inter alia: Adoption of clean and efficient energy use for the transport, industry, agriculture and domestic sectors including clean cooking. **Expanding access to clean cooking solutions in Kenya is likely to benefit women by easing unpaid care burdens and improving health through safer, more sustainable cooking and energy solutions. |
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Kenya | 3.1 Mitigation (...) The mitigation goal will be achieved through the promotion and implementation of key priority mitigation initiatives, including but not limited to the following: Promotion of low carbon, climate resilient and efficient transportation systems that are gender-responsive and accessible to all, through electrification, modal shifts, urban mass rapid transport systems and overall greening of the transport sector. |
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Mitigation | Transportation |
| Kenya | 3.1 Mitigation (...) The mitigation goal will be achieved through the promotion and implementation of key priority mitigation initiatives, including but not limited to the following: Promotion of climate smart agriculture (CSA) with emphasis on crop and animal husbandry, including efficient livestock management systems while improving resilience of smallholder farmers and pastoralists through enhancement of their capacities. **Women are likely to benefit from economic measures targeting smallholder farmers because they make up a large share of this group and rely on small-scale farming for income and household food security. |
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Mitigation | Agriculture |
| Kenya | 3.2 Adaptation and Loss & Damage Kenya commits to achieving the adaptation goal and addressing loss and damage through the implementation of the following key initiatives, inter alia: Enhance Climate Resilience in agriculture and agri-food systems for the attainment of food security through the promotion of inclusive climate-smart agricultural practices including but not limited to effective irrigation systems, sustainable land management, drought-tolerant crops and sustainable livestock production with special focus on smallholder farmers. **Women are likely to benefit from economic measures targeting smallholder farmers because they make up a large share of this group and rely on small-scale farming for income and household food security. |
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Kenya | 3.2.1 Prioritised Adaptation And Loss And Damage: Interventions Programs And Interventions Prioritized For 2031 - 2035: Health P16: Enhance vulnerability and risk assessment of different climate risks on human health, and establish county-level systems with gender disaggregated data to track and manage diseases. P17: Continuous improvement of health programmes, protocols and guidance to manage new climate change related diseases and risk. |
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| Kenya | 3.2.1 Prioritised Adaptation And Loss And Damage: Interventions Programs And Interventions Prioritized For 2031 - 2035: Gender P22: Promote mainstreaming of gender responsive initiatives across all sectors through inclusion of all categories of the population in climate action. |
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| Kenya | 3.2.1 Prioritised Adaptation And Loss And Damage: Interventions Programs And Interventions Prioritized For 2031 - 2035: Climate Change Loss and Damage P28: Develop a robust loss and damage needs assessment to inform the technical assistance request from Santiago Network on Loss and Damage and support from Funds to Respond to Loss and Damage (FRLD). P29: Develop a robust loss and damage data collection, curation, storage and dissemination system. P30: Capacity building for all stakeholders on loss and damage, and support sectors to plan for targeted interventions. P31: Enhance institutional coordination and strengthening responses towards current and emerging climate induced economic/non-economic losses and damages including slow onset events, climate mobility, displacement and insecurity, among others. **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. |
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Lebanon | II / Lebanon’s Climate Policy Architecture: NDC as the Strategic Anchor for Reform and Resilience To enable this transition, the Lebanon Green Investment Facility (LGIF) was established as a dedicated financing vehicle to mobilize, blend, and channel capital towards the implementation of the NDC, in support to the private sector. The LGIF will facilitate access to climate finance, de-risk green investments, and support climate-resilient infrastructure, nature-based solutions, and renewable energy deployment. It also takes into consideration the gender and social impacts of the projects, making sure that the Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) targets of the NDC are met. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Agriculture Priorities Adaptation priority 1: Strengthen the agricultural sector’s resilience to enhance Lebanon’s agricultural output in a climate-smart manner to improve food security. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: Actions under the priority will support land degradation neutrality, reduce pollution, and promote sustainable and circular bioeconomy approaches that lower GHG emissions. This will be achieved through practices that enhance soil carbon storage, improve nitrogen use efficiency, and reduce deforestation. The emphasis on regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, and the adoption of renewable energy solutions will further strengthen the national emission reduction goals. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDG 2, 5, 6, 13 and 15. Key actions 1. Restore the livelihoods and productive capacity of farmers and producers, by prioritizing gender-sensitive rebuilding of damaged infrastructure, restoring or deploying inclusive climate-smart infrastructure (i.e. irrigation systems, water reservoirs, terraces, greenhouses, hydroponic systems, animal husbandry infrastructure, beehives, aquaculture infrastructure, etc.). |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Agriculture Priorities Adaptation priority 1: Strengthen the agricultural sector’s resilience to enhance Lebanon’s agricultural output in a climate-smart manner to improve food security. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: Actions under the priority will support land degradation neutrality, reduce pollution, and promote sustainable and circular bioeconomy approaches that lower GHG emissions. This will be achieved through practices that enhance soil carbon storage, improve nitrogen use efficiency, and reduce deforestation. The emphasis on regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, and the adoption of renewable energy solutions will further strengthen the national emission reduction goals. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDG 2, 5, 6, 13 and 15. Key actions (...) 2. Develop a plan for a medium-term agricultural recovery and rehabilitation and a longer-term agriculture strategy in partnership with the private sector, regional, and international donors, taking gender considerations into account. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Agriculture Priorities Adaptation priority 1: Strengthen the agricultural sector’s resilience to enhance Lebanon’s agricultural output in a climate-smart manner to improve food security. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: Actions under the priority will support land degradation neutrality, reduce pollution, and promote sustainable and circular bioeconomy approaches that lower GHG emissions. This will be achieved through practices that enhance soil carbon storage, improve nitrogen use efficiency, and reduce deforestation. The emphasis on regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, and the adoption of renewable energy solutions will further strengthen the national emission reduction goals. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDG 2, 5, 6, 13 and 15. Key actions (...) 4. Enhance the efficiency and competitiveness of agri-food value chains, including fisheries, with a focus on women-led cooperatives and businesses, and identify food security priority products focusing on local production of agricultural inputs, sustainable food systems, and risk management. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Agriculture Priorities Adaptation priority 1: Strengthen the agricultural sector’s resilience to enhance Lebanon’s agricultural output in a climate-smart manner to improve food security. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits Actions under the priority will support land degradation neutrality, reduce pollution, and promote sustainable and circular bioeconomy approaches that lower GHG emissions. This will be achieved through practices that enhance soil carbon storage, improve nitrogen use efficiency, and reduce deforestation. The emphasis on regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, and the adoption of renewable energy solutions will further strengthen the national emission reduction goals. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDG 2, 5, 6, 13 and 15. Key actions (...) 8. Coordinate with national DRR efforts to enhance LARI’s capacity to provide efficient, agriculture-specific gender-responsive early-warning services for farmers and fishers, particularly for climate adversities and pest and zoonotic diseases including preventive, anticipatory, or curative measures. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Agriculture Priorities Adaptation priority 1: Strengthen the agricultural sector’s resilience to enhance Lebanon’s agricultural output in a climate-smart manner to improve food security. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: Actions under the priority will support land degradation neutrality, reduce pollution, and promote sustainable and circular bioeconomy approaches that lower GHG emissions. This will be achieved through practices that enhance soil carbon storage, improve nitrogen use efficiency, and reduce deforestation. The emphasis on regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, and the adoption of renewable energy solutions will further strengthen the national emission reduction goals. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDG 2, 5, 6, 13 and 15. Key actions (...) 10. Implement a nationwide gender-sensitive agriculture orientation/extension and capacity-building program, to support farmers through an integrated approach that promotes inclusive climate-smart infrastructure and practices (water harvesting including from non-conventional sources, water efficient use, hail-proof nets, terraces, hydroponics, renewable energy solutions, etc.), expands technology and innovation in agriculture systems, including agroforestry, regenerative agriculture, conservation agriculture, organic farming and other sustainable systems, and adopts circular and bioeconomy approaches, through direct engagement with farmers, with a focus on improving women’s access to such technologies and innovations. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Tourism Priorities Adaptation priority 8: Promote climate resilience through sustainable tourism that supports economic diversification across Lebanon. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in reduced GHG emissions through energy-efficient and climate resilient tourism infrastructure and adopting a circular economy and implementing sustainable resource use, such as waste reduction and local green supply chains, will further decrease the carbon footprint of the tourism sector. Promoting low-carbon, year-round tourism alternatives (e.g., agritourism and ecotourism) will also avoid emissions associated with high-impact tourism types. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDGs 8, 11, 12, 13, and 15. Key actions (...) 2. Ensure climate-resilient tourism infrastructure by promoting sustainable gender-responsive design, implementing water-saving technologies, and retrofitting tourism facilities for energy efficiency and extreme weather resilience. |
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Adaptation | Tourism |
| Lebanon | VI / Cross-cutting Issues: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Lebanon’s NDC 3.0 adopts a gender-responsive and socially inclusive approach to climate adaptation and mitigation. Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) principles are mainstreamed across sectoral priorities, with a focus on: ▪ Enhancing women’s participation and leadership in climate-resilient food systems and sustainable land and water management. (...) ▪ Promoting women’s participation in the design and management of climate adaptation measures and actions. |
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| Lebanon | VI / Cross-cutting Issues: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Lebanon’s NDC 3.0 adopts a gender-responsive and socially inclusive approach to climate adaptation and mitigation. Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) principles are mainstreamed across sectoral priorities, with a focus on: (...) ▪ Strengthening gender-responsive health systems and social protection in the face of climate risks. |
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| Lebanon | VI / Cross-cutting Issues: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Lebanon’s NDC 3.0 adopts a gender-responsive and socially inclusive approach to climate adaptation and mitigation. Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) principles are mainstreamed across sectoral priorities, with a focus on: (...) ▪ Strengthening gender-responsive health systems and social protection in the face of climate risks. ▪ Expanding access to climate information, finance, and technologies for marginalized groups, especially in conflict-affected and rural areas. |
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| Lebanon | VI / Cross-cutting Issues: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion The NDC’s subsequent implementation plan will integrate GESI considerations into Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems, including through disaggregated data collection (by gender, age, disability, displacement status) to support evidence-based planning. Lebanon aligns its climate governance with international frameworks, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Paris Agreement, as well as national gender equality frameworks such as the National Strategy for women in Lebanon developed by National Commission for Lebanese Women (NCLW), along with a National Action Plan , ensuring that adaptation and mitigation measures address the compounded risks of gender inequality and climate-induced insecurity. |
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| Lebanon | VI / Cross-cutting Issues: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Institutions such as NCLW and sectoral gender focal points will play a key role in promoting inclusive implementation, including through gender-responsive budgeting and stakeholder engagement with civil society and local actors. As such, Lebanon’s NDC 3.0 frames climate action not only as an environmental necessity, but as a pathway towards better equity, inclusive participation, and resilience for all. |
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| Lebanon | VII / Cross-cutting Enablers: Operational Enablers Are the most cited across all sectors and encompass partnerships, governance, access to information and resources, coordination, and monitoring. They include: i. Improved governance and institutional capacities to reform, analyse, coordinate, and regulate climate and sustainable development action, ii. Upscaled and strengthened partnerships between public institutions and Non-State Actors (NSAs) such as the private sector, NGOs, academia, and civil society, iii. Integrated and inclusive approach to climate crisis solutions, encompassing youth, gender, and vulnerable communities, including institutional coordination for the prevention of GBV in areas vulnerable to climate change impacts, iv. Enhanced monitoring and transparency, adopting a transparency framework to improve institutional arrangements, data availability and periodicity, and monitoring and evaluation of adaptation and mitigation projects through the development of specific indicators*. Examples include integrating climate change into development strategies, establishing data access and management mechanisms, forming partnerships among government agencies and NSAs, and ensuring resources and services for smallholders, women, marginalized groups, and vulnerable communities. Other specific sectoral examples include developing prototypes for regional centers in the agricultural sector and deploying mobile units to encourage collaboration among farmers and cooperatives. * The Operational enablers retain CAE1, CAE3, CAE5, and CAE6 from NDC 2.0. |
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| Lebanon | Annex 1: Climate Enablers: Enablers for the Agriculture and Forestry Sector 10. Operational: Guarantee that smallholder farmers, women, youth, and other marginalized groups are provided with access to resources, opportunities, and a voice in decision-making. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Forestry Priorities Adaptation priority 2: Promote the sustainable use of natural resources, restore degraded landscapes, and increase Lebanon’s forest cover while meeting the ecological, social, and economic needs for sustainable forest, rangeland and fisheries management. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits : All activities under this priority will result in environmental co-benefits that contribute to land degradation neutrality and enhance ecosystem resilience, while increasing or maintaining carbon stocks to support climate change mitigation through nature-based and ecosystem-based solutions. Furthermore, effective forest fire prevention and sustainable forest management will not only reduce GHG emissions from forest fires but also ensure the long-term sequestration potential of Lebanon’s forests. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDG 5, 6, 13, 15, and 16. Key actions 1. Align forest and rangeland management with broader sustainable development goals and key UN conventions, ensuring that local communities equitably benefit economically and socially from forest and range resources while mainstreaming biodiversity conservation and sustaining the provision of ecosystem services, and addressing gender-based violence and safety in forest-related work and community spaces (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ National Strategy for Forest Fire Management - 2024. ▪ Ministry of Agriculture Strategic Directions (2025-2026). Linkages with national strategies ▪ National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021-2030). ▪ National Physical Master Plan for the Lebanese Territory (NPMPLT, 2009). ▪ Draft High Mountains Strategic Land Use Planning (MoPWT/MoE, 2025). ▪ Lebanon’s National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan (NBSAP, 2025-2030). ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. |
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Adaptation | Land use and forestry |
| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Forestry Priorities Adaptation priority 2: Promote the sustainable use of natural resources, restore degraded landscapes, and increase Lebanon’s forest cover while meeting the ecological, social, and economic needs for sustainable forest, rangeland and fisheries management. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities under this priority will result in environmental co-benefits that contribute to land degradation neutrality and enhance ecosystem resilience, while increasing or maintaining carbon stocks to support climate change mitigation through nature-based and ecosystem-based solutions. Furthermore, effective forest fire prevention and sustainable forest management will not only reduce GHG emissions from forest fires but also ensure the long-term sequestration potential of Lebanon’s forests. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDG 5, 6, 13, 15, and 16. Key actions (...) 3. Reduce the risk of intense and frequent forest fires through the development of gender-sensitive fire prevention measures and early warning systems. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ National Strategy for Forest Fire Management - 2024. ▪ Ministry of Agriculture Strategic Directions (2025-2026). Linkages with national strategies ▪ National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021-2030). ▪ National Physical Master Plan for the Lebanese Territory (NPMPLT, 2009). ▪ Draft High Mountains Strategic Land Use Planning (MoPWT/MoE, 2025). ▪ Lebanon’s National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan (NBSAP, 2025-2030). ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. |
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Adaptation | Land use and forestry |
| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Water Priorities Adaptation priority 3: Structure and develop sustainable water services, including irrigation, to improve people’s living conditions. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in mitigation co-benefits that improve water quality and enhance energy efficiency, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the efficient use and conservation of water resources, particularly in urban areas where more energy is required for water treatment and heating. Additionally, promotion of nature-based solutions and enhanced water storage capacities will directly contribute to long-term carbon sequestration. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDGs 1, 3, 6, 9, 11, and 13. Key actions 1. Improve water infrastructure by rehabilitating systems, controlling leaks, upgrading pressurized and metered networks, reducing Non-Revenue Water including illegal connections to enhance resilience, efficiency, and fair water allocation, taking gender considerations into account. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Water Priorities Adaptation priority 3: Structure and develop sustainable water services, including irrigation, to improve people’s living conditions. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in mitigation co-benefits that improve water quality and enhance energy efficiency, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the efficient use and conservation of water resources, particularly in urban areas where more energy is required for water treatment and heating. Additionally, promotion of nature-based solutions and enhanced water storage capacities will directly contribute to long-term carbon sequestration. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDGs 1, 3, 6, 9, 11, and 13. Key actions (...) 3. Explore and develop alternative sources for irrigation and upgrade irrigation schemes and water distribution networks by restoring concrete channels or installing pipes, ensuring the participation of women and vulnerable groups for fair water allocation |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Water Priorities Adaptation priority 3: Structure and develop sustainable water services, including irrigation, to improve people’s living conditions. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in mitigation co-benefits that improve water quality and enhance energy efficiency, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions through the efficient use and conservation of water resources, particularly in urban areas where more energy is required for water treatment and heating. Additionally, promotion of nature-based solutions and enhanced water storage capacities will directly contribute to long-term carbon sequestration. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDGs 1, 3, 6, 9, 11, and 13. Key actions (...) 4. Develop cost-effective wastewater treatment and reuse plants to preserve surface and groundwater quality, and enhance water pollution prevention measures, prioritizing nature-based gender-sensitive solutions in rural areas. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Biodiversity Priorities Adaptation priority 4: Value, conserve, and sustainably manage Lebanon’s terrestrial and marine biodiversity for the preservation and conservation of its ecosystems and habitats and the species they support to respond to anthropogenic and natural pressures and to ensure Lebanese citizens have equal access to ecosystem goods and services. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in enhanced integrated nature-based solutions, such as large-scale reforestation and ecosystem restoration will enhance carbon sequestration and storage within terrestrial and marine habitats. This approach will improve land and marine cover while simultaneously reducing emissions from ecosystem degradation. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDGs 5, 11, 13, 14 and 15. Key actions 1. Conduct comprehensive vulnerability assessments of terrestrial and marine ecosystems to climate change, identifying key risks and adaptation needs, and managing the impacts on biodiversity by increasing resilience through mitigation, adaptation, and gender-sensitive disaster risk reduction actions, including nature-based solutions and ecosystem-based approaches. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ Lebanon’s National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan (2025-2030). Linkages with national strategies ▪ Lebanon National Agriculture Sector Strategy (2021-2025). ▪ Ministry of Agriculture (2025-2026). ▪ National Physical Master Plan for the Lebanese Territory (NPMPLT, 2009). ▪ Draft High Mountains Strategic Land Use Planning (MoPWT/MoE, 2025). ▪ National Forest Fire Strategy (MoE, 2023). ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Urban Infrastructure Priorities Adaptation priority 5: Reduce the vulnerability of climate change impacts on urban and coastal infrastructure in a sustainable inclusive approach. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in the reduction of GHG emissions through efficient energy use, the integration of nature-based solutions in urban planning, improved land use and land cover balance. Additionally, by improving land use and developing walkable corridors, the priority will enhance carbon sequestration while reducing emissions from transport and improving public health via enhanced air quality. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDGs 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 16. Key actions (...) 3. Support the recovery and reconstruction of areas destroyed by war, incorporating sustainable, gender-responsive, and Nature-Based urban adaptation measures. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ National Physical Master Plan of the Lebanese Territory (NPMPLT, 2009). ▪ Draft Integrated Coastal Zone Management Strategy. ▪ Draft High Mountains Strategic Land Use Planning (MoPWT/MoE, 2025). Linkages with national strategies ▪ National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan (NBSAP, 2025). ▪ National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021-2030). ▪ Barcelona Convention for the Mediterranean Sea (1976). ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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Adaptation | Infrastructure |
| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Urban Infrastructure Priorities Adaptation priority 5: Reduce the vulnerability of climate change impacts on urban and coastal infrastructure in a sustainable inclusive approach. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in the reduction of GHG emissions through efficient energy use, the integration of nature-based solutions in urban planning, improved land use and land cover balance. Additionally, by improving land use and developing walkable corridors, the priority will enhance carbon sequestration while reducing emissions from transport and improving public health via enhanced air quality. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDGs 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 16. Key actions (...) 4. Establish a sex-disaggregated digital information system for processing licenses, master plans, mapping, and other administrative requests from citizens and municipalities, to improve transparency, efficiency, data storage and analysis.(...) Relevant reference documents ▪ National Physical Master Plan of the Lebanese Territory (NPMPLT, 2009). ▪ Draft Integrated Coastal Zone Management Strategy. ▪ Draft High Mountains Strategic Land Use Planning (MoPWT/MoE, 2025). Linkages with national strategies ▪ National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan (NBSAP, 2025). ▪ National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021-2030). ▪ Barcelona Convention for the Mediterranean Sea (1976). ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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Adaptation | Infrastructure |
| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Urban Infrastructure Priorities Adaptation priority 5: Reduce the vulnerability of climate change impacts on urban and coastal infrastructure in a sustainable inclusive approach. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in the reduction of GHG emissions through efficient energy use, the integration of nature-based solutions in urban planning, improved land use and land cover balance. Additionally, by improving land use and developing walkable corridors, the priority will enhance carbon sequestration while reducing emissions from transport and improving public health via enhanced air quality. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDGs 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 16. Key actions (...) 9. Integrate gender-transformative, climate-resilient, and walkable urban corridors into national and municipal urban planning and continuity of safe public spaces for improved air quality and reduced emissions. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ National Physical Master Plan of the Lebanese Territory (NPMPLT, 2009). ▪ Draft Integrated Coastal Zone Management Strategy. ▪ Draft High Mountains Strategic Land Use Planning (MoPWT/MoE, 2025). Linkages with national strategies ▪ National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan (NBSAP, 2025). ▪ National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021-2030). ▪ Barcelona Convention for the Mediterranean Sea (1976). ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Public Health Priorities Adaptation priority 6: Integrate climate resilience and environmental sustainability into Lebanon’s healthcare system and facilities to strengthen preparedness and public health response to climate-change. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in reduced GHG emissions through improved energy efficiency in healthcare infrastructure. Implementing sustainable WASH systems and adopting a One Health approach can decrease air and water pollution, leading to a healthier environment. Enhancing resilience in public health services and infrastructure will contribute to long-term carbon savings and avoided emissions from disaster-related reconstruction. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDG 3, 5, 6, 10 and 13. Key actions 1. Support community-based risk reduction initiatives focusing on health risks related to climate and environmental issues, stressors, and disasters, taking into consideration the risks related to women’s reproductive and sexual health. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: Vision 2030 - 2023. ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: 2-year review - 2025. Linkages with national strategies ▪ National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021-2030). ▪ Agriculture Strategy (2025-2026). ▪ Draft Health and Environment Strategy National Framework of Action - 2023. ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Public Health Priorities Adaptation priority 6: Integrate climate resilience and environmental sustainability into Lebanon’s healthcare system and facilities to strengthen preparedness and public health response to climate-change. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in reduced GHG emissions through improved energy efficiency in healthcare infrastructure. Implementing sustainable WASH systems and adopting a One Health approach can decrease air and water pollution, leading to a healthier environment. Enhancing resilience in public health services and infrastructure will contribute to long-term carbon savings and avoided emissions from disaster-related reconstruction. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDG 3, 5, 6, 10 and 13. Key actions (...) 4. Enhance the Early Warning and Response System to health risks, including epidemic, climatic, and other risks through the full automation and operationalization of the One Health approach, while adopting a gender-responsive approach. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: Vision 2030 - 2023. ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: 2-year review - 2025. Linkages with national strategies ▪ National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021-2030). ▪ Agriculture Strategy (2025-2026). ▪ Draft Health and Environment Strategy National Framework of Action - 2023. ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Public Health Priorities Adaptation priority 6: Integrate climate resilience and environmental sustainability into Lebanon’s healthcare system and facilities to strengthen preparedness and public health response to climate-change. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in reduced GHG emissions through improved energy efficiency in healthcare infrastructure. Implementing sustainable WASH systems and adopting a One Health approach can decrease air and water pollution, leading to a healthier environment. Enhancing resilience in public health services and infrastructure will contribute to long-term carbon savings and avoided emissions from disaster-related reconstruction. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDG 3, 5, 6, 10 and 13. Key actions (...) 5. Ensure emergency preparedness and response capacity by developing high-quality, regularly stress-tested, and updated inclusive preparedness and anticipation plans, and structures complemented by community engagement with specific focus on vulnerable groups such as children, women, the elderly, persons with disabilities and internally displaced Lebanese persons. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: Vision 2030 - 2023. ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: 2-year review - 2025. Linkages with national strategies ▪ National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021-2030). ▪ Agriculture Strategy (2025-2026). ▪ Draft Health and Environment Strategy National Framework of Action - 2023. ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Public Health Priorities Adaptation priority 6: Integrate climate resilience and environmental sustainability into Lebanon’s healthcare system and facilities to strengthen preparedness and public health response to climate-change. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in reduced GHG emissions through improved energy efficiency in healthcare infrastructure. Implementing sustainable WASH systems and adopting a One Health approach can decrease air and water pollution, leading to a healthier environment. Enhancing resilience in public health services and infrastructure will contribute to long-term carbon savings and avoided emissions from disaster-related reconstruction. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDG 3, 5, 6, 10 and 13. Key actions (...) 6. Develop a health information system master plan with a decentralized data center with data disaggregated by sex, location and displacement for Lebanese citizens. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: Vision 2030 - 2023. ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: 2-year review - 2025. Linkages with national strategies ▪ National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021-2030). ▪ Agriculture Strategy (2025-2026). ▪ Draft Health and Environment Strategy National Framework of Action - 2023. ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Public Health Priorities Adaptation priority 6: Integrate climate resilience and environmental sustainability into Lebanon’s healthcare system and facilities to strengthen preparedness and public health response to climate-change. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in reduced GHG emissions through improved energy efficiency in healthcare infrastructure. Implementing sustainable WASH systems and adopting a One Health approach can decrease air and water pollution, leading to a healthier environment. Enhancing resilience in public health services and infrastructure will contribute to long-term carbon savings and avoided emissions from disaster-related reconstruction. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDG 3, 5, 6, 10 and 13. Key actions (...) 7. Enhance climate-resilient health infrastructure through targeted investments, including improvements in gender-inclusive WASH systems and renewable energy sources. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: Vision 2030 - 2023. ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: 2-year review - 2025. Linkages with national strategies ▪ National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021-2030). ▪ Agriculture Strategy (2025-2026). ▪ Draft Health and Environment Strategy National Framework of Action - 2023. ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Public Health Priorities Adaptation priority 6: Integrate climate resilience and environmental sustainability into Lebanon’s healthcare system and facilities to strengthen preparedness and public health response to climate-change. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in reduced GHG emissions through improved energy efficiency in healthcare infrastructure. Implementing sustainable WASH systems and adopting a One Health approach can decrease air and water pollution, leading to a healthier environment. Enhancing resilience in public health services and infrastructure will contribute to long-term carbon savings and avoided emissions from disaster-related reconstruction. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDG 3, 5, 6, 10 and 13. Key actions (...) 8. Develop and implement a MoPH gender-responsive climate and health adaptation plan in complementarity with the National Health and Environment Strategy Framework of Action 2021 - 2026. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: Vision 2030 - 2023. ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: 2-year review - 2025. Linkages with national strategies ▪ National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021-2030). ▪ Agriculture Strategy (2025-2026). ▪ Draft Health and Environment Strategy National Framework of Action - 2023. ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Public Health Priorities Adaptation priority 6: Integrate climate resilience and environmental sustainability into Lebanon’s healthcare system and facilities to strengthen preparedness and public health response to climate-change. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in reduced GHG emissions through improved energy efficiency in healthcare infrastructure. Implementing sustainable WASH systems and adopting a One Health approach can decrease air and water pollution, leading to a healthier environment. Enhancing resilience in public health services and infrastructure will contribute to long-term carbon savings and avoided emissions from disaster-related reconstruction. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDG 3, 5, 6, 10 and 13. Key actions (...) 10. Build gender-sensitive awareness and capacity for climate and health resilience through strengthening overall emergency management capacities within the Ministry, organizing training programs and workshops for MoPH and PHC staff and public awareness campaigns. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: Vision 2030 - 2023. ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: 2-year review - 2025. Linkages with national strategies ▪ National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021-2030). ▪ Agriculture Strategy (2025-2026). ▪ Draft Health and Environment Strategy National Framework of Action - 2023. ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Public Health Priorities Adaptation priority 6: Integrate climate resilience and environmental sustainability into Lebanon’s healthcare system and facilities to strengthen preparedness and public health response to climate-change. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in reduced GHG emissions through improved energy efficiency in healthcare infrastructure. Implementing sustainable WASH systems and adopting a One Health approach can decrease air and water pollution, leading to a healthier environment. Enhancing resilience in public health services and infrastructure will contribute to long-term carbon savings and avoided emissions from disaster-related reconstruction. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDG 3, 5, 6, 10 and 13. Key actions (...) 11. Operationalize the climate change and health task force to coordinate climate action related to public health and healthcare systems, while ensuring effective coordination with key ministries and women’s machinery. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: Vision 2030 - 2023. ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: 2-year review - 2025. Linkages with national strategies ▪ National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021-2030). ▪ Agriculture Strategy (2025-2026). ▪ Draft Health and Environment Strategy National Framework of Action - 2023. ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Disaster Risk Reduction Priorities Adaptation priority 7: Reduce disaster risk and minimize damage by mitigating and adapting to climate-related hazards and extreme weather. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in risk-informed urban and land-use planning that avoids high-risk areas and protects carbon-rich ecosystems, which in turn will contribute to reducing GHG emissions. Promoting resilient reconstruction using low-carbon building materials and energy-efficient retrofitting practices can significantly lower the carbon footprint of the built environment. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDGs 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 17. Key actions (...) 2. Develop human-centered multi-hazard gender-sensitive early warning and early actions policies at all levels (sectoral, national, regional, and community) based on the conducted multi-hazards assessments, taking into consideration Gender-Based Violence prevention in emergency planning. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ Draft National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021 - 2030). Linkages with national strategies ▪ Lebanon National Agriculture Sector Strategy (2021 - 2025). ▪ Ministry of Agriculture (2025 - 2026). ▪ National Physical Master Plan for the Lebanese Territory (NPMPLT, 2009). ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: Vision 2030 - 2023. ▪ National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan (NBSAP, 2025). ▪ Draft Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO) Sustainable Tourism Strategy for the Mountainsof Lebanon (MoE/UNDP/GEF, 2021). ▪ National Forest Fire Strategy (MoE, 2023). ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Disaster Risk Reduction Priorities Adaptation priority 7: Reduce disaster risk and minimize damage by mitigating and adapting to climate-related hazards and extreme weather. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in risk-informed urban and land-use planning that avoids high-risk areas and protects carbon-rich ecosystems, which in turn will contribute to reducing GHG emissions. Promoting resilient reconstruction using low-carbon building materials and energy-efficient retrofitting practices can significantly lower the carbon footprint of the built environment. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDGs 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 17. Key actions (...) 3. Build capacities to develop and implement response framework and response plans at all levels (sectoral, national, regional, and community), including capacity building on standard operational procedures for various risk-vulnerable groups, including rural women. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ Draft National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021 - 2030). Linkages with national strategies ▪ Lebanon National Agriculture Sector Strategy (2021 - 2025). ▪ Ministry of Agriculture (2025 - 2026). ▪ National Physical Master Plan for the Lebanese Territory (NPMPLT, 2009). ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: Vision 2030 - 2023. ▪ National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan (NBSAP, 2025). ▪ Draft Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO) Sustainable Tourism Strategy for the Mountainsof Lebanon (MoE/UNDP/GEF, 2021). ▪ National Forest Fire Strategy (MoE, 2023). ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Disaster Risk Reduction Priorities Adaptation priority 7: Reduce disaster risk and minimize damage by mitigating and adapting to climate-related hazards and extreme weather. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in risk-informed urban and land-use planning that avoids high-risk areas and protects carbon-rich ecosystems, which in turn will contribute to reducing GHG emissions. Promoting resilient reconstruction using low-carbon building materials and energy-efficient retrofitting practices can significantly lower the carbon footprint of the built environment. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDGs 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 17. Key actions (...) 4. Develop gender-responsive preparedness plans and recovery policies based on the principles of building back better at all levels (sectoral, national, regional, community). (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ Draft National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021 - 2030). Linkages with national strategies ▪ Lebanon National Agriculture Sector Strategy (2021 - 2025). ▪ Ministry of Agriculture (2025 - 2026). ▪ National Physical Master Plan for the Lebanese Territory (NPMPLT, 2009). ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: Vision 2030 - 2023. ▪ National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan (NBSAP, 2025). ▪ Draft Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO) Sustainable Tourism Strategy for the Mountainsof Lebanon (MoE/UNDP/GEF, 2021). ▪ National Forest Fire Strategy (MoE, 2023). ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Disaster Risk Reduction Priorities Adaptation priority 7: Reduce disaster risk and minimize damage by mitigating and adapting to climate-related hazards and extreme weather. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in risk-informed urban and land-use planning that avoids high-risk areas and protects carbon-rich ecosystems, which in turn will contribute to reducing GHG emissions. Promoting resilient reconstruction using low-carbon building materials and energy-efficient retrofitting practices can significantly lower the carbon footprint of the built environment. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDGs 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 17. Key actions (...) 5. Develop a gender-sensitive mechanism to assess, attribute, and categorize climate-related loss and damage in Lebanon that would feed into Lebanon’s reporting under the Sendai Framework, and identify a risk insurance mechanism for loss and damage related to climate disasters. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ Draft National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021 - 2030). Linkages with national strategies ▪ Lebanon National Agriculture Sector Strategy (2021 - 2025). ▪ Ministry of Agriculture (2025 - 2026). ▪ National Physical Master Plan for the Lebanese Territory (NPMPLT, 2009). ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: Vision 2030 - 2023. ▪ National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan (NBSAP, 2025). ▪ Draft Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO) Sustainable Tourism Strategy for the Mountainsof Lebanon (MoE/UNDP/GEF, 2021). ▪ National Forest Fire Strategy (MoE, 2023). ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Disaster Risk Reduction Priorities Adaptation priority 7: Reduce disaster risk and minimize damage by mitigating and adapting to climate-related hazards and extreme weather. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in risk-informed urban and land-use planning that avoids high-risk areas and protects carbon-rich ecosystems, which in turn will contribute to reducing GHG emissions. Promoting resilient reconstruction using low-carbon building materials and energy-efficient retrofitting practices can significantly lower the carbon footprint of the built environment. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDGs 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 17. Key actions (...) 6. Strengthen disaster-resilient public and private investments by enhancing risk prevention in critical facilities, encouraging private-sector financing for disaster management, providing voluntary guidelines for homeowners, including women-led households, establishing mandatory standards for critical infrastructure, and promoting resilience through proper design, construction, retrofitting, and maintenance while considering economic, social, structural, technological, and environmental impacts. (...) Relevant reference documents ▪ Draft National Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy (2021 - 2030). Linkages with national strategies ▪ Lebanon National Agriculture Sector Strategy (2021 - 2025). ▪ Ministry of Agriculture (2025 - 2026). ▪ National Physical Master Plan for the Lebanese Territory (NPMPLT, 2009). ▪ Lebanon National Health Strategy: Vision 2030 - 2023. ▪ National Biodiversity Strategy Action Plan (NBSAP, 2025). ▪ Draft Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO) Sustainable Tourism Strategy for the Mountainsof Lebanon (MoE/UNDP/GEF, 2021). ▪ National Forest Fire Strategy (MoE, 2023). ▪ Lebanon’s National Strategy on Women. ▪ Lebanon’s National Action Plan on 1325. |
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| Lebanon | IV / Adaptation Priorities: Tourism Priorities Adaptation priority 8: Promote climate resilience through sustainable tourism that supports economic diversification across Lebanon. Mitigation and other environmental co-benefits: All activities will result in reduced GHG emissions through energy-efficient and climate resilient tourism infrastructure and adopting a circular economy and implementing sustainable resource use, such as waste reduction and local green supply chains, will further decrease the carbon footprint of the tourism sector. Promoting low-carbon, year-round tourism alternatives (e.g., agritourism and ecotourism) will also avoid emissions associated with high-impact tourism types. The most relevant nexus to SDGs: SDGs 8, 11, 12, 13, and 15. Key actions (...) 5. Engage local communities and tourism operators through inclusive training programs on climate resilience, sustainable tourism practices, and gender-responsive emergency preparedness for extreme weather events. |
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| Lesotho | 3.1.3.1 Water sector: Table 2. Adaptation measures for the water sector, largely focusing on water management and availability of water for society, the economy, and the environment. 2. Implement the Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) program * Indicator: Number of climate resilient and gender sensitive catchment plans, local council action plans and measures of different categories for ecosystem services designed, approved and under implementation, based on national guidelines. Number of individuals trained on climate resilience in the context of ICM. * Baseline: 6 out of 74 catchments plans. 37 individuals from the 6 pilot catchments trained on the concepts of climate change risk and resilience in context of ICM. * Target: 18 out of 74 catchments plans implemented by 2030. 200 individuals trained in climate resilience in context of ICM by 2025. * Responsible Department: Department of Water Affairs Department of Range Management Department of Soil and Water Conservation Department of Rural Water Supply * Other Key Implementing Entities: Department of Decentralisation and Chieftainship, GIZ, EU, World Vision, BUSARA Institute of Behavioural Change, Local authorities, Department of Gender * Mitigation Co-benefits: Reduced emissions from herd size reduction or increased regeneration of rangelands and forest cover. |
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| Lesotho | 3.1.3.2 Human Settlements: Table 3. Adaptation measures for to human settlements. 7. Promote construction of resilient infrastructure and sanitation facilities to reduce losses and damage to housing infrastructure and reduce incidence of climate related diseases. * Indicator: Percentage of households living in climate resilient housing. Percentage of households with access to modern sanitation and toilet facilities. * Baseline: About 30% of the households live in with roofs made of thatch/straw. 44% of the total population has access to modern sanitation solutions (46% and 43% coverage in urban and rural areas, respectively). * About 30% of households do not have access to any toilet facilities. * Target: 100% of the households living in climate resilient houses, with access to toilets and sanitation services. * Responsible Department: Department of Public Works, Disaster Management Authority * Other Key Implementing Entities: Department of Gender, Local Authorities, LMS * Mitigation Co-benefits: Not applicable **Due to the near-universal target of 100% of households living in climate resilient houses with access to toilets and sanitation services, women will benefit from this measure. |
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| Lesotho | 3.1.3.4 AFOLU and food security (...) The proposed measures for the AFOLU sector aim to support the mission of a strongly adapted sector that is resilient to climate variability. An adapted AFOLU sector is able to continue the productivity of the land despite climate variability, maintain biodiversity and habitats in a changing environment, and conserves or improves the quality/support capacity of the land over time. The measures proposed aim to support these outcomes over time including: * The application of integrated land-use planning in the development of new measures to increase resilience to climate change. These systems need to integrate land use planning, improved production systems for increased productivity, processing, and storage for added value, and market systems. Further, integrated production systems should consider the creation of local capacities, consider women and marginalized groups, and include the most vulnerable. (...) Land Use Planning: 1. Land use management - Develop an integrated land use and management plan focusing on conservation agriculture and forestry practices and related concepts. 2. Land degradation slow/stop - Implement plans for the management and reclamation of degrated land (in line with the Lesotho's Land Degradation Neutrality targets). 3. Land use planning legislation - Implement land use planning law and national land-use policy integrating climate change adaptation. 4. Land conservation - Increase land under conservation and protection (in line with the NBSAP and IUCN conservation areas categories). |
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| Lesotho | 3.1.3.4 AFOLU and food security: Table 5: Adaptation measures related to AFOLU and food production: AGRICULTURE 5. Livestock. Promote the diversification of livestock and livestock management practices, including livestock species resilient to climate change. * Indicator: Percentage of livestock under improved management (zero grazing and rotational grazing, etc.). Disaggregated data on the percentage of most vulnerable groups (women, youth) engaged in improved livestock management. * Baseline: No specific data available on the percentage of livestock under improved grazing, but there are pilot projects promoting different alternative grazing practices around the country. * Target: Livestock under improved management to 60% by 2030. Increase women, youth, and vulnerable groups engaged in livestock diversification to 35% by 2030. * Responsible Department: Department of Livestock Services; Department of Range Resources Management; Department of Agricultural Research; Faculty of Agriculture, National University of Lesotho. * Other Key Implementing Entities: NGOs; Lesotho Agricultural College; Farmers; Farmer Associations; Local Authorities; Grazing Associations; Herders; Department of Gender. * Mitigation Co-benefits: Reduction of methane emission from livestock. Emission reductions from restored pastures. |
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| Lesotho | 3.1.3.4 AFOLU and food security: Table 5: Adaptation measures related to AFOLU and food production: AGRICULTURE 7. Crops. Promote and support the access to climate change resilient crops (drought and pest resistant). This includes a component of capacity building on farming these crops optimally. * Indicator: Percentage of farmers with access to quality seed. Disaggregated data on the proportion of farmers adopting new climate smart crop technologies. * Baseline: Farmer saved seed and seed from social networks for maize, sorghum, and wheat accounts for 80%, the remainder comes from the market and seed aid. Local seed production is at infancy and there are currently 67 individual seed growers who produce maize and bean seeds. * Target: Increase the percentage of farmers having access to quality seed to 20% by 2030. Increase proportion of farmers especially women, youth, vulnerable groups adopting new climate smart crop technologies to 20% by 2030. * Responsible Department: Department of Crops; Department of Agricultural Research. * Other Key Implementing Entities: FAO; Lesotho Agricultural College; National University of Lesotho; Farmers; Local Authorities; Department of Gender; Farmers Association. * Mitigation Co-benefits: CO₂ removal from crop biomass. |
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| Lesotho | 3.2.4.1 Energy : Table 7: Proposed mitigation measures in the residential energy subsector 1. Efficient Woodstoves: Introduction of high efficiency stoves, resulting in carbon sink preservation through reduced demand of traditional biomass fuel. * Indicator: Percentage of households and rural institutions using Efficient Woodstoves. * Baseline: No available information was found on percentage of households and institutions. * Target: Unconditional: 9030 stoves by 2030 - GHG reduction 24 kt CO2eq/year in 2030. Conditional: 30,800 stoves by 2030 - GHG reduction 83 kt CO2eq/year in 2030. * Responsible Department: Department of Energy; Department of Forestry. * Other Key Implementing Entities: District Forestry Offices; District Councils; NGOs; Area and Village Development Committees. * Mitigation Co-benefits: Reduced demand for traditional biomass, which helps to reduce pressure on forestry resources with associated reduced impacts from extreme rainfall events. **The introduction of efficient woodstoves is likely to benefit women by reducing time and labor spent collecting firewood, lessening their unpaid care workload, and improving health through lower household air pollution and reduced exposure to smoke-related respiratory illnesses. |
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| Lesotho | 3.2.4.1 Energy: Table 7: Proposed mitigation measures in the residential energy subsector 4. LPG Stoves Replacing Wood Stoves: Deployment of efficient LPG cook stoves to urban and rural households, thereby reducing demand for fuel wood. * Indicator: Percentage of households and rural institutions using LPG Stoves to replacing Wood Stoves. * Baseline: No available information was found on percentage of households and institutions. * Target: Unconditional: 8,820 stoves by 2030 - GHG reduction 14 kt CO2eq/year in 2030. Conditional: 31,500 stoves by 2030 - GHG reduction 50 kt CO2eq/year in 2030. * Responsible Department: Department of Energy; Ministry of Local Government; Chieftainship, Home Affairs & Police. * Other Key Implementing Entities: District Councils; Private Sector; CSOs; NGOs. * Mitigation Co-benefits: Reduced dependence on traditional biomass. Reduced pressure on forests and forest biodiversity. Increased off-farm business for rural communities. Access to energy increases adaptive capacity. **The introduction of efficient woodstoves is likely to benefit women by reducing time and labor spent collecting firewood, lessening their unpaid care workload, and improving health through lower household air pollution and reduced exposure to smoke-related respiratory illnesses. |
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| Lesotho | 3.3. Cross-cutting issues: Table 14: Crosscutting measures 2. Strengthen the role and activities of the NCCC. * Baseline: Responsibilities and activities are unclear with a broad participation group but no records, mandates, etc. * Indicator: Status of responsibilities set for cross government coordination. Inclusion of women in leadership/decision making position. * Target: Directives for coordination roles across government on climate change are set unambiguously in law by 2025. At least 30% of climate change leadership positions are held by women. * Responsible Department: Lesotho Meteorological Services. * Other Key Implementing Entities: National Climate Change Committee. Department of Planning. * Adaptation/Mitigation Co-benefits: Accelerator of climate action. |
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| Lesotho | 3.3. Cross-cutting issues: Table 14: Crosscutting measures 6. Ensure meaningful engagement and participation of women, vulnerable groups, and youths in policy making processes and programme implementation. * Baseline: Women and at-risk groups are underrepresented in the consultation, development, and execution of climate change projects and policies. * Indicator: Number of women youth and vulnerable groups engaged in policy making and implementation process. Number of women in senior positions in climate change related agencies, project teams, and decision-making bodies. * Target: 30% of minimum average participation in consultation, development, and execution of climate change projects and policies. 30% of senior positions in climate change related agencies, project teams, and decision-making bodies occupied by women. * Responsible Department: Department of Gender. Lesotho Meteorological Services. * Other Key Implementing Entities: National Climate Change Committee. Local Authorities. * Adaptation/Mitigation Co-benefits: Accelerator of climate action. |
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| Lesotho | 3.3. Cross-cutting issues: Table 14: Crosscutting measures 7. Conduct a gender-sensitive vulnerability assessment on impacts of climate change. * Baseline: Vulnerability assessments and other policy development tools do not consider gender and other social impacts. * Indicator: Number of gender sensitive vulnerability assessments conducted. * Target: One national gender sensitive vulnerability assessment report published. * Responsible Department: Department of Gender. LMS. * Other Key Implementing Entities: National Climate Change Committee. Social Development. BOS. * Adaptation/Mitigation Co-benefits: Builds adaptive capacity of population and enhancing resilience. |
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| Lesotho | 3.3. Cross-cutting issues: Table 14: Crosscutting measures 10. Strengthen institutions to support climate action including assigning roles and responsibilities and climate targets to government offices or roles. * Baseline: Poor allocation of objective and specific achievement of responsibilities. * Indicator: Proportion of NDC objectives allocated to institutions with periodic review mandate. Number of women in leadership and decision-making positions. * Target: All NDC responsibilities assigned to specific institutions and roles by 2025. Institutional assessment to increase climate actions efficiency and effectiveness. * Responsible Department: Lesotho Meteorological Services. * Other Key Implementing Entities: * Adaptation/Mitigation Co-benefits: Accelerator of climate action. |
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| Lesotho | 3.3. Cross-cutting issues: Table 14: Crosscutting measures 11. Develop national climate change adaptation indicators. To include gender aspects, and their inclusion in national statistics. * Baseline: No formal adaptation monitoring indicators framework in place. * Indicator: Number of indicators of climate change adaptation and gender included in national statistics. * Target: National statistics and national accounts include climate change and gender specific indicators. * Responsible Department: Lesotho Meteorological Services. Bureau of Statistics. * Other Key Implementing Entities: Department of Planning. Department of Gender. * Adaptation/Mitigation Co-benefits: Not applicable. |
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| Lesotho | 3.1.3.1 Water sector: Table 2. Adaptation measures for the water sector, largely focusing on water management and availability of water for society, the economy, and the environment. 8. Increase climate resilient rural water supply network. Supporting projects to improve water access in rural areas. * Indicator: Percentage of population covered water supply network. Number of women and girls having access to portable water. * Baseline: In 2020, only 29% of the population had access to clean water. In 2016, 79.8 percent of rural households had access to improved water sources. * Target: 88% population with access to clean water by 2030. * Responsible Department: Department of Rural Water Supply * Other Key Implementing Entities: Department of Decentralisation, Department of Gender * Mitigation Co-benefits: Not applicable |
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| Lesotho | 3.2.4.1 Energy: Table 7: Proposed mitigation measures in the residential energy subsector 5. Solar Cooking * Indicator: Percentage of households and rural institutions using Solar Cookers. * Baseline: No available information was found on percentage of households and institutions. * Target: Unconditional: 8,400 solar cookers by 2030 - GHG reduction 12 kt CO2eq/year in 2030. Conditional: 9,450 stoves by 2030 GHG reduction 13 kt CO2eq/year in 2030. * Responsible Department: Department of Energy; Ministry of Local Government, Chieftainship, Home-Affairs & Police. * Other Key Implementing Entities: District Councils; Private Sector; CSOs; NGOs. * Mitigation Co-benefits: Reduced dependence on traditional biomass. Reduced pressure on forests and forest biodiversity. Increased off-farm business for rural community. Access to energy increase adaptive capacity. **The introduction of solar cookers is likely to benefit women by reducing time and labor spent collecting firewood, lessening their unpaid care workload, and improving health through lower household air pollution and reduced exposure to smoke-related respiratory illnesses. |
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| Lesotho | 3.1. Adaptation: 3.1.1. Baseline: 3.1.1.2 Human Settlements (...) As one of the countries with high level of prevalence of HIV/AIDS, women and child-headed households are among the most vulnerable groups. Gender equity and social issues including HIV/AIDS prevention shall be considered and fully considered in the capacity building activities as well as the development and management of facilities. |
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| Liberia | 3.4. Cross-cutting Areas: Youth: Targets Liberia remains exceptionally vulnerable to climate change and those who are most affected include young people, women, children, and PWDs. Historically, their involvement in decision-making processes related to combating climate change has been minimal. This pattern has seemingly contributed to deepening vulnerabilities, limiting opportunities for participation and leadership in climate action. NDC 3.0 acknowledges the commitment made in the Universal NDC Youth Clause and incorporates these into this version of the NDC. It does not only acknowledge this group, but embeds concrete, measurable actions to guarantee their full participation, leadership, and equitable benefit in climate mitigation and adaptation. The targets include: • By 2035, ensure that at least 40 percent of agricultural financing is directed toward initiatives led by youth, especially in rural and climate-vulnerable communities. • By 2027, a youth representative will be appointed to the NCCSC as a means of giving a voice to the next generation at the highest level of decision-making for climate change. • By 2035, create at least 5,000 new green jobs across the waste management, renewable energy, and agriculture sectors. Actions and Policy Measures The following actions and policy measures shall be taken to meet the targets: • Ensure that at least 1 young person is represented on the forest management bodies at the national and local levels by 2027. • By 2035, train more than 5,000 youth will be trained on climate actions including renewable energy technology development, forest conservation, waste management, coastal ecosystem adaptation techniques, WASH, integrated water management, clean mobility, etc. • By 2028, establish a National Climate Youth Innovation Fund to finance youth-led solutions in agriculture, forestry, energy, and WASH. • In collaboration with UN-Women and civil society partners, design and implement a "Women and Youth Mentorship Program for Climate Leadership." This program will connect young people with experienced female leaders in climate-sensitive sectors to build capacity, promote intergenerational knowledge transfer, and secure a pipeline of female youth leaders for future decision-making roles. |
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| Liberia | 3.4. Cross-cutting Areas: LOSS & DAMAGE: Targets Liberia is increasingly facing the harsh realities of climate change, including sea-level rise, accelerated coastal erosion, more intense rainfall, and prolonged dry seasons. These impacts are already inflicting both economic and non-economic losses on lives, livelihoods, infrastructure, ecosystems, and cultural heritage—particularly in vulnerable coastal communities. According to UNDP (2019), climate risk assessments confirm that climate change is undermining the productivity of Liberia’s agriculture, forestry, and fisheries sectors, along with their supply chains. For example, agriculture is being disrupted by crop losses and failures linked to extreme weather events, shifting rainfall patterns, flooding, rising temperatures, and the spread of pests, weeds, and pathogens. These hazards are driving food insecurity and the loss of livelihoods in many communities. Actions and Policy Measures • Develop a National Loss and Damage strategy aligned with the Warsaw International Mechanism and its bodies (Executive Committee, Santiago Network for Averting, Minimizing and Addressing Loss and Damage, and the Loss and Damage Fund). • Request technical assistance from the Santiago Network to do a comprehensive national risk assessment for slow onset (sea-level rise) and extreme events (flood). • Set up a Loss and Damage Registry at the National Disaster Management Agency/Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia to document climate-related losses (both economic and non-economic). • Incorporate loss and damage into national disaster frameworks. • Seek international funding for Loss and Damage through the Loss and Damage Fund and other multilateral and bilateral sources. **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. |
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| Liberia | 5. MONITORING, REPORTING ANDVERIFICATION (MRV). To ensure inclusive and gender-responsive reporting, the strengthened MRV system willintegrate a gender perspective. This will involve the collection and analysis of genderdisaggregateddata across all relevant sectors, and the development and formal inclusion ofspecific indicators to track women’s participation and access to resources in all national climatereports |
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| Liberia | 3.2. Mitigation Commitments under NDC 3.0: Energy: Mitigation targets Liberia commits to reduce GHG emissions from the energy sector (excluding the transport sector) by 48.5% below sectoral BAU levels by 2035. Sectoral targets include: • Increasing the share of on-grid renewable energy to at least 75% from the current share of 67% by installing 150 MW of RE plants: o Installation of grid-connected medium Hydro Power Plant with 20 MW capacity for rural electrification. o Development of 100 MW capacity of solar photovoltaic (PV) with battery energy storage system (BESS) with an output of 2 GWh/year. • Development of 50 MW of Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) projects under private sector ownership or operation and maintenance. • 20% improvement in energy efficiency across public sector institutions by 2035 through systematic demand-side energy management. • Providing clean cooking solutions to 200,000 households to reduce emissions from traditional biomass use. Mitigation Actions and Policy Measures The following actions and policy measures shall be undertaken to meet the targets: • Revise the National Energy Policy to enhance focus on renewal energy sources including mini-hydro dams, solar and wind. • Develop a Renewable Energy Act to scale up and diversify the uses of renewables. • Develop Incentives Policy for renewable energy investment by 2027. • Develop a roadmap to increase renewable energy generation to at least 30% after 2035 through the new private investment enabling environment. • Calculate real costs and tariffs in the 3 segments to be unbundled: generation, transmission distribution by 2027. • Reduce total electricity loss to 19% by 2035 through the improvement of the distribution network (technical losses) and the implementation of a social tariff (nontechnical losses). • Investigate social subsidies to support the introduction of social tariffs to be implemented by 2027. • Implement a government-wide building energy management program with real-time tracking, efficiency upgrades, capacity building, and renewable energy integration to phase out diesel use particularly in energy-intensive public institutions. • In keeping with the Energy Compact, mobilize by 2035, US$70 million of private capital for utility-scale solar and another US$80–100 million for distributed renewable energy (DRE) and clean cooking. • Develop, adopt and enforce Minimum Energy performance standards (MEPS), promote labeling and reduce leakage for cooling and heating appliances to improve energy efficiency by 2035. • By 2035, ensure 5% transition from traditional biomass stoves to cleaner cooking solutions, such as LPG, electric, biogas, or advanced biomass stoves by implementing programs to disseminate and finance clean cooking technologies to replace wood stove and burners to reduce emissions from biomass burning in households. • Develop a national clean cooking strategy, in line with the Energy Compact, with 2035 and 2035 targets for (i) increasing access to clean cooking solutions and (ii) for reduced levels of indoor air pollution including black carbon. **Expanding access to clean and efficient household energy in Liberia is likely to benefit women by easing unpaid care burdens and improving health through safer, more sustainable cooking and energy solutions. |
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| Liberia | 3.2. Mitigation Commitments under NDC 3.0: Forestry: Mitigation Targets Liberia’s commitment to reduce LULUCF emissions is to reduce GHG emissions from forest conversion by 45% below BAU levels for forestry by 2035. Sectoral targets include: • Reduce the national deforestation rate by 10% by 2035 from the 2022 baseline. • Commencing 2026, plant an average of 600 ha per year to enhance forest carbon stocks. • Enhance natural regeneration of 5% priority degraded forests by 2035. • Enhance carbon stocks through annual carbon sequestration by planting at least 100,000 trees in urban areas by 2035. • By 2029, establish at least 4 new protected areas covering at least 200,000 ha in line with the Land Rights Act • By 2035, ensure that 30% of the annual reforested land to enhance forest carbon stocks is carried out on secured customary lands, with participatory land use planning involving women. Mitigation Actions and Policy Measures The following actions and policy measures shall be taken to meet the targets: • Increase the urban canopy covers in 5 cities (Paynesville, Monrovia, Buchanan, Gbarnga and Gompa) to 50% by planting at least 1,500 trees in each city annually from 2026 to 2035. • Revised and update the national forest policy and implementation strategy by integrating carbon as a significant element of sustainable forest management. • Conserve all High Conservation Value-High Carbon Stock (HCV-HCS) forests within agricultural, tree crop, and commercial forestry concessions, and site new concessions on open/degraded land by 2035 (Link to Agriculture sector). • By 2035, engage at least 3,500 forest dependent communities with strategic messaging about incentives and opportunities to reduce their climate footprint by conserving community forest. • Beginning 2027, conduct at least 5 trainings per year to develop capacity for forest managers, researchers, and forest-dependent communities to implement mitigation actions in the forest sector for uptake of best practices for climate smart forest management, monitoring and conservation, increase forestry research, and enable forest communities to implement improved forestry practices. |
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| Liberia | 3.3 Adaptation Commitments: Health Adaptation Actions and Policy Measures The following actions and policy measures shall be taken to meet the targets: (...) • Promote household and community-level adoption of practices that improve air quality, improve water safety and reduce the risk of disease transmission, while also reducing fuelwood use, such as water filters, water source protection and improved cookstoves (...) • Conduct comprehensive household energy assessment to generate data on household energy consumption and associated emissions and develop and enforce air quality policies based on WHO recommendations to limit black carbon and other particulate matter exposure by 2035. • Ensure the installation of at least one national reference air quality monitor and several lowcost air quality sensors around the country by 2035. **Expanding access to clean and efficient household energy in Liberia is likely to benefit women by easing unpaid care burdens and improving health through safer, more sustainable cooking and energy solutions. |
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| Liberia | 3.3. Adaptation Commitments: Health: Adaptation Targets Liberia’s health system is vulnerable to climate-induced diseases such as malaria, cholera, and respiratory infections. Flooding and heat stress exacerbate public health risks, particularly for children and the elderly (WHO & EPA, 2021). (...) Adaptation Actions and Policy Measures The following actions and policy measures shall be taken to meet the targets: • Train and deploy 1000 community health assistants (CHAs), 500 environmental health technicians (ETHs), and 250 specialists for referral facilities to understand the increased health risks due to climate change vulnerability and how to respond by implementing climate adaptation actions in the health sector by 2035. • Establish 425 community health clubs to improve community-level health care and disseminate information on changing health risks to enhance the response to climate-related diseases by 2035. (...) • Retrofit health facilities and schools with climate resilient WASH infrastructure, backup water storage, promote water, sanitation and hygiene education in schools to build greater resilience in addressing emerging water- and vector-borne diseases caused by climate change. • Strengthen health systems to maintain and deliver essential health services, including sexual and reproductive health, maternal, newborn, and adolescent health services, during and after climate-related disasters and extreme weather events. |
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| Liberia | 3.3. Adaptation Commitments: Freshwater Ecosystem: Adaptation Targets Liberia is endowed with substantial freshwater resources, but climate change threatens their availability and quality through erratic rainfall, droughts, and pollution. Vulnerability assessments point to increasing water scarcity in urban and peri-urban areas (NAP, 2020). The targets include: (...) • Establish 50 WASH inclusive adaptation committees (≥50% women, 20% youth) in high-risk areas; updated policy frameworks. |
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| Liberia | 3.3. Adaptation Commitments: Freshwater Ecosystem: Adaptation Targets Liberia is endowed with substantial freshwater resources, but climate change threatens their availability and quality through erratic rainfall, droughts, and pollution. Vulnerability assessments point to increasing water scarcity in urban and peri-urban areas (NAP, 2020). The targets include: • Map and pilot inclusive drought EWS in vulnerable communities. • Establish government-led participatory mechanism for water sector coordination based on IWRM principles, including a specific focus on the provision of reliable, clean drinking water at the community level. (...) • Improve access to safe water and sanitation under the conditions of a changing climate by the adoption of new technologies and participatory water management at the household and community levels. • Scale basic water access to 90% and safely managed drinking water access to 65% by 2029, emphasizing underserved rural and peri-urban areas. • By 2027, strengthen the Liberian Hydrological Service's capacity to monitor and model climate impacts on water resources, including river flow variability, groundwater recharge, and flood/drought risks. Adaptation Actions and Policy Measures The following actions and policy measures shall be taken to meet the targets: • Ensure at least 50% increased access to climate-resilient drinking water by 2035. • Deploy, by 2028, solar-powered boreholes/ water systems, rainwater harvesting, catchment protection. Address the skill-development needs of the sector, with a particular focus on youth, in close collaboration with national skills development agencies and the private sector. Specific attention to integrating emerging water technologies and innovative climate solutions. • Promote elevated latrines, wetland restoration, and drainage systems in rural communities by 2028. • By 2035, develop a national hydrological monitoring network by deploying 50 automated gauging stations by 2035 to track water availability and quality in climate-vulnerable regions. • By 2028, carry out an assessment of freshwater ecosystems, vulnerability, policies and governance at national and subnational Scales. • Develop Strategic National Integrated Watershed Management Policy and Plan by 2029 • By 2035, promote and enhance riverbank stabilization with native vegetation. • Establish Municipal wastewater treatment plants in urban centers by 2035 • By 2029, review and update the existing Drought preparedness and management plan (2019) and other existing water related laws/policies/regulations and sectors. **Expanding access to clean and efficient household energy in Liberia is likely to benefit women by easing unpaid care burdens and improving health through safer, more sustainable cooking and energy solutions. |
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| Liberia | 3.4. Cross-cutting Areas: Gender: Targets Liberia’s NDC 3.0 recognizes that climate change impacts women and men differently, with women often facing greater risks due to persistent inequalities in literacy, education, access to resources, and decision-making. All gender-responsive climate actions under Liberia’s NDC 3.0 are anchored in the revised National Gender Policy, aligned with ECOWAS and African Union gender frameworks, and consistent with Liberia’s commitments under CEDAW, the Beijing Declaration, and the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan. This ensures policy coherence and maximizes synergies between national development and global gender equality goals... The targets include: • Ensure that all projects under the NDC 3.0 integrate gender-responsive planning and implementation as well as gendered monitoring, evaluation, accountability and learning (MEAL). • By 2035, ensure that the needs of women, marginalized, and other vulnerable groups, including persons with disabilities groups are explicitly addressed and g adaptation priorities, from climate-resilient agriculture to disaster risk management, are grounded in gender-responsive strategies. (...) • Build capacities of gender focal points in climate finance mechanisms as well as private sector sector with the objective of scaling up finance for gender responsive climate action. Actions and Policy Measures The following actions and policy measures shall be taken to meet the targets: • Conduct at least 10 training and capacity building initiatives per year, beginning 2026, to strengthen the technical skills, leadership abilities, and climate knowledge of women and other vulnerable groups, including persons with disabilities, especially in the area of climates-mart agriculture, clean cooking technologies, renewable energy system installation, forest conservation, sustainable fisheries management, waste management, WASH, integrated water management, and clean mobility. • Ensure that women’s participation in the implementation of the NDC is guided by the asset-based “Three-Lens Approach,” which views women as beneficiaries, partners, and leaders in climate action. • In collaboration with UN-Women and other development partners, develop and implement a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) Toolkit for NDC 3.0 projects. The toolkit will provide practical guidelines, checklists, and templates to ensure that all sectoral climate actions are designed, budgeted, implemented, and monitored in a gender-responsive manner, with a focus on achieving equitable outcomes for women, men, girls and boys. (...) |
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| Liberia | 3.4. Cross-cutting Areas: Gender: Targets Liberia’s NDC 3.0 recognizes that climate change impacts women and men differently, with women often facing greater risks due to persistent inequalities in literacy, education, access to resources, and decision-making. All gender-responsive climate actions under Liberia’s NDC 3.0 are anchored in the revised National Gender Policy, aligned with ECOWAS and African Union gender frameworks, and consistent with Liberia’s commitments under CEDAW, the Beijing Declaration, and the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan...The targets include: (...) • Ensure at least 20% of disbursed grant-based climate finance is accessible to women's cooperatives, smallholder farmers, and entrepreneurs by 2035. • Build capacities of gender focal points in climate finance mechanisms as well as private sector sector with the objective of scaling up finance for gender responsive climate action. Actions and Policy Measures The following actions and policy measures shall be taken to meet the targets: • Conduct at least 10 training and capacity building initiatives per year, beginning 2026, to strengthen the technical skills, leadership abilities, and climate knowledge of women and other vulnerable groups, including persons with disabilities, especially in the area of climate-smart agriculture, clean cooking technologies, renewable energy system installation, forest conservation, sustainable fisheries management, waste management, WASH, integrated water management, and clean mobility. (...) |
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| Liberia | 3.4. Cross-cutting Areas: Gender: Targets Liberia’s NDC 3.0 recognizes that climate change impacts women and men differently, with women often facing greater risks due to persistent inequalities in literacy, education, access to resources, and decision-making. All gender-responsive climate actions under Liberia’s NDC 3.0 are anchored in the revised National Gender Policy, aligned with ECOWAS and African Union gender frameworks, and consistent with Liberia’s commitments under CEDAW, the Beijing Declaration, and the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan...The targets include: (...) • Ensure at least 20% of disbursed grant-based climate finance is accessible to women's cooperatives, smallholder farmers, and entrepreneurs by 2035. • Build capacities of gender focal points in climate finance mechanisms as well as private sector sector with the objective of scaling up finance for gender responsive climate action. Actions and Policy Measures The following actions and policy measures shall be taken to meet the targets: (...) • Establish a dedicated climate finance window within the national climate finance architecture to support women-led and women-inclusive climate initiatives with simplified application processes, technical assistance for proposal development, and other measures to remove barriers that exclude women from funding opportunities. |
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| Liberia | 3.4. Cross-cutting Areas: Gender: Targets Liberia’s NDC 3.0 recognizes that climate change impacts women and men differently, with women often facing greater risks due to persistent inequalities in literacy, education, access to resources, and decision-making. All gender-responsive climate actions under Liberia’s NDC 3.0 are anchored in the revised National Gender Policy, aligned with ECOWAS and African Union gender frameworks, and consistent with Liberia’s commitments under CEDAW, the Beijing Declaration, and the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan...The targets include: (...) • Ensure at least 20% of disbursed grant-based climate finance is accessible to women's cooperatives, smallholder farmers, and entrepreneurs by 2035. • Build capacities of gender focal points in climate finance mechanisms as well as private sector sector with the objective of scaling up finance for gender responsive climate action. Actions and Policy Measures The following actions and policy measures shall be taken to meet the targets: (...) • Design and launch a multi-year "Women in Green Technology" training and mentorship program. This program will provide technical skills and business support to women and youth in climate-smart agriculture, installation and maintenance of renewable energy systems (e.g., solar for irrigation and household use), clean cooking technologies, sustainable waste management (e.g., composting and recycling), and climate-resilient construction. |
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| Liberia | 3.4. Cross-cutting Areas: WASH: Targets Liberia's critically low WASH access, only 75% for basic water, 23% for sanitation, 35% open defecation is systemically worsened by climate change, degrading both infrastructure and access to services. Extreme weather events, such as floods, and heavy rainfalls, storms damage WASH infrastructure, reducing the availability of clean water and sanitation facilities. This strains already limited resources, heightens disease risks, and forces vulnerable groups like women/girls into longer, more dangerous water collection journeys. The collision of inadequate coverage and escalating climate shocks creates cascading humanitarian and development crises. (...) Actions and Policy Measures The following actions and policy measures shall be taken to meet the targets: • Develop adaptation projects, costing interventions with partners (e.g., UNICEF) for NDC investment plans and increase public funding to deploy solar-powered water systems. • Implement the Revised National WASH Strategy and the Climate Rationale national plan to scale up climate adaptation solutions (e.g., flood-proof sanitation) and expand private sector participation in sanitation markets. • Promote community-led Climate-Resilient Water Safety Plans and adoption of inclusive and context-appropriate technologies for participatory water/sanitation management. • Integrate WASH Targets in Liberia’s NAP ensuring clear resilience benchmarks (e.g., % of climate-proofed water points). • Ensure WASH infrastructure upgrades are included in Disaster Risk Reduction and emergency preparedness protocols. **UN Women regional/country offices have noted that several key gender-specific components and activities address women's health and rights and incorporate gender-responsive frameworks to reduce the disproportionate burdens women face in health, water collection, and climate impacts. In particular, the Liberia Revised National WASH Strategy / Sector Strategic Plan provides the strategic framework for WASH which emphasizes equitable access as a pillar of "Vision 2030." It also sets specific targets to improve WASH in schools and health clinics, directly affecting girls' education (menstrual hygiene management) and women's safety during childbirth. |
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| Maldives | Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability: Agriculture and Food Security (...) Interventions to boost agricultural incomes and participation in the sector include support for women and young entrepreneurs in marketing products to both locals and tourists, developing context-specific financing products, and diversifying educational opportunities in the sector. Measures to develop high-standard animal husbandry and veterinary care, safeguarding against the entry of plant or animal diseases, and improving stewardship of forests and palm groves are key to sustainable development of the sector. To ensure food security and promote sustainable agricultural development in the face of climate change, the following strategies have been outlined: * Strengthen agribusiness through prioritising infrastructure development in regional markets, agri-input shops, specialised transport vessels, value-added processing facilities and the establishment of cold and dry storage facilities in major regional centers to reduce post-harvest losses and stabilise market prices. * Bolster food security by promoting self-sufficiency in key crops through increasing the local cultivation potential of local crops such as coconuts, diversifying the existing crop-base, incentivising agrotourism interventions, initiating local crop development programmes and developing mechanisms for export opportunities. (...) * Accelerate and mainstream the adoption of innovative and climate-smart agricultural practices including vertical farming, hydroponics, efficient irrigation systems, greenhouse technologies, novel product certifications and agroecological production systems. *Establish agricultural centers in strategic locations and enhancing the existing Agriculture Center as a premier national agriculture extension and research facility. This includes an operational multipurpose national agricultural laboratory, facilities for conducting accredited training programmes, provisions for participatory adaptive research, and facilities for training and demonstrations. * Improve governance within the agriculture, food security, veterinary, and animal welfare sectors by enacting and enforcing current and planned legislation, developing institutional mechanisms to enhance the national plant protection system and integrating ICT systems for real-time data collection and management. **The NDC recognises that women account for 54% of the country's registered farmers (p. 22), and therefore, they are likely to benefit from measures in the agricultural sector. |
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| Maldives | Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability: Agriculture and Food Security (...) To ensure food security and promote sustainable agricultural development in the face of climate change, the following strategies have been outlined: (...) * Build the human resource capacity of the sector by enhancing agricultural training and extension systems, operationalising private agriculture extension and advisory services, improving the local higher education system, incentivising the labor market for local professionals (including youth and women) and introducing professional grading systems. |
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| Maldives | Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability: Public Health Delivering quality healthcare services to a geographically dispersed population has unique challenges which are exacerbated by climate impacts. The small size of most Maldivian islands coupled with the low land elevation exposes critical infrastructure, including health facilities, to hazards such as storm surges, sea swells, and flooding. Forecasted increases in extreme weather events have the potential to disrupt access to emergency services, unless anticipatory action plans are put in place to ensure health facilities can remain operational during and after exposure to climate hazards. Beyond the risks to health infrastructure, shifting weather patterns can result in the spread of more diseases which will expose significant portions of the population, including vulnerable groups, to adverse health risks and impose a greater burden on healthcare services nationwide. (...) Climate proofing of health infrastructure, integrating renewable energy into health facilities, and addressing health emergencies during extreme events remains a significant gap which needs to be addressed through support and capacity building. (...) To safeguard the Maldives from climate-induced health impacts, the following strategies have been outlined: * Enhance the resilience of health infrastructure and health services to withstand the impacts of climate change, such as extreme events, and ensure that healthcare facilities remain operational during and after extreme events. (...) * Improve the national disease surveillance network by integrating climate data. Raise the institutional and human capacity of healthcare personnel to implement the adaptation objectives of the health sector. * Raise the institutional and human capacity of healthcare personnel to implement the adaptation objectives of the health sector. * Support the strengthening of existing and planned legal frameworks across different sectors to ensure that climatic impacts on health are meaningfully considered in national legislation. * Promote scientific research to further investigate the impact of climate change on human health and enable evidence-based decision-making in future policymaking. * Improve awareness on public health issues, especially as it pertains to climate change, with a special emphasis on providing targeted messaging for highly vulnerable groups such as children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. * Strengthen mental health support services, with special emphasis given to psychological distress and trauma caused by extreme events. **According to ILO data (2019), the healthcare sector accounts for 9.45% of women's employment compared to just 3.17% of men's, meaning that measures targeting climate preparedness in the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
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| Maldives | Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability: Fisheries Fisheries constitute the second-largest economic sector in the Maldives, accounting for 90% of Maldivian exports and serving as the primary source of livelihood for Maldivians across the country. (...) The fish harvesting and fish processing sectors operate distinctly. The fish harvesting sector comprises small-scale and artisanal fishers who rely on traditional methods for bait fisheries and other fisheries, making it a predominantly community-based activity. In smaller islands, fish processing and value addition provide an opportunity for income generation, especially for women. Women play a crucial role in value addition to the fisheries product using traditional methods to produce smoked fish (valho mas), rihaakuru and other fish products. In contrast, the fish processed for export operates at a larger scale, focusing on processing and value-adding to fish products for international markets. (...) To safeguard the fisheries sector and ensure sustainable management of marine resources, the following strategies have been outlined: (...) * Enhance the resilience of the fisheries sector by strengthening institutional and human capacity and targeted financial and technological interventions to support the development of the fish harvesting and processing sector. (...) * Enhance efficiency and improve quality of fish caught through innovative technologies for onboard fish handling and live-bait stocking. * Pursue climate-friendly technologies to ensure adaptive management in the fisheries sector. * Diversify the fisheries product portfolio to enhance resilience of the fisheries industry through exploratory fisheries, and strengthening of mariculture sector and value addition capabilities. * Strengthen fisheries research and education to support innovation, and promote higher education and skill development in the fisheries sector. * Strengthen monitoring, control and surveillance capacity of fisheries and ocean resources. |
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| Maldives | Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability: Fisheries Fisheries constitute the second-largest economic sector in the Maldives, accounting for 90% of Maldivian exports and serving as the primary source of livelihood for Maldivians across the country. (...) The fish harvesting and fish processing sectors operate distinctly. The fish harvesting sector comprises small-scale and artisanal fishers who rely on traditional methods for bait fisheries and other fisheries, making it a predominantly community-based activity. In smaller islands, fish processing and value addition provide an opportunity for income generation, especially for women. Women play a crucial role in value addition to the fisheries product using traditional methods to produce smoked fish (valho mas), rihaakuru and other fish products. In contrast, the fish processed for export operates at a larger scale, focusing on processing and value-adding to fish products for international markets. (...) To safeguard the fisheries sector and ensure sustainable management of marine resources, the following strategies have been outlined: (...) * Facilitate innovative financing mechanisms and training programs to improve value addition among small-scale processors, with a focus on women. |
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| Maldives | Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability: Disaster Risk Reduction and Management The Maldives is exceptionally vulnerable to extreme events and climate-related hazards. It faces frequent exposure to a wide range of hydrometeorological threats, including flooding, sea-level rise, storms, torrential rains, storm swells, and cyclones. These hazards pose significant challenges, with over 90% of islands experiencing flooding, and more than 60% reporting severe shoreline erosion in recent years, amid a rising frequency of extreme events. Climate change has intensified the frequency and severity of these events with projections suggesting that these trends will continue, posing escalating threats to the nation’s resilience and sustainable development agenda.(...) The Maldives has taken a proactive approach to disaster management by developing a comprehensive risk reduction strategy, and enhancing multi-hazard early warning systems. To enhance management and implementation of effective disaster risk reduction measures and to reduce climate vulnerability, the following strategies have been outlined: (...) * Strengthen the national disaster management planning and policy framework. * Develop a comprehensive disaster risk and knowledge database to ensure hazard information and disaster management knowledge are easily accessible to communities and stakeholders. * Integrate and streamline National Adaptation Plans and climate information with national and local disaster risk reduction strategies and management plans. * Strengthen and expand the decentralised Community-Based Disaster Risk Management approach to promote locally led efforts and enhance community capacity to respond rapidly and effectively to emerging disasters and hazards. * Enhance disaster preparedness by constructing and maintaining essential disaster infrastructure, including regional emergency centers, temporary shelters, and stockpiles in strategic locations. * Improve access to essential emergency response equipment and provide training on their use. * Continue enhancing the engagement of children, women, and vulnerable groups in the disaster management cycle, provide opportunities for them to develop disaster preparedness skills and ensure access to sufficient psychosocial support. * Strengthen and promote a whole-of-society approach to emergency response and disaster preparedness by building capacity, awareness and disaster response skills. * Bolster multi-hazard risk assessments by developing island and sector-specific risk assessments, hazard maps, and disaster management plans. |
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| Maldives | Driving, Enabling and Implementing Climate Action: Gender, Children, and Youth The integration of clean climate technologies is crucial to achieving the Maldives’ climate targets and policies across all sectors. The unique geography, characterised by scattered low-lying islands, adds significant complexity to deploying and sustaining innovative solutions, often resulting in higher costs. These constraints necessitate the application of climate-resilient and low-carbon technologies tailored to the local context. Notable progress in the sector includes adopting renewable energy technologies, piloting smart technologies, improving energy efficiency, implementing early warning systems, and establishing infrastructure for public transport networks, including the introduction of electric buses. However, achieving long-term ambitious climate goals necessitate scaling up efforts, enhancing local capacities, fostering innovation, and incorporating sustainable traditional knowledge. To enhance the role of technology in addressing climate change, the following strategies have been outlined: * Promote energy-efficient technologies across residential, commercial, and industrial sectors to reduce energy consumption. * Promote smart and climate-resilient Internet of Things (IoT) based solutions. * Promote technologies for electric vehicle deployment by expanding charging infrastructure, introducing battery-swapping solutions, and supporting other innovative technologies to accelerate the transition to electric mobility. * Scale-up energy-efficient and low-emission public transport systems by enhancing infrastructure and integrating clean energy solutions. * Integrate artificial intelligence-driven technologies and applications for efficient climate action. * Strengthen technology transfer and innovation to advance solutions for climate action by fostering international partnerships, leveraging financial instruments, and mobilising technical support. * Promote research, peer learning, and the development of endogenous technologies through pilot projects and local demonstrations to support sustainable solutions tailored to the Maldives’ unique context, by building on local and traditional knowledge. * Enhance climate observation and monitoring systems by adopting advanced meteorological and oceanographic technologies and improving risk forecasting and resilience planning. * Enhance water resource management technologies by advancing desalination systems, integrating innovative rainwater harvesting and storage technologies, deploying infiltration and drainage systems for groundwater replenishment, and modernizing distribution networks. * Improve climate-resilient agriculture technologies by promoting innovative and traditional farming practices, salt-tolerant crops, and controlled environment agriculture whilst facilitating adequate access to technologies to address food security challenges. * Foster gender-responsive technology adoption by ensuring equitable processes that consider stakeholder needs and promote awareness to enable a just transition. * Implement the Climate Technology Action Plan by enhancing stakeholder coordination and establishing support mechanisms to drive sustainable technology adoption for climate adaptation and mitigation. |
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| Maldives | Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability: Enhancing Water Security The Maldives is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world due to its coral island geology and geographical nature, further compounded by the impacts of climate change. These challenges, coupled with the country’s low-lying nature, make it highly vulnerable to climate change and its associated impacts, particularly on its limited freshwater resources. Additionally, the Maldives’ scattered geography and uneven population distribution pose many challenges to the provision of basic services such as water and sanitation. (...) Rainwater harvesting from rooftops is a key source of potable water, particularly among island communities, where it serves as the main supply for drinking and cooking. However, limited space, changes in rainfall pattern, extended dry periods, and safe harvesting remain major challenges for the communities dependent on rainwater for potable use. The Maldives has sought alternative solutions to provide reliable water sources for the communities, through the establishment of infrastructure to enhance water security. (...) To strengthen and enhance water security, the following strategies have been outlined: (...) * Increase access to safe and reliable potable water to the island communities, enhancing resilience and alleviating water stress by mobilising more resources, and increasing investments to fulfil national water and climate targets. * Promotion of integrated water resource management through investment in community and household rainwater harvesting, alongside possible treatment methods such as filtration, incorporating sustainable groundwater use, and desalination by using renewable energy and waste heat recovery. (...) * Develop and implement water security plans that account for the increasing frequency of extreme weather events and their adverse impacts. These plans could include building community water storage facilities, among others, to secure adequate supplies throughout the year. (...) * Promote water research through national institutions by facilitating collaborative opportunities with international partners, to increase readiness for building research capacities on water and climate. (...) * Enhance the promotion of water, sanitation and hygiene education in schools to build greater resilience in addressing emerging water- and vector-borne diseases caused by climate change. (...) * Address the skill-development needs of the sector, with a particular focus on youth, in close collaboration with national skills development agencies and the private sector. Specific attention could be given to integrating emerging water technologies and innovative climate solutions. **As primary providers of domestic labour, women would likely see their care burdens reduced through these measures, which improve access to and management of household water for drinking, cooking, and hygiene. |
Unpaid care work
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Maldives | Enhancing Adaptive Capacity, Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability: Loss and Damage Loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change is a lived reality for the Maldives, as the Maldivian way of life, the identity of its people, and their socioeconomic wellbeing are deeply interlinked with its climate-vulnerable environment. Due to being surrounded by the ocean and the dispersed nature of atoll ecosystems, island communities have long been heavily reliant on their natural environment. For generations, this setting, including the vast ocean and abundant marine life, has played a crucial role in the socioeconomic sphere contributing to livelihoods, export revenues, and food security. These inherent vulnerabilities have been evident in various events, both climatic and non-climatic in nature, throughout the country’s history. Several events, such as severe tidal and storm surges have caused disruptions to daily life and widespread damage to infrastructure and livelihoods. Although not climatic in nature, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami resulted in unprecedented losses of human life and severe devastation, resulting in damages amounting to 62% of the country’s GDP. Due to climate challenges and environmental degradation, some communities have been relocated from their ancestral islands to other islands, resulting in disruptions of livelihoods, and non-economic losses, such as psychosocial impacts and loss of identity. As a result of the worsening impacts of climate change, the Maldives experiences both slow onset and extreme events that result in economic and non-economic loss and damage. Under current conditions, the country is experiencing a higher frequency and increased intensity of extreme events, particularly hydrometeorological hazards such as heavy rainfall, flooding, and storm surges.(…) To enhance ongoing efforts to address loss and damage, the following strategies have been outlined: (…) * Reduce the financial protection gap by expanding insurance schemes, including introducing parametric insurance for smallholders, strengthening national insurers, and improving climate data systems to facilitate swift payouts and rapid recovery for island communities. * Strengthen national capacities and financial mechanisms to effectively access international finance for responding to loss and damage through a variety of instruments and risk management approaches and ensuring efficient and rapid disbursement of contingency funds to enhance financial response and recovery of affected island communities. * Promote research on climate change-related economic and non-economic loss and damage to enhance the understanding of the scale and nature of the loss and damage experienced. * Enhance the delivery of psychosocial support to affected communities as a result of climate impacts such as extreme events and associated loss and damage of climate impacts and associated loss and damage. * Assess tangible and intangible cultural and heritage loss due to climate change. * Enhance the capacity of national and local institutions to address climate-related loss and damage. **Women are likely to benefit from economic measures targeting smallholder farmers because they make up a large share of this group and rely on small-scale farming for income and household food security. |
Economic security
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Loss and damage | Agriculture |
| Maldives | Driving, Enabling and Implementing Climate Action: Gender, Children, and Youth Vulnerable groups, particularly women, children, the elderly, persons with disabilities (PWDs), and migrant workers, are disproportionately affected by climate change. These groups have limited adaptive capacity and are more exposed to climate risks due to inherent vulnerabilities such as age, health, and access to resources. (...) To overcome the challenges faced by vulnerable groups in the face of climate change, the following strategies have been identified: * Strengthen policies and institutional frameworks to address the impacts of climate change on vulnerable groups. (...) * Promote research towards an enhanced understanding of the disproportionate impacts of climate change on vulnerable groups. (...) * Provide and facilitate access to relevant higher education opportunities and skill-development programmes. * Provide career guidance in schools, with special emphasis on employment opportunities to facilitate climate action. * Promote partnerships with local, regional, and international organisations to enable capacity building and knowledge sharing, including opportunities for intergenerational dialogue. * Improve data accessibility and facilitate the participation of youth in climate research. * Enhance outreach and communication on climate change, including through targeted awareness activities, to facilitate the participation of vulnerable groups in climate action. * Facilitate meaningful engagement with vulnerable groups as key stakeholders in decision making processes. * Provide targeted capacity building, including through trainings and skills development for vulnerable groups to effectively participate in climate action. * Strengthen mental health support services for vulnerable groups to address climate induced psychological impacts. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Maldives | Driving, Enabling and Implementing Climate Action: Gender, Children, and Youth Vulnerable groups, particularly women, children, the elderly, persons with disabilities (PWDs), and migrant workers, are disproportionately affected by climate change. These groups have limited adaptive capacity and are more exposed to climate risks due to inherent vulnerabilities such as age, health, and access to resources. (...) To overcome the challenges faced by vulnerable groups in the face of climate change, the following strategies have been identified: (...) * Empower women's participation in key economic sectors through opportunities such as entrepreneurships, and educational and training programmes. (...) * Safeguard women's livelihoods, particularly natural resource-driven activities within the informal economic sector, from the impacts of climate change. (...) * Enhance the capacity of social services to address the gendered impacts of climate change. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Maldives | Driving, Enabling and Implementing Climate Action: Gender, Children, and Youth Vulnerable groups, particularly women, children, the elderly, persons with disabilities (PWDs), and migrant workers, are disproportionately affected by climate change. These groups have limited adaptive capacity and are more exposed to climate risks due to inherent vulnerabilities such as age, health, and access to resources. (...) To overcome the challenges faced by vulnerable groups in the face of climate change, the following strategies have been identified: (...) * Enhance women's meaningful engagement in climate action and participation in decision making, and promote the understanding of women's roles in climate action through targeted communication strategies. * Strengthen organisations that promote women's empowerment, including by facilitating access to financial and technical resources for gender-related programmes and climate change advocacy. (...) * Increase financial and technical resources for gender-related programmes and advocacy initiatives focused on climate change. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Maldives | Driving, Enabling and Implementing Climate Action: Climate Advocacy, Education and Empowerment The Maldives is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change, with the increasing severity and frequency of climate impacts amplifying the need for sustained climate advocacy, education, and empowerment. Given the scale of the issue, a whole-of-society approach is essential: one that equips people with the knowledge to understand climate risks, empowers them to take action, and ensures that climate change remains a priority at all levels of governance. These factors play a critical role in building an informed and resilient society, capable of responding effectively to the climate crisis. (...) To advance climate governance, education, and advocacy, the following strategies have been outlined: (…) * Maintain recognition of the Maldives as one of the most vulnerable countries globally through international advocacy and continued leadership, ensuring that its unique circumstances are given significant prominence in global climate discussions. * Strengthen international and local advocacy to secure investment and the financial support needed for climate action. * Empower Local Councils and community-based organizations by building their capacities to effectively contribute to and implement climate action initiatives at the community level. * Increase the participation of local communities and organisations in climate action by enhancing support, resources, and decision-making opportunities at the local level. * Expand the role of the private sector in climate action by facilitating access to resources. * Mainstream climate education to ensure the effective delivery of climate-related content across all levels of education, including enhancement of educators’ skills through specialised training and professional development programmes. * Strengthen academic and training institutions to integrate climate change into research and education. * Expand climate change research and innovation through technical capacity building, facilitating resources for research, and developing national climate research centres. * Promote awareness and increase access to educational opportunities in sustainability sectors and green jobs, targeting youth and young professionals pursuing higher education. * Conduct locally tailored awareness campaigns focusing on the disproportionate impacts of climate change on vulnerable groups, including women, children, and youth. * Formulate and implement the required legislative framework to ensure compliance with data collection, reporting, and verification of progress on climate action. * Develop and implement a centralised data-sharing and collection platform to improve efficiency, enhance coordination, and foster data integration. * Promote social and environmental safeguards within the public and private sector. |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Marshall Islands | III. Mitigation Priorities: Energy (...) RMI recognizes that women and young people play a significant role in the clean energy transition. RMI is currently establishing the Outer Islands Solar Training for Women programme through the National Energy Office with support from local NGO Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI), supported by funding from the Government of Canada through the NDC Partnership. This is part of RMI’s commitment to increase training, education, and awareness-raising efforts for women and throughout schools to ensure gender equality in access to renewable energy opportunities and empower women and young people with the skills and knowledge necessary to contribute to sustainable energy solutions in their communities and beyond. |
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Marshall Islands | V. Resilient Development: Agriculture (...) The agricultural sector is a key focus area to improve the resilience of the Marshallese, which is identified as one of the five strategic areas supporting the economic development pillar of the National Strategic Plan 2020, and is prioritized in Agenda 2030, especially in the context of national food security. The Agriculture Sector Plan 2021-2031 provides guiding principles which state that agriculture in RMI should contribute to economic, social and environmental sustainability through job creation and food resilience. It is estimated that currently only 20% of the food supply is produced locally. This reliance on imported foods for the diet of Marshallese is a priority issue that the sector plan will address by increasing locally grown foods and improving the engagement of households in agricultural activities. An increase in locally produced food will ensure a healthier diet for the household and in the long term contribute to decreasing incidence of non-communicable diseases. And although given the difficulty of data-gathering and the relatively small amount of agricultural activity, we do not currently measure GHG emissions from agriculture, an increase in locally grown food should also reduce emissions through a decrease in imports. **The Agriculture Sector Plan 2021-2031 includes gender-specific objectives, particularly in Output 4, which promotes women’s engagement in home gardening and adoption of healthy recipes, strengthening their role in household nutrition and improving family diets through increased consumption of locally produced foods. |
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Cross-cutting | Agriculture |
| Marshall Islands | VII: Gender and Human Rights: Gender (...) Achieving gender justice in the context of climate change requires ensuring that women have equal access to decision-making, education, and resources to participate fully in climate adaptation and mitigation strategies. RMI’s objective is to ensure that every Marshallese woman is empowered to lead climate action initiatives and access opportunities without facing gender-based violence, or barriers to participation, fostering an inclusive and resilient society where women’s voices are central in shaping sustainable solutions for their communities and RMI’s future. By addressing the intersection of gender and climate, RMI is committed to creating more inclusive, effective solutions that not only tackle environmental issues but also promote social and economic equity. |
Gender-based violence
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Marshall Islands | VIII. Governance, Institutional Arrangements and Stakeholder Engagement (...) In addition, RMI is committed to promoting gender equality in climate-related decision making. RMI plans for capacity-building programs on gender and climate change to be delivered across the government, education facilities and communities. Data collection disaggregated by sex, age and disability will inform and guide the development and implementation of targeted programs and projects. |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Marshall Islands | IX. Enablers and Corresponding Needs: Capacity-Building (...) In order to scale-up sectoral action and the uptake of low-carbon resilient technology, RMI needs to build and sustain an appropriately skilled workforce through measures such as vocational education, apprenticeships and ongoing training, and long-term advisory support such as mentoring. Importantly, these steps should simultaneously continue to encourage women to join and remain in the workforce in all roles. Moreover, as mentioned in its NAP, RMI intends to undergo a labor market analysis to show current gaps and also future requirements for the private and public sector followed by an implementation and training and capacity building plan to have those skills in the country starting from early age in high school and appropriate scholarships. |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Marshall Islands | VI. Loss and Damage RMI is already experiencing loss and damage, through both extreme and slow onset events, including droughts, food shortages, and the destruction of property and land. This has forced RMI institutions to spend money on recovery, which could otherwise have been spent on other development priorities like health, education and economic development. RMI’s objective is to ensure that every Marshallese citizen that experiences loss or damage as a result of the climate crisis has recourse to public finance in order to respond to, at least, the immediate impacts on themselves and their family. Achieving this objective will require significant resources, particularly as impacts increase. As global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, climatic changes are impacting Marshallese economy and culture. RMI plans to develop a framework for responding to economic and non-economic losses from climate change, with financial support from the Government of New Zealand. Possible losses will include those attributable to climate change-induced redistribution of stocks from Pacific Islands Fisheries Forum Agency (FFA) Members’ Exclusive Economic Zones into the high seas (to the extent that alternative mechanisms are not found to protect FFA Members’ fisheries rights under these circumstances), as well as any climate change-induced reductions in the biomass of these fishery resources. The Marshallese culture is based on land ownership, and the loss of land from climate change endangers our traditional social system. The loss of land equals the loss of identity and societal standing, which threatens the Marshallese social system. Assessment and resource management plans are being conducted across the atolls to inventory the properties, collect the heritage data, identify community cultural experts, and conduct community consultations, in order to document the physical impacts of climate change. The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage is therefore of the essence to SIDS and RMI. Its setup and adequate capitalization should be prioritized in order to address the needs of RMI and others who are facing detrimental impacts to economies and societies. **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. |
Economic security
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Marshall Islands | VIII. Governance, Institutional Arrangements and Stakeholder Engagement (...) RMI is enhancing its policy environment on gender to emphasize its commitment to mainstreaming gender equality in every policy, program, and initiative through the National Gender Mainstreaming Policy (2015), the Ministry of Culture and Internal Affairs Report on “Gender Equality – where do we stand?” (2018), and the more recent Gender Equality Act (2019) and National Adaptation Plan (2023). Additionally, the National Disaster Management Office has initiated a Gender and Protection Cluster to better inform gender-responsive disaster planning and management. |
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| Mauritius | 6.0 CHILDREN, YOUTH AND GENDER Mauritius reaffirms its commitment to integrating gender equality and social inclusion across its climate policies and actions in line with the National Gender Policy 2022–2030 and international frameworks including the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan. Climate change impacts are not gender-neutral; women, youth, and marginalized groups face disproportionate risks due to pre-existing inequalities in access to land, finance, information, and decision-making. As such, the NDC 3.0 adopts a gender-responsive and inclusive approach that recognizes the differentiated vulnerabilities and capacities of women and men in all key adaptation and mitigation sectors such as a low carbon economy, agriculture, water, energy, transport, coastal zone management, circular economy, waste management and disaster risk reduction amongst others. This approach is guided by the Gender Action Plan for Climate Change Mitigation (2025) and aims to ensure equitable participation in climate governance, promote gender-responsive budgeting, and track progress through disaggregated indicators. |
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| Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | 6.2 Water: Table 8: Adaptation Priority Area – Water A9 Increase clean drinking water access to 100% by 2035 • A9.1: Repair, maintain and expand water distribution system for unserved and underserved communities • A9.2: Install water purification systems in underserved areas (including solar-powered water purification systems for dispensaries) Conditionality: Conditional. Goals: SDG3, SDG 6, SDG 13, SDG 17 **Due to the near-universal target for drinking water access, women will likely benefit from this measure through reduced unpaid care demands and health risks. |
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | 8.4 GEDSI FSM demonstrates growing institutional alignment with gender and social inclusion goals. The forthcoming National Gender Equality Policy (2025-2030) will provide a framework for women's leadership, disability inclusion, finance and monitoring, gender-based violence prevention, and equitable participation in governance, health, education, and climate resilience. Gender focal points have been reestablished across ministries, and a Gender Development Unit now operates within the Department of Health and Social Affairs. FSM's commitment is further reinforced by its ratification of CEDAW, alignment with the SDGs, and adoption of the Pacific Gender Roadmap. This agenda is increasingly embedded in climate action. FSM has integrated GEDSI into this NDC and plans to update the Nationwide Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Policy through the GCF-supported National Adaptation Plan project. This agenda is increasingly embedded in climate action. FSM has integrated GEDSI into this NDC and plans to update the Nationwide Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Policy through the GCF-supported National Adaptation Plan project. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Disasters |
| Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | 8.4 GEDSI Local initiatives such as “Women’s Work: Empowering Women to Restore Coastal Ecosystems and Strengthen Food Security in Micronesia” further illustrate how women’s traditional knowledge and community leadership are being mobilized for climate adaptation and resilience. |
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| Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | 5.1.3 Energy - Others Access to clean, safe, and affordable cooking solutions is an important component of FSM’s energy transition with direct implications for public health, gender equality, and emission reduction. Traditional cooking practices in many households rely on biomass or kerosene, contributing to indoor air pollution and disproportionately affecting women and children, particularly in outer islands. Including clean cooking in FSM’s NDC ensures that energy access goals are linked to health and social outcomes while reducing reliance on imported fossil fuels. Table 3: Mitigation Priority Area – Energy - Others (Cooking) M9 - Increase clean cooking adoption using biogas, electric stove, and other clean options to 70% by 2035. Conditionality: Conditional SDG Goals: SDG 7 Expanding access to clean cooking can deliver triple benefits: improved health by reducing household air pollution, gender empowerment through women’s engagement in the clean energy value chain, and climate mitigation by reducing reliance on kerosene and inefficient biomass. The measures outlined are fully aligned with the National Energy Policy 2024–2050 and contribute to FSM’s broader SDG commitments, particularly SDG 7 (universal energy access). However, there is no national program yet that ensures universal adoption and achieving 100% access to clean cooking by 2035 will require scaled-up investment, stronger supply chains, and targeted gender-sensitive programming. |
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Micronesia, Fed. Sts. | 6.5 Public Health Table 11: Adaptation Priority Area – Public Health A26 Provide medical personnel and public health officials with training in the detection and treatment of VBD, WBD, and FBD Conditionality: Conditional SDG Goals: SDG 3, SDG 13, SDG 17 .... At the national level, FSM is implementing a project “SAP051: Increasing resilience to the health risks of climate change in the Federated States of Micronesia” funded by GCF and executed by SPC to strengthen climate-proof public health systems. The project will focus on improving early warning interventions and help in establishing and improving the surveillance of climate-related FBD, WBD, and VBD51. The project will also focus on improving the health workforce and technical staff capacity to monitor and respond to climate-sensitive diseases. FSM is also a part of the newly launched Pacific Vector Network, under the Pacific Public Health Surveillance Network (PPHSN). PVN will help member countries like FSM through digital tools for collecting and sharing vector surveillance data. **The Gender Action Plan for the project through the Green Climate Fund outlines multiple gender objectives of the project, including gender-responsive vulnerability assessments of health and adaptation response capacity, and ensuring women are included in job training sessions and decision making processes. |
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| Mongolia | 3.2.7 Public health Goal. Strengthen the health care system for early detection, warning, and response to climate change related threats to human health. Measures: 1. Enhance institutional capacity for early detection, warning, response, and mitigation of climate change related health threats, 2. Expand data collection and research on climate change-related diseases, and develop surveillance, information management, and early warning systems, 3. Develop climate resilient and environmentally sustainable health care infrastructure, and increase investment in these facilities, 4. Raise public awareness and understanding of the impacts of climate change on human health, and promote health preserving habits and behaviors across population. ***NOTESS: According to ILO data (2023), there are more than three women employed in healthcare sector accounts for every 1 man, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
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| Mongolia | 3.2.8 Social protection and livelihood Goal. Identify groups most vulnerable to climate change, enhance their resilience, strengthen welfare, protection, insurance, and prevention systems to address vulnerabilities, and diversify the economic activities of citizens to ensure sustainable livelihoods. Measures: 1.Implement women and men sensitive policies to empower and prevent risks for households and individuals exposed or vulnerable to climate change, 2.Strengthen child protection systems to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the impacts of climate change, 3.Welfare, protection and insurance preventive system is established to reduce the vulnerability through identification and building capacity of vulnerable to climate change impact groups and increasing their income. By implementing these measures, vulnerable groups will be better covered by social protection, welfare, and insurance systems, and the impacts on people’s livelihoods will be assessed and addressed in a gender sensitive manner. |
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Adaptation | Other |
| Mongolia | 4.1 Inclusive Goal and Measures Ensuring Participation of Children, Youth, Vulnerable Groups, and Gender Equality Goal. When implementing climate change-related goals and measures, ensure the full participation of all stakeholders, including children, youth, vulnerable groups, and men and women, guarantee equal opportunities for everyone, and establish climate-equitable and inclusive governance. Objective 1. Ensure that all social groups, including men and women, persons with disabilities, vulnerable populations, youth, and the elderly are equally involved in climate actions, while integrating gender-responsive principles into climate policy, planning, and implementation. Measures: 1.Ensure both men and women, as well as vulnerable communities are represented in climate related policy-making committees and climate governance structures, fostering gender-balanced decision-making in environmental sectors, ... 4.Enhance the capacity of the vulnerable communities, while ensuring equal access to natural resources, technologies, and decision-making for both men and women as well as the youth, people with disability and indigenous groups, |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Mongolia | 4.1 Inclusive Goal and Measures Ensuring Participation of Children, Youth, Vulnerable Groups, and Gender Equality Goal. When implementing climate change-related goals and measures, ensure the full participation of all stakeholders, including children, youth, vulnerable groups, and men and women, guarantee equal opportunities for everyone, and establish climate-equitable and inclusive governance. Objective 1. Ensure that all social groups, including men and women, persons with disabilities, vulnerable populations, youth, and the elderly are equally involved in climate actions, while integrating gender-responsive principles into climate policy, planning, and implementation. Measures: ... 2. Facilitate market access for small-scale businesses led by both men and women, supporting climate-resilient production and sustainable value chains, 3. Develop a digital platform to disseminate traditional eco-friendly pastoral livestock management practices and modern adaptive technologies and innovations among young herders, 4. Enhance the capacity of the vulnerable communities, while ensuring equal access to natural resources, technologies, and decision-making for both men and women as well as the youth, people with disability and indigenous groups, 5. Provide climate education and training so that youth can make informed contributions and include the climate educational content in the secondary education, TVET, and tertiary education, 6. Allocate dedicated funding for participation of vulnerable communities in NDC processes and for climate actions led by these groups. |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Mongolia | 4.1 Inclusive Goal and Measures Ensuring Participation of Children, Youth, Vulnerable Groups, and Gender Equality Goal. When implementing climate change-related goals and measures, ensure the full participation of all stakeholders, including children, youth, vulnerable groups, and men and women, guarantee equal opportunities for everyone, and establish climate-equitable and inclusive governance. (...) Objective 2. In line with Article 7.5 of the Paris Agreement, promote, respect, and consider gender equality and women’s rights in all climate adaptation and mitigation measures by integrating gender-responsive approaches. Under this objective, 3 measures are planned for implementation. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Mongolia | 4.2 Establish a favorable legal, institutional and financial environment, and provide stakeholders with knowledge and information Goal. Improve the favorable legal, institutional, and financial environment necessary to achieve NDC3.0 targets and action, and provide all stakeholders with knowledge and information Target. Improve the legal, policy, and institutional arrangements for climate change adaptation in priority sectors and provide knowledge and information to the relevant parties. Measures: 1. Improve the policy, legal, structural, and organizational environment for implementation of the climate response actions in priority environmental, social, and economic sectors, 2. Improve the structural and organizational environment for implementation of the climate response actions in priority environmental, social, and economic sectors, 3. Allocate dedicated funding to mitigation and adaptation measures identified in NDC3.0 in its implementation plan, including gender-responsive initiatives, 4. Leverage international climate finance mechanisms and foster public-private partnerships to sustain climate efforts, 5. Strengthen the knowledge and capacity of stakeholders of the environmental, social, and economic sectors on climate change adaptation, and provide information by expanding research activities. |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Montenegro | Information to Facilitate Clarity, Transparency, and Understanding of the Updated Nationally Determined Contribution of Montenegro for the Timeframe 2025-2035: 4: Planning processes: (a) Information on the planning processes that the Party undertook to prepare its nationally determined contribution and, if available, on the Party’s implementation plans, including, as appropriate: i) Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation and engagement with local communities and indigenous peoples, in a gender-responsive manner: (...) Montenegro aims to achieve gender-balanced participation and encourage the full, equal, effective and meaningful participation and leadership of women and youth at all levels of climate action and decision making. The country will also continue to support their meaningful engagement in climate change decision-making processes, as well as climate education and training, and increase public awareness on climate change. |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Morocco | 3 - Priorités nationales : Vision du Maroc en matière de changement climatique « Rendre son territoire et sa civilisation plus résilients face au changement climatique tout en assurant une transition rapide vers une économie sobre en carbone » La vision du Maroc pour lutter contre les changements climatiques est ancrée dans la Loi-cadre n°99-12 portant Charte Nationale de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable (CNEDD) publiée dans le Bulletin Officiel le 21 mars 2014, qui précise les droits et devoirs inhérents à l’environnement et au développement durable reconnus aux personnes physiques et morales, et proclame les principes qui devront être respectés par l’État, les collectivités territoriales et les établissements et entreprises publics. Outre le renforcement de l’action climatique qui y est clairement énoncé dans son article 1, la Loi-cadre n°99-12 a également pour objectif d’har moniser le cadre juridique national avec les conventions et les normes internationales ayant trait à la protection de l’environnement, y compris la lutte contre les changements climatiques. Cette volonté politique est aussi confirmée par les stratégies et plans nationaux : (...) Le Plan National Stratégique d’Adaptation (PNSA 2030) vise à rendre la planification de l’adaptation socialement inclusive, sensible au genre et flexible, tout en soutenant les actions d’adaptation prioritaires dans les secteurs et écosystèmes les plus vulnérables aux impacts climatiques. Le PNSA a pour objectif de soutenir les décideurs politiques et les parties prenantes à tous les niveaux (national, territorial et local) dans le développement et la mise en œuvre, des politiques et mesures cohérentes et efficaces. // 3 - National Priorities: Morocco’s Vision on Climate Change "To make its territory and its civilization more resilient to climate change, while ensuring a rapid transition toward a low-carbon economy." Morocco’s vision for combating climate change is anchored in Framework Law No. 99-12 establishing the National Charter for the Environment and Sustainable Development (CNEDD), published in the Official Gazette on March 21, 2014. This law sets forth the rights and duties regarding the environment and sustainable development—recognized for both natural and legal persons—and proclaims the principles that must be upheld by the State, local authorities, and public institutions and enterprises. In addition to strengthening climate action—which is clearly articulated in its Article 1—Framework Law No. 99-12 also aims to harmonize the national legal framework with international conventions and standards pertaining to environmental protection, including the fight against climate change. This political commitment is further affirmed by various national strategies and plans: (...) The National Strategic Adaptation Plan (PNSA 2030) aims to make adaptation planning socially inclusive, gender-sensitive, and flexible, while supporting priority adaptation actions within the sectors and ecosystems most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The objective of the PNSA is to support policymakers and stakeholders at all levels—national, regional, and local—in the development and implementation of coherent and effective policies and measures. |
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Morocco | 3.2.1.Genre et égalité : Cadres politiques et institutionnels d’intégration du genre (...) Parallèlement, le Haut-Commissariat au Plan (HCP), l’organisme national chargé de la production et de la diffusion des statistiques officielles, s’est engagé depuis 2019, dans le cadre du programme global de l’ONU Femmes « Les femmes comptent » à rendre les statistiques genre disponibles, accessibles et analysées. // 3.2.1.Gender and equality: Policy and institutional frameworks for gender mainstreaming (...) At the same time, the High Commission for Planning (HCP), the national body responsible for producing and disseminating official statistics, has been committed since 2019, as part of UN Women's global programme ‘Women Count’, to making gender statistics available, accessible and analysed. |
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| Morocco | 3.2.1.Genre et égalité : Engagements internationaux et diplomatie climatique genrée Sur le plan international, le Maroc est résolument engagé dans la diplomatie climatique genrée. Le Royaume a ratifié l’Accord de Paris et s’est aligné sur plusieurs initiatives internationales telles que le Plan d’action de Lima sur le genre, ainsi que les Objectifs de Développement Durable, en particulier l’ODD 5 relatif à l’égalité des sexes et l’ODD 13 sur l’action climatique. Lors de la COP28 à Dubaï, le Maroc a réaffirmé son engagement en signant la Déclaration du« Partenariat pour les transitions justes et une action climatique sensibles au genre ». Ces engagements se traduisent concrètement dans sa CDN 3.0, où l’égalité du genre devient un principe transversal. // 3.2.1.Gender and equality: International Commitments and Gender-Responsive Climate Diplomacy On the international stage, Morocco is resolutely committed to gender-responsive climate diplomacy. The Kingdom has ratified the Paris Agreement and has aligned itself with several international initiatives, such as the Lima Work Programme on Gender, as well as the Sustainable Development Goals—specifically SDG 5 on gender equality and SDG 13 on climate action. During COP28 in Dubai, Morocco reaffirmed its commitment by signing the Declaration on the "Partnership for Just Transitions and Gender-Responsive Climate Action." These commitments are concretely reflected in its NDC 3.0, wherein gender equality serves as a cross-cutting principle. Morocco is determined to adhere to the guidelines of the Lima Work Programme on Gender and its action plan (which was extended for 10 years during COP29 in Baku at the end of 2024), as well as the new Gender Action Plan currently under negotiation. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Morocco | 3.2.4. Emploi et Développement Humain: Le Royaume du Maroc considère l’emploi décent et le développement humain comme des fondamentaux indissociables de la mise en oeuvre de sa CDN 3.0. La transformation vers une économie verte et résiliente constitue une opportunité unique pour créer des emplois de qualité, renforcer les compétences, sécuriser les moyens de subsistance et réduire les inégalités sociales et territoriales. Emplois décents et inclusifs La CDN 3.0 place la création et le maintien d’emplois verts et durables au coeur des politiques publiques, en ciblant les secteurs stratégiques tels que les énergies renouvelables et l’efficacité énergétique, l’agriculture durable, la gestion des déchets, l’économie circulaire et l’écoconstruction. Un plan national de formation et de reconversion permettrait d’accompagner la main-d’oeuvre vers de nouvelles compétences, en donnant la priorité aux jeunes, aux femmes et aux travailleurs dans les secteurs vulnérables. // 3.2.4. Employment and Human Development The Kingdom of Morocco considers decent employment and human development to be fundamental and inseparable from the implementation of its NDC 3.0. The transition to a green and resilient economy is a unique opportunity to create quality jobs, strengthen skills, secure livelihoods and reduce social and territorial inequalities. Decent and inclusive jobs The NDC 3.0 places the creation and maintenance of green and sustainable jobs at the heart of public policy, targeting strategic sectors such as renewable energy and energy efficiency, sustainable agriculture, waste management, the circular economy and eco-construction. A national training and retraining plan would help the workforce acquire new skills, giving priority to young people, women and workers in vulnerable sectors. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Morocco | Annexe 2 : Liste des projets d’adaptation répartis entre engagements inconditionnel Secteur: Foresterie 40. Gestion durable Projet: Distribution de fours améliorés pour la réduction de la consommation du bois énergie. (I/C) : C Mesures: Distribution des fours améliorés aux ménages des zones rurales fortement dépendantes du bois énergie, en priorité dans les zones de dégradation forestière élevée Coût (MUSD) : 2,00 Aléas/risques climatiques ciblés: Incendies de forêt, sécheresse et érosion. // Appendix 2: List of adaptation projects broken down by unconditional commitments Sector: Forestry 40. Sustainable management Project: Distribution of improved stoves to reduce wood energy consumption. (U/C): C Measures: Distribution of improved stoves to households in rural areas heavily dependent on wood energy, with priority given to areas of high forest degradation. Cost (MUSD): 2.00 Targeted climate hazards/risks: Forest fires, drought, and erosion. **Expanding access to improved household stoves in Morocco is likely to benefit women by easing unpaid care burdens of firewood and fuel collection. |
Unpaid care work
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| Morocco | Annexe 2 : Liste des projets d’adaptation répartis entre engagements inconditionnel Secteur: Biodiversité 84: Garantir pleinement la représentation et la participation entière, équitable, inclusive et effective des populations locales, des femmes et des jeunes dans la prise de décision liée à la biodiversité. (I/C) : I Projects: Mécanisme national garantissant la participation équitable et inclusive des populations locales, des femmes et des jeunes dans les décisions sur la biodiversité Mesures: Mise en place de plateformes inclusives de consultation et de dialogue pour assurer la participation effective des populations locales, des femmes et des jeunes dans les processus décisionnels liés à la biodiversité. Coût (MUSD) : 3,00 Aléas/risques climatiques ciblés: Contribution à la résilience des écosystèmes // Annex 2: List of adaptation projects broken down by unconditional commitments Sector: Biodiversity 84: Fully ensure the full, equitable, inclusive, and effective representation and participation of local communities, women, and youth in biodiversity-related decision-making. Projects: National mechanism ensuring the equitable and inclusive participation of local communities, women, and youth in biodiversity decisions (U/C) : U Measures: Establishment of inclusive consultation and dialogue platforms to ensure the effective participation of local communities, women, and youth in biodiversity-related decision-making processes. Cost (MUSD): 3.00 Targeted climate hazards/risks: Contribution to ecosystem resilience |
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Biodiversity and ecosystems |
| Morocco | 3.2.1.Genre et égalité : Une transition climatique fondée sur l’égalité Le Royaume du Maroc considère que l’égalité du genre n’est pas un principe secondaire, mais un levier stratégique de la mise en œuvre des objectifs de développement durable et de l’action climatique. En intégrant cette approche dans sa politique climatique, le pays vise à réduire les inégalités structurelles, renforcer la résilience des femmes face aux effets des changements climatiques et valoriser leur rôle dans la transition climatique des territoires. En outre, le Maroc entend poursuivre sa mobilisation à l’échelle nationale et internationale pour promouvoir une action climatique équitable, et renforcer la coopération bilatérale et multilatérale dans les domaines croisés liés au climat et au genre. ... Le genre : composante essentielle dans la CDN 3.0 Fort de ses progrès significatifs en matière d’égalité du genre, le Maroc a entrepris une démarche structurée pour intégrer pleinement la dimension du genre dans la conception et la mise en oeuvre de la CDN 3.0. À cet effet, une consultation approfondie a été organisée, impliquant notamment le réseau interministériel dédié au genre ainsi que les points focaux nationaux surcette thématique. L’objectif était de recueillir des analyses, expériences et recommandations afin de garantir que les politiques climatiques tiennent compte des besoins et réalités différenciés des femmes et des hommes. Les recommandations issues de cette consultation ont mis en lumière plusieurs axes prioritaires, à savoir : •La Gouvernance institutionnelle : Le Maroc reconnait l’importance de se doter d’une plateforme de coordination genre-climat chargée de coordonner les politiques genre-climat des différents acteurs concernés, notamment le Ministère de la Solidarité, de l’Insertion Sociale, et de la Famille (MSISF), le Comité national pour l’égalité des genres et la promotion de la femme ainsi que le réseau interministériel. Ladite plateforme veillera à assurer la participation des femmes, en particulier celles des zones rurales, aux dispositifs de gouvernance climatique aux niveaux local et national ; •Planification et mise en oeuvre opérationnelle : L’intégration systématique de l’impact du genre dans toutes actions climatiques permettra d’impliquer les femmes et de valoriser leurs savoirs afin de concevoir des actions adaptées à leurs besoins, notamment en matière d’accès aux ressources et de transfert des technologies. De même, le Maroc poursuit le développement des programmes spécifiques d’autonomisation économique des femmes dans les secteurs verts, afin de renforcer leur résilience et leur rôle dans les projets d’atténuation et d’adaptation au changement climatique ; •Financement inclusif : Le Maroc oeuvre à étendre la budgétisation sensible au genre aux mécanismes de financement climatique pour renforcer l’attractivité de ces projets visà-vis des financements internationaux. Cela comprend la garantie d’un accès équitable des femmes aux financements, aux programmes de formation verte, ainsi qu’aux outils d’innovation et à l’entrepreneuriat durable ; •Suivi, évaluation et production de données : l’intégration d’indicateurs ventilés par sexe dans le système national de Mesure, Rapportage et Vérification (MRV) et l’utilisation des données désagrégées par sexe permettront d’évaluer les impacts différenciés des politiques climatiques sur les femmes et les hommes, et d’ajuster les stratégies de manière dynamique en fonction des besoins spécifiques des populations. En outre, la collecte de données genrées dans les secteurs clés est à même de favoriser une meilleure traçabilité des actions entreprises, une amélioration de la redevabilité, un ciblage plus efficace des actions publiques, ainsi que la mise en lumière des inégalités et des contributions des femmes à la société et à l’économie. // 3.2.1.Gender and equality: A Climate Transition Founded on Equality The Kingdom of Morocco considers gender equality not as a secondary principle, but as a strategic lever for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals and climate action. By integrating this approach into its climate policy, the country aims to reduce structural inequalities, strengthen women's resilience to the effects of climate change, and enhance their role in the climate transition of local territories. Furthermore, Morocco intends to maintain its mobilization at both the national and international levels to promote equitable climate action, and to strengthen bilateral and multilateral cooperation in cross-cutting areas related to climate and gender. .... Gender: an essential component of NDC3.0 Building on its significant progress in the area of gender equality, Morocco has undertaken a structured approach to fully integrate the gender dimension into the design and implementation of the NDC 3.0. To this end, an in-depth consultation was organized, involving, in particular, the interministerial network dedicated to gender as well as the national focal points on this issue. The objective was to gather analyses, experiences, and recommendations to ensure that climate policies take into account the distinct needs and realities of women and men. The recommendations resulting from this consultation highlighted several priority areas, namely: •Institutional governance: Morocco recognises the importance of establishing a gender-climate coordination platform responsible for coordinating the gender-climate policies of the various stakeholders, including the Ministry of Solidarity, Social Integration and Family (MSISF), the National Committee for Gender Equality and the Advancement of Women, and the interministerial network. This platform will ensure the participation of women, particularly those in rural areas, in climate governance mechanisms at the local and national levels. •Planning and operational implementation: Systematically integrating gender considerations into all climate actions will help engage women and leverage their knowledge to design initiatives tailored to their needs, particularly regarding access to resources and technology transfer. Similarly, Morocco continues to develop specific programs for the economic empowerment of women in green sectors, to strengthen their resilience and their role in climate change mitigation and adaptation projects; •Inclusive financing: Morocco is working to extend gender-responsive budgeting to climate finance mechanisms to enhance the attractiveness of these projects for international funding. This includes ensuring women’s equitable access to financing, green training programs, as well as innovation tools and sustainable entrepreneurship; •Monitoring, evaluation, and data collection: The integration of gender-disaggregated indicators into the national Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) system and the use of gender-disaggregated data will enable the assessment of the differentiated impacts of climate policies on women and men, and allow for the dynamic adjustment of strategies based on the specific needs of populations. Furthermore, the collection of gender-disaggregated data in key sectors can promote better traceability of actions taken, improved accountability, more effective targeting of public actions, as well as the highlighting of inequalities and women’s contributions to society and the economy. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Morocco | Annexe 2 : Liste des projets d’adaptation répartis entre engagements inconditionnel Secteur: Milieux sensibles 56. Renforcer la résilience des écosystèmes oasiens du bassin du Drâa face au changement climatique et améliorer les capacités d’adaptation des communautés locales Projects: Renforcement de la résilience des écosystèmes oasiens et amélioration de la capacité d’adaptation des communautés du bassin du Drâa face au changement climatique. (I/C) : I Mesures: M1: Mobilisation des ressources en eau et recharge dela nappe. Construction et renforcement de seuils, forages, khettaras, ouvrages de collecte des eaux pluviales; M2: Réduction des dégâts liés aux crues à travers la construction de 2 seuils de protection et ouvrages de protection agricole ; M3: Prévention des incendies de palmeraies. Nettoyage de rejets, pistes d’accès, points d’eau, système d’alerte ; M4: Sensibilisation au risque incendie. Kits de première intervention, formation, panneaux ; M5: Lutte contre l’ensablement et valorisation de l’acacia raddiana. M6: Promotion de la biodiversité végétale. Actions sur 1 000 ha + appui à la valorisation ; M7: Valorisation de produits agricoles et diffusion de bonnes pratiques. Formation, promotion, labellisation ; M8 : Diffusion de pratiques agroécologiques. Appui à l’agriculture bio, techniques d’économie d’eau ; M9 : Appui à l’entrepreneuriat agricole. Formations, accompagnement, hackathons ; M10 : Soutien aux femmes et jeunes. Appels à projets, écotourisme, auto-emploi. Coût (MUSD) : 20,00 Aléas/risques climatiques ciblés: Vagues de chaleur, sécheresse, désertification, inondation et incendies de forêt. // Annex 2: List of adaptation projects broken down by unconditional commitments Sector: Sensitive environments 56. Strengthen the resilience of oasis ecosystems in the Drâa basin to climate change and improve the adaptive capacity of local communities Projects: Strengthening the resilience of oasis ecosystems and improving the adaptive capacity of communities in the Drâa basin to climate change. (U/C) : U Measures: M1: Mobilization of water resources and groundwater recharge. Construction and reinforcement of weirs, boreholes, khettaras, and rainwater collection structures; M2: Reduction of flood damage through the construction of two protective weirs and agricultural protection structures. M3: Prevention of palm grove fires. Cleaning of waste, access tracks, water points, and warning systems. M4: Raising awareness of fire risk. First response kits, training, signs; M5: Combating desertification and promoting Acacia raddiana. M6: Promoting plant biodiversity. Actions on 1,000 ha + support for promotion; M7: Promoting agricultural products and disseminating good practices. Training, promotion, labeling; M8: Dissemination of agroecological practices. Support for organic farming, water-saving techniques; M9: Support for agricultural entrepreneurship. Training, support, hackathons; M10: Support for women and young people. Calls for projects, ecotourism, self-employment. Cost (MUSD): 20.00. Targeted climate hazards/risks: Heat waves, drought, desertification, flooding, and forest fires. |
Economic security
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| Nepal | II. Mitigation: A. Quantified Mitigation Targets: 1. Energy: (ii) Cooking and Heating • Target: Expand the use of household-level biogas for cooking to 500,000 households by 2030 and 652,770 households by 2035. • Reference value (2024): 450,770 households. • Costs (USD) and Conditionality: 455,770 households by 2030 and 472,770 households by 2035 is an unconditional target. By 2035: 15 million unconditional and 122.76 million conditional. Of this, by 2030: 3.41 million unconditional and 30.16 million conditional. • Target Year: 2030, 2035. **Expanding household-level biogas for cooking is likely to benefit women by reducing time and labor spent collecting fuel, lessening their unpaid care workload, |
Unpaid care work
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Nepal | II. Mitigation: B. Policies and Measures: 2. AFOLU (i) Agriculture (…) * A total of 5000 ha and 10,000 ha of new Orchards will be established by 2030 and 2035 respectively. * By 2030, carbon sink potential from increasing Soil Organic Matter for various types of agricultural lands, crops and timeframes will be assessed, and efforts to increase Soil Organic Matter to at least 4% by 2035 will be pursued. * Post-harvest losses will be reduced to 15% by 2035, and green enterprise-friendly programs targeting small-holder farmers and marginalized communities will be conducted. * Promote climate friendly crop and livestock production system. A baseline study on crop residue burning in southern Nepal will be conducted by 2030 and crop residue burning will be reduced by 2035. **Women are likely to benefit from economic measures targeting smallholder farmers because they make up a large share of this group and rely on small-scale farming for income and household food security. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Agriculture |
| Nepal | II. Mitigation: B. Policies and Measures: 2. AFOLU: (ii) Land Use, Land-use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) * By 2035, strengthen forest governance by aligning the regulation and operation procedure of community-based forest management groups with sustainable forest management (SFM). * Ensure synergy of forestry sector targets, policies and measures with Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). * By 2030, Nepal will be self-sustainable in wood production through sustainable harvesting practices, and forest-based industries, businesses, skill development and jobs will be promoted. * By 2035, update the data on national forest area and expand the coverage under carbon market through the REDD Implementation Centre (IC) while strengthening the capacity of REDD-IC and Forest Research and Training Centre (FRTC). Promote participation of family-owned and private forests in carbon markets. * By 2030, conduct assessments and strengthen data collection on sustainable forest management to determine the baseline SFM information by various types of forests and regions. Increase coverage of sustainable forest management to 50% of Tarai and Inner Tarai forests and 25% of middle hills and mountain forests, including through the use of funding from REDD+ initiatives and carbon financing. * By 2030, the carbon sink capacity of the land-use sector will be enhanced by operationalizing the Forest Development Fund (FDF) for compensation of plantations and forest restoration, increasing the national average Growing Stock to 168 m3/ha. By 2035, sustainable forest management will be expanded to degraded forest lands, including the Chure region. * Promote agroforestry and reforestation, and strengthen the system for forest monitoring and transparency. * By 2035, private sector engagement and adoption of innovative mechanized technology in sustainable forest management will be ensured through proper policy provision. * By 2035, at least 60% of Nepal's forests will be under community-based management, ensuring 50% women representation and proportional representation of Dalits and Indigenous People in key posts. Fair and equitable benefits from sustainable forest management, watershed management, and biodiversity conservation will be ensured for Local Communities, women, and Indigenous People. * By 2030, data will be collected and analyzed on trees outside forest, including in urban areas, and urban greenery will be promoted. Reduce forest fire incidents through sustainable management of dead wood and forest residue. Strengthen the capacity of Division Forest Offices and develop a common stakeholder coordination mechanism for regulating and controlling forest fires. * Ensure land use changes are sustainable, and land ownership and rights are strengthened. |
Participation and leadership
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Mitigation | Land use and forestry |
| Nepal | II. Mitigation: B. Policies and Measures: 5. Other: (i) Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) * A GHG inventory system will be developed for water supply and sanitation services. Climate-resilient WASH guidelines, technical standards, and norms will be updated to reduce GHG emissions in service delivery and maintenance. * Green School Guidelines will be updated by 2030. By 2035, 100% of schools will formulate and implement action plans for green schools with quality WASH facilities. * By 2030, 50% of the population, including women, children, and socially marginalized people, will benefit from safely managed and low-carbon water supply services. **Per information provided by UN-Women Regional and Country Offices, public health education curriculum on WASH includes reference to GEDSI friendly toilets, menstrual health and hygiene, and equality in accessing clean drinking water, among other topics. |
Unpaid care work
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Mitigation | Water resources |
| Nepal | III. Adaptation: Adaptation Priorities: Overarching Adaptation priorities are given below by NAP areas. The total cost of NDC’s adaptation priorities from 2025 to 2035 are estimated to be in the range of USD 18 to 20 billion dollars, which are expected to be met from international climate finance and support. * Target: Ensure all 753 local governments prepare integrated gender responsive Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA). Target Year: 2035. * Target: Adaptation priorities will be synergized with the LAPA framework for localizing adaptation and integrating adaptation into local government level planning processes for addressing the urgent needs of the climate vulnerable people and communities. Target Year: 2035. * Target: Carry out Sectoral Vulnerability and Risk Assessment of Nepal in all administrative, physiographic and ecological regions integrating differential vulnerability of climate vulnerable people and communities while taking into consideration the best available climate science. Target Year: 2030. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Nepal | III. Adaptation: Adaptation Priorities: Agriculture and Food Security Adaptation priorities are given below by NAP areas. The total cost of NDC’s adaptation priorities from 2025 to 2035 are estimated to be in the range of USD 18 to 20 billion dollars, which are expected to be met from international climate finance and support. (...) * Target: A total of 200 climate-resilient farms will be established by 2030, and this number will cumulatively increase to 500 by 2035. 45,000 households of 80 municipalities will be transitioned towards a resilient agro-ecological based production system. Target Year: 2030, 2035 * Target: Irrigation coverage will be expanded to an additional 463,000 hectares to ensure food and nutrition security. Interbasin water transfer projects will be developed to ensure year-round irrigation in 173,000 ha of agricultural area. Year-round irrigation for farmer and agency managed irrigation system will be ensured through use of reservoirs. Target Year: 2035 * Target: 20 automated groundwater monitoring stations for agriculture fields will be established in Terai districts. Target Year: 2030 * Target: Seasonal, Monthly and Weekly Agro-meteorological advisories will be issued in all 7 provinces by 2030. Target Year: 2030 * Target: Pilot at least two index-based insurance schemes to enhance protection from climate impacts for farmers. Target Year: 2030 **According to ILO data (2024), the agriculture sector accounts for 38.67% of women's employment compared to 17.22% of men's, meaning that measures targeting the agriculture will have a disproportionate impact on women's economic security. |
Economic security
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| Nepal | III. Adaptation: Adaptation Priorities: Water Resources and Energy (...) Adaptation priorities are given below by NAP areas. The total cost of NDC’s adaptation priorities from 2025 to 2035 are estimated to be in the range of USD 18 to 20 billion dollars, which are expected to be met from international climate finance and support. (...) * Target: 200 rainwater conservation reservoirs and 1,000 water source protection schemes will be implemented to promote multiple uses of spring water schemes. Climate resilient water resources and irrigation infrastructure will be integrated into regulations and guidelines. Target Year: 2030. * Target: Technical training programs on adaptation for 200 technical staff of water resources and irrigation sector including GEDSI aspects will be conducted. Target Year: 2035. (...) * Water supply will be improved through rainwater harvesting, resource protection, and spring conservation & restoration, and watershed health in 20 districts will be enhanced through integrated watershed management projects. Target Year: 2035. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Nepal | III. Adaptation: Adaptation Priorities: Health, Drinking Water and Sanitation Adaptation priorities are given below by NAP areas. The total cost of NDC’s adaptation priorities from 2025 to 2035 are estimated to be in the range of USD 18 to 20 billion dollars, which are expected to be met from international climate finance and support. (...) * Target: 90% of the population will benefit from safely managed water supply and sanitation services. Target Year: 2030 * Target: 80% of the population will benefit from spring conservation, restoration, and management. Target Year: 2035 * Target: Climate-resilient WASH systems will be developed through various technologies explored in 3,000 vulnerable households, communities, and systems at the local level by 2030, and 5,000 by 2035. Climate-resilient WASH plans will be formulated at all local levels. Target Year: 2030, 2035. * Target: Rainwater harvesting will be implemented in 500,000 households. Real-time groundwater monitoring and early warning systems will be established in 50 locations. Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) will be implemented in 15 water-stressed areas. Target Year: 2035 * Target: Climate-resilient WASH service capacities and skill development training sessions will be conducted for stakeholders at local, provincial, and national levels. Target Year: 2035 * Target: By 2030, climate-sensitive disease surveillance will be strengthened in 134 sentinel sites, expanding to all municipalities by 2035. Target Year: 2030, 2035 * Target: 500 health professionals will be trained on climate change and health by 2030, increasing to 5,000 by 2035. Target Year: 2030, 2035 * Target: By 2030, one national and three provincial-level Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments (VAA) will be carried out, increasing to two national and seven provincial-level VAAs by 2035. The Health National Adaptation Plan (H-NAP) will be updated by 2030. Target Year: 2030, 2035 * Target: The disease burden attributed to ambient and household air pollution will be reduced to 77/100,000 by 2030 and 60/100,000 by 2035. Target Year: 2030, 2035 **Due to the measure setting a near-universal target of 90% access to water supply and sanitation services, women are likely to benefit from this measure. |
Unpaid care work
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| Nepal | V. Means of Implementation and Support: Climate finance (...) To enhance direct access to climate finance, Nepal will strengthen national systems, build institutional capacity, strengthen climate rationale, and improve project bankability and readiness for international funding. A robust climate finance tracking and accountability framework will ensure transparency and efficiency in fund allocation. Nepal is committed to inclusivity, with policies integrating considerations of Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) including marginalized communities. Systematic integration of climate policies into provincial and local development plans will align with the decentralized financial management structure established under the constitution. The establishment of a carbon market framework will enable Nepal to participate in carbon trading schemes, generating revenue for climate projects and promoting low-carbon development. A national carbon registry will be developed to effectively track and manage carbon credits, supported by comprehensive carbon marketing guidelines to ensure transparency and efficiency. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nepal | VI. Key considerations for NDC implementation: Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) GEDSI principles aim to ensure that all individuals have equal access to resources, services and decision-making processes, and that their diverse perspectives and needs are considered. Nepal adopts GEDSI principles for inclusive NDC targets and the following policy and measures: * By 2030, the GESI and climate change strategy and action plan will be implemented across all government levels in Nepal by allocating budgets, monitoring mechanisms, and improving institutional mechanisms to ensure effective execution. The institutionalization of GEDSI units and focal points with trained personnel and adequate resources will be carried out, and key acts will be enacted to strengthen institutional capacity for GEDSI priorities in NDC implementation. Capacity building for GESI and climate focal points, including youth and underrepresented groups, will be conducted on GEDSI analysis and integration. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nepal | VI. Key considerations for NDC implementation: Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) GEDSI principles aim to ensure that all individuals have equal access to resources, services and decision-making processes, and that their diverse perspectives and needs are considered. Nepal adopts GEDSI principles for inclusive NDC targets and the following policy and measures: * Marginalized and vulnerable groups, including youth, women, children, persons with disabilities, Indigenous Peoples, Dalits, diverse genders and other minority groups will be involved in climate initiatives. Climate-resilient, GEDSI-responsive adaptation plans will be implemented by local governments by 2030, and GEDSI outcomes, budgeted GEDSI action plans, and annual GEDSI audits will be measured by 2035. The capacity of persons with disabilities to engage in climate action will be strengthened by 2030. (...) * The active involvement of children, youth and other marginalized groups in climate actions will be promoted by operationalizing climate platforms in all government tiers with climate champions in sub-national governments by 2030. GEDSI analysis and concerns will be integrated into climate policies by 2035, ensuring accessibility of climate-related documents and information for persons with disabilities and children. (...) * Youth and other marginalized group-led innovation, research, and MSMEs will be supported for sustainable and climate-resilient development. * Research will be conducted and climate landscape analyses for children, youth and other marginalized groups will be integrated into local planning by 2030, ensuring their specific needs and perspectives are considered. Policies and strategies will be informed by studies on the impact of climate change on marginalized groups by 2030. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nepal | VI. Key considerations for NDC implementation: Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) GEDSI principles aim to ensure that all individuals have equal access to resources, services and decision-making processes, and that their diverse perspectives and needs are considered. Nepal adopts GEDSI principles for inclusive NDC targets and the following policy and measures: * Comprehensive tracking and evaluation of climate initiatives will be ensured by establishing monitoring and evaluation systems by 2030. GEDSI-disaggregated data will be collected and managed, and gender, age, disability, and social exclusion assessments will be integrated into monitoring systems by 2035. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nepal | VI. Key considerations for NDC implementation: Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) GEDSI principles aim to ensure that all individuals have equal access to resources, services and decision-making processes, and that their diverse perspectives and needs are considered. Nepal adopts GEDSI principles for inclusive NDC targets and the following policy and measures: * The provisions related to Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE), and the Lima Work Programme on Gender under the UNFCCC will be incorporated into policies by 2030. (...) * Progress reviews and stock takes of GEDSI Policies or Strategies will be conducted by 2030 to evaluate effectiveness and identify areas for improvement. Inclusive ACE strategy and action plan will be prepared and implemented, emphasizing inclusion and participation of all communities including marginalized groups in climate actions. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nepal | VI. Key considerations for NDC implementation: Gender Equality, Disability and Social Inclusion (GEDSI) GEDSI principles aim to ensure that all individuals have equal access to resources, services and decision-making processes, and that their diverse perspectives and needs are considered. Nepal adopts GEDSI principles for inclusive NDC targets and the following policy and measures: * Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) Implementation Guidelines will be implemented effectively by 2030, ensuring meaningful participation of Indigenous Peoples and other marginalized groups in climate projects. Indigenous Peoples’ and other marginalized groups’ customary institutions and practices will be recognized and addressed in policies, plans and programs by 2035. **Per UN Women Regional and Country Offices, FPIC implementation guidelines ensures the participation of women, through social quotas to ensure their voices are heard and included in decision making. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nepal | II. Mitigation: A. Quantified Mitigation Targets: 1. Energy: (ii) Cooking and Heating • Target: Expand the use of electric cookstoves to 2.1 million households and an additional 15,000 institutions and firms. • Reference value (2024): 400,000 households. • Costs (USD) and Conditionality: Use of electric cookstoves in total 500,000 households and an additional 1,500 institutions are unconditional targets. By 2035: 8.14 million unconditional and 126.3 million conditional. • Target Year: 2035 **The introduction of electric cookstoves is likely to benefit women by reducing time and labor spent collecting fuel, lessening their unpaid care workload. |
Unpaid care work
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Nepal | II. Mitigation: A. Quantified Mitigation Targets: 1. Energy: (ii) Cooking and Heating • Target: Expand the use of improved cookstoves (ICS) to 750,000 households by 2030 and 1 million by 2035 for cooking. • Reference value (2024): 127,703 households. • Costs (USD) and Conditionality: Use of ICS in total 227,703 households by 2030 and 277,703 households by 2035 is an unconditional target. By 2035: 7.38 million unconditional and 35.54 million conditional. Of this, by 2030: 4.92 million unconditional and 25.72 million conditional • Target Year: 2030, 2035. **The introduction of improved cookstoves is likely to benefit women by reducing time and labor spent collecting fuel, lessening their unpaid care workload. |
Unpaid care work
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Nepal | IV. Loss and Damage (...) Nepal is committed to addressing the wide-ranging economic and non-economic climate impacts across sectors, including on infrastructure and human settlements, agriculture and food security, water resources and hydropower, health (including climate-sensitive diseases, and physical and mental health risks), education, ecosystem and biodiversity (including endangered flora and fauna), culture and tourism, as well as employment, businesses (such as MSMEs), livelihood opportunities and labor productivity. Nepal recognizes that climate impacts are more acutely felt by vulnerable groups including women, the differently able, marginalized groups and the economically disadvantaged. (...) Nepal will also ensure that its planning and response to climate change-induced loss and damage will be GEDSI-sensitive. Nepal’s will pursue the following actions related to loss and damage: * Strengthen capacity and institutional landscape, including coordination and synergy, in alignment with national and international mandates related to loss and damage. * Establish and implement a federally integrated framework for data to ensure comprehensive information collection (including on major extreme and slow onset events and their economic and non-economic losses and damages), management, archiving, sharing (including, where possible, transboundary sharing), accessing, and reporting of loss and damage data and information. The data will be disaggregated by gender, disability and other key dimensions. * Enhance its National Framework on Climate Change Induced Loss and Damage to ensure comprehensiveness (including non-economic as well as hazard specific losses and damages) and establish a robust implementation mechanism. * Strengthen and update its relevant policies to ensure the inclusion of climate-induced displacement and risk-sensitive resettlement planning * Strengthen research on extreme events and slow-onset events, including on cascading and compounding hazards and risks. * Strengthen capacity and institutional landscape, including coordination and synergy, in alignment with national and international mandates related to loss and damage. * Strengthen the technical capacity of climate- and disaster risk reduction- relevant government, non-government and private sector institutions to effectively utilize relevant new and emerging technologies. * Integrate and strengthen its loss and damage reporting in its national communications, BTRs and other national reporting systems. * Take measures to strengthen the fiduciary standards and enhance the environmental and social safeguards of designated direct access and implementing entities to fully benefit from the direct, rapid, and simplified access offered by the FRLD. |
Economic security
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Nicaragua | Política Nacional de Cambio Climático Es un instrumento que ofrece el marco estratégico de largo plazo para guiar las transformaciones que Nicaragua ha impulsado y desarrollado para hacer frente a los desafíos del cambio climático. Se encuentra vigente y, en el Pilar 2: Medidas Integradas de Mitigación, incorpora cinco políticas y sus correspondientes líneas de acción para la gestión de la mitigación en el país. Contiene políticas, estrategias y acciones transformadoras, que ratifican la ruta de crecimiento económico, la defensa y restitución de los derechos de las familias nicaragüenses con reducción de la pobreza y las desigualdades. Contiene 12 lineamientos estratégicos esenciales para seguir cambiando Nicaragua, dando continuidad a las políticas, programas y proyectos exitosos que se han desarrollado. Además, incorpora nuevos elementos para responder al complejo contexto mundial y nacional. // National Climate Change Policy This policy provides a long-term strategic framework to guide the transformations Nicaragua has promoted and developed to address the challenges of climate change. It is currently in effect and, under Pillar 2: Integrated Mitigation Measures, incorporates five policies and their corresponding lines of action for mitigation management in the country. It contains transformative policies, strategies, and actions that reaffirm the path of economic growth, the defense and restoration of the rights of Nicaraguan families, and the reduction of poverty and inequality. It includes 12 essential strategic guidelines to continue transforming Nicaragua, building upon successful policies, programs, and projects already implemented. Furthermore, it incorporates new elements to respond to the complex global and national context. **The National Climate Change Policy includes gender equality as one of ten principles, and integrates gender across four of its five pillars, through seven lines of action (integrate gender in climate change adaptation, integrate gender-based violence prevention strategies into risk management and reconstruction programs, strengthen role of women in ecosystem conservation actions, recognize role of rural women in climate change and strengthen their leadership, leverage role of women in changing consumption patterns in relation to renewable energy, and assessing loss and damages by climate change to women and girls using gender and age disaggregated data). |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nicaragua | Programa Forestal Nacional (2020 – 2030) El Programa Forestal Nacional (PFN) es el principal instrumento de planificación y gestión del sector forestal nicaragüense y operativiza la Política Nacional de Desarrollo Sostenible. Este se articula con los principales instrumentos de gestión ambiental a nivel regional y a nivel nacional, así como con las principales políticas públicas impulsadas por el Gobierno de Nicaragua. Permite fomentar acciones para la mitigación y adaptación del cambio climático, reducir la deforestación y degradación forestal, contribuye en las estimaciones de captura de carbono y es clave en la identificación de acciones para promover el desarrollo de cadena de valor de la madera y otros productos forestales. Su objetivo es brindar los lineamientos que contribuyan a promover la conservación y restauración del paisaje forestal de Nicaragua (ecosistemas forestales) a través del ordenamiento y manejo forestal sostenible; asegurando la contribución a la mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático y la protección a la Madre Tierra, con la participación activa de los sectores productivos, pueblos originarios y afrodescendientes, la familia y la comunidad, priorizando jóvenes y mujeres, con acceso a incentivos congruentes con la Política de Desarrollo Forestal del País. Se divide en ocho subprogramas que atienden de manera dinámica al sector y sus lineamientos contribuirán significativamente al cumplimiento de la meta en UTCUTS de la NDC: •Subprograma 1: Gobernanza e institucionalidad forestal. •Subprograma 2: Plantaciones forestales y agroforestales •Subprograma 3: Manejo y Conservación Forestal •Subprograma 4: Gestión y generación del conocimiento forestal (investigación y tecnología) •Subprograma 5: Desarrollo de la industria, cadena de valor, comercio e inversión forestal •Subprograma 6: Dendroenergía (leña y carbón vegetal) •Subprograma 7: Cambio climático y resiliencia de los bosques •Subprograma 8: Generación y análisis de información para el reporte y la toma de decisiones // National Forestry Program (2020–2030) The National Forestry Program (NFP) serves as the primary planning and management instrument for Nicaragua’s forestry sector and operationalizes the National Policy on Sustainable Development. It is integrated with key environmental management instruments at both the regional and national levels, as well as with the major public policies promoted by the Government of Nicaragua. The Program facilitates actions for climate change mitigation and adaptation, reduces deforestation and forest degradation, contributes to carbon sequestration estimates, and plays a pivotal role in identifying actions to foster the development of value chains for timber and other forest products. Its objective is to provide guidelines that contribute to promoting the conservation and restoration of Nicaragua’s forest landscape (forest ecosystems) through sustainable forest planning and management. In doing so, it ensures a contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as the protection of Mother Earth, through the active participation of productive sectors, indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants, families, and communities—with priority given to youth and women—while ensuring access to incentives consistent with the country’s Forest Development Policy. The Program is structured into eight subprograms that dynamically address the sector; their guidelines will contribute significantly to achieving the LULUCF (Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry) target outlined in the country’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC): • Subprogram 1: Forestry Governance and Institutional Framework • Subprogram 2: Forest and Agroforestry Plantations • Subprogram 3: Forest Management and Conservation • Subprogram 4: Management and Generation of Forestry Knowledge (Research and Technology) • Subprogram 5: Industry Development, Value Chains, Trade, and Forestry Investment • Subprogram 6: Dendroenergy (Firewood and Charcoal) • Subprogram 7: Climate Change and Forest Resilience • Subprogram 8: Generation and Analysis of Information for Reporting and Decision-Making |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Land use and forestry |
| Nicaragua | Política centroamericana de gestión integral de riesgo de desastre 2015 – 2030 Aprobada en la XXXV Reunión Ordinaria de jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de los países del SICA, el 30 de junio de 2010. La Política centroamericana de gestión integral de riesgo de desastre CGIR14 ajustada y armonizada con los marcos conceptuales y de acción derivados del Marco de Sendai en materia de reducción de riesgo de desastres, tienen como desafío generar en la presente y las futuras generaciones, una Región Resiliente en armonía con el ambiente para el pleno desarrollo de la vida, reduciendo la pobreza y las desigualdades, y así avanzar hacia el logro de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), con una perspectiva holística, integradora y multidimensional. El objetivo general es fomentar la Gestión Integral de Riesgo de Desastres en el desarrollo de los países de Centroamérica, contribuyendo a la competitividad de los modelos de producción y la protección del ambiente, mediante el desarrollo de capacidades para prevenir, reducir, afrontar y lograr la pronta recuperación ante desastres, para asegurar la sostenibilidad y el bienestar de la población, desde un enfoque integral (multisectorial y territorial) de respeto y garantía de los derechos humanos, considerando la multiculturalidad, la inclusión y la equidad de género. // Central American Policy on Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management 2015–2030 Approved at the 35th Ordinary Meeting of Heads of State and Government of the SICA countries on June 30, 2010. The Central American Policy on Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management (CGIR)—adjusted and harmonized with the conceptual and action frameworks derived from the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction—faces the challenge of fostering, for both present and future generations, a Resilient Region in harmony with the environment to ensure the full development of life, while reducing poverty and inequalities, and thereby advancing toward the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a holistic, inclusive, and multidimensional perspective. The general objective is to foster Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management within the development processes of Central American countries, contributing to the competitiveness of production models and the protection of the environment. This is to be achieved through capacity building aimed at preventing, reducing, and responding to disasters—as well as ensuring rapid recovery—in order to safeguard the sustainability and well-being of the population, utilizing a comprehensive (multisectoral and territorial) approach that respects and guarantees human rights, while taking into account multiculturalism, inclusion, and gender equity. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Disasters |
| Nigeria | 4. The NDC development process: Table 11 | Adaptation measures and actions - Food and Agriculture Decision 5/CMA.1 paragraph 63 (b): Attaining climate-resilient food and agricultural production and supply and distribution of food, as well as increasing sustainable and regenerative production and equitable access to adequate food and nutrition for all. Measures – Crops and Livestock 1. Undertake an Impact, Risk, and Vulnerability Assessment for the Food and Agriculture sector by 2030 2. Develop and regularly update a risk and vulnerability atlas 3. Promote novel management approaches to cope with climate change 4. Develop early warning systems and meteorological forecasts to lower impact of climate extremes 5. Reduce pre- and post-harvest food losses by 50%. 6. Develop and publicise the adoption of risk financing mechanisms 7. Increase area under improved crop production systems by 50% 8. Enhance the adoption of improved livestock production systems 9. Develop and implement a comprehensive National Livestock Information and Management System (NLIMS) to track, analyse and report on the livestock industry 10. Increase access to adaptation finance, especially to empower women and youth, through economic incentives SDGs: SDG 2, SDG 5, SDG 8, SDG 12 Actions – Crops and Livestock 11. Strengthen and modernise agricultural extension services in 18 states, inclusive of mapping, identifying, and documenting farmer and livestock associations 12. Roll out early warning systems and meteorological forecasts in 18 states 13. Enhance Storage, Processing and Transformation, including emerging market opportunities for agricultural products in 18 states 14. Increase the area under cultivation of climate-resilient crops by 1,000,000 ha 15. Expand the adoption of improved, climate-resilient, livestock breeds by 370,000 farmers 16. Improve livestock production systems (husbandry practices, feed supplements, and fodder quality) in 18 states 17. Expand area under Climate Smart agriculture by 1,000,000 ha, Agroforestry by planting 5 million trees annually, irrigation by 1,000,000 ha and protected cultures by 370,000 ha 18. Develop 3,700 integrated livestock farms, inclusive of value chain to create green jobs 19. Reduce losses from pests and diseases (Surveillance, Control and Sanitation) by 50% by 2030 and 90% by 2035 20. Produce quality and affordable feeds and fodder for supplementing during seasonal scarcity to strengthen pastoral systems and reduce pasture related conflicts in 5 states 21. Improve livestock production facilities in the 114 grazing reserves and other production facilities |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Nigeria | 4. The NDC development process: Table 15 | Adaptation measures and actions - Livelihoods Decision 5/CMA.1 paragraph 63 (f): Substantially reduce the adverse effects of climate change on poverty eradication and livelihoods, in particular by promoting the use of adaptive social protection measures for all. (...) Actions 4. Government sets up the required national system to cater for climate induced displacement, including relocation after disasters 5. Provide an insurance cover for impacted entrepreneurs, especially women, youth, and particularly vulnerable communities for compensating loss and damage stemming from extreme weather events 6. Consolidate the existing relief fund to compensate losses incurred particularly by the poorest and most vulnerable segments of the population, including Indigenous Peoples affected by climate events 7. Design and implement interventions for effective prevention, mitigation, and resolution of conflicts by 50% by 2030 and 100% by 2035 |
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Adaptation | Other |
| Nigeria | 4. The NDC development process: Table 15 | Adaptation measures and actions - Livelihoods Decision 5/CMA.1 paragraph 63 (f): Substantially reduce the adverse effects of climate change on poverty eradication and livelihoods, in particular by promoting the use of adaptive social protection measures for all. (...) Actions (...) 8. Provide access to finance, credit, and market linkages to ensure improved livelihoods and economic empowerment of rural communities, to promote empowerment of women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, and vulnerable communities to undertake economic activities 9. Create a Disaster Risk Management Plan for frontline communities across the different ecological zones to enhance effective risk reduction responses and recovery 10. Include wide participation of women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, and vulnerable communities in the circular economy |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Other |
| Nigeria | 4. The NDC development process: Table 15 | Adaptation measures and actions - Livelihoods Decision 5/CMA.1 paragraph 63 (f): Substantially reduce the adverse effects of climate change on poverty eradication and livelihoods, in particular by promoting the use of adaptive social protection measures for all. (...) Actions (...) 11. Extend social protection coverage to climate-vulnerable groups (e.g., children, older persons, persons with disabilities, pregnant women, and workers in climate-sensitive sectors) and adapt the social protection system to ensure delivery of financial assistance in anticipation of, or in response to, climate-related shocks 12. Define eligibility criteria and transfer values and durations in the case of climate-related disasters and anchor them in legal frameworks to ensure predictability of support for vulnerable groups 13. Expand and update social registries, particularly in hazard-prone areas, and develop clear emergency protocols and triggers, including but not limited to those produced by early warning systems and official disaster declarations, that allow for swift and coordinated activation of support, including through existing programmes such as HUP-CCT and others |
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Adaptation | Other |
| Nigeria | 4. The NDC development process: Action for Climate Empowerment: Public access to information (...) Pertinent information, data, and statistics on achievements in implementing the NDC must be made available to all citizens to promote their participation in the process. This will foster greater engagement and ownership. Public access to information will be achieved through the following actions: * Develop effective communication strategies during the implementation phase of the NDC. * Develop a national transparency platform with provision for a public portal accessible to all for gender-sensitive information on progress in implementing the NDC, with emphasis on benefits accruing to the different segments of the population, down to civil society and communities. * Back up the national transparency platform with other information sharing means such as radio, TV, podcasts, and social platforms that communicate in the different local languages for the broadest outreach for disseminating gender-sensitive climate information and NDC implementation progress. * Avail information in a format suitable to all audiences, particularly women, girls, youth, children, the elderly, Indigenous Peoples, and persons with disabilities. * Create a national ACE site on the NCCC portal with open-access data to the wider public. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development Gender: Gender Commitments Guided by the National Action Plan on Gender and Climate Change (NAPGCC) and the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan, Nigeria will ensure the integration of gender-responsive measures across all sectors on mitigation and adaptation for equitable climate action benefits. This will be guaranteed through the integration of SMART gender indicators in the NDC implementation plan and Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) frameworks. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Mainstreaming Gender Recommendations for mainstreaming gender in NDC 3.0 across priority sectors include: *The need for Gender-Responsive Budgeting (GRB) in the mitigation and adaptation measures and actions to benefit women and men equitably. * The need for a gender climate finance tracking system to ensure that climate finance is inclusive and fair. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Mainstreaming Gender Recommendations for mainstreaming gender in NDC 3.0 across priority sectors include: (...) * Inclusion of gender indicators as appropriate when tracking and reporting under Articles 4, 7, and 9, 10 and 11 in BTRs. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Mainstreaming Gender Recommendations for mainstreaming gender in NDC 3.0 across priority sectors include: (...) * Provision of subsidies, insurance, and credit facilities to support women in adopting climate-resilient practices. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Mainstreaming Gender Recommendations for mainstreaming gender in NDC 3.0 across priority sectors include: (...) * Conducting capacity development for federal and states’ institutions on gender mainstreaming in policies and programmes. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Gender: Sector specific actions Some of the key sector specific actions are: Water & Waste Management * Train women in plumbing, water plant treatment, community-based quality monitoring system and service provisions at state and rural levels. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Water resources |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Gender: Sector specific actions Some of the key sector specific actions are: Water & Waste Management (...) * Mobilise womens groups to establish nurseries and plant trees upstream to avoid dislodgement of sediments, soil erosion, and improve water quality. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Water resources |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Gender: Sector specific actions Some of the key sector specific actions are: Water & Waste Management (...) * Promote technical and capacity inclusion by training women in the operation of new waste management technologies and ensuring they benefit from derived services. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Water resources |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Gender: Sector specific actions Energy and Oil & Gas * Develop and introduce affordable clean cooking options, especially for rural communities and schools. |
Unpaid care work
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Cross-cutting | Energy |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Gender: Sector specific actions Energy and Oil & Gas (...) * Dedicated capacity building programme to build skills for women and youth in clean energy technology. * Partnership with banking/financing institutions to offer affordable financing options for clean cooking technology to women and low-income households. |
Economic security
Unpaid care work
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Cross-cutting | Energy |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Gender: Sector specific actions Agriculture * Provision of agro-processing and storage facilities to smallholder farmers groups, especially women. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Agriculture |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Gender: Sector specific actions Agriculture (...) * Capacity building interventions for women on climate smart agriculture and participation in the green economy. * Improved access to climate information and services. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Agriculture |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Gender: Sector specific actions Industry & Transportation * Increase knowledge and awareness creation on decarbonisation of the industry and transportation sectors. * Organise capacity building programmes to increase women’s participation in these sectors. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Industry |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Gender: Sector specific actions Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry * Research and promote sustainable indigenous knowledge in forest restoration, protection, and conservation. * Capacity building of women, youth and indigenous communities on nursery management, agroforestry, afforestation, forest protection, conservation and restoration, including mangroves. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Land use and forestry |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Circular Economy Beyond the technical implementation, the Circular Economy is the primary framework for ensuring Nigeria’s climate action is socially all-inclusive and delivers a Just Transition. The strategy explicitly identifies CE and “waste-to wealth”initiatives as a cornerstone of the Just Transition, projected to create over 250,000 new green jobs. These new value chains will be intentionally designed to be equitable, empowering women entrepreneurs and creating opportunities for youth-led innovation. This entire societal shift will be driven by the ACE framework, which will embed green skills into the national training curriculum and build the necessary public awareness. The CE strategy will be made credible and investable through a dedicated finance framework to mobilise capital and will be accountable through a robust MRV system to transparently track progress on both climate and circularity goals. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nigeria | 3. Contribution to the Paris Agreement: Support Nigeria is developing a National Disaster Risk Finance (DRF) Strategy to strengthen the country’s financial resilience to climate- and disaster-related shocks. Building on this work, Nigeria will: * Adopt a risk-layered approach across sovereign, meso and micro levels, combining budgetary contingencies and reserve funds, contingent credit, and risk-transfer solutions (e.g., parametric/sovereign covers), so that financing instruments match the frequency and severity of risks. * Operationalise pre-arranged, rules-based finance for early action and rapid response, with clear trigger, disbursement, and accountability protocols integrated into public financial management. * Scale inclusive insurance and risk-financing options for priority sectors and vulnerable groups (e.g., smallholders, MSMEs, women, and youth), including index and meso-level solutions tied to adaptation measures and resilient livelihoods. * Invest in risk analytics and data systems (hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and loss data), using probabilistic risk modelling and shared data platforms to inform pricing, fiscal planning, and programme targeting. * Mobilise partnerships and finance with domestic institutions and relevant international initiatives and regional risk pools to capitalise instruments and, where appropriate, reduce premium costs. * Integrate monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) indicators for financial protection, such as time to disbursement, number of households/MSMEs covered, share of expected losses with pre-arranged finance, and insurance penetration within the NDC results framework and Biennial Transparency Reports |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Multisectoral |
| Nigeria | 4. The NDC development process: Action for Climate Empowerment: Education (...) Considering that people can be resistant to change, and with a rapidly growing young population (over 70% of Nigeria’s population is under 30 years old), the best way to inculcate the awareness and knowledge necessary for these changes is through the education of this large, young segment of socity who represent the future generation. Nigeria intends to achieve this through curriculum development, training of trainers and educators, and appropriate pedagogical approaches. Some of the priority actions are: (...) * Set up an Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) coordination platform across the ministries of education, youth, communications, women’s affairs, and NCCC. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nigeria | 4. The NDC development process: Action for Climate Empowerment: Training (...) Skills development initiatives will be both formal (preparing the labour force for emerging green jobs and supporting the shift from the current development model to a circular economy) and informal, through learning by doing, to benefit economic operators, individuals, communities, and organisations. Key activities are: * Develop appropriate frameworks for the provision of training including tailored training materials, training of trainers, and educators’ programmes. * Scale up the implementation of the existing programmes and initiatives to train and prepare Nigerian youths in all disciplines for the transition. * Build appropriate capacity of economic operators and communities to prepare them for effective mitigation and adaptation to the impacts of climate change. * Ensure that programmes are inclusive of women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, and persons with disabilities. * Create national and subnational ACE capacity hubs in formal educational institutions, training centres, and ministries with focus on MRV, adaptation, mitigation, and carbon markets. * Put in place an institutionalized system for skills forecasting, strengthening the linkage between labour market needs and vocational education planning. * Expand sector-specific training for carbon-intensive or occupations exposed to transition dynamics and work with employers to anticipate evolving occupational demands. * Integrate green skills into national technical and vocational education and training (TVET) systems. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Gender: Gender Commitments The inclusive stakeholder consultations adopted during the NDC 3.0 development process will continue by systematically involving women’s groups, gender-focused CSOs, and gender experts during the NDC implementation phase. A gender-balanced participation in national and subnational NDC fora and workshops is envisaged. (p.52) // 4. The NDC development process: Action for Climate Empowerment: Citizen participation Effective participation of citizens in climate decision-making and action is key for implementing NDC mitigation and adaptation activities and ensuring that benefits are all inclusive. To achieve these objectives, it will be imperative to develop appropriate channels for integrating civil society perspectives and mobilising the public. This will be a serious challenge for Nigeria, considering the size, population, and language attributes, notwithstanding the geographical and physical characteristics. Key actions are: (...) * Continuing meaningful consultation to engage actors outside of government, including the private sector and civil society, is an important element in the analysis, context-setting, and identification of partners during the implementation phase of the NDC. Labour unions, employers’ organisations, CSOs, non-government organisations (NGOs) and community- based organisations (CBOs) are important actors at state, local government and community levels, particularly for ensuring the incorporation of climate action at the local level for the inclusion of workers, business owners, women, girls, youth, children, Indigenous Peoples, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. (p.33-34) |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Gender: Sector specific actions Health * Include consideration of gender specific issues and challenges in education and awareness of health workforce and communities on climate, its impact on health and key protective actions. |
Health
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Cross-cutting | Health |
| Nigeria | 6. Just transition and sustainable development: Gender: Sector specific actions Health (...) * Include targeting of female health workers and community members in education and awareness of health workforce and communities on climate, its impact on health and key protective actions. |
Health
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Cross-cutting | Health |
| Nigeria | 3. Contribution to the Paris Agreement: Table 2. Mitigation measures and actions for Energy - Fuel combustion Sector: Energy (SDG 3, SDG7, SDG 8, SDG 9, SDG 11, SDG 12) Fuel Combustion - Other Sectors - Commercial, Institutional, and Residential Measure 10 Reduce emissions in the Commercial, Institutional, and Residential categories Actions 1. Reduction in use of generators by 30% 2. Curtailing emissions using lower emitting appliances in the residential and commercial categories 3. Boost adoption of efficient cookstoves 4. Enhance adoption of clean fuel technologies for cooking to displace fuelwood in Urban and Rural households as well as Commercial cooking with the following targets: 5. Commercial cooking: 37% Electricity, 35% LPG, 13% efficient wood cookstoves, 10% wood, 3% kerosene, and 2% charcoal 6. Rural households: 27% Electricity, 31% LPG, 22% efficient wood stove, 18% wood, and 2% charcoal 7. Urban households: 55% Electricity, 35% LPG, 6% efficient wood cookstoves, 2% wood, 1% kerosene, and 1% charcoal 8. 100% phasing out of kerosene used for lighting Mitigation potential Action 1: 5.735 Mt CO2 e, Action 2: Included in Measure 2 Action 2, Actions 3 and 4: 1.740 Mt CO2 e, Action 5: 1.630 Mt CO2 e **Expanding access to clean and efficient household energy in Nigeria is likely to benefit women by easing unpaid care burdens and improving health through safer, more sustainable cooking and energy solutions. |
Unpaid care work
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Niue | 2.12. Adaptation Contribution: 2.12.6 Loss and Damage Niue is already experiencing the effects of climate change manifested as Loss and Damage. Niue recognises challenges associated with addressing loss and damage from slow onset events and addressing NELD. The following strategies identify actions that are urgently required for addressing Loss and Damage, including finance, technology and capacity building. * Priority 1: Niue prioritises to the following: - Adequate capacity and training of a L&D coordinator to manage delivery of activities with support from partners. - State of evidence report developed for Niue through National dialogue. - Development of national relocation guidelines and investment strategy on infrastructure including development of Non-Economic Loss and Damage (NELD) communication products. - Pilot project: Research and engagement of Loss & Damage and Health. * Priority 2: Establish mechanisms to document and analyse Loss and Damage incurred because of climate change and develop a comprehensive national strategy for identifying and addressing climate-induced Loss and Damage in Niue. * Priority 3: Establish an enabling framework for quantifying and monitoring both economic and NELD caused by climate change. * Priority 4: Establish mechanisms to coordinate and channel financial resources for addressing Loss and Damage, ensuring effective and equitable distribution across sectors. * Priority 5: Strengthen the integration of climate resilience measures within sector plans, with a particular emphasis on those sectors most vulnerable to Loss and Damage. * Priority 6: Outline specific measures and strategies to reduce the risk of Loss and Damage caused by climate change. This may involve investing in resilient infrastructure and planned relocation, disaster risk reduction, ecosystem restoration, and community-based adaptation initiatives. * Priority 7: Enhance community-based resilience through the promotion of sustainable livelihoods, diversified economic activities, and improved social safety nets. * Priority 8: Implement capacity-building programmes to enhance Niue's ability to assess, address, and respond to both rapid-onset and slow-onset climate events. * Priority 9: Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the country's vulnerability to climate change impacts, including extreme weather events, sea-level rise, and other climate-related risks and identify communities, and sectors most susceptible to Loss and Damage. * Priority 10: Ensure that the design and construction of public and other major infrastructure and development projects consider current and projected risks to minimise Loss and Damage, through climate-resilience planning. * Priority 11: Improve climate change related economic and NELD data collection (where possible in a gender-differentiated manner), analysis, monitoring, and observation systems. This can be achieved by institutionalising and strengthening national capacity to collect and analyse data in a systematic manner. This could be done by developing tools and methods in estimating Loss and Damage and their associated costs. * Priority 12: Build on existing climate change policies and strategies, to develop new and/or revised policies to take Loss and Damage into account. * Priority 13: Explore and establish enabling mechanisms for easier accessibility to the proposed global Loss and Damage Fund, to assist in covering the costs associated with Loss and Damage. This may involve national institutional strengthening (policy and planning). * Priority 14: Articulate the scale of Loss and Damage finance needs: identify ways to strengthen existing financing mechanisms if relevant; expand innovative, pro-poor, people-centred financial instruments; and more importantly, call for enhanced international support beyond adaptation, especially the provision of and access to finance. **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. |
Economic security
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Niue | 2.12: Adaptation Contribution: 2.12.11 Gender and social inclusion Niue recognises that climate vulnerability and its impacts not only exacerbate gender inequality, but reinforce social power asymmetries, norms, and practices that constrain progress towards gender and social inclusion. Niue’s commitments in this sector are outlined in the table below. * Priority 1: Strategies: Uphold gender equity and responsiveness when planning and implementing climate action and solutions that are responsive to the different risks and needs of all people (inclusive of women, girls, men, boys, youth, and people with disability) to increase resilience for all. Conditionality: Conditional on finance. Budget (USD): 100,000 |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Niue | 2.12: Adaptation Contribution: 2.12.11 Gender and social inclusion Niue recognises that climate vulnerability and its impacts not only exacerbate gender inequality, but reinforce social power asymmetries, norms, and practices that constrain progress towards gender and social inclusion. Niue’s commitments in this sector are outlined in the table below. (...) * Priority 2: Strategies: Empower individuals as catalysts for change, fostering inclusivity in climate action initiatives, and providing equal opportunities for leadership in community-driven efforts for mitigation, adaptation, and response to loss and damage. Review and update the Niue Gender Policy and develop tangible steps to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women. (...) Conditionality: Conditional on finance. Budget (USD): 500,000 |
Economic security
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Niue | 2.12: Adaptation Contribution: 2.12.11 Gender and social inclusion Niue recognises that climate vulnerability and its impacts not only exacerbate gender inequality, but reinforce social power asymmetries, norms, and practices that constrain progress towards gender and social inclusion. Niue’s commitments in this sector are outlined in the table below. (...) * Priority 5: Strategies: Ensure an appropriate environmental and social safeguards framework is in place and develop appropriate social protection infrastructure and systems to reduce climate shocks and indirect and direct natural disasters. Conditionality: Conditional on finance. Budget (USD): 2,000,000 |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Other |
| Niue | 2.12: Adaptation Contribution: 2.12.11 Gender and social inclusion Niue recognises that climate vulnerability and its impacts not only exacerbate gender inequality, but reinforce social power asymmetries, norms, and practices that constrain progress towards gender and social inclusion. Niue’s commitments in this sector are outlined in the table below. (...) * Priority 3: Strategies: Develop, strengthen and integrate the inclusion of people with disability in national climate decision-making processes (involving planning and programme implementation) which directly and indirectly affect their lives. This includes identifying barriers to adapting to climate change, enhancing access and applying an integrated approach to ensure appropriate support networks are in place for their families and community. Conditionality: Conditional on finance. Budget (USD): 1,000,000 **Women are likely to benefit from measures supporting networks for persons with disabilities and their families because women are often primary caregivers, and stronger support systems can reduce their unpaid care work through improving access to resources and services. |
Unpaid care work
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Niue | 2.12: Adaptation Contribution: 2.12.11 Gender and social inclusion Niue recognises that climate vulnerability and its impacts not only exacerbate gender inequality, but reinforce social power asymmetries, norms, and practices that constrain progress towards gender and social inclusion. Niue’s commitments in this sector are outlined in the table below. (...) * Priority 4: Strategies: Uphold Niue's global and regional obligations regarding gender equality, human rights, and climate change by strengthening systems, policies and strategies to foster and enhance all genders. Conditionality: Conditional on finance. Budget (USD): 250,000 |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Norway | Information necessary for clarity, transparency and understanding (ICTU) of Norway's NDC for 2035: 4: Planning processes: (a) Information on the planning processes that the Party undertook to prepare its nationally determined contribution and, if available, on the Party’s implementation plans, including, as appropriate: i) Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation and engagement with local communities and indigenous peoples, in a gender-responsive manner: Gender equality: The Equality and Anti-Discrimination Act entered into force in 2018. The Act's purpose is to promote gender equality. The Act provides protection against discrimination on the basis of gender, pregnancy, leave in connection with birth or adoption and care responsibilities. Women and men are to be given equal opportunities in education and work, and in their cultural and professional development. Norway actively works to promote women's rights and participation in climate policy within the international climate negotiations. Norway is also committed to promoting gender balance and diversity in national delegations to the climate negotiations. |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Pakistan | 5. Mitigation: Table 2: Additional Measures Cooking & Heating (Clean Cooking Transition): Reduce reliance on fuelwood by scaling up clean cooking solutions, including electric stoves, improved cook-stoves, biogas systems, and sustainable options such as briquetting and agricultural residue utilization to protect forests, safeguard public health, and accelerate the transition to sustainable energy.... Buildings (Residential & Commercial): Efforts will focus on expanding access to clean cooking fuels and technologies with the aim of phasing out traditional biomass use. Promotion of energy efficient buildings with solar rooftops, passive cooling, and efficient air conditioners will be undertaken. Appliance efficiency standards will be strengthened, alongside the encouragement of a full shift to LED lighting and wider adoption of efficient cooling systems. Pakistan has also ratified the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which guides actions to reduce direct and indirect emissions from the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning sector through energy-efficient and environment-friendly cooling technologies. **Expanding access to clean cooking solutions in Pakistan is likely to benefit women by easing unpaid care burdens and improving health through safer, more sustainable cooking and energy solutions. |
Unpaid care work
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Pakistan | 6. Adaptation: Table 3: Priority Adaptation Actions and Resilience Measures Health, Water & Sanitation - Ensure universal access to safe drinking water in all climate-vulnerable districts by 2030, in line with SDG 6. **Due to the universal target having access to safe drinking water, women will likely benefit from this measure through reduced unpaid care demands and health risks. |
Unpaid care work
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| Pakistan | 6. Adaptation: Table 3: Priority Adaptation Actions and Resilience Measures: Climate & Health - Deploy drought-resilient water supply systems and safeguard water sources against contamination, particularly after floods. - Upgrade sewage and solid waste management systems in all urban centers by 2030 to reduce the risk of waterborne disease outbreaks. - Climate-proof all healthcare facilities by 2035, including: - Installing cooling systems and backup power to manage heatwaves. - Flood-proofing clinics in flood-prone regions. - Integrating climate risk considerations into health planning and infrastructure design. - Strengthen nationwide disease surveillance and early warning systems for climate-sensitive diseases such as malaria, dengue, and cholera. - Prioritize protection of vulnerable groups, women, children, and the elderly, from climate-related health risks, in line with the Climate Change Gender Action |
Health
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Adaptation | Health |
| Pakistan | 6. Adaptation To attract private capital at scale while safeguarding vulnerable populations, Pakistan will promote de-risking instruments such as credit guarantees, green credit lines, and climate insurance. Institutional strengthening will remain central, focusing on project readiness and bankability, operationalizing a national climate finance tracking system, and ensuring transparency and accountability in financial flows. All actions will be guided by inclusivity, with strong emphasis on Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion (GEDSI). |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Pakistan | 7.2 Technology and Capacity Development: Table 5: Technology and Capacity Needs: Transport Sub-Sector / Focus: Public Transport Proposed Actions: Metro/BRT expansion (in big cities); e-buses enhancement; gender responsive Technology Needs: E-buses (local production); Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Capacity Needs: Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) procurement; |
Gender mainstreaming
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Mitigation | Transportation |
| Pakistan | 7.2 Technology and Capacity Development: Table 5: Technology and Capacity Needs: Gender, Youth & Children Sub-Sector / Focus: Inclusive Adaptation Proposed Actions: Gender-responsive adaptation; women in agriculture; youth innovation hubs Technology Needs: Digital apps; ICT hubs; e-learning platforms; incubators Capacity Needs: Green jobs training; DRR drills; women/youth training |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Pakistan | 7.3.3 GEDSI: Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion At the national policy level, Pakistan is strengthening institutions and mandates for inclusive climate action. Pakistan is expanding opportunities for women’s leadership and youth engagement in climate governance, including appointing women and youth representatives on climate committees and fostering inclusive forums, ensuring diverse stakeholder’s input. In addition, consistent with the UNFCCC’s Lima Work Programme on Gender and Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE), Pakistan is enhancing education, public awareness, and participation with a focus on youth and vulnerable groups. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Pakistan | 7.3.3 GEDSI: Gender Equality, Disability, and Social Inclusion The government will track GEDSI outcomes in climate initiatives through improved data collection, requiring disaggregated data in climate MRV, and establish accountability for inclusive policy delivery. Through these steps, Pakistan seeks to empower women and marginalized groups as key actors in climate action, not just as beneficiaries. From female entrepreneurs driving clean energy startups to youth volunteers in tree-planting campaigns like “Aik Beti Aik Shajar”, the talents and leadership of all people will be harnessed. |
Gender mainstreaming
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| Pakistan | 7.3.4 Green Skills Development Pakistan recognizes that equipping our workforce with skills in renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, climate-smart technologies, and environmental management is not only vital for NDC goals but also for social uplift and employment. Special focus is being placed on empowering those who have historically had less access to education and jobs, such as young women in rural areas, economically disadvantaged youth, and persons with disabilities. The government, in collaboration with international partners, has launched targeted programs to build capacity in green sectors and is planning to establish a Green Skills University. The Prime Minister has recently launched the Youth Ecopreneur Program. Such initiatives aim to reshape the trajectory of youth while also meeting the country’s need for skilled labor to achieve climate targets. Overall, building a skilled “green workforce” not only addresses the youth unemployment challenge but also ensures Pakistan can domestically support the technologies and practices needed for NDC implementation. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Pakistan | 3.3 Adaptation Activities Cross-cutting initiatives have also advanced. Pakistan has developed its Climate Change Gender Action Plan (ccGAP), which places gender equality and women’s empowerment at the heart of resilience building across six priority sectors: agriculture and food security, water and sanitation, disaster risk reduction, forests and biodiversity, energy and transport, and coastal management. Women have been actively engaged in forestry and agricultural initiatives, particularly through nurseries and forest management activities. Young peoples’ participation in climate action has also gained momentum through the Green Youth Movement, Local Conferences of Youth, and COP in My City, while afforestation and eco-tourism projects have provided employment opportunities for young people in rural areas. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Pakistan | 7.2 Technology and Capacity Development: Table 5: Technology and Capacity Needs: Health & Education Sub-Sector / Focus: Climate Resilient Schools Proposed Actions: Retrofit schools; climate curricula; emergency preparedness Technology Needs: Solar rooftops; e learning platforms Capacity Needs: Teacher training; curriculum experts; **According to ILO data (2021), the healthcare sector accounts for 8.14% of women's employment compared to just 2.61% of men's, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
Health
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Mitigation | Health |
| Pakistan | 4. Planning processes: (a) (ii) Contextual matters, including, inter alia, as appropriate: a.ii.b. Best practices and experience related to the preparation of the Nationally Determined Contribution; NDC and aligning with the updated National Climate Change Policy (2021) and National Adaptation Plan (2023). The process was inclusive, with consultations involving provinces, line ministries, civil society, academia, and the private sector, while using the 2024 GHG inventory and BAU projections as baselines. Best practices included mainstreaming gender through the ccGAP, participatory adaptation planning, and flagship programmes such as the Upscaled Green Pakistan Programme and Recharge Pakistan. Pakistan GHG inventory and work on MRV system is aligned with IPCC guidelines, which ensures transparency and future compliance with the Paris Agreement's ETF. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Panama | PACTO DE PANAMÁ CON LA NATURALEZA La adaptación es parte inseparable de esta visión. Con los Observatorios Regionales de Clima y Naturaleza llevaremos ciencia, innovación, conservación y saberes tradicionales a cada territorio. Estos centros no se limitarán a lo climático: serán la plataforma integral donde se concreten todos los compromisos del Nature Pledge, desde la restauración hasta la protección de la biodiversidad, la gestión del agua, la lucha contra la contaminación y la resiliencia comunitaria. Allí, en el terreno, se vivirá la sinergia que hoy proclamamos: un espacio donde la naturaleza, la sociedad y la economía trabajan juntas en la misma dirección. Por medio de los observatorios, trabajaremos a nivel local para incluir niños, niñas y adolescentes y juventudes en el diseño de soluciones que impactarán su futuro. // PANAMA PACT WITH NATURE Adaptation is an inseparable part of this vision. Through the Regional Climate and Nature Observatories, we will bring science, innovation, conservation, and traditional knowledge to every territory. These centers will not be limited to climate matters; rather, they will serve as the comprehensive platform where all the commitments of the Nature Pledge are realized—ranging from restoration to biodiversity protection, water management, the fight against pollution, and community resilience. There, on the ground, the synergy we proclaim today will come to life: a space where nature, society, and the economy work together toward a common goal. Through these observatories, we will work at the local level to include boys, girls, and adolescents, and youth in the design of solutions that will impact their future. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Panama | PACTO DE PANAMÁ CON LA NATURALEZA En este marco, asumimos también la transformación de fondo que exige la justicia ambiental. Apostamos por una transición justa, que ponga fin a la dependencia de los combustibles fósiles y asegure energías limpias y accesibles para todos. Nos comprometemos con sistemas agroalimentarios resilientes, capaces de garantizar soberanía alimentaria y medios de vida dignos para campesinos, mujeres rurales, pueblos indígenas, comunidades locales y comunidades afrodescendientes. Impulsaremos ciudades sostenibles, diseñadas con soluciones basadas en la naturaleza, infraestructura resiliente y movilidad limpia. Y nos proponemos construir una economía circular que erradique la contaminación plástica y transforme los residuos en innovación y oportunidades. La igualdad de género y el empoderamiento de mujeres serán principios transversales de esta transformación. Con ello protegeremos la salud pública y el bienestar, reduciendo los riesgos de olas de calor, enfermedades y eventos extremos. // PANAMA PACT WITH NATURE Within this framework, we also embrace the fundamental transformation demanded by environmental justice. We are committed to a just transition that puts an end to dependence on fossil fuels and ensures clean, accessible energy for all. We pledge to foster resilient agri-food systems capable of guaranteeing food sovereignty and dignified livelihoods for small-scale farmers, rural women, indigenous peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant communities. We will drive the development of sustainable cities—designed with nature-based solutions, resilient infrastructure, and clean mobility. Furthermore, we aim to build a circular economy that eradicates plastic pollution and transforms waste into innovation and opportunity. Gender equality and the empowerment of women will serve as cross-cutting principles throughout this transformation. In doing so, we will safeguard public health and well-being, mitigating the risks associated with heatwaves, disease, and extreme weather events. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Panama | PRINCIPIOS TRANSVERSALES 2: Participación comunitaria activa y efectiva Se fomentará la inclusión de comunidades locales, productores, pueblos indígenas, juventudes y sociedad civil en la planificación y ejecución de iniciativas, reconociendo sus conocimientos tradicionales y construyendo soluciones desde el territorio. Se empoderará a la población, en especial a niñas, niños, adolescentes, mujeres y jóvenes, garantizando su participación y acceso a la información en la toma de decisiones, en línea con el Acuerdo de Escazú y sus pilares de acceso a la información, participación pública y acceso a la justicia en asuntos ambientales, mediante la formalización y operatividad de comités de cuenca, patronatos de parques, juntas comunales y unidades ambientales. Este principio reconoce los esfuerzos y la hoja de ruta para la implementación del Acuerdo de Escazú en el país, incluyendo mecanismos de divulgación proactiva, consulta temprana e inclusiva y salvaguardas para personas defensoras del ambiente. // CROSS-CUTTING PRINCIPLES 2: Active and Effective Community Participation The inclusion of local communities, producers, indigenous peoples, youth, and civil society in the planning and implementation of initiatives shall be fostered, recognizing their traditional knowledge and building solutions rooted in the local territory. The population—particularly girls and boys, adolescents, women, and youth—shall be empowered by guaranteeing their participation in and access to information regarding decision-making. This approach aligns with the Escazú Agreement and its pillars of access to information, public participation, and access to justice in environmental matters, and shall be achieved through the formalization and operationalization of watershed committees, park boards, community councils, and environmental units. This principle acknowledges the efforts and the roadmap for the implementation of the Escazú Agreement within the country, including mechanisms for proactive disclosure, early and inclusive consultation, and safeguards for environmental defenders. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Panama | PRINCIPIOS TRANSVERSALES 3: Enfoque de derechos humanos, igualdad de género y equidad intergeneracional Se asegurará la igualdad de oportunidades y la inclusión de grupos vulnerables, en particular mujeres, niñez, adolescentes, juventudes, pueblos indígenas, comunidades afrodescendientes, locales y rurales, personas mayores, personas con discapacidad a lo largo de toda la implementación. Se promoverá el acceso a la información y el liderazgo de mujeres y juventudes en proyectos de conservación, restauración y uso sostenible, respetando la diversidad étnica y cultural del país y mediante procesos adecuados de participación y consulta. // CROSS-CUTTING PRINCIPLES 3: Human Rights Approach, Gender Equality, and Intergenerational Equity Equal opportunities and the inclusion of vulnerable groups—particularly women, children, adolescents, youth, indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant, local, and rural communities, older persons, and persons with disabilities—shall be ensured throughout the entire implementation process. Access to information, as well as the leadership of women and youth in conservation, restoration, and sustainable use projects, shall be promoted, while respecting the country’s ethnic and cultural diversity and utilizing appropriate participatory and consultative processes. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Panama | 4. Proceso de planificación: 4(a)(i) Arreglos institucionales domésticos, participación pública y compromiso con comunidades locales y pueblos indígenas en una forma sensible al género Las metas país fueron sometidas a procesos de participación pública acorde a la Ley 125 de 2020, que aprueba el Acuerdo de Escazú. En este ámbito, Panamá se encuentra a vísperas de la publicación oficial de la Hoja de Ruta de Implementación del Acuerdo de Escazú, por la cual se desarrollarán acciones prioritarias, de cara al 2030, para ampliar procesos de participación pública, acceso a la información y acceso a la justicia en temas ambientales durante la implementación de los compromisos. Como resultado se llevó a cabo el proceso de consulta pública ambiental más abarcador en todo el territorio nacional incluyendo comarcas indígenas, donde se consultaron a más de 1200 personas, de las cuales un 51% fueron mujeres y un 49% hombres, garantizando un proceso equitativo, representativo y con un enfoque de género, incluyendo sesiones focalizadas con comunidades afrodescendientes. // 4. Planning Process: 4(a)(i) Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation, and engagement with local communities and indigenous peoples in a gender-sensitive manner. The national targets were subjected to public participation processes in accordance with Law 125 of 2020, which ratifies the Escazú Agreement. In this context, Panama is on the verge of officially publishing the Roadmap for the Implementation of the Escazú Agreement, through which priority actions—geared toward 2030—will be developed to expand processes for public participation, access to information, and access to justice in environmental matters during the fulfillment of these commitments. As a result, the most comprehensive environmental public consultation process ever conducted across the entire national territory—including indigenous *comarcas* (territories)—was carried out; this process involved consulting over 1,200 individuals (51% women and 49% men), thereby ensuring an equitable, representative, and gender-sensitive process that included focused sessions with Afro-descendant communities. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Panama | COMPROMISOS, METAS Y ARREGLOS INSTITUCIONALES PARA LA LUCHA CONTRA LA DESERTIFICACIÓN La degradación de tierras constituye uno de los desafíos ambientales más relevantes para Panamá, impactando directamente en la productividad de la tierra y la biodiversidad, los derechos humanos, el bienestar socioeconómico y la resiliencia climática del país, especialmente a nuestras comunidades locales. Panamá adopta una visión estratégica integrada para lograr la Neutralidad de la Degradación de Tierras (NDT) al 2035, alineada plenamente con el Pacto de Panamá con la Naturaleza. Por primera vez, el país integra bajo un solo marco sus compromisos en cambio climático, biodiversidad y desertificación, respondiendo de forma coordinada a estas tres crisis ambientales urgentes. En respuesta, Panamá se comprometió con la iniciativa internacional de Neutralidad de la Degradación de Tierras (NDT), en línea con la Convención de Naciones Unidas para la Lucha contra la Desertificación (CNULD) y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible 15: Vida de ecosistemas terrestres (ODS 15.3: sobre degradación de tierras, ODS 15.3.1: sobre porcentaje de tierras degradadas). La NDT responde directamente al mandato derivado de las Decisiones 3/COP.15 y 13/COP.15 adoptadas por las Partes en la COP 15 de la CNULD, a partir del cual Panamá fue seleccionada entre los 18 países que forman parte de la segunda fase del Programa de Establecimiento de Metas de Neutralidad de la Degradación de Tierras (LDN Target Setting Program (TSP) 2.0 at Doha). Este programa, liderado por la Dirección de Seguridad Hídrica con el apoyo de Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura (FAO) busca asegurar que las metas nacionales de neutralidad en la degradación de la tierra sean específicas, limitadas en tiempo, coherentes con políticas nacionales, cuantitativas, espacialmente explícitas, sensibles al género e integradas adecuadamente en los marcos de planificación del país y serán monitoreada periódicamente mediante los Informes Nacionales de Implementación. // COMMITMENTS, TARGETS, AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR COMBATING DESERTIFICATION Land degradation constitutes one of the most significant environmental challenges facing Panama, directly impacting land productivity and biodiversity, human rights, socioeconomic well-being, and the country's climate resilience—particularly for our local communities. Panama adopts an integrated strategic vision to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) by 2035, fully aligned with the *Pacto de Panamá con la Naturaleza* (Panama Pact with Nature). For the first time, the country integrates its commitments regarding climate change, biodiversity, and desertification under a single framework, thereby responding in a coordinated manner to these three urgent environmental crises. In response, Panama has committed to the international Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) initiative, in line with the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and Sustainable Development Goal 15: Life on Land (SDG 15.3: on land degradation; SDG 15.3.1: on the proportion of degraded land). LDN responds directly to the mandate derived from Decisions 3/COP.15 and 13/COP.15, adopted by the Parties at the UNCCD COP 15; pursuant to this mandate, Panama was selected as one of the 18 countries participating in the second phase of the Land Degradation Neutrality Target Setting Program (LDN TSP 2.0 at Doha). This program—led by the Directorate of Water Security with the support of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)—seeks to ensure that national land degradation neutrality targets are specific, time-bound, consistent with national policies, quantitative, spatially explicit, gender-sensitive, and adequately integrated into the country's planning frameworks; furthermore, they will be monitored periodically through National Implementation Reports. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Land use and forestry |
| Panama | Tabla 2. Metas 2025-2035 Metas: 29. Para 2030, Panamá contará con un mecanismo nacional de protección a defensores ambientales, garantizará acceso a información y justicia ambiental para al menos el 70% de grupos vulnerables, y asegurará protocolos de salvaguarda del conocimiento tradicional y una representación equitativa con perspectiva de género en el 50% de los espacios de decisión en conservación. Alineación con el Acuerdo de París: Adaptación Alineación con el Marco Mundial Kumming Montreal: Meta 21, Meta 22, Meta 23 Alineación con el Marco de Lucha contra la Desertificacion: Objetivo 2, Objetivo 4 // Table 2. 2025–2035 Targets Targets: 29. By 2030, Panama will have a national protection mechanism for environmental defenders; it will guarantee access to information and environmental justice for at least 70% of vulnerable groups; and it will ensure protocols for safeguarding traditional knowledge, as well as equitable representation with a gender perspective in 50% of conservation decision-making spaces. Alignment with the Paris Agreement: Adaptation Alignment with the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework: Target 21, Target 22, Target 23 Alignment with the Framework to Combat Desertification: Objective 2, Objective 4 |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Republic of Moldova | Information to Facilitate Clarity, Transparency, and Understanding of the Updated Nationally Determined Contribution: 3: Scope and coverage: (d) Mitigation economic diversification plans, including description of specific projects, measures and initiatives: (...) The residential sector will benefit from substantial support in the field of energy efficiency through the September 2024 allocation of a €20.6 million financing package from Germany, Norway, and EU. The resources aim to support the implementation of the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Moldova’ Project, financed with €5 million by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), which aims to strengthen energy security, reduce GHG emissions, and identify sustainable solutions for the residential sector. The project will provide extensive consultancy to the Ministry of Energy, NCSE, and local public authorities, serving as a platform for initiatives presented by other development partners. The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) will co-finance the project with €12.6 million from the Nansen Support Program. Norwegian support includes non-reimbursable funding for the EcoVoucher Program (launched in October 2023 with an initial budget of $5.8 million). The EU will co-finance the project with €3 million, including a non-refundable €1 million for the energy renovation of individual houses inhabited by extremely vulnerable families from an energy point of view and €2 million to support capacity strengthening and the exchange of experiences and information for state institutions. **Amongst its goals, the Project aimst to improve women's empowerment through renewable energy programmes. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Republic of Moldova | Information to Facilitate Clarity, Transparency, and Understanding of the Updated Nationally Determined Contribution: 3: Scope and coverage: (d) Mitigation economic diversification plans, including description of specific projects, measures and initiatives: (...) In the same context, on 16 October 2024, the government approved the draft Law on Ratification of the Loan Agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) for the Implementation of the "Sustainable Transition through Energy Efficiency in Moldova (STEEM)"Project. Over the next five years, about $55 million will be invested in the energy efficiency of public buildings, modernization of the thermal energy supply system, and response measures in emergency situations. Under STEEM, 46 schools across the country will benefit from renovation works that include thermal insulation of walls and roofs, replacement of windows and doors, and modernization of heating and lighting systems. Heat pumps and PV panels will also be installed to increase energy efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions. STEEM will also improve the energy efficiency of the heat supply system in public buildings, including 11 schools, by installing approximately 350 individual heat points and reconfiguring the heat supply network from the centralized system. In addition, emergency response measures will be implemented. The project will improve study conditions for around 46,000 students, teachers, and support staff and bring significant energy savings. It is estimated that the renovation and modernization works will reduce energy consumption in the buildings concerned by up to 65 percent. From the total project budget of $54.5 million, $50 million will be granted in the form of a loan by the IBRD, and $4.5 million in the form of a grant by the multi-donor trust fund Moldova Growth, Resilience and Opportunities for Welfare (M-GROW). **The project sets two gender-specific targets that aim to build women's capacity in the energy sector through the "Women in Energy Sector Internship Program." |
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Republic of Moldova | Information to Facilitate Clarity, Transparency, and Understanding of the Updated Nationally Determined Contribution: 3: Scope and coverage: (d) Mitigation economic diversification plans, including description of specific projects, measures and initiatives: (...) The Moldova Solid Waste Project, approved on 30 November 2022 and funded by the EBRD, will finance priority investments to improve solid waste management services across the country and establish integrated solid waste management systems in three WMRs. The project is an important step towards sustainable solid waste management services in Moldova. The total capital project expenditure is expected to be about €68.1 million. (...) The project will support the effective governance of solid waste management through consolidation and expansion of such services, introduction of cost recovery charges for the users of infrastructure, and adoption of public service contracts to establish transparent contractual arrangements for solid waste service provision. It will also promote "green" impacts by establishing more sustainable solid waste management practices in line with EU environmental standards and bringing substantial environmental benefits by reducing CO2 and CH4 emissions(...) The project includes the construction of a landfill as well as a sorting and composting station in the city of Cahul, the closure of the old landfill in Cahul, and the construction of transfer stations in Cania, Taraclia, and Comrat. Modern transport, sorting, recycling, and composting equipment will also be purchased, including dumpsters, containers, and vehicles. **The Moldova Solid Waste Project will introduce gender-responsive recruitment policies and support the progression and retention of women in the waste sector, and will carry out an awareness campaign to address women's disproportionate domestic work dealing with waste at the household level. |
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Mitigation | Waste |
| Republic of Moldova | Information to Facilitate Clarity, Transparency, and Understanding of the Updated Nationally Determined Contribution: 6. How Moldova believes that its Nationally Determined Contribution 3.0 is fair and ambitious in the light of its national circumstances (b) Fairness considerations, including reflecting on equity: ( ...) Given these factors, and recognizing the importance of a "just energy transition" in addressing the root causes of the energy crisis and ensuring a sustainable future, a four-year program called "Accelerating a Just Transition in the Republic of Moldova" was launched in 2023 by the UNDP Country Office, with a total budget of $20.675 million, funded by Italy and Sweden. Its objectives are to accelerate energy diversification and efficiency, decarbonize industries and economic sectors, foster sustainable consumption patterns, strengthen inclusive energy governance, address energy vulnerability, and promote resilience. To ensure its “just transition”, Moldova is also counting on the technical and financial support available through the EU’s pre-accession programs, such as IPARD, which can help unlock green trade opportunities for Moldova. Moldova’s strengths relate to low-complexity green products in areas of efficient consumption of energy technologies, carbon capture and storage, health and energy management, renewable energy, waste management and wastewater management. Preliminary analyses suggest that Moldova could venture into new green export markets that are well-aligned with its existing capabilities in renewable energy, environmentally friendly consumer products, natural resource and waste management. Developing these areas and ensuring measures to promote women's access to emerging occupation and gender equality can also help increase women’s participation in the formal sector in emerging green industries, particularly given their relatively strong representation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. |
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Mitigation | Multisectoral |
| Republic of Moldova | 3: Adaptation: 3.3: Planning: Policy Framework The overarching National Development Strategy (NDS) “European Moldova - 2030” (2022) sets the strategic development vision and includes the country’s development priorities to achieve by 2030, captured in 4 areas: 1. Sustainable and inclusive economic development 2. Long-term human and social capital 3. Honest and efficient institutions 4. A healthy environment The NDS reflects the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is in line with the following strategic objectives that are to be implemented by 2030: 1. ensuring resilience to climate change by reducing climate change related risks (SDG 13.1); 2. reducing water pollution, including through land-based activities (SDG 14.1); 3. combating soil degradation (SDG 15.3); 4. integrating biodiversity values into policies (SDG 15.9); 5. implementing sustainable forest management and increasing afforestation and reforestation (SDG 15.2). The NDS confirms the European aspirations as established in the EU Association Agreement. The Implementation of the NDS is also supported by the “Program for the promotion of the green and circular economy for 2024-2028 and the Action Plan for its implementation”. To strengthen the NDS, gender considerations should be mainstreamed in all areas. |
Gender mainstreaming
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| Republic of Moldova | 3: Adaptation: 3.3: Planning: Policy Framework (...) The National Strategy on Disaster Risk Reduction until 2030 is based on the provisions of the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction for the period 2015‐2030. The aim of the Strategy is to establish a comprehensive framework to mobilize and strengthen the efforts of the relevant structures in the public and private sectors, civil society and citizens to strengthen resilience to the impact of possible disasters, both natural and man-made, at national, territorial and local levels, as well as the establishment of effective mechanisms to reduce the risks of disasters, ensure a prompt and adequate response in the event of their occurrence, and the subsequent restoration of the consequences of disasters. The National Strategy should incorporate gender‐ and age ‐responsive approaches, ensuring that disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate adaptation efforts address the needs of women, children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities, as this will contribute to more inclusive and effective disaster management. |
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Adaptation | Disasters |
| Republic of Moldova | 3. Adaptation: 3.4 Implementation: Experiences and Good Practices from other Projects (...) “Talent Retention and Rural Transformation Project” (2021-2027). Total cost of US$ 50.5 million. The objective of the project is to enable the rural poor, especially youth, women, and smallholders, to increase their productive capacity, resilience to economic, environmental, and climate-related risks, and access to markets. |
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Republic of Moldova | 3. Adaptation: 3.4 Implementation: Experiences and Good Practices from other Projects (...) “Moldova Water Security and Sanitation Project” (2022-2027), with a Loan by the World Bank US$50 million, and further contributions by ADA. The project plans to increase access to safely managed water supply and sanitation and WASH services in selected rural areas and towns, expanding access and quality of services for households, businesses, and public institutions and supporting resilience. **The measure includes several gender-specific targets aiming to improve women's employment in the water and supply sector, including quotas for women's participation in training programs and jobs, as well as efforts to improve access to menstrual hygiene facilities in schools and healthcare facilities. |
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Health
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Republic of Moldova | 3. Adaptation: 3.4 Implementation: Experiences and Good Practices from other Projects (...) “Sustainable and Resilient Communities through Women Empowerment (Phase 1)" (2020–2024). Funded with a grant of US$ 3.175 million from Sweden, this project aimed to enhance the resilience of rural women, who are disproportionately affected by climate change. It focused on improving access to alternative income-generating activities, support services, and knowledge on sustainable management of natural and agricultural resources. The initiative covered regions including Nisporeni, Calarasi, Basarabeasca, Leova, ATU Gagauzia, and the left bank of the Dniester River. "Resilient Communities through Women Empowerment (Phase 2)" (2024–2028). Building upon the first phase, this ongoing project is supported by Sweden and Norway with a budget of US$ 8.461 million. It aims to further integrate gender aspects into climate policies, strengthen women's leadership in climate action, and promote gender-sensitive climate solutions. The project collaborates with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Energy, environmental NGOs, women agri-producers, local public authorities, and business incubators across the Republic of Moldova. |
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| Republic of Moldova | 3. Adaptation: 3.4 Implementation: Experiences and Good Practices from other Projects (...) "Women in Sustainable Development Moldova" Initiative (2020 – Present). This project focuses on implementing a climate-resilient ecological sanitation model in rural areas, treating grey and black water to improve sanitation and reduce environmental impact. By 2024, the initiative had received funding of approximately US$ 3.17 million from Sweden. The project not only addresses environmental challenges but also empowers women in sustainable development practices. **The initiative implements a climate-resilient ecological sanitation system that treats grey and black water through sustainable methods. By improving water efficiency and providing safe, private, and hygienic sanitation facilities, it enhances health conditions and supports girls’ school attendance in rural communities. |
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Participation and leadership
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| Republic of Moldova | 3. Adaptation: 3.5 Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (...) It is proposed that the NCCC provides the institutional framework for monitoring, reporting and verification of the national process of adaptation to climate change, in collaboration with central public authorities, the private sector and civil society. The monitoring of the implementation of the NCCAP is carried out by the Ministry of Environment, which will periodically assess the degree of achievement of indicators and objectives. The administration of the database, the monitoring and reporting of indicators, as well as the development of the annual report on the progress made in the field of climate change are proposed to be carried out by Climate Change Policy Section. To ensure accountability, gender‐responsive data will be integrated into reports for priority sectors, tracking women’s participation in decision‐making and access to adaptation resources. As capacity grows, this will expand to other sectors, supported by gender audits and transparent reporting to strengthen adaptation efforts at all levels. Based on the information collected, annual progress report will be developed. An interim evaluation by 2027, and a final evaluation by 2031 are planned. The annual progress reports and evaluation reports will be discussed in the NCCC and then presented to the Government for examination. The Ministry of Environment will publish the annual and the interim progress reports and final evaluation reports of the Programme on the authority's official website. These reports will include a section that evaluates the integration of gender‐related objectives into climate adaptation actions, focusing on measurable outcomes in priority sectors. The evaluation will assess whether these actions have effectively addressed the specific needs of both men and women, particularly in vulnerable communities, and provide recommendations for improving gender responsiveness based on available data. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Republic of Moldova | Annex 1: Action Plan to the National Climate Change Adaptation Programme Until 2030 (...) Specific Objective 1. Development of climate change adaptation capacities and cross‐sectoral cooperation Priority action 1.1. Operationalize the coordination mechanism for climate adaptation (3 actions, summarized) Gender Consideration for Priority Action 1.1: To ensure inclusive participation in climate governance, at least 30% of representatives in the NCCC and technical working groups should be women, reflecting gender‐balanced decision‐making in climate adaptation efforts. * Action 1.1.1: Update the regulatory framework to reflect the institutional changes and to ensure representation in the NCCC of relevant institutions from all priority sectors for adaptation to climate change * Action 1.1.2: Develop and adopt clear regulations for the NCCC, its technical committees and secretariat * Action 1.1.3: Implementation of a national system for climate change adaptation monitoring and assessing |
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| Republic of Moldova | Annex 1: Action Plan to the National Climate Change Adaptation Programme Until 2030 (...) Specific Objective 1. Development of climate change adaptation capacities and cross‐sectoral cooperation (...) Priority action 1.3. Ensure continuous targeted capacity building trainings for CCA policy implementation (4 actions) * Action 1.3.1: Deliver capacity building trainings related to CC for key staff from sectoral ministries and agencies, with a gender quota ensuring at least 40% female participation in leadership training. * Action 1.3.2: Implement targeted training of trainer programs on policy development, coordination, integration, communication and project management for designated staff * Action 1.3.3: Organizing trainings for civil servants and LPAs, on risks and climate vulnerabilities and integrating CCA aspects into strategic planning and sectoral and local budgeting * Action 1.3.4: Integrate CCA and DRR into university curricula |
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Republic of Moldova | Annex 1: Action Plan to the National Climate Change Adaptation Programme Until 2030 (...) Specific Objective 2. Raising awareness on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction through reliable and accessible information (...) Priority action 2.4. Increase awareness and preparedness of decision makers and general public on climate‐related risks and possibilities for adaptation (6 actions) Action 2.4.1: Implement a national information campaign explaining the needs and perspective of CCA and DRR, ensuring gender‐sensitive messaging that reaches women, persons with disabilities, and marginalized groups. Action 2.4.2: Develop and implement on‐site training programs focused on climate impacts and climate vulnerability assessment methodologies and approaches Action 2.4.3: Development of the Methodology for climate risk assessment Action 2.4.4: Assessment of 4 prioritized risks for the national context Action 2.4.5: Development of climate risks scenarios and assessment of the impact on vulnerable regions and priority sectors Action 2.4.6: Expand the use of Climate Services in the targeted sectors, ensuring early warning systems prioritize gender‐sensitive communication, such as reaching women through local women's networks. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Disasters |
| Republic of Moldova | Annex 1: Action Plan to the National Climate Change Adaptation Programme Until 2030 (...) Specific Objective 3. Expand budgeting for climate change adaptation and increase resilience Priority action 3.1. Mainstreaming of CCA considerations into the sectoral budgets and ensuring financial and operational cross‐sectorial synergies *Action 3.1.1: Incorporate climate change indicators into planning and budgeting frameworks, ensuring adaptation funds allocate at least 15% to gender‐responsive projects. *Action 3.1.2: Develop and apply guidance on integration of climate considerations in the sectoral budgets |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Republic of Moldova | Annex 1: Action Plan to the National Climate Change Adaptation Programme Until 2030 (...) Specific Objective 4. Mainstreaming of CCA and DRR in the sectoral strategic and investment planning at national and local levels (...) Priority action 4.3. Gender integration into CCA and DRM planning, and promotion of community‐based adaptation action * Action 4.3.1: Conduct an in‐depth cross‐sectoral analysis of the impact of climate change on vulnerable groups, including a specific focus on gender‐differentiated vulnerabilities |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Republic of Moldova | Annex 1: Action Plan to the National Climate Change Adaptation Programme Until 2030 (...) Specific Objective 4. Mainstreaming of CCA and DRR in the sectoral strategic and investment planning at national and local levels (...) Priority action 4.3. Gender integration into CCA and DRM planning, and promotion of community‐based adaptation action (...) * Action 4.3.2: Develop a 4‐year gender‐responsive communication strategy to generate and increase awareness on climate related risks and hazards, as well as adaptation and risk reduction options |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Republic of Moldova | Annex 1: Action Plan to the National Climate Change Adaptation Programme Until 2030 (...) Specific Objective 4. Mainstreaming of CCA and DRR in the sectoral strategic and investment planning at national and local levels (...) Priority action 4.3. Gender integration into CCA and DRM planning, and promotion of community‐based adaptation action * Action 4.3.3: Identify and assess monitoring indicators, including gender‐responsive indicators and disaggregation of data by gender to track the differentiated impacts of climate adaptation efforts on women, men, and vulnerable groups |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Republic of Moldova | Annex 1: Action Plan to the National Climate Change Adaptation Programme Until 2030 (...) Specific Objective 5. Increasing the resilience of priority sectors by financing activities in the field of climate change adaptation and reducing risks and adverse impacts of climate hazards Priority action 5.1. Adaptation of the AGRICULTURE sector to climate change by implementing complex agricultural practices, modern adaptation technologies and soil conservation (4 actions) * Action 5.1.1: Stimulate the construction of rainwater collection basins for irrigation * Action 5.1.2: Implement digital agricultural technologies both in the open field and in protected areas * Action 5.1.3: Create and maintain the genetic fund for agricultural crops * Action 5.1.4: Promote subsidizing agricultural producer groups on the basis of climate resilience development programs, ensuring that at least 40% of subsidies target women‐led agricultural initiatives. |
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Republic of Moldova | Annex 1: Action Plan to the National Climate Change Adaptation Programme Until 2030 (...) Specific Objective 5. Increasing the resilience of priority sectors by financing activities in the field of climate change adaptation and reducing risks and adverse impacts of climate hazards Priority action 5.3. Adaptation of the FORESTRY sector to climate change through complex biodiversity conservation practices and ecosystem‐based approach (14 actions) * Action 5.3.1: Development of normative regulations for the practices of carbon stock conservation in forests and their incorporation in the forest management * Action 5.3.2: Adapting forest regeneration regulations and practices to the needs of climate change * Action 5.3.3: Improving the capacity of public forestry consultancy services with respect to climate change impacts and adaptation options * Action 5.3.4: Strengthening the information system on state and evolution of forests in the Republic of Moldova by conducting the National Forest Inventory * Action 5.3.5: Adapting practices of logging in the country's forests to climate change, ensuring the inclusion of women in decision‐making, forest resource management, and climate‐adaptive logging practices. * Action 5.3.6: Targeted use of modern biotechnologies for the propagation of vegetative material to provide the forestry sector with reproductive material in the new climatic conditions * Action 5.3.7: Creation and/or rehabilitation of silvo‐pastoral and agroforestry systems * Action 5.3.8: Creation and reconstruction of green spaces in urban and rural localities * Action 5.3.9: Afforestation of riparian strips of rivers and water basins * Action 5.3.10: Increasing the afforestation degree of the country through planting forest crops resilient to climate change * Action 5.3.11: Creation and consolidation of systems of forest belts for the protection of agricultural fields and roads * Action 5.3.12: Ecological reconstruction of trees that are inconsistent and vulnerable to climate change * Action 5.3.13: Implementation of the forest regime in all forests and forest vegetation regardless of departmental affiliation and nature of property, through development of forestry management plans * Action 5.3.14: Conducting fundamental and applied research to identify interactions related to climate change, forest species and appropriate management strategies of forestry ecosystems |
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Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Land use and forestry |
| Republic of Moldova | Annex 1: Action Plan to the National Climate Change Adaptation Programme Until 2030 (...) Specific Objective 5. Increasing the resilience of priority sectors by financing activities in the field of climate change adaptation and reducing risks and adverse impacts of climate hazards (...) Priority action 5.6. Adaptation of the WATER sector to CC through efficient resource use, ensuring its quality and quantity and reducing the floods risk (13 actions) * Action 5.6.1: Ensure populations with data and functionality of the Information System State Water Cadaster * Action 5.6.2: Secure regular, country‐wide (basin / sub‐basin based) water use balance assessment, by using modern modeling tools * Action 5.6.3: Undertake the assessment of the use of controlled flood * Action 5.6.4: Revision of the norms for water supply and sanitations for settlements * Action 5.6.5: Increase the level of water recycling for industrial and domestic needs; promote cleaner production practice * Action 5.6.6: Secure / enforce authorized water use, the measurements of water traffic * Action 5.6.7: Adopt better water demand management measures by reinstatement of use of existing relevant instruments, ensuring equitable access to water resources and decision‐making opportunities for women in community‐based water management. * Action 5.6.8: Integrate CC resilience aspects into the design of water treatment and wastewater treatment facilities * Action 5.6.9: Revitalization of natural wetlands, as well as restoration of small rivers natural shoreline * Action 5.6.10: Optimization of the number of dams built on Nistru and Prut tributaries * Action 5.6.11: Establish Public‐Private Partnership for rainwater harvesting or water‐reuse initiatives * Action 5.6.12: Flood / Flash flood control infrastructure rehabilitated / created * Action 5.6.13: Hydrological posts on principal Pruth and Dniester tributaries established and equipped, and manpower secured |
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| Republic of Moldova | Information to Facilitate Clarity, Transparency, and Understanding of the Updated Nationally Determined Contribution: 6. How Moldova believes that its Nationally Determined Contribution 3.0 is fair and ambitious in the light of its national circumstances (b) Fairness considerations, including reflecting on equity: (...) In 2023, the Just Transition Work Program (JTWP) was agreed at COP28. The just transition is the strategy to make sure that vital climate action is delivered with full respect for labor and human rights so that existing inequalities are not widened ("leaving no one behind"). It is also the strategy to maximize the socioeconomic gains from climate actions, particularly for those often excluded in today's global economy, notably women and young people ("bringing everyone along"). The JTWP's priorities include: * Just transition pathways: Understanding of net-zero pathways has grown, but there is still a lack of similar forward-looking assessments or strategies for the socioeconomic, workforce, and other dimensions, resulting in the lack of a shared direction of travel. Developing and sharing these is where the JTWP could have real value, helping to sequence action to avoid disruption, identify barriers, and seize opportunities. * Adaptation and resilience: The just transition is equally as relevant for achieving resilience to increasing climate shocks as it is for mitigating them, not least in terms of providing social protection for workers and communities impacted by both extreme and slow-onset events. * Workforce transitions: The work program emphasizes the importance of "Decent work and quality jobs in accordance with nationally defined development priorities, including through social dialogue, social protection and the recognition of labor rights. * Inclusion and participation: Inclusive and participatory approaches are identified by the program as a key element, and promoting effective models could prove transformational. The transition needs meaningful participation by key stakeholders such as workers; local communities; micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises; consumers; and across all of these, women and young people. * International cooperation: The JTWP also points to international cooperation as an enabler of further action, highlighting the opportunities, challenges, and barriers relating to sustainable development and poverty eradication from global transitions. (p.40) (...) A Just transition approach is necessary to ensure that decarbonization and adaptation policies do not further exacerbate existing inequalities and social exclusion, and instead actively support vulnerable and marginalized groups, maximizing opportunities for decent work creation. The distributional impacts of climate change and climate policies differ according to income group, administrative unit (depending on the regional development level), gender, and a wide range of socioeconomic determinants of vulnerability and social exclusion. Just transition is relevant across sectors from agriculture, to energy, to forestry to infrastructure, and the approach of maximizing social and decent work opportunities and minimizing and addressing potential adverse impacts would be applied across sectors. The estimated employment losses, calculated by income tier, also have intersectional outcomes that disproportionately affect women or minority groups, including refugees, minorities, persons with disabilities, and the elderly. Legal labor market protections, social protection programs and active labor market programmes, can help address such vulnerabilities, along with measures on skill development provision and enabling service support. (p.43) |
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Mitigation | Multisectoral |
| Republic of Moldova | 3. Adaptation: 3.5 Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (...) To ensure gender responsiveness, the M&E system will track gender‐disaggregated data to assess how men, women, and vulnerable groups experience and respond to climate impacts. This approach is crucial for designing adaptive policies that are inclusive and equitable. The monitoring framework includes process-level results on coordination, integration of CCA into sectoral policies (especially in the agreed priority sectors of agriculture, forestry, energy, transport, water resources and health), capacity development and knowledge management. The indicators of the NAP M&E framework refer to 3 levels of results: macro (cumulative impact at national level); meso (result at sector or region/district level); and Micro (result at the level of projects, programs). These will provide information about: 1) Climate impact or risks: impacts that changing climate parameters may have on socioeconomic and ecological systems. 2) Adaptation actions: information about measures that are implemented to prevent adverse effects on climate change. 3) Adaptation results: information and assessments of the results of taken adaptation actions. 4) Processes: Information about processes such as coordination, capacity development, knowledge management and integration of CCA aspects into sectoral policies, which improve adaptive capacity and influence adaptation actions and outcomes. Special attention should be given to how these processes impact gender equality, especially in sectors like agriculture, health, and water resources. (...) |
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Republic of Moldova | Information to Facilitate Clarity, Transparency, and Understanding of the Updated Nationally Determined Contribution: 4: Planning processes: (d) Mitigation co-benefits from adaptation actions The adaptation priorities by sector and actions in Moldova are defined as follows: (...) Critical Infrastructure: (...) improve the rural population's access to a climate-resilient road system that considers social, age, and gender issues; promote water-energy-land interaction with renewable energy sources; improve climate protection of the energy system infrastructure; ensure operation of energy infrastructure in any climatic conditions; and accelerate regional power market integration. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Infrastructure |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 3.2: Mitigation measures by sector: 3.2.2. AFOLU The strategic alignment between the National Action Plan for Renewable Energy (PANER), the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency (PANEE) and the National Action Plan and Strategy for Clean and Modern Cooking (PANECLM) represents a decisive opportunity to accelerate the energy transition in São Tomé and Príncipe. By prioritising universal access to clean energy services, these public policy instruments not only have an impact on the energy sector, but also have direct effects on the AFOLU sector, significantly reducing pressure on forest resources currently used for the production of firewood and charcoal. **The introduction of clean cooking technologies are likely to benefit women by reducing their unpaid care workload—particularly time and physical effort spent collecting firewood and cooking—while improving their health by lowering exposure to indoor air pollution, and enhancing their adaptive capacity through safer, cleaner, and more reliable household energy access. |
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Mitigation | Land use and forestry |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 4. ADAPTATION AND LOSS & DAMAGE: 4.1. A whole-of-economy approach to climate change adaptation: 4.1.2. Fisheries The ambition and actions presented here aim to reduce climate impacts on the sector, ensure the sustainability of fishery resources and strengthen the socio-economic resilience of coastal communities. (...) These measures are in line with São Tomé and Príncipe's Blue Economy Transition Strategy, which aims to transform marine and coastal resources into drivers of sustainable development. The strategy promotes sustainable fishing, the protection of marine habitats, responsible coastal tourism and marine renewable energy, integrating adaptation to climate change and strengthening the socio-economic resilience of coastal communities (FAO, 2023). Thus, the fisheries sector not only responds to current climate challenges, but also contributes to inclusive and sustainable growth based on the blue economy. **São Tomé and Príncipe's Blue Economy Transition Strategy identfies the importance of women vendors and artisanal processors in the fishing industry. |
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Adaptation | Coastal zones and fisheries |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 4. ADAPTATION AND LOSS & DAMAGE: 4.1. A whole-of-economy approach to climate change adaptation: 4.1.9 Health M.HEAL.01 Develop the Health National Adaptation Plan (HNAP), ensuring that health-related adaptation priorities are specified and integrated into national and local climate actions. Target(s): Have the National Health Adaptation Plan (HNAP) fully implemented and operational. M.HEAL.02 Strengthen the climate resilience and environmental sustainability of healthcare facilities and infrastructure (location and physical criticality, guaranteed energy and water supply, comfort, ventilation and heat management, prevention and management of hospital waste, etc.). Target(s): Ensure that 100% of health facilities and infrastructure are climate-resilient,with guaranteed energy and water supply, and improved waste management systems M.HEAL.03 Train health professionals on the impacts of climate change and climate-related diseases on health, and train emergency response teams to deal with climate-related health crises, such as disease outbreaks (such as cholera, diarrhoea, dengue fever and malaria), dehydration and heat stress. Target(s): Integrate training on the impacts of climate change and climate-related diseases into the curricula of all health schools. M.HEAL.04 Expand community-based primary health care to improve access to preventive services in vulnerable regions and ensure the continued provision of quality health services for climate-sensitive diseases such as malaria, cholera and dengue fever, and the impacts of rising temperatures such as heat stress and dehydration. Target(s): Expand access to quality health services in all vulnerable regions, ensuring the prevention and continuous treatment of climate-sensitive diseases. **According to ILO data (2017), women are disproportionately employed in the healthcare sector in São Tomé and Príncipe, out numbering men 2 to 1, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
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| Sao Tome and Principe | 5.2. Equitable and Just Transition As part of the BTR1 project, a workshop/training on gender sensitivity will be organised for the project management team, working groups, sectoral ministries and selected gender NGOs focused on the environment and women's organisations to support gender equity measures in the national reporting process. Women and women's organisations will be involved in capacity building and training. Institutions to be consulted on gender issues at the national level will include, among others, the following: Ministry of Health and Women's Rights, the UNFCCC gender focal point, civil society organisations working in the areas of gender and climate change, as well as research institutions and development partners working on gender issues. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Sao Tome and Principe | Annex 2. Mitigation actions and measures by sector: Complementary measures of NDC 3.0 Sector: Energy Sub-sector: Residential Technology or name of measure: Gas, electric and solar cookers Measure: Increase in gas, electric and solar cookers for cooking **The introduction of solar cookers is likely to benefit women by reducing their unpaid care workload—particularly time and physical effort spent collecting firewood and cooking—while improving their health by lowering exposure to indoor air pollution, and enhancing their adaptive capacity through safer, cleaner, and more reliable household energy access. |
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Sao Tome and Principe | Annex 2. Mitigation actions and measures by sector: Complementary measures of NDC 3.0 Sector: Energy Sub-sector: Residential Technology or name of measure: Wood and charcoal stoves Measure: Increase in improved, highly efficient stoves (...) Sector: Forest Sub-sector: Agroforestry and Forestry / Residential Technology or name of measure: Reduction in firewood and charcoal consumption Measure: Reduction in firewood and charcoal consumption **The introduction of improved cookstoves is likely to benefit women by reducing their unpaid care workload—particularly time and physical effort spent collecting firewood and cooking—while improving their health by lowering exposure to indoor air pollution, and enhancing their adaptive capacity through safer, cleaner, and more reliable household energy access. |
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| Sao Tome and Principe | Annex 5. Adaptation measures, target(s) and estimated cost # 1 Code: M.AGRI.01 Adaptation Measure: Strengthening access to climate information and early warning systems Sector: Agriculture and Livestock Target (2035): To have a climate information network covering all agricultural areas, with 90% of rural farmers having regular access to climate alerts and forecasts for crop and livestock planning. Cost calculation assumption: Cost of technology systems and communication infrastructure, training and technical personnel Estimated Cost (Value in Millions of USD): 3.00 USD **Due to the near-universal target of 98% of rural farmers having access to climate alerts and forecasts, women will likely benefit from this measure. |
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 5.2. Equitable and Just Transition In response, the implementation of the mitigation and adaptation actions outlined in this NDC will take into account the differentiated impacts of climate change on children, women, the elderly, young people and other social groups. In addition, implementation will take into account the role that different social groups have to play in reducing emissions, as well as the associated benefits for sustainable development. Applicable adaptation and mitigation actions will prioritise marginalised groups, geographical areas and the provision of resources to communities with the greatest needs, with the aim of reducing poverty and improving sustainable development. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Serbia | Information to Facilitate Clarity, Transparency, and Understanding of the Updated Nationally Determined Contribution: 4: Planning processes: (a) Information on the planning processes that the Party undertook to prepare its nationally determined contribution and, if available, on the Party’s implementation plans, including, as appropriate: i) Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation and engagement with local communities and indigenous peoples, in a gender-responsive manner: The inclusion of the gender aspect in the preparation of public policy documents in Serbia is regulated by a legal framework designed to ensure equal participation, gender sensitive policymaking and the integration of gender perspectives. The key legislative acts and regulations establishing rights and procedures in relation to gender mainstreaming include: the Law on Gender Equality (2021), which prescribes the obligations of public authorities to integrate the gender perspective into policy making and decision-making processes and requires gender-responsive budgeting and public policy impact assessment. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Serbia | Information to Facilitate Clarity, Transparency, and Understanding of the Updated Nationally Determined Contribution: 4: Planning processes: (a) Information on the planning processes that the Party undertook to prepare its nationally determined contribution and, if available, on the Party’s implementation plans, including, as appropriate: i) Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation and engagement with local communities and indigenous peoples, in a gender-responsive manner: The inclusion of the gender aspect in the preparation of public policy documents in Serbia is regulated by a legal framework designed to ensure equal participation, gender sensitive policymaking and the integration of gender perspectives. (...) Furthermore, the National Strategy for Gender Equality for the period 2021-2030 defines strategic priorities for achieving gender equality and women's empowerment in Serbia, emphasises the importance of gender-sensitive policy-making and institutional mechanisms for gender mainstreaming, and promotes the active participation of women in public consultation and decision-making processes. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Seychelles | 1. Quantifiable information on the reference point: c) For strategies, plans and actions referred to in Article 4, paragraph 6, of the Paris Agreement, or polices and measures as components of nationally determined contributions where paragraph 1(b) above is not applicable, Parties to provide other relevant information. Seychelles Blue Economy Strategic Framework and Roadmap highlights the importance of the sector for Seychelles development and presents a variety of co-benefit approaches. The Roadmap has potential to strengthen the resilience of marine ecosystems based economy in Seychelles and gender equality should be adequately integrated to ensure co-benefit approaches are enjoyed by all. Additionally, it clearly states how women and youth-led blue economy activities will be supported and streamlined to ensure that women and young people small scale activities are equally resilient as the marine economy aims to strive amid climate adaptation and mitigation actions. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Biodiversity and ecosystems |
| Seychelles | 6b: Fairness considerations, including reflecting on equity: As outlined in the previous section on ambition and national circumstances, Seychelles' NDC is framed in light of its status as a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) with high climate vulnerability and low historical emissions. Building on this, the national climate dialogue further emphasises fairness and equity by highlighting the explicit integration of gender equality, gender-responsive climate action including aspects of sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender-based violence (GBV), equitable participation, and inclusive climate governance in national climate policy. This includes improving the data and research to provide a clear and disaggregated understanding of risk vulnerability across all demographic sub-groups, especially development of specific indicators around vulnerability to harmful practices and coping mechanisms. These efforts, alongside the recognition of the need for international support and public-private partnership to address capacity and resource gaps, as well as robust disaggregated data and research on the differentiated risk levels and associated responses across socio-demographic sub-groups reinforce Seychelles' commitment to delivering a fair, equitable, and ambitious NDC for all its communities. |
Gender-based violence
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Solomon Islands | 4. Adaptation: 4.3 Agriculture and food systems (...) These areas are predominantly governed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) and provincial extensions following the Agricultural Sector Growth Strategy and Investment Plan 2021-2030. Within this strategy and investment plan are four primary programmes to increase food productivity, the resilience of crops, and improve food supply chains, where all programmes incorporate climate-smart practices to different degrees. At the institutional level, national policies and international aid initiatives have played a crucial role in enhancing food security and climate adaptation. Regional initiatives and government-led food security strategies aim to integrate climate resilience into agriculture and fisheries. However, insufficient funding, and fragmented governance continue to hinder large-scale implementation of adaptive strategies. **Gender is integrated throughout the Agricultural Sector Growth Strategy and Investment Plan 2021-2030, including specifically in Component 1.3.4 - Women Development, which focuses on women agricultural extension services (WAES) and capacity building. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Solomon Islands | 5. Loss and Damage (...) The Solomon Islands is ranked number 33 out of 193 countries, the top 17% of countries with disaster and vulnerability risks, in the World Risk Report 2023, primarily due to exposure risks and lack of adaptive capacities. While the 2017 Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative (PCRAFI) report on the Solomon Islands indicated that average annual combined direct and emergency losses from tropical cyclones are expected to be USD 7.1m (in 2017 USD) with up to 63 casualties. While a once-in-50-year tropical cyclone event is expected to deliver combined losses of USD 54.7m with up to 489 casualties, and a 100-year event with combined losses of USD 78.6m with up to 691 casualties. In addition, the report indicated that there is a 77% chance that disaster loss will exceed the national budget allocated to the National Disaster Council Fund for response on an average annual basis. Further support for national and regional assessment is needed to update risk profiles and potential for future loss and damage across the Solomon Islands, noting that the PCRAFI report is 8 years old and was prepared before the average global temperature reached 1.55°c above pre-industrial levels in 2024. Besides future losses due to damage from tropical cyclones and acute severe weather disasters, other future losses are expected to be caused by sustained temperature rise in terrestrial areas, increased ocean temperature, and changes in precipitation. Noting the potential for variations across the nine provinces of the Solomon Islands, areas where the Solomon Islands are expected to face future economic losses due to damages caused by climate change are in agriculture and blue economy where commodities such as round wood, processed and frozen fish, palm oil, and coconut derived products make up 73% of national exports and 24% of GDP in 2023.58 Non-economic losses also occur, which include loss of culturally important areas, traditional knowledge, and loss of life. Especially since the Solomon Islands has numerous subcultures throughout its nine provinces, evidenced by 95 different languages. **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. The Solomon Islands faces significant socio-economic challenges, including high levels of poverty, gender inequality, limited access to social protection, and youth unemployment. Approximately 35% of the population is multi-dimensionally poor, a figure much higher than other Pacific Island Countries. Climatic shocks further exacerbate vulnerabilities, as affected groups have limited resources and are less capable of recovering from both urgent and slow-onset events in the Solomon Islands. The absence of a comprehensive social protection system offers both challenges and opportunities for building a climate smart framework and addressing losses. Collaboration between government ministries and partners aims to develop social protection frameworks, including collecting relevant data, supporting green skills, and managing the social service workforce. Though significantly more support is needed, these envisioned efforts also encompass creating a single registry for streamlined case management and implementing climate shock-responsive and child-sensitive social protection approaches that can help identify and quantify socio-economic losses due to climate change. |
Economic security
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Solomon Islands | 6. Children, Youth and Gender (...) These cross-cutting impacts are addressed under at least a dozen different policies and action plans, where the most notable are the National Gender Equality and Women's Development Policy 2016-2020, National Youth Policy 2017-2030, and National Children's Policy 2023-2028. To further explore these impacts, the Ministry of Women, Youth, Children & Family Affairs (MWYCFA), MECDM, and UNICEF organised a national consultation to help inform this NDC and for the inclusion into climate actions. The valued outputs of the workshop propose the following activities for enhanced inclusion: (...) * Develop climate policies that address gender-specific vulnerabilities. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Solomon Islands | 6. Children, Youth and Gender (...) These cross-cutting impacts are addressed under at least a dozen different policies and action plans, where the most notable are the National Gender Equality and Women's Development Policy 2016-2020, National Youth Policy 2017-2030, and National Children's Policy 2023-2028. To further explore these impacts, the Ministry of Women, Youth, Children & Family Affairs (MWYCFA), MECDM, and UNICEF organised a national consultation to help inform this NDC and for the inclusion into climate actions. The valued outputs of the workshop propose the following activities for enhanced inclusion: (...) * Develop indicators to track the participation and impact of children, youth, and women in NDCs. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Solomon Islands | 6. Children, Youth and Gender (...) These cross-cutting impacts are addressed under at least a dozen different policies and action plans, where the most notable are the National Gender Equality and Women's Development Policy 2016-2020, National Youth Policy 2017-2030, and National Children's Policy 2023-2028. To further explore these impacts, the Ministry of Women, Youth, Children & Family Affairs (MWYCFA), MECDM, and UNICEF organised a national consultation to help inform this NDC and for the inclusion into climate actions. The valued outputs of the workshop propose the following activities for enhanced inclusion: (...) * Partnership with SINU to develop climate change short courses to increase awareness and training programmes to improve green skills and promote youth- and women-led climate resilience. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Solomon Islands | 6. Children, Youth and Gender (...) These cross-cutting impacts are addressed under at least a dozen different policies and action plans, where the most notable are the National Gender Equality and Women's Development Policy 2016-2020, National Youth Policy 2017-2030, and National Children's Policy 2023-2028. To further explore these impacts, the Ministry of Women, Youth, Children & Family Affairs (MWYCFA), MECDM, and UNICEF organised a national consultation to help inform this NDC and for the inclusion into climate actions. The valued outputs of the workshop propose the following activities for enhanced inclusion: (...) * Ensure equal access to climate adaptation resources and technologies. (...) * Provide training and support for women in climate science, policy, and engineering (possibly coupled with implementation of climate mitigation and adaptation projects). * Encourage women's participation in climate resilience projects. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Solomon Islands | 6. Children, Youth and Gender (...) These cross-cutting impacts are addressed under at least a dozen different policies and action plans, where the most notable are the National Gender Equality and Women's Development Policy 2016-2020, National Youth Policy 2017-2030, and National Children's Policy 2023-2028. To further explore these impacts, the Ministry of Women, Youth, Children & Family Affairs (MWYCFA), MECDM, and UNICEF organised a national consultation to help inform this NDC and for the inclusion into climate actions. The valued outputs of the workshop propose the following activities for enhanced inclusion: (...) * Ensure representation of young people and women in climate negotiations, project development and decision-making processes. * Promote and support youth-led and women-led climate initiatives, role models and campaigns. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Somalia | 4. Adaptation: 4.1 Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Security (...) From a gender perspective, women in Somalia, who are disproportionally affected by climate change, due to their roles in the household food production, agriculture and energy management, face significant barriers to adaptation. These include limited access to land, credit, agricultural inputs (seeds), information about climate adaptation strategies, and practices. Addressing those challenges is critical to ensure effective and inclusive climate response. The focus will be on sustainable conflict sensitive agricultural development, food systems resilience, and improved nutrition outcomes, with emphasis on inputs and production through a combination of climate-smart, gender-responsive actions as follows: * Enhancing land and crop productivity through promotion of climate resilient technologies; drought tolerant crop varieties and seed systems; conservation tillage; crop diversification and rotation; agroforestry systems; developing rainfed and irrigated agriculture systems (including seeds, fertilizer etc); and development of climate resilient value chains. * Sustainable livestock management systems including restoration of degraded pastures; promotion of sustainable grazing systems and fodder production; expansion of veterinary services to improve livestock health; promotion of climate resilient livestock practices; introducing livestock insurance; and improving livestock value chains. * Improving fishery productivity through promotion of marine aquaculture; strengthening governance and comanagement; promotion of sustainable capture fishery practices; adaptive fishing techniques; strengthening Early Warning Systems (EWS) and surveillance; strengthening enforcement systems; establishing fish landing ports, market access and value chain development. * Integrating conflict sensitivity into climate-resilient agriculture interventions by conducting conflict risk assessments during project design and implementation; promoting inclusive and transparent stakeholder engagement, particularly in resource allocation and governance; supporting community-based mechanisms for land, water, and resource dispute resolution; leveraging traditional institutions for collaborative natural resource management; and targeting livelihood support to vulnerable and marginalized groups to enhance social cohesion and reduce conflict risks * Empower women in climate-vulnerable communities by improving access to agricultural resources, climate adaptation information, livelihood opportunities in key sectors (agriculture, livestock, fisheries), and meaningful participation in natural resource governance and peacebuilding processes. |
Economic security
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Somalia | 4. Adaptation: 4.2 Water Resource Management The planned adaptation actions in water resources management will focus on availability and access to water for people and livestock; developing water for irrigation; and water governance. The required investment in the sector is estimated at $1.27 billion, which is 21% of the adaptation budget. Somalia is a water scarce country, with a daily consumption of only 14 litres per person, a per capita availability of 411 m3 per year, and water access at only 52%. This is due to its importance as an enabler in health and productive sectors. Given the role of water scarcity in heightening local tensions and competition over resources—particularly in drought-affected areas—investments in equitable and conflict-sensitive water management will also contribute to social cohesion, stability, and peacebuilding. Women in Somalia are disproportionately affected as they rely on water for livelihoods and household needs. They bear the burden of water collection as they trek long distances in search of water exposing them to risks of gender-based violence and time spent collecting water reduces opportunities for education, income generation, and rest. Thus, a goal of the water interventions is the integration of women's equal participation and leadership in all aspects of water governance from rural infrastructure management to urban sanitation design through targeted training, safe infrastructure planning, and decision-making roles in water associations and conflict resolution. The actions proposed are: * Enhancing access to water for rural and peri-urban populations and livestock through rehabilitation and development of wells, dams and boreholes; rural sanitation systems; promotion of water hygiene; water use efficiency; and water distribution enhancement. (...) * Improved water governance and co-management; data systems, research, early warning and information systems. * Conflict-sensitive water management through measures for equitable water access for all communities; inclusive and multi-stakeholder water governance; and strengthening of traditional dispute-resolution mechanisms around shared water resources. |
Unpaid care work
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Somalia | 4. Adaptation: 4.3 Public Health Resilience This sector will cost $400 million (13% of total adaptation budget) aimed at building robust proactive health systems to prevent incidence of disease; enhance capability to respond to emergencies; and increase access to essential curative services. While the health sector is significant, there are sectors that are more vulnerable to climate change impacts, like agriculture, , enabling sectors such as water and agriculture are budgeted elsewhere. Investments here will include: * Proactive health measures to reduce the incidences and impacts of disease transmission; * Enhance the health sector’s capacity to respond to climate-induced risks, including disease outbreaks and heat stress; * Rebuilding and Innovating systems for provision of healthcare to nomadic communities; * Develop climate-resilient health infrastructure accessible to all, including pregnant women, people with disabilities, and rural populations and provide sexual and reproductive health services during climate emergencies; * Development of early warning and communication systems for health related risks. |
Health
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Adaptation | Health |
| Somalia | 4. Adaptation: 4.5 Just Transition A just transition is a cornerstone of Somalia’s climate and development strategy, ensuring that the shift to a low-carbon and climate-resilient future is inclusive, equitable, and socially just. Somalia’s NDC 3.0 recognizes that climate change disproportionately affects vulnerable groups, including women, youth, informal workers, pastoralist communities, and internally displaced persons. To address this, the adaptation component prioritizes targeted investments in green job creation and vocational training, with a focus on reskilling young people and women for emerging climate-resilient sectors such as renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and ecosystem restoration. Moreover, the NDC commits to strengthening gender-responsive adaptation planning by integrating social protection measures that safeguard livelihoods and well-being in the face of climate shocks. By enhancing access to low-carbon and affordable technologies such as solar-powered irrigation, clean cooking solutions, and climate-smart digital tools the strategy aims to empower marginalized communities to participate in and benefit from the green transition. This sector also promotes inclusive governance and participatory decision-making processes, ensuring that adaptation strategies are co-developed with those most affected. Through these integrated actions, Somalia seeks to align its adaptation goals with National Transformation Plan priorities, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and its broader peacebuilding and social cohesion agenda. |
Economic security
Health
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Somalia | 5. Mitigation Pathways: 5.3 Energy Sector While not yet a big contributor to GHG emission, the proposed emission reduction in the sector is proportionately the highest of all sectors at 50%, aiming to cut emissions by 3.24 MtCO₂e at an estimated cost of USD 1.217 billion (Table 4). Access to sustainable and reliable energy is critical to Somalia’s climate resilience and economic development as it powers sectors like agriculture, healthcare, and industry while reducing dependence on fossil fuels and enabling a just transition to renewable solutions. Energy Initiatives in this sector include: (...) * Promotion of improved cookstoves and energy-efficient appliances, * Sustainable charcoal production with improved kiln technology * Promoting clean cooking including use of LPG to replace biomass in domestic energy **Expanding access to clean and efficient household energy in Somalia is likely to benefit women by easing unpaid care burdens and improving health through safer, more sustainable cooking and energy solutions. |
Unpaid care work
Health
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Somalia | 7. Capacity Building, Technology Development, and Transfer for Somalia's NDC: 7.1 Capacity Building: 7.1.1 Enhanced Adaptation Strategies Given Somalia's extreme vulnerability to climate shocks (including five consecutive failed rainy seasons from 2021-2023 that displaced 1.3 million people), adaptation technologies require urgent scaling: * Expanding beyond basic solar pumps to include IoT-enabled monitoring systems that track water levels, quality, and usage patterns, helping pastoralist communities manage scarce resources * Community-Based Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting at scale in urban informal settlements (384 affected by 2023 floods) with training programs for women-led households * Integrated Early Warning Systems which combine mobile alert systems (reaching 54.8% mobile penetration) with traditional communication channels to warn pastoralists (70% of population) about droughts and floods * Climate-Smart Livestock Management including introducing mobile apps for herd tracking, veterinary services, and market linkages to support Somalia's livestock sector (60-70% of population dependent) |
Unpaid care work
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Somalia | 7. Capacity Building, Technology Development, and Transfer for Somalia's NDC: 7.3 Implementation Framework To operationalize these enhanced interventions, Somalia will: 1. Strengthen policy coordination by aligning TNA outcomes with National Transformation Plan and Somalia Power Master Plan through the newly established National Electricity Authority 2. Leverage international partnerships by deepening engagement with Climate Technology Centre and Network and NDC Partnership which supported Somalia's enhanced NDC development 3. Create enabling environment by finalizing regulations for emerging technologies through National Communications Authority while ensuring cyber-security 4. Gender-responsive implementation by ensuring 40% women participation in technology programs, building on UNDP's successful models 5. Private sector engagement through development of clean energy Public Private Partnership frameworks with Power Africa's support to attract investment in renewable energy 6. Community-led deployment by adapting technologies to nomadic lifestyles through mobile service units and portable solutions. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Somalia | 8. Climate Justice and Security: 8.1 Gender, Youth and other Vulnerable Groups Inclusion in Climate Actions (...) The vision of this NDC is a just and resilient future for Somalia, where women, youth, and marginalized groups are not merely beneficiaries but actively engage in providing climate solutions — driving equitable policies, green economies, and inclusive adaptation efforts. This requires transforming women and youth from vulnerable groups into key drivers of climate innovation, policy, and grassroots action for a just, sustainable and equitable future through the following. 1. Leadership, representation and inclusive governance * Achieve 30% representation of women in climate decision-making bodies, with active engagement from gender ministries in NDC governance, ensuring policies reflect diverse needs. * Meaningfully include persons with disabilities in climate planning, policy design, and NDC processes, with dedicated funding for disability-led resilience initiatives. * Strengthen youth advisory councils and intergenerational partnerships to institutionalize youth leadership in national and sub-national climate governance. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Somalia | 8. Climate Justice and Security: 8.1 Gender, Youth and other Vulnerable Groups Inclusion in Climate Actions (...) The vision of this NDC is a just and resilient future for Somalia, where women, youth, and marginalized groups are not merely beneficiaries but actively engage in providing climate solutions — driving equitable policies, green economies, and inclusive adaptation efforts. This requires transforming women and youth from vulnerable groups into key drivers of climate innovation, policy, and grassroots action for a just, sustainable and equitable future through the following. 2. Gender-responsive and disability inclusive climate policies * Mainstream gender and disability considerations across all climate policies, ensuring adaptation strategies address the unique vulnerabilities of women, children, the elderly, and displaced populations. * Conduct intersectional gender and disability analyses to identify gaps in finance, technology, and knowledge access, shaping targeted interventions. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Somalia | 8. Climate Justice and Security: 8.1 Gender, Youth and other Vulnerable Groups Inclusion in Climate Actions (...) The vision of this NDC is a just and resilient future for Somalia, where women, youth, and marginalized groups are not merely beneficiaries but actively engage in providing climate solutions — driving equitable policies, green economies, and inclusive adaptation efforts. This requires transforming women and youth from vulnerable groups into key drivers of climate innovation, policy, and grassroots action for a just, sustainable and equitable future through the following. 3. Climate Justice & Social Protection * Expand gender-responsive climate finance and insurance mechanisms to support women farmers, pastoralists, and displaced communities in recovering from climate shocks. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Somalia | 8. Climate Justice and Security: 8.1 Gender, Youth and other Vulnerable Groups Inclusion in Climate Actions (...) The vision of this NDC is a just and resilient future for Somalia, where women, youth, and marginalized groups are not merely beneficiaries but actively engage in providing climate solutions — driving equitable policies, green economies, and inclusive adaptation efforts. This requires transforming women and youth from vulnerable groups into key drivers of climate innovation, policy, and grassroots action for a just, sustainable and equitable future through the following. (...) 3. Climate Justice & Social Protection (...) * Strengthen social safety nets with disability-inclusive disaster preparedness, child protection systems, and adaptive social programs to prevent harmful coping mechanisms (e.g., child labor, early marriage). (...) 6. Child Protection and climate responsive safeguards * Assess and address child-specific climate risks by incorporating child protection into vulnerability assessments, and ensure access to health, education, and nutrition during climate shocks. * Strengthen social safety nets with disability-inclusive disaster preparedness, child protection systems, and adaptive social programs to prevent harmful coping mechanisms (e.g., child labor, early marriage). * Promote child participation and awareness by supporting climate education in schools and engaging children and youth in climate action and decision-making processes. |
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Gender-based violence
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Cross-cutting | Other |
| Somalia | 8. Climate Justice and Security: 8.1 Gender, Youth and other Vulnerable Groups Inclusion in Climate Actions (...) The vision of this NDC is a just and resilient future for Somalia, where women, youth, and marginalized groups are not merely beneficiaries but actively engage in providing climate solutions — driving equitable policies, green economies, and inclusive adaptation efforts. This requires transforming women and youth from vulnerable groups into key drivers of climate innovation, policy, and grassroots action for a just, sustainable and equitable future through the following. (...) 4. Innovation, livelihoods and economic resilience * Scale up youth and women-led green enterprises in circular economies, renewable energy, and sustainable agriculture, backed by dedicated funding and skills training. * Promote accessible climate technologies and ensure marginalized groups, including persons with disabilities, benefit from low-carbon solutions and adaptive infrastructure. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Somalia | 8. Climate Justice and Security: 8.1 Gender, Youth and other Vulnerable Groups Inclusion in Climate Actions (...) The vision of this NDC is a just and resilient future for Somalia, where women, youth, and marginalized groups are not merely beneficiaries but actively engage in providing climate solutions — driving equitable policies, green economies, and inclusive adaptation efforts. This requires transforming women and youth from vulnerable groups into key drivers of climate innovation, policy, and grassroots action for a just, sustainable and equitable future through the following. (...) 5. Education, capacity building and systemic change * Integrate climate literacy into school curricula and vocational training, emphasizing gender equity and disability inclusion. * Support community-led awareness campaigns to shift behaviors toward sustainability, with leadership from women, youth, and underrepresented voices. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Somalia | 8.3 Loss and Damage (…) To effectively address the escalating impacts of climate-induced Loss and Damage (L&D) in Somalia, the following strategic actions are proposed to strengthen institutional frameworks, financing mechanisms, and community resilience. * Establish structures and systems for reporting, cataloguing, and quantifying climate attributable direct and indirect losses and damages from all economic sectors and communities and integrate L&D assements in MRV systems. * Develop a national L&D financing strategy, a dedicated L&D Fund, and mobilize funds from climate finance sources and international partners for the fund. * Lobby for simplified mechanisms to access funds for climate action under L&D. * Build capacity for resource mobilization and utilization and enhance transparency in the disbursement of L&D funds. * Address slow onset climate shocks such as sea level rise and desertification, alongside extreme climate shocks in L&D considerations by integrating them into national climate policies, especially through early warning systems, land use planning, and ecosystem-based approaches In addition to the proposed loss and damage interventions in Somalia, a comprehensive approach to addressing both sudden-onset and slow-onset climate-related impacts is important. Key investments include restoring degraded rangelands and enhancing drought-resilient livestock systems, with an allocation of USD 200 million from the adaptation budget (Table 3). These interventions aim to restore livelihoods, build pastoral resilience, and reduce vulnerability to recurrent droughts. USD 500 million is allocated to improve rural and peri-urban water supply systems, an urgent priority to address water scarcity and reduce displacement risks. These investments are vital for safeguarding vulnerable communities who depend heavily on climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture and pastoralism. **Loss and damage measures targeting risks associated with water scarcity and displacement in vulnerable communities are likely to benefit women through improving their resilience and livelihood security. |
Economic security
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Somalia | Annex 1: Information to Facilitate Clarity, Transparency and Understanding: i. Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation and engagement with local communities and indigenous peoples, in a gender-responsive manner: (...) The government of Somalia is committed to mainstreaming gender equality across its development and climate change policies and plans, including Somalia's National Transformation Plan (NTP) 2025–2029, which represents a comprehensive commitment to inclusive development, with gender equality and women's empowerment as key components of Somalia's national transformation agenda. It recognizes the critical need to actively pursue greater involvement of women, youth, people with disabilities, and other marginalized groups, which NDC 3.0 will build upon. This will be pursued by recognizing and mainstreaming the different needs and concerns of men, women, and other groups and ensuring effective and inclusive participation in planning and implementation processes to ensure that policies are gender-sensitive and include strategies for these vulnerable groups’ empowerment. This will be done by engaging with NGOs working with these groups to strengthen their capacities to mobilize, participate, and advocate for change; making deliberate efforts to tailor information packaging and communication to diverse groups to improve inclusion; providing opportunities to participate in workshops and meetings; and contributing perspectives that can influence greater inclusion and equality. |
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Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Sri Lanka | Chapter 5: Adaptation NDCs : 5.2 Sectoral Legal, Policy and Institutional Landscape The agriculture sector is headed the Department of Agriculture (DOA) and leads implementation, supported by research bodies like the Sri Lanka Council for Agricultural Research Policy (SLCARP), which promotes innovation and technology development. The draft National Agriculture Policy and Conceptual Food Security Framework, emphasising CSA practices such as crop diversification, water-efficient irrigation, and agroforestry. These policy frameworks prioritise capacity building, market access, value addition, and gender and youth mainstreaming, with special attention to vulnerable smallholder farmers managing limited landholdings. Furthermore, these policies focus on resilience building for vulnerable smallholder farmers while promoting sustainable resource management and institutional capacity. Complementing to the other laws and regulations such as the Soil Conservation Act No. 25 of 1951, Plant Protection Act No. 35 of 1999, Seed Act No. 22 of 2003, and Pesticide Control Act No. 33 of 1980 that regulate critical aspects of agricultural inputs and protect natural resources. |
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Sri Lanka | Chapter 6: Loss and Damage NDCs : 6.2 Legal, policy and institutional landscape for Damage and Losses The DMC, established under the Disaster Management Act No. 13 of 2005, serves as the apex institution for disaster risk management in Sri Lanka. This comprehensive Act establishes key institutions such as the National Council for Disaster Management (NCDM) and the DMC, responsible for disaster preparedness, response, mitigation, and rehabilitation. The NCDM is chaired by the President and coordinates disaster management policy, while the DMC implements these policies and coordinates relief efforts. The National Disaster Management Plan (2023–2030) recognises that disasters disproportionately affect community groups based on vulnerabilities shaped by socio-economic status, physical condition, gender, age, and other risk factors. It emphasises the need to address these differentiated needs across all phases of disaster management and highlights the importance of cross-sectoral collaboration in risk assessment, risk reduction planning, and implementation. In addition to disaster management policies and action plans, climate-induced disaster management and L&D are also addressed collectively through other frameworks and policies. Sri Lanka has undertaken some initiatives including establishing a Risk Information database (Risk Info) and the DesInventar database which captures disaster losses. In 2018, a Damage and Loss Assessment System was developed in collaboration with the National Planning Department and the Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) to regularise and systematise L&D data and information to inform planning processes, access recovery support and climate financing. However, full operationalisation and sector-wide capacity building remain key challenges. Sri Lanka has also conducted three PDNAs in the past wherein damage and loss calculations were done specific to extreme weather events. This helps to form a baseline for extreme weather events and could support to develop a comprehensive localised L&D methodology for Sri Lanka. |
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Gender mainstreaming
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Loss and damage | Disasters |
| Sri Lanka | Chapter 6: Loss and Damage NDCs : Table 6.1 NDCs in the Loss and Damage sector NDC 5. Develop a Risk Management Framework covering social, economic, physical and ecological risks due to climate change-related and extreme disaster events, enabling climate/disaster risk financing. Description: NDC 5 focuses on developing a comprehensive Risk Management Framework that addresses social, economic, physical, and ecological risks stemming from climate change-related extreme weather and slow onset events. This Framework is designed to enhance climate and disaster risk financing, as well as reduce overlaps, repetitions, and aim for more institutionally and financially coordinated DRR planning and implementation in the country. A Framework that integrates economic and non-economic climate risks will be developed by 2035. By incorporating diverse risk factors, the Framework not only facilitates better preparedness and response mechanisms but also positions Sri Lanka to attract adequate financing (i.e. from the Fund for Responding to L&D) which is necessary to effectively implement L&D strategies. It is expected to generate funds from risk financing programmes to secure resources to minimise L&D. Ultimately, this integrated approach aims to bolster resilience of communities which are most affected by climate impacts while promoting sustainable development. (p.72) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: L&D GESI integration: NDC 5 focuses on developing a comprehensive Risk Management Framework with an integrated approach aiming to bolster resilience in communities most affected by climate impacts while promoting sustainable development. **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 6.1) (p.90) |
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Loss and damage | Disasters |
| Sri Lanka | Chapter 6: Loss and Damage NDCs : 6.3 Finance, Technology, and Capacity Development Needs In Sri Lanka’s L&D sector, key technology and capacity gaps must be addressed for its effective implementation. A strong understanding of the L&D is needed across sectors to conduct effective risk assessments and respond to L&D. However, there is limited in-house technical expertise and experience to address L&D and to conduct gap analyses. To address these gaps, targeted training is needed to localise the definitions related to L&D and develop a methodology to address L&D, conduct risk assessments, identify data needs and develop an integrated data management system, and enhance stakeholder awareness and engagement in responding to both extreme weather and slow-onset events. Overall, this will equip sectoral focal points to address gender-based, social, economic, and ecological impacts arising from these types of events. Investment in advanced data technologies is also essential to enhance databases for real-time data collection, sharing and analysis. Enhancing weather and climate forecasting for both rapid and slow-onset disasters requires modern tools and improved forecasting capabilities, supported by the Ministry of Environment and the CCS. It is vital to ensure that disaster advisories are accessible to older persons and PWDs, including those with hearing or vision impairments. Addressing GESI considerations, as outlined in the L&D TAP, is key to closing implementation gaps and enabling effective technology transfer. Expanding social safety nets especially in drought- and flood-prone areas, and for women-headed households and smallholder farmers should also be explored. Meeting these technology and capacity needs is essential to achieve NDC goals and strengthen climate resilience.Given the significant scale of disasters, the range and variety of losses incurred by vulnerable populations across the country, Sri Lanka needs to engage with international mechanisms and seek, financial and technical support to deal with L&D. It is important to draw on the technical support available through international mechanisms such as the Santiago Network, funding from the Fund for Responding to L&D and other global funds to bring in much needed finance to the local level, where impacts are being felt the most. This will require specific actions and support. Other financing options also need to be pursued in support of implementation. |
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| Sri Lanka | 7.4 Just Transition: Advancing SDG-Driven NDC Action : Key Elements and Forward Pathways To integrate just transition effectively into NDC implementation, Sri Lanka recognises the need for the following strategic actions to be incorporated and considered across the NDC sectors: 1) Inclusive Planning and Dialogue: Facilitating multi-stakeholder platforms that include workers’ representatives, private sector actors, youth, women’s organizations, local governments, and civil society in the design and monitoring of climate actions. 2) Workforce Development and Green Skills: Aligning Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) systems with low-carbon sector growth areas, and supporting the reskilling and upskilling of workers, especially those in fossil-fuel-dependent or climate-vulnerable sectors. 3) Social Protection Mechanisms: Enhancing safety nets and support systems for communities and workers affected by economic restructuring linked to climate transitions. 4) Community-Led Adaptation and Local Development: Encouraging decentralized and community-driven adaptation projects that empower vulnerable groups and promote local ownership of climate solutions. 5) Gender and Youth Empowerment: Ensuring that just transition strategies are gender-responsive and youth-inclusive, aligning with Sri Lanka’s broader SDG priorities. |
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Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Sri Lanka | 7.4 Just Transition: Advancing SDG-Driven NDC Action : Support for a Just Transition Operationalizing a just transition in Sri Lanka will require dedicated and sustained international support. While the NDC 3.0 outlines strategic cross-sectoral actions that can generate employment, build resilience, and reduce inequalities, the realisation of these outcomes hinges on access to predictable and adequate climate finance, targeted capacity-building, and appropriate technology transfer mechanisms. Priority areas where external support is crucial include: 1) Financing the upskilling and reskilling of workers to match the demands of a green economy; 2) Investing in gender-responsive social protection schemes for communities affected by structural changes; 3) Strengthening MRV systems to track and report on social equity and just transition indicators; 4) Promoting locally led adaptation and enterprise development, especially in rural and underserved regions. 5) Embedding just transition principles into climate finance frameworks, to increase the developmental impact of investments, ensuring that funded actions yield both environmental and social returns. |
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| Sri Lanka | 4.2 Sectoral Mitigation NDCs : 4.2.1 Electricity (Power) Sector: Table 4.3 NDCs in Electricity (Power) Sector (mitigation) NDC 1. Enhance renewable and clean energy contribution to the national electricity generation mix by increasing Solar PV, Wind, Hydro and Sustainable Biomass based electricity generation. Description: Sri Lanka has a well-established framework for renewable energy development. It evolved from a thriving small hydropower dominant structure to a fully-fledged large-scale project dominated industry over the last three decades. Earlier supported by a lavish feed-in-tariff, the industry is currently driven by its own economic merit, realised by the scale of implementation and the steep learning curve. However, to absorb the large-scale variable renewable energy resources into the national grid, expansion of the transmission network and large-scale modernisation of the national transmission grid are required. With impending reforms in the power sector, the realisation of renewable energy ambitions will become even more challenging. The rooftop solar sector has shown a steep growth trajectory, driving a healthy demand for a trained workforce, contributing to increased participation of women in the energy industry. With the implementation of NDCs, renewable energy growth is expected to create more employment including for women and youth. This NDC encompasses the gamut of activities which need to be undertaken to further increase the share of renewables in electricity supply, aiming to add substantial capacity of renewable sources such as wind, solar (rooftop, small-scale and large solar PV), as well as large and small hydro power plants. It is expected that an additional capacity of 5,231 MW will be generated from clean sources over the period from 2026 to 2035, out of which 1,247 MW is unconditional. (p.18) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Energy GESI integration: NDC 1 recognises the potential of job creation opportunities for women and youth in the growth of renewable energy. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 4.2.1) (p.86) |
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Sri Lanka | 4.2 Sectoral Mitigation NDCs : 4.2.1 Electricity (Power) Sector: Table 4.3 NDCs in Electricity (Power) Sector (mitigation) NDC3: Implement Demand Side Management (DSM) measures by promoting energy-efficient equipment, technologies, and system improvements in a national Energy Efficiency Improvement and Conservation (EEI&C) programme covering commercial, institutional, and residential sectors. Description: Placing a strong emphasis on rapid advances in end-use technologies, this NDC envisages a significant market transformation in the electrical appliances market. Several measures, ranging from policy formulation, new regulations, mandatory minimum standards, to bulk procurement of energy-efficient equipment, are proposed to encourage market transformation, with lighting improvements taken as an unconditional measure. Further, replacement of inefficient appliances with modern, efficient appliances with greater penetration at present, and establishing stringent efficiency standards for appliances with a significant prospect for a growing demand, will be the hallmark of the appliance labelling programme. Two regulatory interventions, will make it mandatory for new buildings to be energy efficient and certain sub-sectors of the economy to achieve a pre-determined benchmark in energy performance, these measures are also expected to realise large-scale efficiency gains under this NDC. With these changes, it is estimated that it will lead to a substantial demand reduction of nearly 30,000 GWh over the ten-year period, a robust demand for energy efficiency services will be created in the country, with a significant number of jobs for women and youth. (p.19) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Energy GESI integration: NDC 3 describes the potential for new jobs for women and youth due to robust demand for energy efficiency services. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 4.2.1) (p.86) |
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| Sri Lanka | 4.2 Sectoral Mitigation NDCs : 4.2.1 Electricity (Power) Sector: Table 4.3 NDCs in Electricity (Power) Sector (mitigation) NDC 5: Conduct R&D activities and other necessary studies to implement clean energy technologies and other grid-supporting infrastructure to increase readiness to deploy such technologies in the future. Description: This NDC is designed to reinforce the sustainable and innovative growth trajectory of the electricity sector. Through targeted and anticipatory research and development (R&D) investments in advanced technologies and strong public engagement, Sri Lanka can embark on a long-term, sustainable growth path that is backed by a dynamic power sector. Key elements in this pursuit include modern sustainable energy technologies, ranging from generation technologies such as floating solar and offshore wind and storage technologies such as green hydrogen (which are new to Sri Lanka), to end-use technologies such as demand response measures drawing on extensive technical collaboration with developed countries. Furthermore, digitalisation of the electricity industry with smart grid and automation forms another strategic axis of the planned investments and energy efficiency improvements and performance and resilience enhancements of energy conversion facilities which are fostered to counteract degradation and exposure to climate hazards. To create the necessary human resources to facilitate the above, women and youth will be engaged through appropriate empowerment programmes. Further, education programmes will be conducted to enable children and youth to shoulder bigger responsibilities in an increasingly sustainable energy-dominated electricity sector in the future. Vocational training programmes will also be implemented such as the virtual net training programme, promoting green skills and public awareness of renewable energy benefits. (p.19) (...) Technology and Capacity Development Needs (...) Lastly, educating future citizens, public awareness and stakeholder engagement programmes with a strong emphasis on youth and women, aimed at improving the knowledge base on the benefits of a low-carbon electricity systems and participation in demand response and distributed generation schemes across communities, local governments, and industries are identified as effective support capacity-building measures which require international support (p.21) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Energy GESI integration: NDC 5 emphasises the importance of developing human resources to support these goals by engaging women and youth through tailored empowerment programs. Additionally, educational initiatives will be implemented to equip children and youth with the skills and knowledge needed to take on greater responsibilities in Sri Lanka’s increasingly sustainable, energy-focused electricity sector in the future. Vocational training programmes will also be implemented such as the virtual net training programme, promoting green skills and public awareness of renewable energy benefits. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 4.2.1) (p.86) |
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| Sri Lanka | 4.2 Sectoral Mitigation NDCs : 4.2.2 Transport Sector: Table 4.4 NDCs in Transport Sector (mitigation) NDC 1. Transport sector system improvement. Description: The transport sector system improvement intends to cover a broader set of interventions, such as the avoidance of the need to travel, traffic and traffic light management, parking management, multi-purpose/multi-modal transport centres, intelligent transport management systems, and improved road architecture. However, due to the limited availability of quantifiable data, the GHG mitigation estimate in this NDC is limited to the introduction of Park & Ride systems, which will facilitate the optimum utilisation of transport infrastructure. This will lead to the use of a lesser number of personal vehicles in more congested urban areas, thus, easing traffic and improving the performance of vehicles that are operated in these areas. Presently, two Park & Ride systems are in operation at two locations, and the target is to increase the number to five systems by 2030 and seven systems by 2035. The design and operation of the above Park & Ride system, related infrastructure, facilities, and services should ensure the accessibility and safety of women, older persons, children, and PWDs NDC 2. Strengthen and promote public passenger transport. Description: Aligning with the government’s priorities, this NDC intends to strengthen the public transport system (both buses and railways) and their services to revitalise and modernise the public transport system. The overall target of these interventions is to increase the share of public transport from 35% to 40% by 2030, and 50% by 2035. This is achieved by increasing the share of bus transport from 30.2% to 35% by 2030, and 42.5% by 2035, and that of railways from 4.7% to 5% by 2030, and 7.5% by 2035. The shifting of passengers from personal vehicles to public transport modes will reduce petroleum consumption and GHG emissions significantly. The shift to public transport and to achieve these highly ambitious targets reflects the need for a transformational change in the sector which is driven by low-carbon technological solutions, including digitisation, improved accessibility and frequency of rail operations, integrated last-mile services, and infrastructure development, while providing improved facilities and services. Further, as with NDC 1, the design and operation of such public transport systems are to be implemented in consideration of the specific needs and safety of women, older persons, children, and PWDs. (p.22-23) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Transport GESI integration: NDC 1 recognises that in the Park & Ride system, related infrastructure, facilities, and services are to be designed and operated to ensure differences in mobility patterns, accessibility, and safety and security of women, children, older persons, and PWDs. NDC 2 notes that the design and operation of public transport systems are to be implemented with the consideration of the specific needs and safety of women and PWDs. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 4.2.2) (p.86) (...) **According to a Time Use Survey (2017), women face restricted mobility due to social constraints, gender biases, concerns for safety and security at the work place as well as in services like transport, and reduced access to decision-making opportunities essential for participating in green jobs/training or low-carbon economic activities (i.e energy auditors and managers, jobs in sustainable manufacturing and processing, renewable energy and waste management). (p.82) |
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| Sri Lanka | 4.2 Sectoral Mitigation NDCs : 4.2.2 Transport Sector: Table 4.4 NDCs in Transport Sector (mitigation) NDC 4. Promote electric mobility. Description: There are several plans in the country to promote electric mobility (such as the electrification of railway lines, and the introduction of electric buses) as a replacement to heavy use of petroleum fuels is being explored and pilot projects have been initiated. There are a few small-scale pilot projects, including one specific programme on the conversion of ICE three-wheelers (3Ws) to electric, with information available on the operational characteristics and a specific target for large-scale dissemination. Hence, the intervention proposed in this NDC is limited to this programme, where the units to be converted will increase from 200 to 100,000 by 2030 (about 10% of the active fleet of 3Ws in 2025) and 500,000 (about 50% of the active fleet of 3Ws in 2025) by 2035. In this NDC, it is also envisaged to fully utilise the opportunities created with the introduction of new technologies and systems for electric mobility to ensure mobility created is more responsive to GESI aspects, by incorporating the specific needs of women, older persons, children, and PWDs, while promoting their active participation and engagement in planning and implementation. Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Transport GESI integration: NDC 4 also envisages that electric mobility systems are designed to ensure mobility is more responsive to GESI aspects, by incorporating the specific needs of children, older persons, PWDs, and women in all these groups while promoting their active participation and engagement in planning and implementation. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 4.2.2) (p.87) |
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| Sri Lanka | 4.2 Sectoral Mitigation NDCs : 4.2.3 Industry Sector Table 4.5 NDCs in Industry Sector (mitigation) NDC 1. The application of energy efficiency practices across the industry sector, with a particular focus on energy-intensive industries. Description: This NDC pursues the implementation of energy-efficient practices and technologies in key industrial sectors. Technologies to be implemented include highly efficient motors, variable frequency drives and waste heat recovery systems, as well as enhanced sustainably sourced quality feedstock and efficient design of combustion processes, which drive substantial reduction in energy consumption, thus lowering the energy demand of the industry. Regarding innovative processes, it is planned to introduce a pilot project for tri-generation facilities and district energy in the Biyagama export processing zone, including business model development. These measures are supported by improved benchmarking practices and training of national experts to increase the number of national energy auditors, energy managers and energy system optimisation experts with at least 40% of women46 beneficiaries trained across industrial sectors including tea, garment, rubber and textile industry. (p.25) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Industry GESI integration: NDC 1 indicates that the training of national experts with at least 40% of women beneficiaries across the prevalent industrial sectors such as tea, garment, rubber and textile industries, as well as through increasing the number of women as national energy auditors, energy managers and energy system optimisation experts. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 4.2.3) (p.87) |
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| Sri Lanka | 4.2 Sectoral Mitigation NDCs : 4.2.3 Industry Sector Table 4.5 NDCs in Industry Sector (mitigation) NDC 2. The integration of renewable energy technologies to expand the proportion of renewable energy within industrial energy usage and the electrification of industrial heating. Description: The second NDC complements the first NDC’s focus on enhancing the quality of biogenic fuels by fostering sustainably sourced fuel switches of industry furnaces and boilers in government and state institutions. Linked to that, activities are foreseen to ensure the availability of sufficient sustainably sourced fuels to sustain the energy demand of the industry. Moreover, the NDC aims to advance electrification in Sri Lankan industry, increasing the installation and uptake of electric boilers and heat pumps, as well as solar thermal, to further reduce fossil fuel demand and achieve more substantial emissions reductions. The NDC further foresees strengthened capacity-building efforts with a minimum of 40% female participation to ensure effective uptake of the fuel switching and enhance the understanding of the associated technologies. This NDC is expected to reduce fossil fuel requirements in industries, by introducing biogenic fuel sources such as biofuels, biogas, biomass and other renewable energies. (p.26) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Industry GESI integration: NDC 2 foresees the strengthened capacity-building efforts with a minimum of 40% participation of women to ensure the effective uptake of fuel switching and enhancing the understanding of the associated technologies. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 4.2.3) (p.87) |
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| Sri Lanka | 4.2 Sectoral Mitigation NDCs : 4.2.3 Industry Sector Table 4.5 NDCs in Industry Sector (mitigation) NDC 7. Increase innovation and investment in industrial decarbonization. Description: This NDC revolves around amplifying the scope of funding and targeted investments for industrial decarbonisation with consideration for gender equality, empowerment of women and creating opportunities for youth. Promotion and improvement of the National Green Reporting System for driving innovation and leveraging international and private sector investment for low-carbon industries. This will require capacity building for industrial GHG emissions accounting and reporting, targeting a minimum of 40% female beneficiaries trained to assess and showcase their mitigation efforts. Furthermore, reinforcement of the national institutional ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship for clean technology adoption across the industry sector is foreseen, strengthened through supportive market access of certified low-carbon products and procurement practices. Net-zero road maps for key industrial sectors and technologies are considered to create clear frameworks and long-term goals to attract capital and incentivise the adoption of solutions and new technologies, including the application of carbon capture, utilisation and storage in the cement sector. Given Sri Lanka's strategic position on East-West sea route and connectivity to India, Sri Lanka could play a key role in alternative fuel value chains such as Green Hydrogen, e-Methanol, Green Ammonia, Sustainable Aviation Fuels and other biofuels including through commodity exchanges and bunkering services set up in Special Economic Zones (SEZs)/industrial parks to facilitate regional trade. To promote innovation and investment in such alternative fuel value chains that can facilitate industrial decarbonization both within Sri Lanka and in regional trade, feasibility studies will be explored with the support of international organizations. With the technological advancements of 5IR including AI, Sri Lanka's National Digital and AI strategies will be leveraged to also enhance industrial decarbonization efforts with greater integration of national industrial policy and digital economy focus. Lastly, fiscal measures such as beneficial market and non-market based financial instruments, concessional loans for green projects and strategic acquisition of sustainable technologies are considered in this NDC. (p.27) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Industry GESI integration: NDC 7 revolves around amplifying the scope of funding and targeted investments for industrial decarbonisation with consideration for gender equality, empowerment of women and creating opportunities for youth. Promotion and improvement of the National Green Reporting System for low-carbon industries and capacity building for industrial GHG emissions accounting and reporting, with a minimum of 40% women, supports companies to assess and showcase their mitigation efforts while attracting investment. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 4.2.3) (p.87) |
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| Sri Lanka | 4.2 Sectoral Mitigation NDCs : 4.2.4 Waste Sector Table 4.6 NDCs in Waste Sector (mitigation) NDC 7. Supportive interventions that facilitate progress or support broader goals. Description: This NDC covers creating an enabling environment through 1) introducing and implementing market and non-market based instruments to promote sustainable production and sustainable consumption patterns; 2) introducing and implementing the Polluter Pays Principle through a service charge system for mixed waste generators; 3) implementing regulatory frameworks to control high waste generating products; 4) optimising supply-chain utilisation and the management of sanitary landfills and introducing transfer stations and transport infrastructure; 5) introducing proper management plans for open dumps; 6) conducting campaigns, vocational trainings, and skill development programs to raise public awareness on waste separation, reuse, recycling, recovery and sustainable consumption at domestic, institutional, and industrial levels, including issuing certificates to trained waste collectors to enhance social recognition; 7) developing a market for compost with quality standards and linkages to the agricultural sector; 8) promoting decentralised or community-scale composting solutions; 9) developing national guidelines and segregation systems to ensure feedstock quality and quantity for energy recovery facilities; 10) carrying out generic activities that facilitate progress toward broader waste-related goals; 11) Increasing the use of databases to improve waste management systems promotes data-driven decision-making; 12) introducing a mechanism for waste generation forecasting and a tracking system to monitor collection and disposal; 13) piloting waste-to-value initiatives as supplementary income for low-income households; 14) making biodegradable waste measures such as composting and biogas accessible and affordable to low-income households; 15) introducing user-friendly technologies for children, youth, women, PWDs, and marginalised groups to manage waste; 16) generating green job opportunities targeting women, PWDs, and youth in the rollout of new wastewater management technologies; 17) introducing healthcare waste management systems; 18) capturing methane from industrial wastewater to generate thermal or electrical energy; 19) cleaning polluted water bodies in urban areas to prevent methane generation; 20) implementing new gasification facilities to process non-compostable, non-reusable and non-recyclable waste; and 21) enhancing R&D for waste management systems. (...) Technology and Capacity Development Needs (...) Importantly, NDC 3.0 highlights the integration of informal sector actors through cooperative models, training initiatives, and social protection measures, alongside nationwide awareness campaigns to promote behavioral change in waste generation and disposal practices for a just transition. Specific targeted programmes are required to ensure equitable access to green jobs and technologies for women, youth, PWDs and marginalised groups within the waste sector. (p.31-33) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Waste GESI integration: NDC 7 highlights opportunities for the creation of green jobs for women, youth, and PWDs; offering vocational training and certification for waste collectors; ensuring access to user-friendly waste technologies; improving public and sex-disaggregated sanitation facilities; and making composting and biogas affordable for low-income households and marginalised communities. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 4.2.4) (p.87) **By advancing campaigns and strategies to reduce the amount and labour required to process waste, and due to their disproportionate role in this type of unpaid domestic labour, this measure is likely to reduce women's unpaid care work. |
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| Sri Lanka | 4.2 Sectoral Mitigation NDCs : 4.2.6 Agriculture Sector Table 4.8 NDCs in Agriculture Sector (mitigation) - Agriculture NDC 1. Reduce post-harvest losses and improve the value addition of crops. Description: This NDC intends to address one of the issues of excessive post-harvest losses of perishables (fruits and vegetables) in the agricultural sector. Further, it is proposed to improve the value addition of harvested products during the excess production period to reduce wastage and enhance economic productivity. Fruits and vegetables are considered separately in setting KPIs and targets as there are clear differences in post-harvest losses between the two areas. The present post-harvest losses for fruits and vegetables are in the range of 15% to 25% and 20% to 30%, respectively. For fruits, the targets are to reduce the post-harvest losses from 15% to 20% by 2030 and 12% to 15% by 2035. Similarly, for vegetables, the respective targets are 15% to 20% by 2030 and 15% to 25% by 2035. For the BAU case, the post-harvest losses for fruits and vegetables are taken as 25% to 35% and 30% to 40%, respectively, in 2010, which is the historical base year. The value addition improvements are targeted at 20% of the excess production by 2030 and 50% by 2035, which will assist in achieving the above post-harvest loss reduction. The implementation of the proposed interventions requires appropriate technologies, the adoption of which should consider the concepts of GESI for broader benefits. The GHG emission reduction benefits of post-harvest loss reduction is mainly attributed to the need for lower land extent for cultivation, which in turn reduces land-based GHG emissions. NDC 2. Increase crop productivity and production through efficient resource management. Description: The low productivity in agriculture is another challenge to the sector's development. This proposed action reflects efficient resource management, which addresses food security through an increase in production while ensuring enhanced productivity. This will be achieved by a series of interventions such as improvements in Nitrogen fertiliser use efficiency, promotion of soil test-based fertilizer application, efficient water management, and the adoption of other GAP approaches. The specific targets by 2035 include a 15% increase in fertiliser use efficiency, a 15% increase in water use efficiency, and an enhancement of the national average paddy productivity to 5,600 kg/ha. Further, the productivity targets for other major crops/plantations are set at 1,725 kg/ha for tea, 7,875 nuts/ha for coconut and 1,300 kg/ha for rubber. These productivity improvements are reflected in the improvements in fertiliser use efficiency and land resources, which in turn provide land-based GHG emission mitigation opportunities. Further to environmental benefits, efficient resource management could be further strengthened by embracing GESI aspects. (p.37-38) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Agriculture (mitigation) GESI integration: NDC 1 integrates GESI considerations to minimising postharvest losses and improving value addition. NDC 2 suggests that efficient resource management could be further strengthened by integrating GESI aspects. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 4.2.6) (p.87) |
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| Sri Lanka | 4.2 Sectoral Mitigation NDCs : 4.2.6 Agriculture Sector Table 4.8 NDCs in Agriculture Sector (mitigation) - Agriculture NDC 3. Improve the adoption of renewable energy for crop farming and processing. Description: The use of fossil-based energy sources in the agriculture sector has resulted in challenges related to both energy security and higher GHG emissions. This NDC proposes a number of commercial-level renewable energy solutions, including Solar PV and gravitational water pumping for irrigation schemes, solar and biomass-based agriculture product drying/dehydration systems and solar PV integrated cold storage systems. The targets for the year 2035 are set as 27,000 water pumps (about 7.5% of irrigation pumps), 4,000 biomass dryers, and 1,000 solar PV integrated cold storage systems. The promotion of decentralised renewable energy systems also provides more opportunities to engage and empower local communities and other social groups in rural economic development, which needs to be explored in implementation. Table 4.8 NDCs in Agriculture Sector (mitigation) - Livestock NDC 4. Improve dairy sector productivity by introducing Good Animal Husbandry practices (GAHP) in consideration of managing herds, herd health, feed and by improving animal comfort and welfare. Description: Low animal productivity due to ineffective and poor farm management is a key challenge faced by the dairy sector in the country, particularly in the dairy farms that are small-scale and managed with traditional practices. This NDC intends to use the opportunities available for animal productivity improvements, such as farm innovations, novel practices/products/techniques suitable for a particular area, the physiological stage of animals and economically viable options of other GAHP to enhance the animals’ per diem yield. The specific targets set for 2035 include (i) the increase of productive animals (with average milk yield > 7 l/day/head) to 65%, aiming to lead to an average increase of milk yield from cattle to 5.0 l/day/head, (ii) extension of growing improved varieties of forages (pasture/fodder) to 20,000 ha and the number of cattle farms adopting GAHP to 1,125 (125 per province per year). These productivity improvements are reflected in enhanced resource use efficiency, which leads to the mitigation of GHG emissions. Further, the enhancement in resource use efficiency could be enriched by incorporating social criteria in technology selection and adoption. NDC 5. Improve the productivity of Monogastrics by GAHP, such as improving genetics, feed efficiency, animal health, comfort and welfare. Description: The monogastric livestock sector, particularly in poultry and swine, faces significant challenges in ensuring meat quality, safety and environmental impacts, which depend on production practices. This NDC is targeted to introduce innovative strategies to improve meat quality and safety while promoting sustainability in production systems by mainstreaming GAHP, such as improving genetic potentials, feed efficiency, animal health, comfort and welfare. The outcomes of these interventions could be further enhanced by incorporating social considerations in the implementation. It is expected that the GAPH interventions will increase the % of productive monogastric animals to 70% by 2035, ensuring at least 1,350 farms adopt GAHP. NDC 6. Adopt renewable energy for livestock and poultry applications. Description: As with crop-based agriculture, the high dependence on fossil-based energy sources in the livestock sector is a key concern. This NDC proposes a number of commercial-level renewable energy systems, such as solar PV-driven water pumps and solar PV-integrated cold storage systems for livestock applications, and grid-tied solar PV rooftop systems for livestock farms. Further, the installation of biogas systems to manage waste is also proposed. The targets set for the year 2035 are: solar PV driven 2,700 water pumps (3 kW, 10 m3/hr), 450 milk can coolers (5 kW Solar PV with a 12 kWh battery, 60 l storage capacity), 270 solar PV rooftop systems (30 per province, 50 kW systems), and 450 biogas digesters (50 per province, 30 m3/300 kg of waste/day). As with NDC 3, the promotion of the above renewable energy systems supports engagement and the empowerment of local communities and social groups in the livestock sector development. (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Agriculture (mitigation) GESI integration: NDC 3 notes that the promotion of decentralised renewable energy systems could provide more opportunities to engage and empower local communities and other social groups in rural economic development. Suggests this should be explored further in implementation of this NDC. NDC 4 notes that the enhancement in resource use efficiency could be enriched by incorporating social criteria in technology selection and adoption. NDC 5 suggests that the outcomes of the proposed NDC could be further enhanced by incorporating social considerations in implementation. In the promotion of renewable energy applications for livestock and poultry farming in NDC 6, it is noted that local communities and social groups could be engaged and empowered. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 4.2.6) (p.87) |
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| Sri Lanka | 5.4 Sectoral Adaptation NDCs : 5.4.1 Agriculture Sector Table 5.1 NDCs in Agriculture Sector (adaptation) NDC 2. Develop and strengthen National Weather & Climate Platform for early warning and risk management. Description: Managing climate risks is essential to improve productivity and ensure food security of the country while supporting export growth and foreign exchange earnings. Hence, a scientific approach is required to make informed decisions with respect to the agricultural development of the country. Targeted actions include improving seasonal climate forecasts which are used regularly by farmers for Maha and Yala seasons and establishing a national climate weather information system by 2035 NDC 4. Development and promotion of IPNS and IPM in all crop production systems. Description: Technological development and adopting GAP are essential for a paradigm shift in productivity of agricultural production. The integration of techniques that aim to reduce pressure on natural capital (resources), synthetic inputs and enhance their efficiency and effectiveness. This will be advanced through interventions such as the development and promotion of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and Integrated Plant Nutrition Management Systems (IPNS) to be adopted by the farming community with relevant upgrades during the period from 2026 to 2035. NDC 6. Reduce post-harvest losses and promote value addition of crops in a changing climate. Description: Reducing post-harvest losses and improving value addition is crucial to enhance food security, increase farmer incomes, and minimise waste, thereby maximising the economic potential of agricultural products across the supply chain. Targeted responses include reducing post-harvest losses in fruits to 15-20% by 2030 and 12-15% by 2035, and in vegetables to 20-30% by 2030 and 15-25% by 2035, increasing value addition and reducing wastage in the agriculture value chain from 2026 to 2035 (p.46-47) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Agriculture (adaptation) GESI integration: NDC 2 envisages to improve skills of farmers for seasonal climate forecasting. NDC 4 aims to introduce integrated pest management (IPM) and integrated plant nutrient systems (IPNS) to farming communities aiming to promote GAP and technological development in the sector. NDC 6 emphasises on increasing farmer income via reducing post-harvest losses and promoting value addition of crops in a changing climate. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 5.2.1) (p.88) |
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| Sri Lanka | 5.4 Sectoral Adaptation NDCs : 5.4.2 Fisheries Sector Table 5.2 NDCs in Fisheries Sector (adaptation) NDC 2. Identify and expand sustainable fisheries, aquaculture and culture-based fisheries to address food security issues relating to climate change. Description: Traditional fisheries and aquaculture are crucial for national food security, providing a vital source of protein while generating economic opportunities and supporting coastal communities. It also helps to address growing protein demands as wild fish stocks decline due to overfishing. Targeted measures include increasing fish production by 2%, especially from inland, culture-based fisheries and Mariculture, with an increase in the number of fingerlings stocked to 1,000 million, coupled with 20 fingerling-stock assessments by 2035. NDC 5. Develop technologies to predict changing weather conditions and enhance safety at sea in coastal fisheries, against extreme climatic conditions. Description: Safety at sea is crucial as the ocean can be unpredictable and dangerous, making it essential to have proper training, equipment, and procedures in place to handle emergencies, navigate challenging weather conditions, and ensure the well-being of seafarers, all while complying with maritime regulations and minimising environmental damage. These challenges are addressed by targeting to have distress conditions reported at sea to at least 25, reducing insurance claims to 40, and identifying up to 4 measures to ensure safety at sea by 2035. NDC 6. Conduct fisheries and aquatic research to identify climate change-driven impacts that affect production. Description: Climate-related research is crucial due to the vulnerability of coastal communities and fish stocks to rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and changes in rainfall patterns. This research can inform better management practices, adaptation strategies, and disaster risk management. This critical aspect is addressed by having a target of 4 annual assessments by 2035, developing a holistic research agenda covering 15 important segments under fisheries, and implementing 8 research outcomes by 2035. NDC 7. Introduce alternative livelihoods and strengthen capacity development to reduce climate vulnerability. Description: Alternative livelihoods with enhanced capacity development empower communities to withstand and adapt to climate change impacts. Such strategies are important to improve long-term food security, economic stability, and overall well-being among communities in climate-sensitive fisheries sector. This is addressed by interventions targeting 20 schemes for livelihood diversification, with 260 fish-folks adopting alternative livelihoods, and having 30 capacity development activities annually by 2035. (p.48-49) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Fisheries GESI integration: In NDC 2, traditional fisheries and aquaculture is identified to generate economic opportunities and support coastal communities. NDC 5 recognises safety at sea and wellbeing of seafarers, through training, equipment, procedures to handle emergencies, and navigate challenging weather conditions. NDC 6 outlines the importance of conducting climate-related research to understand the fisheries sector of Sri Lanka to identify vulnerabilities faced by coastal communities. In NDC 7 coastal communities are targeted for capacity development and alternative livelihoods to build their adaptive capacity and climate resilience. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 5.2.2) (p.88) |
Economic security
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Coastal zones and fisheries |
| Sri Lanka | 5.4 Sectoral Adaptation NDCs : 5.4.4 Water Sector Table 5.4 NDCs in Water Sector (adaptation) NDC 4. Promote water conservation, efficient water use, and the re-use of treated wastewater for other purposes. Description: Wastewater can be treated and reused as a resource to reduce the demand on freshwater sources. This is especially important in areas which experience water scarcity. This NDC encourages i) enforcing regulations and standards, ii) conducting 4 public/institutional awareness programmes on reusing wastewater at domestic level and institutional level. Gender equity is addressed by increasing women’s participation in the sector. (p.52) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Water GESI integration: NDC 4 encourages conducting public/institutional awareness programmes on reusing wastewater. Gender equity is addressed by increasing women’s participation in the sector. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 5.2.4) (p.88) |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Sri Lanka | 5.4 Sectoral Adaptation NDCs : 5.4.4 Water Sector: Table 5.4 NDCs in Water Sector (adaptation) NDC 3 Promote, identify and implement climate-resilient water supply & sanitation. Description: Developing climate-resilient water supply schemes is crucial because climate change significantly disrupts traditional water sources, making it vital to develop systems that can withstand these fluctuations and ensure reliable access to clean water for communities, particularly in vulnerable regions. This will be addressed through the implementation of 360 water supply schemes with climate-resilient water safety plans in urban and semi-urban rural areas, and 4,600 for rural areas. Other targets include the implementation of 16 climate-resilient sanitation safety plans, 10,000 rainwater harvesting systems, increasing upto 62,000 total systems in the country by 2035, 2,500 groundwater recharging systems at domestic levels, and 200 solarised water and sanitation systems by 2035. (p.52) (...) NDC 9 Assess river floods and adopt mitigation measures and early warning systems for priority basins. Description: The assessment of river floods and mitigation measures and early warning systems for priority basins is essential to identify preventive measures in vulnerable areas for the safety of the communities living in these river basins. Accordingly, key activities were identified for the period up to 2035 as (i) Installation of gauges in 10 rivers, reservoirs and rainfall gauges for data collection (ii) Preparation of flood forecasting models for 10 river basins (iii) Conducting 20 capacity building programs of new applications and (iv) Developing / Enhancing DSS in DMC. (p.53) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Water GESI integration: NDC 3 focuses on developing systems that can withstand climate fluctuations and ensure reliable access to clean water for communities, particularly in vulnerable regions. (...) NDC 9 includes the assessment of river floods and mitigation measures and early warning systems for priority basins is essential to identify preventive measures in vulnerable areas for the safety of the communities living in these river basins. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 5.2.4) (p.88) **The NDC notes that "...women, who traditionally manage household water, family gardens, and livestock, are on the frontline of coping with water scarcity, which directly affects their intra-household food security, especially during extreme climate events." (p.84) As a result, women would likely see their care burdens reduced through these measures, which improve access to and management of household water for drinking, cooking, and hygiene. |
Unpaid care work
Health
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Sri Lanka | 5.4 Sectoral Adaptation NDCs : 5.4.4 Water Sector Table 5.4 NDCs in Water Sector (adaptation) NDC 6. Capacity building for water, health, and educational sectors and public awareness on building resilience to climate change. Description: Capacity building for water sector personnel and public awareness is crucial to ensure sustainable water management. Equipping stakeholders with the necessary skills to effectively manage water resources could lead to responsible water usage and better water governance. This NDC aims to conduct promotional/ awareness programmes for the public/institutions, conducting 1,052 programmes in total at the end of 2035. It is expected to train 550 staff on climate-resilient water and sanitation. This NDC is more GESI responsive by incorporating the different strata of the public and promoting their active participation and engagement in promotional/ awareness programmes. Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Water GESI integration: NDC 6 aims to conduct promotional/ awareness programmes for the public/institutions, totalling 1052 programmes at the end of 2035. This NDC is more GESI responsive by incorporating the different strata of the public and promoting their active participation and engagement in promotional/ awareness programmers Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 5.2.4) (p.88) |
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Sri Lanka | 5.4 Sectoral Adaptation NDCs : 5.4.4 Water Sector Table 5.4 NDCs in Water Sector (adaptation) NDC 8 Enhance water management in irrigation schemes. Description: The enhancement of water management in selected irrigation schemes, i.e. covering 30 schemes under the Department of Irrigation and 10 under the Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka, introducing 1,000 micro-irrigation systems, aiming to establish efficient water management practices within the scheme. Accordingly, key activities were identified for the period upto 2035 as; i) the provision of water measuring instruments, ii) implementation of water saving applications while giving training and awareness to farmers. This will directly benefit the increase of water productivity and finally contribute to enhance agricultural productivity which will ensure food security The GESI aspects are also incorporated by engaging more women participation in relevant farmer training and awareness within the community, with the purpose of building capacity and enabling access to new technology. (p.52-53) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Water GESI integration: NDC 8 suggests enhancing women’s participation in the community with the purpose of building capacity and enabling access to new technology. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 5.2.4) (p.88) |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Sri Lanka | 5.4 Sectoral Adaptation NDCs : 5.4.5 Biodiversity Sector Table 5.5 NDCs in Biodiversity Sector (adaptation) NDC 2.Increase connectivity in the zones that will be subjected to climate-driven changes according to current predictions through landscape and seascape approaches. Description: The underlying principle of integrated landscape planning and management is to find and promote synergies among activities that improve production systems, enhance livelihoods, support the conservation of biodiversity and sustain ecosystem services. Thus, this NDC reflects conducting feasibility assessments of landscape and seascape to identify connectivity options and developing 2 connectivity initiatives that demonstrate the use and its impacts on fauna and flora. Further, the restoration of connectivity areas within climate-vulnerable areas which are under some form of biodiversity mainstreamed governance is a complementary intervention. NDC 6. Review and modify/update existing policies, laws, and regulations related to biodiversity and natural resources to incorporate climate change adaptation considerations. Description: Improving policies and regulatory measures on biodiversity and natural resources would help protect the environment and support communities to provide clean air, fresh water, and healthy ecosystems. It also helps address climate change reduce disease risks, and strengthen food security. Hence, this NDC focuses on incorporating climate adaptation consideration into 8 biodiversity-related national plans and strategies, which will be done after a rigorous review of existing biodiversity-related policies, laws, and regulations in the country. NDC 7. Advancing multi-stakeholder financing towards biodiversity Description: Advancing multi-stakeholder financing towards biodiversity is crucial to mobilise diverse resources, expertise, and commitments needed to address the complex drivers of biodiversity loss. By aligning public, private, and community investments, it fosters innovative, scalable solutions that ensure the long-term protection and sustainable use of natural ecosystems. Sri Lanka aims to implement a total of 70 biodiversity-related projects by 2035, supported through government funding, foreign agencies, and PPPs. A stakeholder engagement map and a multi-stakeholder coordination mechanism will be established to clearly define the roles and responsibilities of each participating entity. (p.55-56) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Biodiversity GESI integration: NDC 2 notes that an underlying principle of integrated landscape planning and management is to find and promote synergies among activities that improve production systems, enhance livelihoods, support the conservation of biodiversity and sustain ecosystem services. NDC 6 highlights improving policies and regulatory measures related to biodiversity and natural resources would help protect the environment and support communities, provide clean air, fresh water, and healthy ecosystems. NDC 7 aims to mobilise finance for biodiversity and suggests aligning public, private and community investments to foster innovative, scalable solutions for long-term protection and sustainable use of natural ecosystems. A stakeholder engagement map and a multi-stakeholder coordination mechanism is to be established to clearly define roles and responsibilities. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 5.2.5) (p.88-89) |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Biodiversity and ecosystems |
| Sri Lanka | 5.4 Sectoral Adaptation NDCs : 5.4.6 Coastal and Marine Sector Table 5.6 NDCs in Coastal and Marine Sector (adaptation) NDC 2. Coastal hazard and vulnerability mapping to cover the entire coastal belt of the country Description: Coastal areas are facing the consequences of climate change-related disasters at both the national and global level. SLR is identified as a major consequence of climate change, and the level of vulnerability of Sri Lanka to SLR has not been studied to a great extent. This issue will be effectively addressed through interventions which include developing inundation maps for the coastline, updating the database on all social strata and vulnerable locations in the coastal belt, and integrating the coastal hazard maps into the National Physical Plan during the period from 2025 to 2034. NDC 3. Incorporate climate change information into the coastal zone management plan (CZMP). Description: Shoreline Management Plans (SMPs) set out a shared strategic approach to manage the coastline from coastal flooding and erosion risks. They aim to reduce the risks to people, the developed, historic and natural environments over the next century. This will be addressed by engaging all vulnerable social categories, and, the periodic updating of the CZMP, incorporating climate change from 2029 to 2034. NDC 4. Identify, designate, and prioritise climate-sensitive coastal and marine areas, and prepare management plans for enhancing resilience Description: The resilience of coastal communities and their natural environments is essential to safeguard life, ecosystems and economies in the face of current and future challenges. Coastal areas face multiple interacting pressures that cause negative ecological and social impacts, which can erode coastal resilience. This will be managed by identifying and declaring candidate sites, including those with local communities, gazetting the same, and developing management plans to cover all gazetted sites incorporating GESI considerations by 2034. (p.57-58) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Coastal and Marine GESI integration: NDC 2 notes that to improve coastal hazard and vulnerability mapping, it is required to have an updated database with all social strata and vulnerable locations in the coastal belt, integrating coastal hazard maps into the national physical plan NDC 3 outlines interventions to engage all vulnerable social categories in incorporating climate change information into the updates of the CZMP. NDC 4 recognises the importance of enhancing the resilience of coastal communities and their natural habitat to safeguard lives, ecosystems, and economies from current and future challenges, and proposes interventions to identify and declare candidate sites, including those with local communities, gazetting the same, and developing the management plans to cover all gazetted sites by 2034, incorporating GESI considerations. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 5.2.6)(p.89) |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Coastal zones and fisheries |
| Sri Lanka | 5.4 Sectoral Adaptation NDCs : 5.4.7 Health Sector Table 5.7 NDCs in Health Sector (adaptation) NDC 1. Policy initiatives for enhancing the climate resilience of the health sector are promoted and integrated into all related sectors. Description: Sri Lanka’s National Health Policy 2016-2025 acknowledges the need to create an enabling environment to develop strategies to reduce the health impacts of climate change and environmental degradation, especially considering the increased burden on the health infrastructure, supply chains, workforce, and the overall provision of health services. Specific needs for different vulnerable communities have been recognised. Action plans proposed under this NDC are a Heat-Health Action Plan (HHAP), a National Strategic Plan for Health, Environment and Climate Change (NHSPEC), Guidelines and standards for Green and Healthy Hospitals and an air pollution-related health action plan. The target is to complete developing the different action plans and standards identified – the HHAP NESPEC, the pollution action plans, and convert at minimum 10 state-owned hospitals into green and healthy hospitals. NDC 2. Improved capacity to manage non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and health conditions directly attributable to climate change. Description: NCDs are expected to increase due to the impacts of climate change. The sector has identified climate-sensitive diseases (in 2023) as well as communities and groups that are most at risk (i.e. older persons, children, pregnant women, vulnerable worker groups and other at-risk/vulnerable groups) towards developing guidelines to manage climate change-induced NCDs, which are due to be completed in 2026. Capacity building of the health system, as well as increasing the research and evidence of climate-related NCDs including mental health, are envisioned under this NDC. The target is to develop the necessary guidelines for NCDs that are climate sensitive, including clinical and preventive guidelines and to review and revise them as needed based on the disease trends and risks. (p.59-60) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Health GESI integration: NDC 1 recognises the specific needs for different vulnerable communities In NDC 2, the health sector has identified climate-sensitive diseases (in 2023) as well as communities and groups that are most at risk (i.e. older persons, children, pregnant women, vulnerable worker groups and any other vulnerable categories) towards developing guidelines for managing climate change induced non-communicable diseases due to be completed in 2026. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 5.2.7) (p.89) |
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| Sri Lanka | 5.4 Sectoral Adaptation NDCs : 5.4.7 Health Sector Table 5.7 NDCs in Health Sector (adaptation) NDC 3. Manage the worsening of malnutrition due to climate change. Description: Despite human development, Sri Lanka continues to grapple with high rates of malnutrition. With the disruptions to the food cycles and other related issues due to climate induced risks, weather events, this NDC concentrates on managing the impacts of malnutrition with actions such as developing a mechanism for an early warning system on food availability, carrying out programmes for nutrition management in general while also having targeted support for vulnerable groups by the midwives at the household-level. Early interventions for climate-related nutrition issues included training programmes and the development of Emergency Nutrition Action Plans that were active during the past crisis.The targets include developing a surveillance system to track nutrition outcomes, inclusive of capturing climate-related impacts. While the health sector will concentrate on developing and operationalising a surveillance system for actions that fall within the purview of the Ministry, it is hoped that this system can be operationalised by other sectors that also have an impact on nutrition status. In addition, data is to be collected to track status at different levels (by sector, by district, public midwife area). (p.60) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Health GESI integration: NDC 3 concentrates on managing the impacts of malnutrition with actions such as developing a mechanism for early warning systems on food availability, carrying out programmes for nutrition management in general while also having targeted support for vulnerable groups by the midwives at the household level. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 5.2.7) (p.89) |
Health
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Adaptation | Health |
| Sri Lanka | 5.4 Sectoral Adaptation NDCs : 5.4.8 Urban Planning and Human Settlement Sector Table 5.8 NDCs in Urban Planning and Human Settlement Sector (adaptation) NDC 2. Incorporate Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) into the urban and human settlement planning/implementation in areas of high vulnerability to climate change risks. Description: NDC 2 targets more in-depth climate-vulnerable strategies in urban planning compared to NDC 1, by integrating DRR into development plans. The primary KPI is the mainstreaming of DRR into 320 local development plans for UDA-declared areas by 2035. The formulation of an Urban Settlement Policy considering GESI is critical for disaster risk management, while the settlement guide plans will establish climate change adaptation measures for the Central Fragile Area. This NDC also considers the development of 3 stormwater management and 2 flood mitigation plans as well as the restoration of urban wetlands for climate resilience. 6 capacity-building programmes are to be conducted for vulnerable groups. NDC 3. Minimise the impact of slow-onset climate events (sea-level rise in coastal settlements and urban heat islands (UHIs). Description: This NDC addresses UHIs as well as SLR. This includes updating the CZMP every five years, prepara a national level map demarcating protection areas from SLR to facilitate shifting urban densification inward and expanding the UHI risk and hazard maps. GESI considerations focus on marginalised coastal communities and vulnerable groups when mapping UHI. (p.62) (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: UPHS GESI integration: NDC 2 highlights that in formulating an urban settlement policy considering GESI is critical for disaster risk management. Also prioritises capacity building programmes in DRR for vulnerable groups. NDC 3 flags that GESI considerations are to be focused on specifically for marginalised coastal communities and vulnerable groups when mapping UHI. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 5.2.8) (p.89) |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Infrastructure |
| Sri Lanka | 5.4 Sectoral Adaptation NDCs : 5.4.9 Tourism and Recreation Sector Table 5.9 NDCs in Tourism and Recreation Sector (adaptation) NDC 2. Introduce risk reduction and risk transfer mechanisms for climate-induced disasters affecting tourism. Description: To enhance risk reduction in destinations highly vulnerable to climate change, Sri Lanka has adopted a holistic approach by promoting sustainable tourism practices and building awareness among stakeholders. This NDC focuses on disaster preparedness through integrating DRR into the planning process of large entities. Increasing the number of tourism destinations with sound medical assistance and health service plans by 2035 will benefit the health and well-being of tourists. Increasing the number of carrying capacity studies supports DRR planning in climate-vulnerable tourism areas, while accounting for strategies to prevent exceeding capacity to ensure effective implementation. Challenges include data gaps for KPIs and limited PAM readiness. (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Tourism GESI integration: NDC 2 notes that sound medical assistance and health services plans to be developed by 2035 to support the health and wellbeing of tourists. Also suggests increasing carrying capacity studies to support DRR planning in climate-vulnerable tourism areas. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 5.2.9) (p.89) |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Tourism |
| Sri Lanka | 5.4 Sectoral Adaptation NDCs : 5.4.9 Tourism and Recreation Sector Table 5.9 NDCs in Tourism and Recreation Sector (adaptation) NDC 4. Promote climate change awareness and educational programmes in the tourism sector. Description: NDC 4 aims to integrate climate change awareness into the tourism sector, with a special focus on education, which is crucial for empowering stakeholders. This NDC seeks to integrate climate change awareness in the tourism sector, with a special focus on education. The NDC emphasises long-term behavioural change but this requires capacity building and resource mobilisation for effective implementation. Gender equity is addressed by increasing women’s participation in the sector which is signalled by gender disaggregated data, leveraging education trends and safety initiatives. This NDC also focuses on sustainable marketing campaigns to attract tourists to Sri Lanka. This NDC aims to cover knowledge gaps in data management by establishing a real-time data collection and publication system to reflect a climate-resilient tourism and recreation sector. (...) Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: Tourism GESI integration: NDC 4 addresses gender equity by increasing women’s participation in the sector, signalled by gender disaggregated data, leveraging education trends and safety initiatives. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 5.2.9) (p.90) |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Tourism |
| Sri Lanka | Chapter 6: Loss and Damage NDCs : Table 6.1 NDCs in the Loss and Damage sector NDC 1. National level stocktaking and progress reviewing on Loss and Damage related to all sectors such as but not exclusive to - power and energy, industries, telecommunication, agriculture, livestock and fisheries, biodiversity and forestry, housing, coastal and marine infrastructure, transport, education, water, health, tourism, gender and child protection, social protection. Description: Stock taking is the first step to understand and gauge the current status of L&D related to extreme weather and slow onset events including data and quantification, assessment and trends, impacts on different communities, based on gender, age, disability, as well as based on geographic and livelihood types. The Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage identifies some sectors, however, stocktaking needs to take place based on Sri Lanka’s needs across all sectors that are impacted by and face the need to use L&D mechanisms, including both extreme weather and slow onset events. Targets for 2030 will include i) consolidating and formalising a comprehensive L&D methodology, ii) based on this methodology, an overall stocktaking assessment will be done for all sectors including a L&D gap analysis across sectors, iii) a comprehensive technical and training needs assessment, will be conducted. By 2035, i) the findings from the stocktaking will feed into developing sectoral action plans for prioritised sectors, ii) at a minimum, 5 focal point cells in priority sectors will be fully capacitated to conduct periodic progress reviews that will address both structural/physical impacts and social inclusion dimensions such as gender, age, and disability. NDC 2. Strengthen the existing weather and climate forecasting system, including extreme weather & slow onset events and encompassing economic and non- economic impacts. Description: NDC 2 focuses on early warning systems as a key aspect of risk management. These systems can save lives and reduce L&D and recovery costs. The updated National Policy on Climate Change (2023) refers to synchronised and seamless early warning systems for social and sectoral protection and resilience. Early warning systems for weather are a key focus area in the NDMP, and a weather forecasting system is available, with around 30% geographic coverage. Integration of climate related early warning elements has not taken place. Therefore, further work is needed to develop an integrated system for weather and climate forecasting that can tackle both rapid and slow onset disasters (risk assessment, monitoring, coordination). The target will be to expand the existing data collection networks developed across the country and develop a system for climate forecasting. By 2035, a climate and weather forecasting integrated system would be expected to provide timely and accurate information including gender and social inclusion aspects and covering both rapid and slow onset disasters, enhancing collective coverage by 35% (minimum) (as minimum to develop a framework that will be coordinated by the MOE). NDC 3. Improve the integrated data management system for losses and damages for evidence-based policymaking, including technical and socio-economic information. Description: NDC 3 on data management systems aims to improve evidence-based policymaking related to L&D by improving data management. In this regard, Sri Lanka has set up the Risk Info database which has "multiple disaster-related data layers", the DesInventar database that records each disaster event and the Sri Lanka Damage and Loss Assessment System which could be used for individual extreme weather events and support Post Disaster Needs Assessments (PDNAs). With GFDRR support, an online L&D database was developed and is to be operationalised. Presently, the existing databases across sectors are not interconnected or interoperable and remain limited in use, hindering comprehensive analysis of L&D and coordination. At present, there is no protocol in place for L&D data collection, information is shared on request by each sector. It is expected that, at a minimum, the 5 prioritised sectors under NDC 1 will be capacitated to regularly to collect and share data as needed. By 2035, the target is to i) establish an integrated L&D database encompassing technical and socio-economic information, disaggregated by gender, age, and disability, ii) developing protocols for L&D data governance, including standards for data collection, sharing, use, and database management to streamline and increase the quality and robustness of the overall system. NDC 4. Establish an overarching, nationally appropriate, functional and coordinated institutional mechanism for L&D. Description: NDC 4 covers the institutional governance structure to be established which needs to be extended to other sectors and to improve coordination, data sharing on L&D for both extreme weather and slow onset events. The Disaster Management Division of the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Environment are identified as the lead agencies in this aspect. The Ministry of Defence is expected to lead the extreme weather related events of the L&D component while the Ministry of Environment is expected to lead the slow onset events L&D component. These agencies will coordinate the implementation of the NDCs, which also include coordination with many other sectoral agencies. Sectoral focal points have been recognised for sectors, but this has yet to be officially established. Targets will look to establish an overarching functional, national mechanism by 2030 to address key concerns related to both extreme weather and slow-onset events. The key functions of this institutional mechanism will be outlined in a Terms of Reference. Policy and regulatory provisions for both extreme weather and slow onset events will also be developed for the implementation of L&D actions, recognising GESI implications and implementation needs. To operationalise L&D across sectors, this has to be supported by appropriately designated, capacitated focal points or cells established to coordinate L&D actions (at minimum 5 by 2030 and all sectors by 2035) with L&D leads (Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Environment). (p.70-72) ... Table 8.1 Overview of GESI integration across sectors Sector: L&D GESI integration: NDC 1 targets that by 2035, at the minimum 5 focal point cells in priority sectors will be fully capacitated to conduct data-informed loss and damage stocktaking assessments and periodic progress reviews that will address both structural/physical impacts and social inclusion dimensions such as gender, age, and disability. NDC 2 states that by 2035, an integrated climate and weather forecasting system would be expected to provide timely and accurate information including on impacts on different marginalised groups, covering both rapid and slow onset disasters, enhancing collective coverage by 35% (minimum). As per NDC 3, by 2035, the target is to establish an integrated L&D database encompassing technical and social economic information, disaggregated by gender, age, disability. Developing protocols for L&D data governance, including standards for data collection, sharing, use, and database management is also targeted to streamline and increase quality and robustness of the system. NDC 4 is on the policy and regulatory provisions for both rapid and slow onset will be developed for implementation of L&D actions, recognising GESI implications and implementation needs. Level of GESI integration: NDC description (Table 6.1) (p.90) |
Economic security
Gender mainstreaming
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Loss and damage | Disasters |
| Sri Lanka | Chapter 8: Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) : Way Forward To effectively embed GESI considerations into Sri Lanka’s climate action framework, a systematic, phased approach is essential. The following steps outline the way forward, aligned with the priority areas of the UNFCCC gender action plan to address the identified gaps in implementing climate action. > Institutionalise GESI within policy and planning processes: Develop and integrate clear GESI-specific KPIs, targets, and activities into the national and sectoral NDC Implementation Plans, ensuring these are aligned or in synergy with SDG commitments, the NAP and GSAP and other conventions with similar objectives. This process requires coordination and collaboration among a range of stakeholders to carry out the vulnerability needs assessments, mapping of GESI requirements - that are highlighted in several sectoral chapters (i.e L&D, Water, Urban Settlements). It is necessary to identify synergies and trade-offs and entry points amongst the different sectors and types of actions (i.e. between productive systems, livelihood and wellbeing and conservation) so that better policy coherence can be achieved. This is indeed crucial in aspects such as Disaster Risk Management. Having a separate multi-sector working group or technician committee for GESI integration that includes the Ministry of Women and Child Affairs (MOWA), Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs, Ministry of Education and related institutions can further strengthen the steps taken in GESI institutionalisation during the NDC implementation stages. (...) >Develop a robust monitoring and evaluation framework: Incorporate GESI indicators into the NDC monitoring and evaluation system, with mechanisms for regular progress reviews (that can be combined with refresher courses and e-groups suggest point 4), accountability, and adaptive management. Ensure GESI-related benchmarks are set and evaluated at national, sector, and community levels. >Embed GESI in budgeting and investment plans: Allocate dedicated resources for GESI-focused, targeted climate action activities within sector budgets. Design financing that supports inclusive technologies, capacity building, and specific programmes targeting the specific needs of marginalised groups |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Sri Lanka | Chapter 8: Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) : Way Forward To effectively embed GESI considerations into Sri Lanka’s climate action framework, a systematic, phased approach is essential. The following steps outline the way forward, aligned with the priority areas of the UNFCCC gender action plan to address the identified gaps in implementing climate action. (...) > Strengthen data collection, use and analysis: Several actions are intended for gathering better data to address vulnerability (i.e in Health, L&D, Coastal and marine). Collecting sex, age, disability and location specific disaggregated data is critical to identify needs, gaps, and to measure progress towards addressing GESI. It is also necessary to prioritise building comprehensive data management systems, complemented by capacity development initiatives, to strengthen evidence-based decision-making and targeted interventions. These efforts require guidelines and nationally accepted processes for data collection as well as sharing. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Sri Lanka | Chapter 8: Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) : Way Forward To effectively embed GESI considerations into Sri Lanka’s climate action framework, a systematic, phased approach is essential. The following steps outline the way forward, aligned with the priority areas of the UNFCCC gender action plan to address the identified gaps in implementing climate action. (...) > Provision of an enabling environment: Many of the NDCs target increased income and job opportunities for marginalised communities through green jobs, or the use of more appropriate technologies. As the provision of care is a key constraint, especially for women to engage in these efforts, linking with programmes and means to provide care services can also be considered as an activity. |
Economic security
Unpaid care work
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Sri Lanka | Chapter 8: Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) : Way Forward To effectively embed GESI considerations into Sri Lanka’s climate action framework, a systematic, phased approach is essential. The following steps outline the way forward, aligned with the priority areas of the UNFCCC gender action plan to address the identified gaps in implementing climate action. (...) > Build overall and sector-specific capacity and awareness: Capacity building and targeted programme are planned across numerous sectoral NDCs. These sessions should not only look at technical aspects such as skills for green jobs, but also can focus on creating understanding and awareness on addressing GESI actions, developing gender-responsive policies, plans and programmes including aspects like technology financing and gender budgeting among policy-makers, implementers, and local communities. As this integration cannot be expected overnight and cannot be delivered as a one time activity, having periodic refresher courses and e-groups can help agencies stay updated, share best practices and lessons learnt while also increasing the interaction among the sectoral agencies. Setting aside funds or soliciting financial and human resources for such programmes should be part of the strategy. Developing sector-specific expertise on GESI among a range of agencies with responsibility to oversee and implement the GESI principles can increase uptake of GESI responsive action into technical planning and project design, implementation and monitoring. |
Gender mainstreaming
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| Sri Lanka | Chapter 8: Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) : Way Forward To effectively embed GESI considerations into Sri Lanka’s climate action framework, a systematic, phased approach is essential. The following steps outline the way forward, aligned with the priority areas of the UNFCCC gender action plan to address the identified gaps in implementing climate action. (...) > Strengthen stakeholder engagement and awareness campaigns: Facilitate participatory consultations with marginalised communities, children youth, PWDs, older persons, and women in these groups to provide a platform to voice, meaningfully engage and influence policy decisions. Increase overall awareness among stakeholders about the importance of inclusive climate resilience strategies. Engaging these stakeholders throughout the life cycle of the project - through groups set up for this purpose or under GSAP or other citizen platforms for SDGs or other conventions - can help increase participation and buy-in for the NDCs. |
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| Sri Lanka | Chapter 8: Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) : Way Forward To effectively embed GESI considerations into Sri Lanka’s climate action framework, a systematic, phased approach is essential. The following steps outline the way forward, aligned with the priority areas of the UNFCCC gender action plan to address the identified gaps in implementing climate action. (...) > Leverage lessons learned from NDC 2.0 implementation: Build upon the integration of gender responsive actions in pilot sectors in NDC 2.0 by expanding and scaling up these approaches in NDC 3.0. This includes refining strategies based on continued feedback, disaggregated data, evolving socio-economic trends and shifting priorities of marginalised groups. |
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| Sri Lanka | Chapter 8: Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) : Way Forward To effectively embed GESI considerations into Sri Lanka’s climate action framework, a systematic, phased approach is essential. The following steps outline the way forward, aligned with the priority areas of the UNFCCC gender action plan to address the identified gaps in implementing climate action. (...) > Policy and legal reforms: An integrated and legally mandated approach can provide the impetus for GESI considerations to be effectively incorporated into Sri Lanka's climate change policy, planning, and budgeting frameworks. This can create binding commitments for GESI integration in climate action, with enforcement mechanisms to ensure accountability and promote gender-sensitive and disability-inclusive policies that protect rights and facilitate equitable, meaningful participation. This will require top level buy-in and support from the State but can be initiated by the MoE. |
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| St. Lucia | Adaptation. Health. Climate change exacerbates health risks in Saint Lucia by increasing the prevalence of vector-borne diseases, such as dengue and Zika, and heat-related illnesses. Extreme weather events further strain healthcare systems, limiting access to essential services. The NAP highlights the need to strengthen disease surveillance systems, expand public health campaigns, and improve healthcare infrastructure to ensure continuity of services during and after disasters. Additionally, psychosocial support services are critical to addressing the mental health impacts of climate-induced stress and displacement. **According to ILO data (2024), the healthcare sector accounts for 7.17% of women's employment compared to just 2.08% of men's, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
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| St. Lucia | Adaptation. Education. The education sector is particularly vulnerable to climate impacts, as disasters often disrupt learning, through school closures and infrastructure damage. The NAP prioritises retrofitting schools to ensure they are disaster-resilient and can serve as emergency shelters. Integrating climate change education into school curricula is another key priority, equipping students with the knowledge and skills to understand and address climate challenges. Training educators to deliver climate-resilient education further strengthens the sector's capacity to adapt. **According to ILO data (2024), the education sector accounts for 8.74% of women's employment compared to just 2.08% of men's, meaning that measures targeting climate preparedness in the education sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
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| St. Lucia | Gender Equality (...) To foster equality in adaptation benefits, Saint Lucia's CCAP, NAP and associated SASAPs focus on addressing the needs of vulnerable groups and fostering inclusive climate benefits. While they include activities focusing on women and men generally, based on a number of vulnerability factors, they do not identify activities that are specific to either women or men, owing to the lack of data on differential needs. Saint Lucia is working to collect and assess gender-disaggregated information, allowing planners and decision-makers to consider who will be impacted even before the implementation of programmes and projects. Saint Lucia, therefore, continues to systematically address gender considerations in project design, consultation, implementation and monitoring stages, when project concepts are being developed, amalgamated or expanded for funding consideration. |
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| St. Lucia | Gender Equality (...) To advance gender equality further, future climate action plans will give greater consideration to prioritising capacity building for gender-responsive planning and implementation. This includes training stakeholders on GEDSI principles, building local expertise in gender analysis, and fostering partnerships with organisations that specialise in gender and social inclusion. Moreover, the Government aims to strengthen monitoring frameworks to assess the impact of climate projects on different groups, providing insights to improve future interventions. It is worth noting that the Cabinet of Ministers has approved the Gender Focal Point System that serves as an institutional mechanism to facilitate the mainstreaming of gender in national development planning, as well as to monitor and evaluate the results of public sector initiatives for gender equality outcomes. |
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| St. Lucia | Elements of the ICTU. 4. Planning Process. ii. Specific projects, measures and activities to be implemented to contribute to mitigation co-benefits. (...) Agriculture: Climate Resilient Agriculture Demonstration Centre (CRADE): Enabling the transformation of vulnerable groups in 3 subsistence farming communities into competitive national agribusiness leaders under a changing climate. **Women play an important role in micro- and subsistence farming, and are likely to benefit from actions in the agricultural sector that target subsistence and vulnerable groups. The CRADE project aims for "Increased resilience and enhanced livelihoods of the most vulnerable people, communities and regions and increased resilience of health and well-being, and food and water security, and strengthened adaptive capacity and reduced exposure to climate risks." |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Table 1: Mitigation targets and key actions: Energy Sector c) Create favourable legal, institutional, and economic incentive structures for adoption of renewables by citizens and the private sector. Action: Empower Women in Renewable Energy Adoption. Description: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is committed to fostering gender-inclusive participation in the renewable energy sector, in line with its National Determined Contributions (NDC). Associated Targets: 1. Enabling Environment: Design inclusive policies which create the enabling environment that ensures women's equal participation and ownership in renewable energy projects. Target: Draft and propose gender-inclusive policy on renewable energy ownership by 2025. 2. Institutional Support: Propose a dedicated Women in Renewable Energy Unit within the Ministry of Energy to provide guidance and resources for women's involvement in the sector. Target: Finalize structure and develop an operations manual for the proposed Women in Renewable Energy Unit and allocate resources by 2026. 3. Economic Incentives: Introduce financial incentives, including subsidies and grants, to facilitate women's access to renewable energy technologies. Target: Launch financial incentives and support programs by 2025. 4. Capacity Building: Implement training and capacity-building programs specifically tailored for women interested in the renewable energy sector. Target: Commence gender-specific capacity-building programs by 2026. 5. Awareness Campaigns (Ongoing): Launch sustained awareness campaigns to inform women about the benefits of renewable energy adoption and their opportunities in the field. Indicator for Progress Tracking: Monitor the level of awareness among women regarding renewable energy benefits. Completion date: 2030 Year communicated: 2015 |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Table 1: Mitigation targets and key actions: Energy Sector c) Create favourable legal, institutional, and economic incentive structures for adoption of renewables by citizens and the private sector. Action: Expand women’s employment opportunities and participation. Description - Currently 55.7% of women actively participate mostly in low income jobs, in the management of the energy sector, which is dominated by men. This action aims to bridge this gap by increasing female labour force participation in the renewables sector. Associated Targets: 1. By the end of 2025 at least 15% of increase in female labour force participation in renewables sector 2. By the end of 2027 Increase female labour force participation by 40% or more in renewables sector Indicator for Progress Tracking: % of female labour participation increase in the energy/ renewables sector Completion date: 2030 Year communicated: 2015 |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Table 1: Mitigation targets and key actions: Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) a) Develop its GHG sinks through REDD+ readiness (strategy development andcapacity building), investments and implementation of pilot projects inreforestation, afforestation, sustainable forest management (SFM), reduceddeforestation and reduced forest degradation activities. (...) Action: Promote Women's Participation in Reforestation, Afforestation, and Sustainable Forestry Management. Description: Aligned with Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' National Determined Contributions (NDC) and recognizing the vital role of women in sustainable forestry management, this action seeks to actively involve women in reforestation, afforestation, and sustainable forestry management initiatives. It entails designing and implementing gender-sensitive policies, creating awareness, and providing capacity-building opportunities for women to engage in these activities. Associated Targets: 1. By the end of 2025, establish gender-sensitive policies and guidelines for women's participation in forestry management. 2. By the end of 2025, conduct awareness campaigns highlighting the benefits of women's engagement in reforestation and sustainable forestry. 3. By the end of 2026, provide training and capacity-building programs for women interested in forestry activities. Indicator for Progress Tracking: - Adoption of gender-sensitive policies. - Reach and effectiveness of awareness campaigns. - Participation and successful completion of training programs by women. Completion date: 2030 Year communicated: 2015 (updated 2021) |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 5.2.1 National programmes that support climate change adaptation The Second National Communication 2016 and the Climate Change Policy 2019, reemphasise the vulnerability and adaptation measures required to address the threats of climate change to the country. Within the 2015 NDC, priority sectors identified for adaptation were agriculture, forestry and fisheries, coastal zones, water resources, health, and disaster risk reduction more broadly. The NAP 2019 expanded the ambitions to include infrastructure, economy and finance, tourism and energy as additional priority sectors demonstrating enhanced ambition for adaption. SVG’s development pathways are strongly intertwined with its natural environment and the country has demonstrated a long history of tackling the impacts of climate related events. Its vision for tackling climate change is further enshrined in the National Economic and Social Development Plan 2013-2025. (...) Goal 4 of the Plan: “Improving Physical Infrastructure, Preserving the Environment and Building Resilience to Climate Change" seeks to ensure that Saint. Vincent and the Grenadines develops its physical infrastructure, while preserving the country’s delicate environment, as well as mitigating the effects of climate change. To reduce the adverse impacts of climate change, the Plan proposes several adaptation measures to reduce future restoration costs and to protect the natural environment. Public education and awareness of the potential negative effects of climate change are at the forefront of this Plan”. (...) So far, the pilot programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR) represents the largest effort in SVG designed to address climate risks. The PPCR seeks to: * Strengthen community resilience to cope with climate hazards ; * Increase institutional capacity to undertake climate risk management ; * Strengthen knowledge and awareness ; * Prepare comprehensive hazard maps for public institutions and communities ; * Design and implement gender sensitive disaster risk management initiatives; and * Collaborate with communities at all levels of climate and disaster risk management. |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Cross-cutting actions applicable for all sectors: Gender-Specific Actions: Action 1: Gender-Responsive Climate Data Integration Description: Ensure gender-disaggregated climate data integration across all sectors to address the unique climate challenges faced by women in SVG. Targets: - By 2024, incorporate gender-specific indicators into climate data collection in agriculture, disaster risk reduction, fisheries, and tourism, focusing on sectors where women are most employed. - By 2026, establish a centralised gender-sensitive climate data repository accessible to relevant stakeholders, including government agencies, research institutions, NGOs, and women's associations. - By 2030, achieve gender-balanced representation of women in climate data analysis teams across all sectors. Indicators: - Percentage increase in gender-disaggregated climate data in agriculture, disaster risk reduction, fisheries, and tourism. - Number of relevant stakeholders accessing the centralised gender-sensitive climate data repository. - Percentage of women in leadership roles within climate data analysis teams. |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Cross-cutting actions applicable for all sectors: Gender-Specific Actions: Action 3: Gender-Inclusive Technical Education Description: Integrate gender-inclusive climate change components into technical education curricula to equip women and girls with innovative climate-related knowledge. Targets: - By 2025, introduce climate change components into technical education curricula in agriculture, engineering, and tourism programs across 70% of schools, with a focus on girls' enrollment. - By 2027, ensure gender balance in student enrollment in climate-related technical courses in agriculture, engineering, and tourism. - By 2030, have at least 80% of female technical graduates with climate expertise in agriculture, engineering, and tourism. Indicators: - Percentage increase in female enrollment in climate-related technical courses in agriculture, engineering, and tourism. - Percentage of female technical graduates with climate expertise in agriculture, engineering, and tourism. - Number of schools with integrated climate change components in relevant programs. |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Cross-cutting actions applicable for all sectors: Common Actions for Both Gender and Youth: Action 7: Climate-Responsive Capacity Building Description: Enhance capacity-building programs that cater to both women and youth, particularly those from vulnerable groups, to equip them with climate-responsive skills in agriculture, renewable energy, and tourism sectors. Targets: - By 2024, provide climate resilience training to 200 individuals, focusing on vulnerable women and youth in agriculture, renewable energy, and tourism. - By 2026, introduce specialised training in climate-responsive livelihoods for 100 vulnerable individuals in these sectors. - By 2030, ensure that 70% of vulnerable women and youth in agriculture, renewable energy, and tourism have access to tailored capacity-building programs. Indicators: - Percentage increase in participation of vulnerable women and youth in climate training in agriculture, renewable energy, and tourism sectors. - Number of individuals gaining employment or livelihood opportunities through training in these sectors. - Percentage of vulnerable women and youth with access to tailored capacity-building programs in these sectors. |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | 9 Means of Implementation: 9.1.3 Capacity building: Like technology transfer finance, capacity building is equally important for the implementation of the NDCs of SVG. Support is needed to move climate information to communities at the grassroot level. There is need for a capacity building framework that will enable the capacity building of actors (public, private, civil society organizations, etc.) in all the adaptation and mitigation sectors of SVG’s NDC. While more resources are needed to build capacities, it is important to acknowledge that SVG is already benefiting from the readiness funds of the Green Climate Fund to implement capacity building activities in the areas of: Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS); * Engagement with the GCF to access resources to advance climate projects; * Mainstreaming gender considerations in the GCF country programming; * Data and information collection, management and sharing; * Monitoring of climate finance mobilisation and effective use. |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Table 1: Mitigation targets and key actions: Electricity 1. Development and installation of a 5 MW of utility-scale solar on Saint Vincent Island to reduce the main island’s operating costs by ~5 percent (capital expense of ~EC$31 million) Action: Introduce capacity building training for women for developing skills as solar technicians. Description - In line with the current OECS Solar Photovoltaic Training, this action aims to develop a similar training but only dedicated for women. These trainings should be combined with awareness campaigns before the implementation of training, leading to a final increase of gender inclusive opportunities for green jobs in the solar electricity sector. Associated Targets: 1. Development and establishment of training program for female workers engaged in solar electricity generation projects by 2024 2. By the end of 2024 introduce awareness raising campaigns on the solar technicians training 3. By the end of 2025 roll out training to approximately 40% of female workers engaged in the sector 4. By the end of 2027 roll out training to 100% of female workers engaged in the sector Indicator for Progress Tracking: % of female workers being trained for upskilling Completion date: 2030 Year communicated: 2015 (updated 2021) |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Table 1: Mitigation targets and key actions: Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) b) Ensure strong multistakeholder engagement in the process and development of nature-based solutions and maintenance of the country’s carbon sinks Action: Promote Women and Youth Engagement in Nature-Based Solutions and Carbon Sink Maintenance. Description: This action prioritizes the active involvement of women and youth in shaping and preserving nature-based solutions and carbon sinks, focusing on gender-sensitive policies, awareness campaigns, and capacity-building opportunities. Associated Targets: 1. By 2025, establish gender-sensitive policies and guidelines, ensuring at least 30% representation of women in decision-making bodies for nature-based solutions and carbon sinks. 2. Achieve a 40% increase in women and youth participation in workshops and campaigns by the end of 2025. 3. By 2026, gather input from a minimum of 70% of women and youth in carbon sink areas through community consultations. 4. Train and certify 60% women and youth (in the productive working age group in nature-based solution implementation and carbon sink maintenance by the end of 2026, ensuring a high rate of completion. 5. Advocate for and successfully adopt gender-sensitive policies at the national level by 2028, promoting women and youth involvement. Indicators for Progress Tracking: - Percentage of women in decision-making bodies, increasing to 30% in 2024. - Workshop and campaign participation growth rate, measuring a 40% increase from 2024 to 2025. - Percentage of input gathered from women and youth in carbon sink areas, rising from 0% in 2024 to 70% in 2026. - Completion rate of women and youth training programs, reaching 80% by 2026. - Number of gender-sensitive policies adopted at the national level by 2028. Completion date: 2030 Year communicated: 2015 (updated 2021) |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Table 1: Mitigation targets and key actions: Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) d) Make progress with the Ocean initiative to maximise the blue economy potentials of the country through mangrove restoration, amelioration of ocean governance and ocean seascape health with both climate change adaptation and mitigation benefits Action: Maximizing Blue Economy Potential for Women and Youth Employment and Advocating for Inclusive Jobs. Description: Recognizing the early-stage nature of the Blue Economy, this action focuses on creating job opportunities that are inclusive for women and youth in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). It involves widening the scope of the National Climate Change Committee (NCCC) to advocate for employment and social inclusion for these groups in the Blue Economy. Effective coordination with relevant ministries is crucial for success. Associated Targets: 1. By the end of 2027, establish coordinated efforts between the NCCC and key ministries, including the Ministry of Fisheries, Ministry of Environment, and Ministry of Labour, to support inclusive job creation in the Blue Economy. 2. By the end of 2030, fully develop the capacity of the NCCC for dedicated promotion of social inclusion in job creation for women and youth within the Blue Economy sector. Indicators for Progress Tracking: - Demonstrable progress in achieving effective coordination with ministries by 2027. - Increase in number of jobs for women and youth within the Blue Economy sector by 2030. Completion date: 2030 Year communicated: 2015 (updated 2021) |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Table 1: Mitigation targets and key actions: Industrial Processes and Product Use c) Deliver om Montreal Protocol engagements - Deliver the Hydrofluorocarbon Phase-out Management Plan (HPMP) to phase out all HCFCs by 2025 - Provide capacity building for key stakeholders. Action: Introduce targeted capacity building for women working in the IPPU sector Description: to ensure a larger potential involvement and more equitable gender distribution of work, this task will incorporate disaggregated data to capture changes and incorporate activities after 2025 to address the gaps needed. Associated Targets: 1. By the end of 2025 have standardised disaggregated data by gender to capture changes in employment and implement capacity building activities according to needs. 2. By the end of 2027 develop a plan of action to prioritise areas highlighted through the disaggregated data collected. Indicator for Progress Tracking: - Progress in developing disaggregated dataset for the IPPU sector. o Implement pilot retrofit projects o Increase national awareness] o Strengthen the enabling environment through favourable policy and legal framework Completion date: 2025 Year communicated: 2012 |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Table 2: Adaptation targets and key actions: Agriculture Promote an enabling environment for mainstreaming of climate change adaptation in the planning, budgeting and implementation processes of crop and livestock production and fisheries, by strengthening the governance structures to enable adaptation and DRR2 (when they overlap), including for identification, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and communication of adaptation actions Action: Create a Gender Capacity Working Group to ensure gender analysis is incorporated in all adaptation actions in Agriculture Description - As highlighted in the NDC Gender Mainstreaming document, it should be a priority to create a gender advocacy and support group, supported by the NTACCC. This would ensure to incorporate a well-rounded gender analysis into all the different actions and allow for positive and transformational space while providing a safety network to share common challenges. Associated Targets: 1. By end of 2025 establish a gender capacity working group that will ensure collection of project disaggregated data of adaptation projects in agriculture 2. Gender-Responsive Budgeting and Gender-Sensitive Capacity Building for female farmers by 2026 Indicator for progress Tracking: * creation of gender capacity working group * progress made in collecting and analysing gender disaggregated data in agriculture projects * establishment of a gender responsive budget for farmers Completion date: 2030 Year communicated: 2019 |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Table 2: Adaptation targets and key actions: Agriculture a) Improve the capacity for data and information collection, management and sharing, determination of climatic risk and access to technology and financing for adaptation in agriculture Action: Strengthening Women and Youth Capacities for Climate-Resilient Agriculture through Data, Technology, and Finance. Description: This action focuses on enhancing the capacity of women and youth in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) to engage in climate-resilient agriculture. It emphasizes improving data collection, sharing, and management, facilitating access to climate-smart technologies, and ensuring financial support for adaptation efforts. Associated Targets: 1. By 2026, update the Ministry of Agriculture’s digital platform for farmers that integrates climate data and adaptation strategies, with active participation from women and youth, reaching 50% users by the end of the year. 2. By 2027, provide climate-smart training to 80% women and youth farmers, equipping them with the skills needed for resilient agriculture practices. 3. By 2028, facilitate the creation of youth-led agri-tech startups by supporting at least three innovative projects that address climate resilience in agriculture. 4. By 2029, ensure an increase of 30% in climate adaptation financing allocated for agriculture specifically targeted for women and youth-led initiatives. Indicators for Progress Tracking: - Number of users on the digital platform by the end of 2026. - Percentage increase in climate-smart practices among women and youth farmers by 2027. - Number of youth-led agri-tech startups established by the end of 2028. - Percentage of climate adaptation financing allocated to women and youth-led initiatives in agriculture by 2029. Completion date: 2030 Year communicated: 2019 |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Table 2: Adaptation targets and key actions: Agriculture b) Implement climate-smart agriculture adaptation actions to increase the resilience of the most vulnerable Vincentians Action: Strengthening Adaptive Capacities of Women and Youth through Climate-Smart Agriculture. Description: This action aims to enhance the adaptive capacities of women and youth in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) by implementing climate-smart agriculture strategies. It focuses on building their resilience to climate change impacts, enabling them to thrive in the agricultural sector. Associated Targets: 1. Train 70% women and youth involved in climate-smart agricultural practices and sustainable farming techniques by 2027, empowering them with the knowledge and skills needed for resilient farming. 2. Assess the viability of and develop a guidance document for a weather-indexed insurance program that covers 60% vulnerable women and youth farmers by 2028, providing financial security against climate-related losses. 3. By 2029, ensure that 50% of agricultural extension services and support programs directly target vulnerable women and youth farmers, providing tailored guidance and resources. Indicators for Progress Tracking: - Number of women and youth trained in climate-smart agricultural practices and sustainable farming techniques by 2027. - Number of participants enrolled in the weather-indexed insurance program by 2028. - Percentage of agricultural extension services and support programs targeting vulnerable women and youth farmers by 2029. Completion date: 2030 Year communicated: 2019 |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Table 2: Adaptation targets and key actions: Water The Water NAP35 consists of 37 adaptation measures considered critical to enhance water resource and service management and reduce water-mediated climate change impacts in SVG Action: Empowering Women in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Water Sector. Description: This action focuses on enhancing women's engagement and participation in the water sector of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). It aims to create an inclusive environment that empowers women to take on active roles in water management, conservation, and decision-making. Associated Targets: 1. By the end of 2026, establish gender-sensitive policies and guidelines in the water sector that promote women's participation in leadership positions and decision-making processes. 2. Provide training and capacity-building programs to equip 500 women with skills and knowledge in water management and conservation by 2027. 3. Create and implement a mentorship program for young women interested in pursuing careers in the water sector by 2028. Indicators for Progress Tracking: - Adoption of gender-sensitive policies and guidelines in the water sector by the end of 2026 and increased number of women in leadership positions across organizations. - Number of women trained in water management and conservation by 2027. - Establishment and successful implementation of the mentorship program by 2028. Completion date: 2030 Year communicated: 2019 |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Table 2: Adaptation targets and key actions: Tourism b) Develop a National Tourism Policy which would guide all tourism development Action: Promoting Inclusivity in the Development of SVG's National Tourism Policy. Description: This action focuses on fostering inclusivity in the formulation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' (SVG) National Tourism Policy. It seeks to actively engage women and youth in the policy development process, taking into account their unique perspectives and the specific context of SVG's tourism industry. Associated Targets: 1. By the end of 2025, consult women and youth representatives, local cultural experts, and environmental advocates, ensuring balanced gender representation for advancing the National Tourism Policy 2. Conduct stakeholder dialogues and surveys to gather input from women and youth on their tourism-related concerns and aspirations, incorporating this feedback into the policy by the end of 2027. 3. Develop training programs in tourism entrepreneurship and sustainable tourism practices, targeting 500 women and youth by 2028 to equip them for active involvement in the tourism sector. 4. By the end of 2029, promote community-based tourism initiatives that empower women and youth, leading to the establishment of at least five community-driven tourism enterprises. Indicators for Progress Tracking: - Completed consultations for the National Tourism Policy with balanced gender representation by the end of 2025. - Percentage of women and youth who actively participate in stakeholder dialogues and surveys, with their feedback integrated into the policy by the end of 2027. - Number of women and youth successfully completing tourism entrepreneurship and sustainable tourism training programs by 2028. - Number of community-based tourism enterprises established and supported, involving women and youth, by the end of 2029. Completion date: 2030 Year communicated: 2019 |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Cross-cutting actions applicable for all sectors: Gender-Specific Actions: Action 2: Women-Led Green Entrepreneurship Support Description: Foster women's green entrepreneurship by providing tailored support, including training, mentorship, access to finance, and technology for climate-resilient projects. Targets: - By 2024, empower 50 women entrepreneurs to initiate climate-resilient projects in agriculture, eco-tourism, and fisheries. - By 2025, establish a network of women-led green enterprises with a minimum of 30 members, including women from marginalised communities. - By 2028, secure partnerships with international organisations to expand women-led green entrepreneurship opportunities in key sectors. Indicators: - Number of successful women-led green enterprises in agriculture, eco-tourism, and fisheries. - Percentage increase in income generated by women-led green businesses from marginalised communities. - Number of international partnerships established for women's green entrepreneurship in key sectors. |
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| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Cross-cutting actions applicable for all sectors: Common Actions for Both Gender and Youth: Action 8: Gender-Balanced Leadership Description: Prioritise gender balance in leadership roles across climate initiatives, committees, and decision-making bodies related to agriculture, renewable energy, and tourism. Targets: - By 2024, achieve gender balance in leadership positions within local climate committees in these sectors. - By 2026, ensure that at least 30% of national climate policy decision-makers in agriculture, renewable energy, and tourism sectors are women. - By 2030, establish mentorship programs to support women and youth in climate leadership roles in these sectors. Indicators: - Percentage of gender-balanced leadership positions in climate committees in agriculture, renewable energy, and tourism sectors. - Percentage of women and youth in national climate policy decision-making roles in these sectors. - Number of mentorship programs for women and youth in climate leadership in these sectors. |
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| Tonga | 2.4 Policy Frameworks (...) Moreover, the National Women's Empowerment and Gender Equality Tonga Policy (WEGET) 2019-2025 institutionalizes gender-responsive climate action, ensuring that resilience-building efforts are socially inclusive and equitable. Together, these frameworks complement sectoral policies and strengthen the coherence of the country's transition toward a low-emission, climate-resilient future. **In March 2026, Tonga launched the third iteration of their gender strategy: Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality Tonga (WEGET) Policy III 2026–2030. |
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| Tonga | 6. Adaptation: 6.4 Education The Government of Tonga recognizes that a resilient nation requires a resilient education system. There is an urgent need to invest in school infrastructure, as a high proportion of buildings fail to meet national safety codes, with approximately 92% of primary schools identified as being at high risk from climate and disaster hazards. To address this, Tonga's target is to ensure school facilities meet national standards for safety and resilience to climate change and disaster risks. The primary means of achieving this is to retrofit, replace, or upgrade all high-risk school buildings to be structurally sound, functional, and equipped with climate-resilient Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) facilities. This comprehensive overhaul is being driven by two major, fully-funded initiatives: the World Bank's 'Tonga Safe and Resilient Schools Project' and the GCF's 'BRACE' project (GCF, 2025). As funding is secured for these projects, this represents an unconditional adaptation commitment for Tonga. **Both the World Bank and GCF projects have strong gender integration, particularly in health and sanitation and gender-based violence. For instance, the World Bank's 'Tonga Safe and Resilient Schools Project' has integrated gender-based violence awareness and prevention in order to improve learning outcomes. For example, one subcomponent (2.3) focuses on etablishing a student counseling program that establishes confidential reporting channels for GBV, provide socioemotional support to victims and raise awareness of rights related to GBV, including on early marriage/pregnancy and sexual harrassment. In addition, the programme includes monitoring indicators for girls receiving support on GBV, teachers receiving training, and targets for creating gender and climate sensitive WASH facilities. |
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| Tonga | 8. Gender and Social Inclusion Tonga’s NDC 3.0 commits: • to ensure women and youth are active agents of climate action, by expanding leadership opportunities and equitable access to land, finance, and green jobs. • promote climate literacy in schools, expand green-skills training and apprenticeships for youth in solar operation and maintenance, energy efficiency, e-mobility, and waste management. (p.30) (...) 2.4 Policy Frameworks Tonga has established a comprehensive and legally robust policy framework to support the implementation of its NDC and guide its long-term transition to a low-emission, climate-resilient future (...) Tonga's five-year NDC commitments are strategically aligned with its Long-Term Low Emission Development Strategy (LT-LEDS) 2021-2050, which charts a course toward a resilient, autonomous, and self-reliant nation. Sector-specific policies provide detailed pathways for achieving NDC targets. The energy sector is guided by the ambitious Tonga Energy Road Map 2021-2035 (TERMPLUS) (p.11) **Tong'a Energy Road Map includes gender as a cross-cutting principle, with two key priorities: 1) creating an enabling environment for mainstreaming gender across government policies, programmes, services, corporate budgeting and monitoring and evaluation; and 2) promoting equitable access to economic assets and employment. |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Tonga | 8. Gender and Social Inclusion Tonga’s NDC 3.0 commits: • to ensure women and youth are active agents of climate action, by expanding leadership opportunities and equitable access to land, finance, and green jobs. • promote climate literacy in schools, expand green-skills training and apprenticeships for youth in solar operation and maintenance, energy efficiency, e-mobility, and waste management. (...) • ensure representation of young people and women in climate negotiations, project development, decision-making processes, implementation, and monitoring. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Tonga | 8. Gender and Social Inclusion Tonga’s NDC 3.0 commits: (...) • mainstream disability and age inclusion by making climate adaptation and mitigation interventions fully accessible. • improve sex, age, and disability-disaggregated data • apply gender, youth, and disability responsive budgeting in all NDC sectors, i.e., Energy, AFOLU, IPPU, Waste, and in Adaptation and Loss & Damage priorities. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Tonga | Annex B: Detailed Information on Targets and Means: Education Target: Ensure school facilities meet national standards for safety and resilience to climate change and disaster risks Means: Retrofit, replace, or upgrade high-risk school buildings to be structurally sound, functional, and equipped with climate-resilient Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) facilities Conditionality: Unconditional Activities: Completion of the GCF funded “Building the Climate Resilience of Children and Communities through the Education Sector (BRACE)” project and the World Bank funded Schools Rehabilitation Project Funding requirement: USD 10 Mil (GCF) + USD 21 Mil (The World Bank) Socio-economic benefits: Leverage/scale climate funding, protect the most vulnerable communities/people, ensure ownership of climate adaptations, and faster response time during climate disasters Mitigation co-benefits: Funds for mitigation projects such as agroforestry, reforestation, mangrove restoration, coastal protection, renewable energies, etc. Responsible entity: Implementing Agency: Ministry of Education and Training; Supporting Agency: Ministry of Finance (MOF), MOI, MEIDECC, Ministry of Internal Affairs, MLNR Additional requirement: Financing, technical capacity, disaster risk assessments, maintenance systems Alignment with SDGs: SDG13; SDG17 Alignment with LT-LEDS: Related to all pillars and actions of LT-LEDS, AFOLU/human investments/transport/energy/waste Alignment with National Development Plan: Pillar 1: economic institutions: outcome 1-improve macroeconomic management, outcome 3-strengthen business enabling environment; outcome 4-improve public enterprise performance Pillar 3: political institutions; outcome 1-efficient & transparent public service, outcome 6-improved collaboration with development partners Alignment with JNAP 2: Target 3: Resilient public and community infrastructure (schools, churches, community halls, including emergency shelters). Target 16: Education for resilience incorporated at all levels (primary, secondary, tertiary). **According to ILO data (2021), in Tonga there are more than 2 women employed in the education sector for every 1 man, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
Health
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Adaptation | Other |
| Tonga | 7. Loss and Damage (...) To ensure that the country is capable of addressing both economic and non-economic L&D, Tonga will by 2035 incorporate a comprehensive L&D policy framework in the climate change policy amendment that can both identify and monitor L&D and mobilize funding from international sources for L&D caused by both extreme and slow-onset events. Tonga will seek to leverage international technical assistance through the mechanisms provided by WIM and FRLD. Tonga will endeavour to develop data systems to record climate impacts leading to L&D such as displacement, cultural heritage loss, and health impacts. This may require increased technical capacity for attribution studies and monitoring of slow-onset events. When possible, such data will be disaggregated by gender and other vulnerabilities. The framework for displacement and relocation shall be integrated into national planning and land-use policies, with strengthened institutional coordination and community engagement to ensure that such policies are inclusive and culturally sensitive. (pgs. 28-29) (...) Annex B: Annex B. Detailed Information on Targets and Means: Loss and damage Table B16: Details on the loss and damage target for an L&D institutional capacity Target: Strengthen institutional capacity to safeguard livelihoods, cultural assets, and communities through a system that identifies economic and non economic loss and damage and mobilizes adequate support Means: Incorporate a comprehensive loss and damage policy framework in the Climate Change Policy amendment, which will establish the institutions and systems necessary to track economic and non-economic loss and damage, as well as to access international sources of loss and damage funding by 2035 Conditionality: Conditional Activities: Institutional design; national loss database (e.g., DesInventar-style); methodologies & baselines; legal/policy drafting; pilot applications Funding requirement: USD 15 Mil Socio-economic benefits: Safeguard investments, mitigate the non-economic/economic losses, unlock climate financing/disaster emergency fund/contingency fund/scale social protection Mitigation co-benefits: Reduce carbon emissions from reconstructions Responsible entity: Implementing Agency: MEIDECC ; Supporting Agency: MOF Additional requirement: Financing, institutional coordination, legal framework, monitoring capacity Aligment with SDGs: SDG1, SDG2, SDG3, SDG6, SDG11, SDG13, SDG14, SDG15 Alignment with LT-LEDS: N/A Alignment with the National Development Plan: Pillar 5: Natural resources & environment inputs: outcome 4-improved resilience to extreme natural events and impact of climate change Alignment with JNAP 2: Target 13: Strengthened parliamentary and institutional capacities for resilience.; Target 14: Resilience measures mainstreamed into legislation and integral to public/private policies and programs. ; Target 22: Efficient, strengthened information and knowledge management and monitoring system Table B17: Details on the loss and damage target for technical assistance Target: Request and utilize technical assistance through the Santiago Network to access methodologies and tools for L&D assessment and engage with the UAE Framework to secure capacity building and direct access to international loss and damage finance by 2030 Means: Incorporate a comprehensive loss and damage policy framework in the Climate Change Policy amendment, which will establish the institutions and systems necessary to track economic and non-economic loss and damage, as well as to access international sources of loss and damage funding by 2035 Conditionality: Conditional Activities: National liaison & coordination; data prep; hosting experts Funding requirement: USD 1 Mil Socio-economic benefits: Safeguard investments, mitigate the non-economic/economic losses, unlock climate financing/disaster emergency fund/contingency fund/scale social protection Mitigation co-benefits: Reduce carbon emissions from reconstructions Responsible entity: Implementing Agency: MEIDECC; Supporting Agency: MOF Additional requirement: Financing, institutional coordination, legal framework, monitoring capacity Aligment with SDGs: SDG1, SDG2, SDG3, SDG6, SDG11, SDG13, SDG14, SDG15 Alignment with LT-LEDS: N/A Alignment with the National Development Plan: Pillar 5: Natural Resources & Environment Inputs - Outcome 4: Improved resilience to extreme natural events and impact of climate change Alignment with JNAP 2: Target 20: Sustainable funding for resilience building |
Economic security
Gender mainstreaming
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Tonga | Annex B. Detailed Information on Targets and Means: 6.5 Water Security Table B14: Details on the adaptation target for water security Target: Expand coverage of households that have reliable access to safe and climate-resilient drinking water and sanitation systems Means • Increase national rainwater harvesting capacity by achieving 100% household coverage • Strengthen the protection of groundwater resources through improved national sanitation coverage • Implement a comprehensive borehole management framework Conditionality: Conditional Activities • Supply & install household rainwater tanks (5,000–10,000 L) with gutters under the National Water Tank Program to achieve 100% coverage • Targeted Sanitation System Upgrade Program • Creation of a National Borehole Assessment and Management Framework • Institutional Strengthening & Public Awareness Funding requirement: USD 15 – 25 Mil Socio-economic benefits • Reduce waterborne diseases. • Provide clean drinking water and access to free/reliable water. Mitigation co-benefits: Sustainable water collection Responsible entity • Implementing Agency: Tonga Water Board, Waste Authority Limited • Supporting Agency: Ministry of Health, Ministry of Public Enterprises, MLNR Additional requirement: Financing, technical and engineering capacity, community engagement, supply chain, MRV system, regulation enforcement, public awareness, hydrogeological surveys, community management training Alignment with SDGs: SDG 3, SDG 6 Alignment with LT-LEDS: Human settlements/Action 4 Alignment with the National Development Plan: Pillar 5: Natural Resources and Environment Inputs; outcome 3-cleaner environments and waste management (which affects water quality) Alignment with JNAP 2: Target 10: Water security through integrated management and conservation. **Due to the universal target of household coverage of rainwater harvesting capacity,women will likely benefit from this measure through reduced unpaid care demands and health risks. |
Unpaid care work
Health
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Tunisia | 2.8 Autres informations : Impacts en termes de développement durable (...) Sur le plan social, la mise en oeuvre de la composante énergie de la CDN 3.0 devrait permettre la création d’au moins 27000 équivalent-emplois permanents directs. A cela s’ajoute la création d’activités génératrices d’emplois dans tous les autres secteurs (AFAT, déchets et procédés industriels). (...) Par ailleurs, les programmes visant la restauration des écosystèmes et des sols, et l’amélioration des rendements des activités liées (production de denrées alimentaires, amélioration du bilan fourrager pour l’alimentation du bétail, etc.) contribueront directement aux objectifs des autres conventions (biodiversité, désertification). Ils induiront surtout une hausse des revenus de la population rurale ce qui entraînera une répartition plus juste et plus équitable des fruits de la croissance à l’ensemble des catégories rurales (femmes, jeunes, métiers défavorisés), et donc une stabilisation des populations en milieu rural. // 2.8 Other Information: Sustainable Development Impacts (...) On the social front, the implementation of the energy component of NDC 3.0 is expected to lead to the creation of at least 27,000 direct, permanent full-time equivalent jobs. In addition to this, job-generating activities will be created across all other sectors (AFAT, waste, and industrial processes). (...) Moreover, programs aimed at restoring ecosystems and soils—as well as improving yields in related activities (food production, enhancing forage availability for livestock, etc.)—will contribute directly to the objectives of other conventions (biodiversity, desertification). Crucially, these initiatives will drive an increase in income for the rural population, thereby fostering a fairer and more equitable distribution of the benefits of economic growth across all rural demographics (women, youth, and disadvantaged occupational groups), and consequently, contributing to the stabilization of rural populations. |
Economic security
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Mitigation | Multisectoral |
| Tunisia | 4.5.5 Dimension Genre En Tunisie, le concept genre est considéré comme un axe fondamental de la politique publique de lutte contre les changements climatiques. L’intégration de la dimension genre dans la CDN 3.0 repose sur la promotion de l’équité sociale et la réduction des inégalités des sexes dans les politiques et mesures d’atténuation et de résilience climatique. A ce titre, deux initiatives ont été engagées : * Le ministère de l’environnement a lancé en 2023, en collaboration avec le ministère de la femme, de la famille, de l’enfance et des personnes âgées, un plan d’action national genre et changement climatique (PAN-CC). Ce plan repose notamment sur l’implication des femmes dans le processus décisionnel de la politique climatique et la réduction de la vulnérabilité des femmes rurales aux changements climatiques. // 4.5.5 Gender Dimension In Tunisia, the concept of gender is regarded as a fundamental pillar of public policy aimed at combating climate change. The integration of the gender dimension into NDC 3.0 is grounded in the promotion of social equity and the reduction of gender inequalities within climate mitigation and resilience policies and measures. To this end, two initiatives have been undertaken: * In 2023, the Ministry of the Environment—in collaboration with the Ministry of Women, Family, Childhood, and Senior Citizens—launched a National Action Plan on Gender and Climate Change (PAN-CC). This plan focuses, in particular, on involving women in the climate policy decision-making process and on reducing the vulnerability of rural women to climate change. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Tunisia | 5.2 Annexe 2 : Objectifs opérationnels et Cibles chiffrées de l’adaptation en Tunisie : 5.2.2 Ressources en eau et assainissement : Tableau 11: Objectifs d'adaptation de la CDN 3.0 dans le domaine relatif aux ressources en eau et à l'assainissement OBJECTIF STRATEGIQUE 1 : Assurer un accès durable inclusif et équitable à l’eau et à l’assainissement (...) Objectifs opérationnels : Amélioration de l'accès à l'eau potable en milieu rural Situation de référence : Année de réf. : 2020 Valeur : 95,5% des habitants en milieu rural ont accès à l’eau potable (54,1% SONEDE, 41,3% génie rural) Cibles en 2035 : 98% des habitants en milieu rural ont accès à l’eau potable (70% SONEDE, 28% génie rural) // 5.2 Annex 2: Operational Objectives and Quantitative Targets for Adaptation in Tunisia: 5.2.2 Water Resources and Sanitation: Table 11: Adaptation Objectives of NDC 3.0 in the Field of Water Resources and Sanitation STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 1: Ensure sustainable, inclusive, and equitable access to water and sanitation (...) Operational Objectives: Improvement of access to drinking water in rural areas Baseline: Reference Year: 2020 | Value: 95.5% of rural inhabitants have access to drinking water (54.1% via SONEDE, 41.3% via rural engineering) Targets for 2035: 98% of rural inhabitants have access to drinking water (70% via SONEDE, 28% via rural engineering) **Due to the near-universal target of 98% of rural inhabitants having access to drinking water, women will likely benefit from this measure through reduced unpaid care demands and health risks. |
Unpaid care work
Health
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Tunisia | 5.2 Annexe 2 : Objectifs opérationnels et Cibles chiffrées de l’adaptation en Tunisie : 5.2.3 Santé et services de santé : Tableau 12: Objectifs d'adaptation de la CDN 3.0 dans le domaine relatif à la santé et aux services de santé OBJECTIF STRATEGIQUE 1 : Les risques sanitaires liés au changement climatique sont maîtrisés et leur prise en charge par le système de santé est effective et efficace (...) OBJECTIF OPERATIONNEL : Renforcement des capacités du personnel de santé en matière de changement climatique et santé REFERENTIEL : Année : 2025 Valeur : 1.26% du personnel formé Cible quantifiée 2035 : 50% du Nombre de personnel formé // 5.2 Annex 2: Operational Objectives and Quantified Targets for Adaptation in Tunisia: 5.2.3 Health and Health Services: Table 12: Adaptation Objectives of NDC 3.0 in the Field of Health and Health Services STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 1: Health risks related to climate change are managed, and their management by the health system is effective and efficient. (...) OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVE: Strengthening the capacity of health personnel regarding climate change and health. BASELINE: Year: 2025 | Value: 1.26% of personnel trained Quantified Target 2035: 50% of personnel trained **According to ILO data (2023), the healthcare sector accounts for 8.31% of women's employment compared to just 1.50% of men's, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
Health
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Adaptation | Health |
| Tunisia | 5.2 Annexe 2 : Objectifs opérationnels et Cibles chiffrées de l’adaptation en Tunisie : 5.2.4 Ecosystèmes et biodiversité : Tableau 13 : Objectifs d’adaptation de la CDN 3.0 dans le domaine relatif aux écosystèmes et à la biodiversité OBJECTIF STRATEGIQUE 2 : La gouvernance des ressources naturelles est améliorée, leur résilience au changement climatique est augmentée et les biens et services des écosystèmes sont renforcés (...) OBJECTIF OPERTAIONNEL : Facilitations accordées aux femmes, jeunes et personnes handicapées pour le lancement de projets de valorisation de la biodiversité au niveau des régions de production REFERENTIEL : Année : 2016 Valeur : Critères d'attribution des avantages ciblent les régions et non le porteur de projet Cibles en 2035 : 50% des projets de valorisation de la biodiversité sont portés par les femmes, les jeunes et les personnes handicapés // 5.2 Annex 2: Operational Objectives and Quantitative Targets for Adaptation in Tunisia: 5.2.4 Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Table 13: Adaptation Objectives of NDC 3.0 in the Field of Ecosystems and Biodiversity STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 2: Natural resource governance is improved, their resilience to climate change is enhanced, and ecosystem goods and services are strengthened. (...) OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVE: Facilitation provided to women, youth, and persons with disabilities for the launch of biodiversity valorization projects in production regions. BASELINE: Year: 2016 | Value: Criteria for allocating benefits target the regions rather than the project proponent. Targets for 2035: 50% of biodiversity valorization projects are led by women, youth, and persons with disabilities. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Biodiversity and ecosystems |
| Tunisia | 5.2 Annexe 2 : Objectifs opérationnels et Cibles chiffrées de l’adaptation en Tunisie : 5.2.5 Infrastructures et établissements humains : Tableau 14: Objectifs d'adaptation de la CDN 3.0 dans le domaine relatif aux infrastructures et aux établissements humains OBJECTIF STRATEGIQUE 3 : Améliorer le cadre du bâti et des établissements de base et améliorer le confort de vie des populations contre les extrêmes climatiques Objectifs opérationnels : Améliorer la résilience des établissements publics vis à vis des risques climatiques et améliorer le confort de vie des populations qui les fréquentent Situation de référence : Année de référence : 2025 Valeur : 12% d'établissements de santé sont vulnérables aux CC. Cibles en 2035 : *100 % du parc des établissements de santé ont réalisé un audit de vulnérabilité climatique * 50% des établissements de BASE ayant implémenté des mesures d’adaptation Objectifs opérationnels : Améliorer la résilience des établissements d'éducation (Publics et privés) vis à vis des risques climatiques et améliorer le confort de vie des populations qui les fréquentent Situation de référence : Année de référence : 2023 Valeur : 6129 établissements publics et 1180 établissements privés sont peu résilients aux impacts des changements climatiques Cibles en 2035 : 80% des établissements publics et privés ont réalisé des aménagements pour réduire les effets des CC, soit 4903 établissements publics et 944 établissements privés // 5.2 Annex 2: Operational Objectives and Quantitative Targets for Adaptation in Tunisia: 5.2.5 Infrastructure and Human Settlements: Table 14: Adaptation Objectives of NDC 3.0 in the Sector of Infrastructure and Human Settlements STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 3: Improve the built environment and basic facilities, and enhance the living comfort of populations in the face of climate extremes. Operational Objectives: Enhance the resilience of public facilities to climate risks, and improve the living comfort of the populations utilizing them. Reference Situation: Reference Year: 2025 | Value: 12% of health facilities are vulnerable to climate change. Targets for 2035: *100% of the health facility stock has undergone a climate vulnerability audit. * 50% of basic facilities have implemented adaptation measures. Operational Objectives: Enhance the resilience of educational facilities (public and private) to climate risks, and improve the living comfort of the populations utilizing them. Reference Situation: Reference Year: 2023 | Value: 6,129 public facilities and 1,180 private facilities possess low resilience to the impacts of climate change. Targets for 2035: 80% of public and private facilities have implemented modifications to mitigate the effects of climate change—specifically 4,903 public facilities and 944 private facilities. **According to ILO data (2023), the education sector accounts for 16.55% of women's employment compared to just 4.79% of men's, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the education sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
Health
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Adaptation | Infrastructure |
| Tunisia | 5.2 Annexe 2 : Objectifs opérationnels et Cibles chiffrées de l’adaptation en Tunisie : 5.2.7 Pauvreté et moyens de subsistance : Tableau 16: Objectifs d'adaptation de la CDN 3.0 dans le domaine relatif à la pauvreté et aux moyens de subsistance OBJECTIF STRATEGIQUE 1 : Promouvoir un développement régional résilient au changement climatique, sobre en carbone qui offre du travail productif et décent pour tous. OBJECTIF OPERATIONNEL : Limitation de l'emploi informel, considéré comme emploi vulnérable aux CC, et sécurisation économique et sociale des employés et des employeurs face aux risques liés au climat REFERENTIELS 2015 : Année de référence : 2015 Valeur : L’emploi informel représente 39% dans le secteur privé non agricole Cible quantifiée 2035 : Diminuer la part de l’emploi informel à 20% OBJECTIF OPERATIONNEL : Améliorer la capacité d'adaptation des groupes vulnérables (femmes, jeunes, etc.) aux effets amplificateurs du changement climatique sur la pauvreté, à travers un accès facilité aux crédits, fonciers, marchés et ressources naturelles de leurs territoires de vie REFERENTIELS 2015 : Année de référence : 2024 Valeur : Niveau de IDR Moyen national est 0,460 Cible quantifiée 2035 : Niveau de IDR Moyen national est 0,462 OBJECTIF OPERATIONNEL : Adaptation du système de protection sociale et d’assurance des personnes vulnérables REFERENTIELS 2015 : Année de référence : 2025 Valeur : Le Système actuel ne prend pas en considération les groupes vulnérables aux risques climatiques Cible quantifiée 2035 : Un cadre institutionnel de prise en charge des personnes impactées par le CC est promulgué et opérationnel // 5.2 Annex 2: Operational Objectives and Quantified Targets for Adaptation in Tunisia: 5.2.7 Poverty and Livelihoods: Table 16: Adaptation Objectives of NDC 3.0 in the Area of Poverty and Livelihoods STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 1: Promote climate-resilient, low-carbon regional development that provides productive and decent work for all. OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVE: Limit informal employment—considered vulnerable to climate change—and ensure the economic and social security of employees and employers in the face of climate-related risks. 2015 BASELINE: Reference Year: 2015 | Value: Informal employment accounts for 39% of the non-agricultural private sector. Quantified Target (2035): Reduce the share of informal employment to 20%. OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVE: Enhance the adaptive capacity of vulnerable groups (women, youth, etc.) regarding the amplifying effects of climate change on poverty, by facilitating their access to credit, land, markets, and natural resources within their local territories. 2015 BASELINE: Reference Year: 2024 | Value: The national average IDR (Regional Development Index) is 0.460. Quantified Target (2035): The national average IDR is 0.462. OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVE: Adapt the social protection and insurance system for vulnerable individuals. 2015 BASELINE: Reference Year: 2025 | Value: The current system does not take into account groups vulnerable to climate risks. Quantified Target (2035): An institutional framework for supporting individuals impacted by climate change is enacted and operational. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Other |
| Tunisia | 5.2 Annexe 2 : Objectifs opérationnels et Cibles chiffrées de l’adaptation en Tunisie : 5.2.7 Pauvreté et moyens de subsistance : Tableau 16: Objectifs d'adaptation de la CDN 3.0 dans le domaine relatif à la pauvreté et aux moyens de subsistance OBJECTIF STRATEGIQUE 2 : Diversifier les économies régionales et les opportunités d'emploi, favoriser l'inclusion sociale, consolider la place des femmes et des groupes vulnérables (...) OBJECTIF OPERATIONNEL :Renforcement des mécanismes de promotion des emplois verts, de l'économie bleue, de l'économie circulaire pour transition écologique juste et équitable REFERENTIELS 2015 : Année de référence : 2018 Valeur : 192.000 emplois verts Cible quantifiée 2035 : 100 000 salariés supplémentaires dans des emplois verts répartis dans les régions de l'ouest // 5.2 Annex 2: Operational Objectives and Quantitative Targets for Adaptation in Tunisia: 5.2.7 Poverty and Livelihoods: Table 16: Adaptation Objectives of NDC 3.0 in the Area of Poverty and Livelihoods STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 2: Diversify regional economies and employment opportunities, foster social inclusion, and strengthen the role of women and vulnerable groups (...) OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVE: Strengthen mechanisms for promoting green jobs, the blue economy, and the circular economy to ensure a just and equitable ecological transition 2015 BASELINE: Reference Year: 2018 | Value: 192,000 green jobs Quantified Target 2035: 100,000 additional employees in green jobs, distributed across the western regions |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Other |
| Tunisia | 5.2 Annexe 2 : Objectifs opérationnels et Cibles chiffrées de l’adaptation en Tunisie : 5.2.8 Les domaines complémentaires : Tableau 17: Objectifs fixés dans les domaines complémentaires DOMAINE COMPLEMENTAIRE 2 : ANTICIPATIONS ET INTEGRATION DES RISQUES CLIMATIQUES DANS LA PLANIFICATION OBJECTIF STRATEGIQUE : Mettre en place des plans nationaux d’adaptation, des instruments directifs et des processus et/ou stratégies de planification qui sont impulsées par les acteurs et les territoires, tiennent compte des questions de genre, sont participatifs, inclusifs et sont totalement transparents OBJECTIFS OPERATIONNELS : Réalisation de plans d'adaptation sectoriels au CC REFERENTIELS : Référence : NAP Tunisie Année : 2025 Cible quantifiée 2035 : Des NAP réalisés au niveau de 5 districts de la Tunisie et couvrant les secteurs clés de l’économie nationale OBJECTIFS OPERATIONNELS : Réalisation, Implémentation et utilisation de SAP fonctionnels REFERENTIELS : Référence : Aucun SAP multirisques fonctionnel Année : 2025 Cible quantifiée 2035 : Un SAP multirisques national réalisée et opérationnel // 5.2 Annex 2: Operational Objectives and Quantitative Targets for Adaptation in Tunisia: 5.2.8 Complementary Areas: Table 17: Objectives Set in Complementary Areas COMPLEMENTARY AREA 2: ANTICIPATION AND INTEGRATION OF CLIMATE RISKS INTO PLANNING STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE: To establish national adaptation plans, policy instruments, and planning processes and/or strategies that are driven by stakeholders and local territories, take gender considerations into account, are participatory, inclusive, and fully transparent. OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES: Development of sectoral climate change adaptation plans. BENCHMARKS: Reference: Tunisia NAP | Year: 2025 2035 Quantitative Target: NAPs developed for 5 districts in Tunisia, covering key sectors of the national economy. OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES: Development, implementation, and utilization of functional Early Warning Systems (EWS). BENCHMARKS: Reference: No functional multi-hazard EWS currently exists | Year: 2025 2035 Quantitative Target: A national multi-hazard EWS developed and operational. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Tunisia | DOMAINE TRANSVERSAL 3 : IMPLICATION DES JEUNES ET DES GROUPES LEADEURS DANS LA MISE EN OEUVRE DE LA CDN, AMELIORATION DE LA RESILIENCE DES FAMILLES, DES FEMMES, DES ENFANTS ET DES SENIORS ET MAITRISE DES FLUX MIGRATOIRES OBJECTIF STRATEGIQUE : Contribution des jeunes dans la réalisation des objectifs d'adaptation et d'atténuation de la CDN 3.0, promotion de l'inclusion sociale et maîtrise des flux migratoires OBJECTIFS OPERATIONNELS : Appuis et coaching des jeunes pour orienter leurs compétences en innovations technologiques (IA, etc.) vers des domaines qui servent la mise en oeuvre, le reporting et/ou la transparence de la CDN (Inventaire GES, Planification dynamique, modélisations climatiques, transparence des chaines de valeur, etc.) REFERENTIELS : Référence : 50 Jeunes impliqués dans la planification de la CDN3.0 Année : 2025 Cible quantifiée 2035 : 250 Jeunes ont été formés et coachés dans des domaines qui servent la mise en oeuvre de la CDN (ex. Inventaire GES, Planification dynamique, modélisations climatiques, transparence des chaines de valeur, etc.) OBJECTIFS OPERATIONNELS : Implication forte des jeunes leadeurs dans la sensibilisation, communication et renforcement des capacités sur le thème du CC REFERENTIELS : Référence : 0 support de communication réalisé par les jeunes leadeurs Année : 2025 Cible quantifiée 2035 : 500 supports de communication portant sur le thème de l'ACC réalisés et diffusé par les jeunes leadeurs dans les 24 Gouvernorats // CROSS-CUTTING DOMAIN 3: INVOLVEMENT OF YOUTH AND LEADER GROUPS IN NDC IMPLEMENTATION; ENHANCING THE RESILIENCE OF FAMILIES, WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND SENIORS; AND MANAGING MIGRATION FLOWS STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE: Youth contribution to achieving the adaptation and mitigation objectives of NDC 3.0; promotion of social inclusion; and management of migration flows. OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES: Providing support and coaching to youth to channel their skills in technological innovation (AI, etc.) toward areas that support the implementation, reporting, and/or transparency of the NDC (e.g., GHG inventories, dynamic planning, climate modeling, value chain transparency, etc.). BENCHMARKS: Reference: 50 youth involved in the planning of NDC 3.0. Year: 2025 Quantified Target (2035): 250 youth trained and coached in fields that support NDC implementation (e.g., GHG inventories, dynamic planning, climate modeling, value chain transparency, etc.). OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES: Strong involvement of youth leaders in awareness-raising, communication, and capacity-building initiatives regarding climate change. BENCHMARKS: Reference: 0 communication materials produced by youth leaders. Year: 2025 Quantified Target (2035): 500 communication materials addressing climate change adaptation produced and disseminated by youth leaders across the 24 Governorates. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Tunisia | 3.3.6 Patrimoine culturel et savoirs OBJECTIF STRATEGIQUE 3 : Implication des citoyens (femmes, jeunes, etc.) dans l'innovation et la valorisation économique, sociale et culturelle des patrimoines dans les régions Cet objectif vise à mobiliser les citoyens, en particulier les femmes et les jeunes, pour valoriser le patrimoine matériel et immatériel par l’innovation culturelle, la création d’activités économiques locales et l’animation culturelle territoriale, tout en tenant compte des changements climatiques et leurs impacts. (p.34-35) (...) 5.2 Annexe 2 : Objectifs opérationnels et Cibles chiffrées de l’adaptation en Tunisie : 5.2.6 Patrimoine culturel et savoirs : Tableau 15: Objectifs d'adaptation de la CDN 3.0 dans le domaine relatif au patrimoine culturel et aux savoirs OBJECTIF STRATEGIQUE 3 : Implication des citoyens dans l'innovation et la valorisation économique, sociale et culturelle des patrimoines dans les régions Objectifs opérationnels : Les jeunes leadeurs et les start-uppeurs portent des projets culturels dans leurs régions qui valorisent le patrimoine matériel et immatériel disponible et les mettent à l’abri des risques climatiques Situation de référence : Année de référence : 2025 Valeur : *(Existence du programme Riada (ANETI), mais non spécifique au climat * Stratégie nationale de la jeunesse, mais non spécifique Cibles en 2035 : * 50 projets labellisés "patrimoine et résilience climatique" dans le programme Rieda (ANETI) * 30 projets intégrant le climat sont financés Objectifs opérationnels : Implication des citoyens dans l'innovation et l'animation culturelle dans toutes les régions, qui sensibilisent au climat Situation de référence : Année de référence : 2025 Valeur : * Existence du réseau des Clubs UNESCO, mais thématique du CC peu traitée. * Offre d'animation ancienne à renouveler dans les maisons de jeunes Cibles en 2035 : * 100 Clubs UNESCO actifs dans le domaine climatique (2 événements/an chacun) (p.63) // 3.3.6 Cultural Heritage and Knowledge STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 3: Citizen involvement (women, youth, etc.) in innovation and the economic, social, and cultural enhancement of heritage assets in the regions This objective aims to mobilize citizens—particularly women and youth—to enhance tangible and intangible heritage through cultural innovation, the creation of local economic activities, and regional cultural engagement, while taking into account climate change and its impacts. (pp. 34-35) (...) 5.2 Annex 2: Operational Objectives and Quantified Targets for Adaptation in Tunisia: 5.2.6 Cultural Heritage and Knowledge: Table 15: Adaptation Objectives of NDC 3.0 in the Domain of Cultural Heritage and Knowledge STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE 3: Citizen involvement in innovation and the economic, social, and cultural enhancement of heritage assets in the regions Operational Objectives: Young leaders and start-up entrepreneurs spearhead cultural projects in their regions that enhance available tangible and intangible heritage assets and safeguard them against climate risks. Baseline Situation: Reference Year: 2025 | Value: * Existence of the Riada program (ANETI), but not specifically focused on climate. * National Youth Strategy exists, but is not climate-specific. Targets for 2035: * 50 projects certified with the "Heritage and Climate Resilience" label within the Riada program (ANETI). * 30 projects incorporating climate considerations are funded. Operational Objectives: Citizen involvement in innovation and cultural engagement across all regions, serving to raise awareness regarding climate issues. Baseline Situation: Reference Year: 2025 | Value: * Existence of the UNESCO Clubs network; however, the theme of climate change is rarely addressed. * Outdated youth center programming to be revamped Targets for 2035: * 100 UNESCO Clubs active in the field of climate (2 events per year each) (p. 63) |
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Adaptation | Other |
| Tuvalu | Adaptation: Current and planned adaptation actions: Education: Priority: High Action: Develop and deliver targeted training programs for schoolteachers, government officials, community leaders, and local NGOs on climate change impacts, vulnerability assessments, adaptation planning, and project implementation (also in local language) Conditionality: Conditional on finance, capacity and technology **According to ILO data (2022), there are 2 women employed for every 1 man in the education sector, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the education sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, preparedness and wellbeing. |
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| Tuvalu | Loss and damage As a nation of atoll islands, most of the Tuvalu's population lives on land less than two metres above the sea level. The threat of coastal hazards such as sea-level rise, storm wave and king tides impacts pose challenges to people living across nation's islands. Some of the impacts caused by extreme climate events result to irreversible losses and damages, including both economic and non-economic losses. Tuvalu Climate Change and Disaster Survival Fund, commonly referred to as TSF, was established in 2015 and came into effect on 2 January 2016. The objectives of the TSF are to:28 • Provide immediate vital services to the people of Tuvalu in combating the devastating impact of climate change and natural disasters; and • Allow the government and the people of Tuvalu to respond to future climate change impacts and natural disasters in a coordinated, effective and timely manner. MFAT is looking to strengthen the TSF during 20252026 with over NZD 1.9 million. Major components of this support include implementing TSF covering recovery, rehabilitation and adaptation. Funds are allocated up to 50% for recovery, 30% for rehabilitation and 20% for adaptation activities. Priority Action Conditionality Priority: Medium Action: Research on risks associated with permanent loss and damage due to climate impacts including economic and non-economic loss and damage Conditionality: Conditional on finance Priority: High Action: Awareness building on irreversible loss and damage from severe impacts of climate change including non-economic losses Conditionality: Conditional on finance **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. |
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| United Arab Emirates | 6.2 Sectoral Adaptation: 6.2.3 Health The UAE has implemented measures to facilitate collaboration between public health and climate authorities, as well as to equip healthcare workers with the necessary skills to manage the health risks associated with climate change, especially for vulnerable populations such as the elderly, pregnant women, and those at high risk. Additionally, the country is strengthening its regulations and policies related to environmental health determinants, including water and air quality, food systems, and waste management. A set of additional policies is under consideration, such as the use of advanced technologies to protect outdoor workers from the heat, and enhanced surveillance on heat-related illnesses. |
Health
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Adaptation | Health |
| United Arab Emirates | 6.2 Sectoral Adaptation: 6.2.4 Environment and Biodiversity Recognizing the vital role of women in the Fishing and Aquaculture Sector, the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment is actively spearheading an initiative dedicated to empowering women within this industry. This comprehensive initiative includes the creation of dedicated platforms for women to sell fish and aquatic products, thus enhancing their economic opportunities. Additionally, it emphasizes educational and training programmes aimed at building capabilities and expertise among women. A key component of this initiative is the promotion of the "Women Can Fish" programme, designed to inspire and encourage more women to join and thrive in the fishing and aquaculture sector. Through these efforts, the ministry is fostering gender equality and sustainable development within the industry. |
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Adaptation | Coastal zones and fisheries |
| United Arab Emirates | 7.4 Women and Youth (...) In addition, the UAE’s NAP will integrate concrete actions across the NAP process and continue the country’s ongoing efforts to create an enabling environment to ensure that no one is left behind, in line with the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience. Different social groups will be included in the UAE NAP development process, including women, men, children, youth, people of determination, elderly, migrant workers, indigenous communities, and low-income groups. |
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| United Arab Emirates | 7.4 Women and Youth The 2026 UAE Gender Balance Strategy represents the country’s federal gender equality strategy and includes commitments to policy and legislative reform, programmes, partnerships with the private sector and international organizations, and international engagement on key areas – including sustainability and climate. The UAE government is also considering additional policy levers, such as gender impact analysis for climate policies, gender-responsive climate finance, and sex-disaggregation of climate-related data. The UAE has a strong track record in ensuring women are well-represented in delegations to the UNFCCC. For example, every year since 2016, the UAE has sent a delegation with 50% or more women to the Bonn Intersessional negotiations and Conference of the Parties. Women on the negotiation teams have access to peer-to-peer mentoring and development opportunities. Moreover, the UAE enjoys strong women’s leadership, including through the UAE’s Head of Delegation to the UNFCCC who supported the facilitation of the GST and the mid-term review of the GAP in 2022. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| United Arab Emirates | 7.4 Women and Youth (...) Moreover, the UAE initiated and endorsed the COP28 Gender-Responsive Just Transitions and Climate Action Partnership, where it committed to supporting the development of evidence-based methodologies, including sex, disability, and age disaggregated data and standard indicators, to assess gender equality in the transition to a Paris Agreement-aligned economy. The UAE has worked closely with UN Women UAE – Liaison Office for the GCC to strengthen the evidence base and understanding of the differentiated impacts of climate change on men and women. This has included the convening of high- level events on the critical intersection between climate change and women’s empowerment, bringing together UN agencies, government officials, and civil society. In 2024, the UAE and UN Women adopted a strategic partnership. As part of this partnership, the UAE and UN Women will convene national, regional, and global policy discussions and strategy sessions that will strengthen the gender focus on climate change and contribute to global processes. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| United Arab Emirates | 7.5 Transparency, Implementation and Governance: 7.5.2 Voluntary pledges (...) Domestically, MOCCAE has introduced the UAE Climate-Responsible Companies Pledge, an initiative aimed at significantly increasing private sector involvement in the UAE’s decarbonization efforts, aligning with the UAE Net Zero by 2050 Strategic Initiative. The pledge serves as a foundation for future collaborations between the private sector, NGOs, and international organizations, with Emirates Nature, in association with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), acting as a strategic partner. This initiative is designed to support companies in developing and implementing net-zero plans, contributing to the nation’s broader goal of achieving climate neutrality. The pledge encourages companies to commit to transparent measurement and reporting of their greenhouse gas emissions, develop science-based strategies to reduce their carbon footprints, and integrate climate change mitigation and adaptation into their core business practices. Additionally, it promotes an inclusive approach, ensuring that youth, women, and vulnerable segments of society are actively involved in the creation of these plans. Ultimately, the pledge aims to unify the efforts of the private sector with national goals, driving collective action towards achieving the UAE’s net-zero target by 2050. |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| United Arab Emirates | 7.3 Capacity Building Requirements Educators play a crucial role in shaping the future workforce and preparing them to face the challenges of a rapidly changing economy. As such, numerous capacity building programmes target educators and their role in raising awareness about climate change, promoting sustainable practices and equipping students with the skills to succeed in the green economy. To support teachers and policy makers in the integration of climate education in pre-service and in-service teacher training, the UAE government, in collaboration with UNICEF, will train around 3000 master trainers and 1500 principals across the country. This will allow 100% of the private and public schools to cover, in the implementation of cross curriculum and extra-curriculum activities guidelines for the academic year starting September 2023. To highlight to global politicians and decision-makers the work of educators, the challenges they face, and the key role they play in the global climate response, the Teachers COP brought voices of primary and secondary teachers as well as school directors to COP28. This global competition garnered substantial interest with over 386 teachers, school principals, inspectors, and other educational stakeholders submitting projects on climate change education. **According to the ILO (2023), the education sector accounts for 8.63% of women's employment compared to just 1.19% of men's, meaning that capacity building programmes in this sector will likely have a disproportionate impact on women's economic security. |
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Cross-cutting | Other |
| United Arab Emirates | 7.4 Women and Youth In 2024, the UAE ranked 7th globally and 1st among Arab countries in the UNDP’s Gender Inequality Index. Additionally, the UAE ranked 1st globally in five of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2022 sub-indicators: enrolment in primary education, enrolment in secondary education, enrolment in tertiary education, sex ratio at birth, and women in parliament. In recent years, the UAE has launched the UAE Gender Balance Strategy, a platform to enhance women’s participation in the renewable energy transition, and a Strategic Partnership with UN Women, establishing a Women’s Climate Fund to support the mobilization of gender-responsive finance. This work is complemented by the General Women’s Union, the national mechanism for women’s empowerment. (p.75-76) (...) Furthermore, as part of the UAE-UN Women Strategic Partnership, both parties agreed to strengthen global frameworks, partnerships, norms, and standards to reinforce technical capacity to support gender-responsive climate action and climate resilience building. The General Women’s Union has sought to promote capacity building on gender budgeting through working collaboratively across governments to convene discussions on: plastic consumption production, environmental sustainability with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, and women and environmental sustainability with Sharjah University. They have also conducted six workshops and field visits focused on women and agricultural financing with the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority, and gender-just transitions and financing on Emirati Women’s Day with the COP28 Presidency. (p. 77) |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| United Arab Emirates | 7.4 Women and Youth (...) The UAE recognizes the crucial need to incorporate gender equality deeply into its efforts to tackle climate change. Significant efforts have been made to engage women in climate action and decision-making. Notably, Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company is contributing to ensuring women are heard in the sustainability debate through the Women in Sustainability, Environment and Renewable Energy (WiSER) initiative. WiSER aims to educate, engage, and empower women globally to be enablers of sustainability and innovation. (...) WiSER has sought to promote the deployment of gender-responsive technological solutions by fostering women’s and girls’ full participation and leadership in science, technology, research, and development in several ways. The year-long WiSER Pioneers Programme offers young women aged 25 to 35 access to bespoke educational workshops and global networking opportunities with industry experts. The programme empowers young women to take a leading role in the global transition to a net-zero future by providing them with a platform to make their voices heard. Since it’s launched in 2018, the WiSER Pioneers Programme has invited more than 100 young women to take part in over 320 hours of training and workshops. The WiSER Mentorship Programme, open to women enrolled in the WiSER Pioneers Programme, aims to help them progress in their careers by giving them access to one-to-one mentoring sessions with senior figures from various industries. The sessions focus on goal setting and help participants expand their skills and prepare for leadership roles. Launched in 2021, the WiSER Mentorship Programme invited more than 35 mentors based in the UAE and internationally to deliver more than 330 hours of one-to-one mentorship sessions. The WiSER platform has conducted research on Gender, Inclusion, and Climate Change in the Middle East and Northern Africa. The research covered the following areas: climate-related health risks, climate-related human security risks, access to finance, gender-responsive policies and strategies, capacity building, and awareness raising. WiSER collected and consolidated information through a survey available online in Arabic and English, circulated through diplomatic missions, government departments, and civil society. The research helped inform a white paper to understand impactful strategies to reduce women’s vulnerability to climate change, existing capacity building initiatives, and how to support women-led initiatives, including seed funding, small business grants, and scaling up existing projects. |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| United Arab Emirates | 7.4 Women and Youth (...) The UAE hosted Gender Equality Day intentionally in conjunction with Finance Day during COP28 UAE to highlight the need for gender-responsive finance and budgeting. As part of this day, the COP28 Presidency co-hosted events with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Further, the UAE has been working closely with the GlobalAlliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) and the Climate Champions Team (CCT) to support a campaign on facilitating access to finance for grassroots and women’s organizations. The UAE continues to work with the Climate Champions Team on a campaign for direct access to finance for Indigenous Peoples, funding a Global Data Study for Indigenous Peoples to strengthen the evidence base of IP-led financed projects in climate action, and working with Indigenous Peoples Organizations. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| United Arab Emirates | 7.5 Transparency, Implementation and Governance: 7.5.2 Voluntary pledges (...) Gender-responsive Just transitions and Climate Action Partnership: The UAE has committed to integrating gender considerations into its climate action plans, focusing on equitable access to cooling technologies and sustainable energy solutions for women and vulnerable groups. (p.83)// (...) Global Cooling Pledge: Launched at COP28, this initiative aims to enhance international cooperation on sustainable cooling solutions, targeting energy efficiency and climate-friendly approaches. The pledge seeks to improve access to sustainable cooling for vulnerable populations, thereby reducing emissions and enhancing resilience against extreme heat. The pledge aims to reducing cooling-related emissions across all sectors by at least 68% globally relative to 2022 levels by 2050, consistent with limiting global average temperature rise to 1.5 °C and in line with reaching global net-zero emissions targets with significant progress and expansion to sustainable cooling by 2030. This aim will be advanced through individual countries’ domestic actions as consistent with their domestic plans and priorities, and international collaboration. Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure is working on the national efficient cooling program under the national demand side management programme to enhance energy efficiency in built environment sector. (p.82) |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Energy |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 4: Planning processes: (a) Information on the planning processes that the Party undertook to prepare its nationally determined contribution and, if available, on the Party’s implementation plans, including, as appropriate: i) Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation and engagement with local communities and indigenous peoples, in a gender-responsive manner: Gender-responsive action (...) The UK is dedicated to promoting equality and inclusion, including women's empowerment, gender equality and the implementation of the UNFCCC work programme on gender, following extension of the Enhanced Lima Work Programme on Gender at COP29. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 4: Planning processes: (a) Information on the planning processes that the Party undertook to prepare its nationally determined contribution and, if available, on the Party’s implementation plans, including, as appropriate: i) Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation and engagement with local communities and indigenous peoples, in a gender-responsive manner: Gender-responsive action (...) At COP28, the UK endorsed the Gender-Responsive Just Transitions Partnership Pledge which aims to increase efforts to mainstream gender-just considerations across the transition to a low-carbon and sustainable economy in international and domestic approaches. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Energy |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 4: Planning processes: (a) Information on the planning processes that the Party undertook to prepare its nationally determined contribution and, if available, on the Party’s implementation plans, including, as appropriate: i) Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation and engagement with local communities and indigenous peoples, in a gender-responsive manner: Gender-responsive action (...) The UK also supports the POWERful Women initiative and other energy sector groups in their work towards increasing gender equality in the clean energy sector. This includes supporting Women in Nuclear, which encourages girls and women into the nuclear industry. The UK is a signatory to the Clean Energy Ministerial Equality in Energy Transitions, which aims to advance women's participation in the clean energy revolution and enable greater gender diversity in the clean energy professions. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Energy |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 4: Planning processes: (a) Information on the planning processes that the Party undertook to prepare its nationally determined contribution and, if available, on the Party’s implementation plans, including, as appropriate: i) Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation and engagement with local communities and indigenous peoples, in a gender-responsive manner: Gender-responsive action (...) The UK is also a signatory to Equal by 30, the Clean Energy Ministerial Campaign to work towards equal pay, equal leadership, and equal opportunities for women in the clean energy sector by 2030. The UK is a strongly supportive and engaged member of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Gender Advisory Council, which is intended to guide work on gender diversity and improve equal opportunities in the energy sector. It will help to take forward the IEA Gender Diversity Initiative and will strengthen collaboration with the CEM Equality Initiative and Equal by 30. |
Economic security
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Energy |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 4: Planning processes: (a) Information on the planning processes that the Party undertook to prepare its nationally determined contribution and, if available, on the Party’s implementation plans, including, as appropriate: i) Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation and engagement with local communities and indigenous peoples, in a gender-responsive manner: Gender-responsive action (...) The UK also continues to work with delivery partners to capture the impacts of International Climate Finance (ICF) programmes on certain groups of people and to embed gender mainstreaming into every stage of the programme cycle. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 4: Planning processes: (a) Information on the planning processes that the Party undertook to prepare its nationally determined contribution and, if available, on the Party’s implementation plans, including, as appropriate: i) Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation and engagement with local communities and indigenous peoples, in a gender-responsive manner: Gender-responsive action (...) The UK PACT (Partnering for Accelerated Climate Transitions) programme has developed gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) guidance. As part of its commitments under the Generation Equality Forum's Action Coalition on Feminist Action for Climate Justice, the UK will strengthen collection and use of data on gender, inclusion and climate. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 4: Planning processes: (a) Information on the planning processes that the Party undertook to prepare its nationally determined contribution and, if available, on the Party’s implementation plans, including, as appropriate: i) Domestic institutional arrangements, public participation and engagement with local communities and indigenous peoples, in a gender-responsive manner: Gender-responsive action (...) The UK has provided funding and support to widen participation including the full, meaningful, and equal participation and leadership of women in all aspects of the UNFCCC. (…)The UK's Climate Ambition Support Alliance (CASA) has provided funding for the active participation of women in international climate negotiations from the Alliance of Small Island States, the Least Developed Countries Group and the High Ambition Coalition. |
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Uruguay | 2. Circunstancias nacionales y principales acciones: 2.2. Sobre la acción para la mitigación y sus beneficios para la adaptación En cuanto a las aguas residuales domésticas, la tasa de conexión a los servicios de saneamiento en el interior del Uruguay (sin considerar a Montevideo donde el servicio no es prestado por la empresa pública nacional de servicio de saneamiento y agua potable, OSE) al año 2023 es aproximadamente del 50 %. En noviembre de 2011, se aprobó la Ley N° 18.840, reglamentada en febrero de 2013, cuyo objetivo es promover la conexión obligatoria de las edificaciones a las redes de saneamiento públicas existentes o nuevas, estableciendo facilidades y sanciones para garantizar su cumplimiento. Sin embargo, se estima que un 13% de la población con acceso a estas redes aún no se ha conectado, lo que limita los beneficios de salud pública y adaptación al cambio climático. De acuerdo al Proyecto de Universalización del Saneamiento en el Uruguay5, un 13% de población adicional tendría disponibilidad de nuevos servicios para conectarse en un plazo de unos cinco años, por lo que es importante contar con el marco normativo antes indicado (Ley N° 18.840). El aumento en la cobertura de saneamiento contribuye a la resiliencia de las comunidades frente a fenómenos climáticos extremos, como inundaciones, que pueden contaminar las fuentes de agua. En este contexto, es deseable incrementar de manera sostenida las tasas de conexión, para mejorar tanto la resiliencia climática como la calidad de vida de la población. **EN: 2. National circumstances and main actions: 2.2. Regarding mitigation action and its benefits for adaptation Regarding domestic wastewater, the connection rate to sanitation services in the interior of Uruguay (excluding Montevideo, where the service is not provided by the national public company for sanitation and drinking water services, OSE) by 2023 is approximately 50%. Law No. 18,840 was approved in November 2011 and regulated in February 2013. Its objective is to promote the mandatory connection of buildings to existing or new public sanitation networks, establishing facilities and sanctions to ensure compliance. However, an estimated 13% of the population with access to these networks has not yet been connected, limiting the benefits for public health and climate change adaptation. According to the Universal Sanitation Project in Uruguay, an additional 13% of the population would have access to new services within five years, making it important to have the aforementioned regulatory framework (Law No. 18,840). Increasing sanitation coverage contributes to community resilience in the face of extreme weather events, such as floods, which can contaminate water sources. In this context, a sustained increase in connection rates is desirable to improve both climate resilience and the population's quality of life. ****Due to the universal target of 95% access to improved sanitation and drinking water, women will benefit from this measure. |
Unpaid care work
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Mitigation | Water resources |
| Uruguay | 4. CONTRIBUCIÓN A LA ADAPTACIÓN Y TERCERA COMUNICACIÓN DE ADAPTACIÓN (COMAD3): 4.3.3 Medidas de adaptación: Agropecuario. OE20: Promover la implementación de buenas prácticas en las diferentes actividades y procesos de la agricultura como estrategia para la adaptación al cambio climático, mantenimiento de la producción, aumento de la resiliencia y reducción de los riesgos en la agricultura y el ambiente. 40) Al 2035 se han diseñado e implementado instrumentos de promoción e incentivo para que en los establecimientos productivos se implementen medidas de manejo y tecnologías que reducen el riesgo de déficit hídrico. 41) Al 2035 se cuenta con una plataforma de información que facilite el acceso a nuevo conocimiento, en formatos accesibles y apropiados para el manejo adaptativo agropecuario ante el cambio y la variabilidad climática. 42) Al 2035 se incorporan gradualmente medidas de manejo y tecnologías para la reducción del estrés térmico en animales en establecimientos agropecuarios, con la aspiración de alcanzar al 70% de los establecimientos con al menos una medida incorporada. 43) Al 2035 se ha fortalecido la extensión y transferencia de tecnología en horticultura y fruticultura, incorporando perspectiva de género y generaciones. 44) Al 2035 se ha fortalecido la I+D+i para validar tecnologías avanzadas de protección e infraestructura que prevengan los impactos del cambio y variabilidad climática en la producción hortifrutícola. 45) Al 2035 se promueve de forma sinérgica con otras políticas, la producción sostenible y resiliente en el sector hortifrutícola mediante la incorporación de prácticas agroecológicas. **EN: 4. CONTRIBUTION TO ADAPTATION AND THIRD ADAPTATION COMMUNICATION (COMAD3): 4.3.3 Adaptation measures: Agriculture. SO20: Promote the implementation of good practices in different agricultural activities and processes as a strategy for adapting to climate change, maintaining production, increasing resilience, and reducing risks in agriculture and the environment. 40) By 2035, promotion and incentive instruments have been designed and implemented so that productive establishments implement management measures and technologies that reduce the risk of water deficit. 41) By 2035, an information platform will be available that facilitates access to new knowledge, in accessible and appropriate formats for adaptive agricultural management in the face of climate change and variability. 42) By 2035, management measures and technologies to reduce heat stress in animals will be gradually incorporated on agricultural farms, with the goal of reaching 70% of farms with at least one measure incorporated. 43) By 2035, technology extension and transfer in horticulture and fruit growing will have been strengthened, incorporating a gender and generational perspective. 44) By 2035, R&D&I will have been strengthened to validate advanced protection and infrastructure technologies that prevent the impacts of climate change and variability on horticultural production. 45) By 2035, sustainable and resilient production in the horticultural sector will be promoted, in synergy with other policies, through the incorporation of agroecological practices. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Uruguay | 4. CONTRIBUCIÓN A LA ADAPTACIÓN Y TERCERA COMUNICACIÓN DE ADAPTACIÓN (COMAD3): 4.4. Ciclo de la adaptación ex post, progresos y resultados obtenidos: 4.4.6.1 Proyecto Regional entre Uruguay y Argentina: Adaptación al Cambio Climático en Ciudades y Ecosistemas Costeros Vulnerables del Río Uruguay. También se realizaron actividades para mejorar el conocimiento y sensibilidad de la población y actores locales sobre el cambio climático, sus impactos y oportunidades para la incorporación de la adaptación al cambio climático como práctica habitual. Algunas de estas actividades consistieron en el intercambio de experiencias y buenas prácticas en relación con la gestión de riesgos y el fortalecimiento de la gobernanza y la coordinación interinstitucional de los sistemas de alerta temprana en las costas del Río Uruguay. Se desarrolló el curso “Adaptación climática con políticas de suelo en territorios costeros vulnerables del Río Uruguay”. Además, tuvieron lugar varias charlas y conversatorios que incluyeron temas como: “Vulnerabilidades sociales. Metodología de análisis frente a riesgo de desastres”; “Territorios locales, riesgos compartidos: hacia una gestión regional de los desastres”; “Escenarios de cambio climático en la región del río Uruguay”, “Comunidades resilientes. Capacidades locales para la adaptación al cambio climático”, “Gestión en la calidad del agua” y “Soluciones basadas en naturaleza en espacios urbanos”, entre otros. Las actividades impulsaron la participación de diferentes representantes sociales de las localidades, funcionarios departamentales, nacionales, sociedad civil, academia y ciudadanos, promoviendo además una representación con criterio de género y generaciones. EN: 4. CONTRIBUTION TO ADAPTATION AND THIRD ADAPTATION COMMUNICATION (COMAD3): 4.4. Ex-post adaptation cycle, progress, and results achieved: 4.4.6.1 Regional Project between Uruguay and Argentina: Climate Change Adaptation in Vulnerable Coastal Cities and Ecosystems of the Uruguay River. Activities were also carried out to improve the knowledge and awareness of the local population and stakeholders regarding climate change, its impacts, and opportunities for incorporating climate change adaptation as a common practice. Some of these activities included the exchange of experiences and good practices related to risk management and the strengthening of governance and inter-institutional coordination of early warning systems on the coasts of the Uruguay River. A course was held, "Climate Adaptation with Land Policies in Vulnerable Coastal Territories of the Uruguay River." In addition, several talks and discussions took place, including topics such as: "Social Vulnerabilities: Disaster Risk Analysis Methodology"; "Local Territories, Shared Risks: Toward Regional Disaster Management"; "Climate Change Scenarios in the Uruguay River Region"; "Resilient Communities: Local Capacities for Climate Change Adaptation"; "Water Quality Management"; and "Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Spaces," among others. The activities encouraged the participation of various local social representatives, departmental and national officials, civil society, academia, and citizens, while also promoting gender and generational representation. |
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Coastal zones and fisheries |
| Uruguay | 4. CONTRIBUCIÓN A LA ADAPTACIÓN Y TERCERA COMUNICACIÓN DE ADAPTACIÓN (COMAD3): 4.9. Monitoreo y Evaluación. (...) Los avances en el marco MEL para las medidas de adaptación se reportarán en los Informes Bienales de Transparencia, conforme a lo establecido en las directrices, modalidades y procedimientos del marco de transparencia para la acción y el apoyo, tal como se menciona en el artículo 13 del Acuerdo de París y en la Decisión 18/CMA.1. El trabajo de MEL incluirá la revisión, el monitoreo y la actualización de medidas de género en cada una de las medidas de las ComAd, continuando los esfuerzos ya realizados para lograr un sistema de seguimiento responsivo al género. **EN: 4. CONTRIBUTION TO ADAPTATION AND THIRD COMMUNICATION ON ADAPTATION (COMAD3): 4.9. Monitoring and Evaluation. (...) Progress on the MEL framework for adaptation measures will be reported in the Biennial Transparency Reports, in accordance with the guidelines, modalities, and procedures of the transparency framework for action and support, as referred to in Article 13 of the Paris Agreement and Decision 18/CMA.1. The MEL work will include the review, monitoring, and updating of gender-sensitive measures in each of the ComAd measures, continuing the efforts already made to achieve a gender-responsive monitoring system. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Uruguay | 6. Medidas transversales y de fortalecimiento de capacidades. (...) Considerando que se continúa trabajando en las medidas y procesos definidos en las CDN anteriores, se identifican las siguientes prioridades para el período de implementación de la presente CDN3: (...) Se han fortalecido las capacidades de respuesta al cambio climático de los mecanismos de adelanto de la Mujer (MsAM) de los tres niveles de gobiernos, y se implementan planes operativos en los diferentes niveles y territorios involucrados. **EN: 6. Cross-cutting and capacity-building measures. (...) Considering that work continues on the measures and processes defined in previous NDCs, the following priorities are identified for the implementation period of this NDC3: (...) The climate change response capacities of the mechanisms for the advancement of women (MsAM) at the three levels of government have been strengthened, and operational plans are being implemented at the different levels and territories involved. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Uruguay | Línea estratégica 4: Descarbonización en los sectores residencial, comercial y servicios Si bien estos sectores representan solamente el 7% de las emisiones de CO2 del sector energético, siendo predominante el uso de electricidad, se identifican algunos usos de combustibles que requerirán procesos de transformación complejos y es necesario comenzar a trabajar en ellos. Un ejemplo es el caso de la cocción con GLP, con subsidios generales y focalizados, que se utiliza en más del 90% de los hogares. Dentro de las medidas que se consideran, se encuentran: *estudio segmentado de la población y la implementación de pilotos de sustitución de cocinas a GLP por cocinas de inducción que generen insumos para diseñar una política de sustitución... **EN: Strategic Line 4: Decarbonization in the Residential, Commercial, and Service Sectors Although these sectors represent only 7% of CO2 emissions from the energy sector, with electricity being the predominant source of energy, some fuel uses have been identified that will require complex transformation processes, and work needs to begin on them. An example is cooking with LPG, with general and targeted subsidies, which is used in more than 90% of households. Among the measures being considered are: *a segmented study of the population and the implementation of pilot projects to replace LPG stoves with induction stoves that generate inputs for designing a substitution policy... **The introduction of improved stoves is likely to benefit women by reducing time and labor spent cooking, lessening their unpaid care workload. |
Unpaid care work
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Mitigation | Energy |
| Uruguay | 5. CONTRIBUCIÓN A LA MITIGACIÓN: 5.2. Medidas de mitigación. Líneas estratégicas transversales: 5.2.2. Sector Agricultura y Uso de la Tierra y Silvicultura: Enfoque de Hojas de Ruta Para el diseño de Hojas de Ruta sectoriales se realizó primariamente una identificación de actores clave por sector. Se priorizaron cinco sectores productivos: Ganadería, Lechería, Agricultura (que incluye la producción de arroz), Horticultura y fruticultura y Forestación. Para cada uno de estos sectores se elaboró una Hoja de Ruta con horizonte 2035, identificando procesos estratégicos vigentes en el país vinculados al sector agropecuario en general y a las cadenas particulares para identificar líneas estratégicas y acciones sinérgicas, que contribuyan a un desarrollo resiliente del sector AFOLU. También se identificaron posibles medios de implementación y acciones impulsadas desde el sector privado. (...) Se convocaron actores e instituciones clave, tanto del ámbito gubernamental, la academia, el sector privado y la sociedad civil organizada para la realización de seis talleres donde se trabajó en obtener insumos para la definición de hojas de rutas sectoriales y la transversalización de género, partiendo de los compromisos asumidos en la segunda CDN, revisándolos cuando se consideró necesario e identificando acciones y medios clave para su cumplimiento. Como parte del proceso se elaboraron seis Hojas de Ruta, que permiten identificar líneas estratégicas, acciones y medios de implementación para su cumplimiento. Estas líneas estratégicas pueden agruparse en transversales (aplican a todas las hojas de ruta), multisectoriales (aplican a más de un sector) y específicas (aplican a un sector en particular). Líneas estratégicas transversales: (...) 2. Transversalización del enfoque de género e integración de los enfoques de género y cambio climático. El país cuenta con un Plan Nacional de Género en las Políticas Agropecuarias que realizó un diagnóstico profundo de la realidad de las mujeres en la producción agropecuaria y acciones clave para la reducción de desigualdades de género en el medio rural y el sector agropecuario del país. Esta línea se propone fortalecer la incorporación de la perspectiva de género en las políticas, programas y proyectos que se desarrollen como parte de la CDN3, así como la incorporación de compromisos de mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático en la política sectorial de género, en línea con la CDN3. **EN: 5. CONTRIBUTION TO MITIGATION: 5.2. Mitigation Measures. Cross-Cutting Strategic Lines: 5.2.2. Agriculture, Land Use, and Forestry Sector: Roadmap Approach For the design of sectoral Roadmaps, key stakeholders were primarily identified by sector. Five productive sectors were prioritized: Livestock, Dairy, Agriculture (which includes rice production), Horticulture and Fruit Growing, and Forestry. For each of these sectors, a Roadmap was developed with a 2035 horizon, identifying current strategic processes in the country linked to the agricultural sector in general and to specific chains to identify strategic lines and synergistic actions that contribute to the resilient development of the AFOLU sector. Possible means of implementation and actions driven by the private sector were also identified. (...) Key actors and institutions from government, academia, the private sector, and organized civil society were convened for six workshops. These workshops focused on gathering input for defining sectoral roadmaps and gender mainstreaming, based on the commitments made in the Second Convention on the Rights of the Child (NDC), revising them when deemed necessary, and identifying key actions and means for their fulfillment. As part of the process, six Roadmaps were developed, which allow for the identification of strategic lines, actions, and means of implementation for their fulfillment. These strategic lines can be grouped as transversal (applying to all roadmaps), multisectoral (applying to more than one sector), and specific (applying to a particular sector). Crosscutting strategic lines: (...) 2. Gender mainstreaming and integration of gender and climate change approaches. The country has a National Gender Plan in Agricultural Policies that conducted an in-depth assessment of the situation of women in agricultural production and implemented key actions to reduce gender inequalities in rural areas and the country's agricultural sector. This plan aims to strengthen the incorporation of a gender perspective in policies, programs, and projects developed as part of NDC3, as well as the incorporation of climate change mitigation and adaptation commitments into sectoral gender policies, in line with NDC3. **The country is integrating gender and climate change approaches through its National Gender Plan in Agricultural Policies, which strengthens the inclusion of gender perspectives in NDC3-related agricultural policies and incorporates climate commitments into sectoral gender policy. Key actions include integrating gender and climate data in territorial mapping, incorporating gender and generational perspectives (including youth and Indigenous Peoples) into research, training, communication, and incentive programs, and promoting rural women’s active participation in environmental and climate decision-making at all levels. |
Economic security
Gender mainstreaming
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Mitigation | Agriculture |
| Uruguay | 5. CONTRIBUCIÓN A LA MITIGACIÓN: 5.2. Medidas de mitigación. Líneas estratégicas transversales: 5.2.2. Sector Agricultura y Uso de la Tierra y Silvicultura: Enfoque de Hojas de Ruta Para el diseño de Hojas de Ruta sectoriales se realizó primariamente una identificación de actores clave por sector. Se priorizaron cinco sectores productivos: Ganadería, Lechería, Agricultura (que incluye la producción de arroz), Horticultura y fruticultura y Forestación. Para cada uno de estos sectores se elaboró una Hoja de Ruta con horizonte 2035, identificando procesos estratégicos vigentes en el país vinculados al sector agropecuario en general y a las cadenas particulares para identificar líneas estratégicas y acciones sinérgicas, que contribuyan a un desarrollo resiliente del sector AFOLU. También se identificaron posibles medios de implementación y acciones impulsadas desde el sector privado. (...) Se convocaron actores e instituciones clave, tanto del ámbito gubernamental, la academia, el sector privado y la sociedad civil organizada para la realización de seis talleres donde se trabajó en obtener insumos para la definición de hojas de rutas sectoriales y la transversalización de género, partiendo de los compromisos asumidos en la segunda CDN, revisándolos cuando se consideró necesario e identificando acciones y medios clave para su cumplimiento. Como parte del proceso se elaboraron seis Hojas de Ruta, que permiten identificar líneas estratégicas, acciones y medios de implementación para su cumplimiento. Estas líneas estratégicas pueden agruparse en transversales (aplican a todas las hojas de ruta), multisectoriales (aplican a más de un sector) y específicas (aplican a un sector en particular). Líneas estratégicas transversales: (...) 3.Transversalización de la producción familiar. El país cuenta con un Plan Nacional de Agricultura Familiar que identifica desafíos y acciones necesarias para tener una producción familiar resiliente. Esta línea se propone fortalecer la incorporación de la producción familiar en las políticas, programas y proyectos que se desarrollen como parte de la CDN3. **EN: 5. CONTRIBUTION TO MITIGATION: 5.2. Mitigation Measures. Cross-Cutting Strategic Lines: 5.2.2. Agriculture, Land Use, and Forestry Sector: Roadmap Approach For the design of sectoral Roadmaps, key stakeholders were primarily identified by sector. Five productive sectors were prioritized: Livestock, Dairy, Agriculture (which includes rice production), Horticulture and Fruit Growing, and Forestry. For each of these sectors, a Roadmap was developed with a 2035 horizon, identifying current strategic processes in the country linked to the agricultural sector in general and to specific chains to identify strategic lines and synergistic actions that contribute to the resilient development of the AFOLU sector. Possible means of implementation and actions driven by the private sector were also identified. (...) Key actors and institutions from government, academia, the private sector, and organized civil society were convened for six workshops. These workshops focused on gathering input for defining sectoral roadmaps and gender mainstreaming, based on the commitments made in the Second Convention on the Rights of the Child (NDC), revising them when deemed necessary, and identifying key actions and means for their fulfillment. As part of the process, six Roadmaps were developed, which allow for the identification of strategic lines, actions, and means of implementation for their fulfillment. These strategic lines can be grouped as transversal (applying to all roadmaps), multisectoral (applying to more than one sector), and specific (applying to a particular sector). Transversal strategic lines: (...) 3. Mainstreaming family production. The country has a National Family Farming Plan that identifies challenges and actions necessary for resilient family farming. This line aims to strengthen the incorporation of family production into the policies, programs, and projects developed as part of the CDN3. **The National Plan for Family Farming (PNAF) promotes resilient, equitable, and sustainable family farming through seven strategic pillars including ones focused on youth, gender equity, strenghtening family farming, and improving socioeconomic inclusion. As part of NDC3 implementation, it calls for gender-responsive and evidence-based climate and agricultural policies by assessing how extreme events affect rural women and families, integrating caregiving and vulnerability factors into support measures, and generating sex- and age-disaggregated data to recognize family farming’s contributions to climate, biodiversity, and food security goals. |
Unpaid care work
Gender mainstreaming
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Mitigation | Agriculture |
| Uruguay | 2. CIRCUNSTANCIAS NACIONALES Y PRINCIPALES ACCIONES: 2.6. Sobre la inclusión de la perspectiva de género. (...) En el año 2021 se aprobó el Plan de Acción en Género y Cambio Climático de Uruguay (PAG-CC Uy) en el marco del SNRCC con un horizonte al año 2024, definiendo y priorizando un conjunto de actividades clave para el fortalecimiento de la integración de la agenda de igualdad de género y cambio climático en la agenda pública, y que articula con las áreas prioritarias del Plan de Acción en Género de la CMNUCC, considerando que coincidan y se asegure la integración de actividades definidas en base a las prioridades nacionales. Actualmente se está avanzando en el proceso participativo para la formulación de un segundo Plan de Acción. (pg. 9) 4. CONTRIBUCIÓN A LA ADAPTACIÓN Y TERCERA COMUNICACIÓN DE ADAPTACIÓN (COMAD3): 4.4. Ciclo de la adaptación ex post, progresos y resultados obtenidos: 4.4.7.Plan de Género y Cambio Climático En el marco del Plan de Género en Cambio Climático implementado a partir del 2021, se ejecutaron una serie de medidas vinculadas a la adaptación, en áreas priorizadas como generación de conocimiento y fortalecimiento de capacidades en actores clave, que permitan mejorar la comprensión del vínculo entre género y cambio climático. Este componente generó acciones de análisis de género que permiten reconocer las desigualdades existentes, a nivel sectorial y/o territorial, pero también recursos didácticos para diversos destinatarios. Se desarrollaron actividades tendientes a profundizar la articulación con el Consejo Nacional de Género a través de la coordinación del Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres. En este marco se desarrolló capacitación, instancias de consulta, análisis de género y coordinación para la definición de medidas de género en territorios concretos, en el marco del PNA Costas. (pg. 36) 6. Medidas transversales y de fortalecimiento de capacidades. Considerando que se continúa trabajando en las medidas y procesos definidos en las CDN anteriores, se identifican las siguientes prioridades para el período de implementación de la presente CDN3: Se implementa un tercer Plan de Género y Cambio Climático con horizonte 2035 articulado con los diversos niveles de gobierno, en todo el territorio nacional con participación de grupos, colectivos y emprendimientos liderados por mujeres. (pg.60) **EN: 2. NATIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES AND MAIN ACTIONS: 2.6. Regarding the inclusion of a gender perspective. (...) In 2021, Uruguay's Gender and Climate Change Action Plan (PAG-CC Uy) was approved within the framework of the SNRCC (National Coordination of Climate Change) with a time horizon of 2024. It defines and prioritizes a set of key activities to strengthen the integration of the gender equality and climate change agenda into the public agenda. It aligns with the priority areas of the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan, ensuring their alignment and ensuring the integration of activities defined based on national priorities. Progress is currently being made in the participatory process for the formulation of a second Action Plan. (p. 9) 4. CONTRIBUTION TO ADAPTATION AND THIRD COMMUNICATION ON ADAPTATION (COMAD3): 4.4. Ex-post adaptation cycle, progress, and results achieved: 4.4.7. Gender and Climate Change Plan Within the framework of the Gender and Climate Change Plan implemented starting in 2021, a series of adaptation-related measures were implemented in prioritized areas such as knowledge generation and capacity building for key actors, allowing for a better understanding of the link between gender and climate change. This component generated gender analysis actions that allow for the recognition of existing inequalities at the sectoral and/or territorial levels, as well as educational resources for various audiences. Activities were developed to deepen coordination with the National Gender Council through the coordination of the National Institute for Women. Within this framework, training, consultations, gender analysis, and coordination were provided for the definition of gender measures in specific territories, within the framework of the NAP Costas. (p. 36) 6. Cross-cutting and capacity-building measures Considering that work continues on the measures and processes defined in previous NDCs, the following priorities are identified for the implementation period of this NDC3: A third Gender and Climate Change Plan will be implemented with a 2035 horizon, coordinated with the various levels of government, throughout the national territory, with the participation of groups, collectives, and ventures led by women. (p. 60) |
Gender mainstreaming
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Water (A34 – A41) A34 Vanuatu commits to ensuring that all people have reliable access to safe drinking water and sanitation infrastructure. Sector Policy: NSDP M&E Framework Policy Reference: 2.2.1 NSDP Reference: ECO 2.2 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 6 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 95% Finance Required USD: USD 135,450,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, 13 Progress from NDC 2: 🟡 Moderate Gaps: 1, 8, 13, 14, 15 Progress Narrative: Vanuatu's GCF project on Community Resilience and Improving Water Security, inplemented by the Department of Rural Water, the Pacific Community (SPC) and UNICEF, is climate-proofing water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure and improve water management planning systems for more than 215,000 people, mainly in rural areas **Due to the near-universal target of access to drinking water, women will likely benefit from this measure through reduced unpaid care demands and health risks. |
Unpaid care work
Health
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Health and Nutrition (A42 – A52) A46 Vanuatu commits to improve system level preparedness and response capabilities for the provision of timely nutrition interventions in response to and recovery from disasters as well as enhancing systems of surveillance to monitor trends and provide timely and coordinated food and nutrition security interventions in response to disasters, and manage risks. Sector Policy: Vanuatu Food Safety Security & Nutrition Policy 2022-2030 Policy Reference: Pg. 13-15 NSDP Reference: ENV3.2 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 2 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 90% Finance Required USD: USD 500,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC 2: 🔴 Limited Gaps: 1, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 Progress Narrative: Nutrition is a sub-cluster under the Health Cluster with MoH as a lead and UNICEF as co-lead. There are limited nutrition actors in the country thus, the membership to the sub-cluster is also limited. Despite this, the sub-cluster had ensured that the nutrition in emergency guidance notes on breastmilk substitutes donation and healthy food donations have been standardized immediately released during an emergency. Nutrition assessment during the State of Emergency has also been initiated but furher capacity strengthening is required. There is currently no nutrition surveillance system in place to support early warning and early action on climate-indiuced nutrition crises.MoH and UNICEF is working together to strengthen community screening systems including capacity building of health workers and village health workers to screen formal nutrition, and identify, refer and manage malnutiriton cases. **With the note that emergency guidance includes considerations for breastmilk provision under emergencies, this demonstrates gender considerations into disaster provisions. |
Health
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Adaptation | Health |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Water (A34 – A41) A44: Vanuatu commits to develop and refine public health emergency procedures. Sector policy: Environmental Health Policy and Public Health Act of 2021 Policy reference: 8.2 NSDP reference: SOC 3.4 SDG goal most relevant: 3 Conditionality (%): 70% Finance required (USD): USD 10,000,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC2: Substantial Gaps: 1, 5, 7, 9 Progress narrative: SOPs developed during Declaration of Public Health Emergency Due to the continuous global impact of COVID-19 in 2022, including strengthening of the Health Incident Management Team through the National Health Emergency Operations Center (NHEOC). Developing a National Health Security Action Plan, and conducting Joint External Evaluation (assessment obligation under IHR for preparedness and response legislation, policies). One Health programme working with Agriculture/Livestock/Fisheries. Active National Health Cluster, co-led by Director Planning and DG with WHO, working with NDMO. MoH has a national surveillance system to monitor health status, needs development, including Malaria, and other notifiable diseases. Project e-notification for notifiable diseases, funded by Burnett Institute and WHO. Working with UNDP and WHO GEF project (Climate Change and Health), in 28 sentinel sites, including connectivity to remote communities to reduce reporting time. NCD for public health emergencies, Health custer, provides mental health support, but limited resources available and requires external experts in crises. Nutrition is an issue, UNICEF working to support. Reproductive health services disrupted after disaster, causing teenage pregnancies and GBV. |
Gender-based violence
Health
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Adaptation | Health |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Health and Nutrition (A42 – A52) A47 Vanuatu commits to ensure nutrition security remains central to multisectoral efforts to enhance food security and food system resilience to climate change, natural disasters and other system shocks. Sector Policy: Vanuatu Food Safety Security & Nutrition Policy 2022-2030 Policy Reference: Pg.15 NSDP Reference: ENV3.2 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 2 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 95% Finance Required USD: USD 1,700,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC 2: 🟡 Moderate Gaps: 1, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 Progress Narrative: Nutritional trainings for Health Care workers including Provincial Hospital staffs and VCH in six Provinces funded by UNICEF and Vanuatu Government. Training types: Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition (IMAM), scale up of High Impact nutrition Intervention (HINI), NCD and Mental Health Trainings; Maternal Young Child Feeding training, Supervisory visits at Provincial level including health facilities. Dsitribution of commodities example micronutrient Packet (MNP) distributed after disasters. F75 and F100 for malnourished children treatment including RUTF (Ready to Use Theraputic Food). Nutritional screening for Children 0-5 years (MUAC) - Mid Upper Arm Circumference). These are undertaken to identify malnourished children. |
Health
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Adaptation | Health |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Health and Nutrition (A42 – A52) A52 Vanuatu commits to climate-related child protection by ensuring an effective response from the health sector to identify, manage, and refer child protection cases, including those involving violence against children and sexual abuse, including through the establishment of systematic protocols and resources for receiving and supporting survivors, especially as climatic shocks increase the risk of abuse among children. Sector Policy: Vanuatu Health Sector Strategy Policy Reference: SO 2.5, Pg. 21 NSDP Reference: 2 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 90% Conditionality (Expressed as %): 90% Finance Required USD: USD 1,000,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC 2: 🟡 Moderate Gaps: 1, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 Progress Narrative: MoH coorindates global health status report on prevention of violence against children funded by WHO, MoH develops Child Protection Policy which covers protection of children under healthcare, training of health workers to identify cases of child abuse and violence and make referral pathway for consultations investigations and consultations. There is still gap on the negligence of child care due to the absence of one or two direct parental care. Ministry of Health collaborates with other partners such as UNICEF and Save the Children, WHO, Care, Ministry of Justice, Israel Aid, Ministry of Internal Affairs to implement interventions addressing violence against children. |
Gender-based violence
Health
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Adaptation | Health |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Infrastructure (A71 – A73) A71 Vanuatu commits to provide infrastructure services that contribute to inclusive (broad-based and gender-balanced) economic growth, human development, and poverty reduction, with increasing resilience to climate risks. Sector Policy: Vanuatu Infrastructure Strategy and Implementation Plan Policy Reference: Goal 1, Pg.104 NSDP Reference: ECO 2.1 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 9 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 90% Finance Required USD: USD 42,570,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13 Progress from NDC 2: 🟡 Moderate Gaps: 1, 8, 9 Progress Narrative: World Bank’s Vanuatu Infrastructure Reconstruction and Investment Program (VIRIP) reconstructed or repaired 50 kilometers of roads, and rebuilt 40 schools and 26 public facilities. Vanuatu Climate Resilient Transport Project (VCRTP) roads in Port Vila and Santo Island |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Infrastructure |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Gender and Social Inclusion (A77 – A84) This NDC 3.0 aims to eliminate gender disparities through the recognition of gender equality and women's empowerment in all commitments, as well as by aligning with the UNFCCC's Enhanced Lima Work Program on Gender and its Action Plan and dozens of gender decisions under the Convention and the Paris Agreement. (...) A77 Vanuatu commits to upholding gender equity and responsiveness when implementing climate action and planning for durable solutions that are responsive to the different risks and needs of all people, including women and girls, men, and children. Sector Policy: National Policy on Climate Change and Disaster-Induced Displacement Policy Reference: GP4 NSDP Reference: SOC 4.1 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 5 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 80% Finance Required USD: USD 10,960,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC 2: 🟡 Moderate Gaps: 1, 8, 11 Progress Narrative: Durable solutions apply to communities that have been impacted by displacement, or are at risk of permanent or long-term displacement. Government of Vanuatu has begun to identify these risks and begun to plan for durable solutions for select communities and develop relocation guidelines and practices that will encompass gender equity principles. ActionAid project Women-Led Climate Resilience and Adaptation. NAB includes gender screening in climate project endorsement process. GCF funded FP184: Vanuatu community-based climate resilience project (VCCRP) includes the development of Gender action plans. STRENGTH project and IOM are supporting the displacement of climate affected communities |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Gender and Social Inclusion (A77 – A84) This NDC 3.0 aims to eliminate gender disparities through the recognition of gender equality and women's empowerment in all commitments, as well as by aligning with the UNFCCC's Enhanced Lima Work Program on Gender and its Action Plan and dozens of gender decisions under the Convention and the Paris Agreement. Vanuatu has a range of dedicated safeguards and regulations to overcome practical and cultural barriers to the participation of women, girls, and gender-diverse persons in climate action, including for example formally establishes gender quotas for the formal registration of Community Disaster and Climate Change Committees (CDCCCs) ensuring women and girls have a place in climate decision-making bodies; the NAB encouraged practice of providing stipends and sitting allowances to women and girls who participate in climate planning workshops, ensuring financial barriers do not prevent engagement; the practice of scheduling community consultations and participatory processes at times and places that accommodate women's caregiving, educational and household responsibilities (...) A78 Vanuatu aims to ensure that all people are empowered agents of change and thus included in climate action planning and have equal opportunities to lead community-driven mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage response processes. Sector Policy: Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Policy Policy Reference: 8.2, 8.4 NSDP Reference: SOC 4.1 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 5 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 80% Finance Required USD: USD 2,190,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC 2: 🟡 Moderate Gaps: 1, 8, 11 Progress Narrative: The National Adaptation and Loss & Damage Planning process, commenced in 2025, aims to ensure that all people are empowered to lead actions at the local level, and contribute to localised planning. The VCCRP includes work on more than 250 community adaptation plans which are based on whole of society consultation and engagement |
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Gender and Social Inclusion (A77 – A84) This NDC 3.0 aims to eliminate gender disparities through the recognition of gender equality and women's empowerment in all commitments, as well as by aligning with the UNFCCC's Enhanced Lima Work Program on Gender and its Action Plan and dozens of gender decisions under the Convention and the Paris Agreement. Vanuatu has a range of dedicated safeguards and regulations to overcome practical and cultural barriers to the participation of women, girls, and gender-diverse persons in climate action, including for example ....and the requirement for collection and reporting of gender, age, and disability-disaggregated data for all climate programmes. (...) A79 Vanuatu commits to adhering to best-practice monitoring, evaluation and learning processes in its climate change programming that receive endorsement from the National Advisory Board on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction including promoting the use of gender analysis, sex-disaggregated data, and gender indicators. Sector Policy: Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Policy Policy Reference: 8.2 NSDP Reference: SOC 4.1 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 5 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 80% Finance Required USD: 1,030,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC 2: 🟢 Substantial Gaps: 1, 15 Progress Narrative: NAB requires use of sex disaggregated MEAL indicators. NSDP indicators include gender focused metrics |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Gender and Social Inclusion (A77 – A84) This NDC 3.0 aims to eliminate gender disparities through the recognition of gender equality and women's empowerment in all commitments, as well as by aligning with the UNFCCC's Enhanced Lima Work Program on Gender and its Action Plan and dozens of gender decisions under the Convention and the Paris Agreement. Vanuatu has a range of dedicated safeguards and regulations to overcome practical and cultural barriers to the participation of women, girls, and gender-diverse persons in climate action, including for example...the NAB encouraged practice of providing stipends and sitting allowances to women and girls who participate in climate planning workshops, (...) the requirement that climate programme staff undergo gender equity and inclusion training with a focus on local cultural contexts; (...) training, extension, and outreach programs that utilise gender-sensitive materials (...) A80 Vanuatu commits to ensure that climate change and disaster risk reduction policies, projects and governance mechanisms such as the National Advisory Board on Climate Change (NAB) are gender responsive. Sector Policy: National Gender Equality Policy Policy Reference: 4.1.7 NSDP Reference: SOC 4.1 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 5 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 70% Finance Required USD: USD 840,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC 2: 🟢 Substantial Gaps: 1, 8, 11 Progress Narrative: NAB requires use of sex disaggregated MEAL indicators, and special consideration of women and girls in formal project endorsement processes |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Gender and Social Inclusion (A77 – A84) This NDC 3.0 aims to eliminate gender disparities through the recognition of gender equality and women's empowerment in all commitments, as well as by aligning with the UNFCCC's Enhanced Lima Work Program on Gender and its Action Plan and dozens of gender decisions under the Convention and the Paris Agreement. (...) A81 Vanuatu commits to acknowledging that there is a high level of diversity among women; and recognise that certain groups are more vulnerable than others, including girls, young women, women with disabilities, widows and lone female headed households. Sector Policy: National Gender Equality Policy Policy Reference: OP4 NSDP Reference: SOC 4.1 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 5 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 50% Finance Required USD: USD 390,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC 2: 🟢 Substantial Gaps: 1, 8, 9, 11 Progress Narrative: National Gender Equality Policy seeks to accelerate the realization of equal rights, opportunities, resources and rewards for women and girls. Provincial Gender Action Plans developed. Sista, CARE collaborating in climate Gender Equality Program |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Gender and Social Inclusion (A77 – A84) This NDC 3.0 aims to eliminate gender disparities through the recognition of gender equality and women's empowerment in all commitments, as well as by aligning with the UNFCCC's Enhanced Lima Work Program on Gender and its Action Plan and dozens of gender decisions under the Convention and the Paris Agreement....the enforcement of gender-based violence (GBV) prevention protocols and reporting mechanisms in all climate initiatives. (...) 555A82 Vanuatu commits to strengthen and improve protective, social and support services including protection of women, children and persons with disabilities in times of climate emergencies. Sector Policy: National Gender Equality Policy Policy Reference: SA1.3 NSDP Reference: SOC 4.1 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 5 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 90% Finance Required USD: USD 12,640,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC 2: 🟡 Moderate Gaps: 1, 8, 11 Progress Narrative: Gender and Protection Cluster leads and coordinates emergency action |
Health
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Gender and Social Inclusion (A77 – A84) This NDC 3.0 aims to eliminate gender disparities through the recognition of gender equality and women's empowerment in all commitments, as well as by aligning with the UNFCCC's Enhanced Lima Work Program on Gender and its Action Plan and dozens of gender decisions under the Convention and the Paris Agreement. Vanuatu has a range of dedicated safeguards and regulations to overcome practical and cultural barriers to the participation of women, girls, and gender-diverse persons in climate action, including for example formally establishes gender quotas for the formal registration of Community Disaster and Climate Change Committees (CDCCCs) ensuring women and girls have a place in climate decision-making bodies (...) A83 Vanuatu commits to promote women’s representation on national climate taskforces and working committees, with a target of least 30% women members of government climate taskforces and working committees by 2035 Sector Policy: National Gender Equality Policy Policy Reference: SA3.5 NSDP Reference: SOC 4.1 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 5 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 50% Finance Required USD: USD 190,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC 2: 🟡 Moderate Gaps: 9 Progress Narrative: National Advisory Board on Climate Change & Disaster Risk Reduction current gender composition is 4/20 (20%) |
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Gender and Social Inclusion (A77 – A84) A84 Vanuatu commits to initiate research on relevant climate issues related to women’s issues and gender equality. Sector Policy: National Gender Equality Policy Policy Reference: SA4.3 NSDP Reference: SOC 4.1 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 5 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 100% Finance Required USD: USD 580,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC 2: 🔴 Limited Gaps: 1, 10, 14 Progress Narrative: ActionAID and others undertaking research on gender and climate, some published in peer reviewed journals |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Children, Youth, and Education (A91 – A100) Commitments also extend to climate-resilient, low-emission educational infrastructure. Guided by national frameworks—including the Minimum Quality Standards (MQS), School Plumbing and Maintenance Manual, Asset Master Plan, and the National School Infrastructure Development Plan (NSIDP)—Vanuatu is actively upgrading infrastructure and embedding climate adaptation into school design. The Climate Resilient Sheltering Schools Programme, funded by the European Union and UNICEF (USD 11.4 million), exemplifies this by rehabilitating and constructing school facilities in Malampa and Penama provinces, including solarization, broadband access, and inclusive WASH services. **According to ILO data (2020), there are more than 1.6 women employed in edcuation for every 1 man, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
Health
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Adaptation | Other |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Children, Youth, and Education (A91 – A100) A92 Vanuatu commits to supporting all levels of education planning to mitigate risks to development, aiming for 100% of schools to incorporate Disaster Risk Reducation Managament (DRR/M) activities in their School Implementation Plans (SIP) by 2030. Sector Policy: Vanuatu Education TrainingSector Strategic Plan (VETSS) Policy Reference: VETSS strategy 8 NSDP Reference: ENV 3.1 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 4 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 60% Finance Required USD: USD 12,200,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC 2: 🟡 Moderate Gaps: 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 Progress Narrative: Developed SBDRR & EiE policy. Delivered 2 Training of Trainers (ToT) training to PEO and Senior officers from all six Provinces. Provincial training delivered for schools in SHEFA Province. SBDRR & EiE pilot training in all schools in PENAMA Province, Nation-wide scale up of SBDRR & EiE. **According to ILO data (2020), there are more than 1.6 women employed in edcuation for every 1 man, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
Health
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Adaptation | Other |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Children, Youth, and Education (A91 – A100) A96 Vanuatu commits to ensuring that 100% of schools become Health Promoting Schools (HPS), with equitable access to quality, climate-resilient WASH facilities for all population groups, including women and girls, boys and men, those affected by poverty, learners with special needs, gifted learners, out-of-school children, those in remote areas, and persons with disabilities. Sector Policy: Vanuatu Education and Training Sector Strategy 2021 - 2030 Policy Reference: VETSS Strategy 5 NSDP Reference: SOC 3 & ECO 2.2 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 4 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 100% Finance Required USD: USD 12,000,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 12 Progress from NDC 2: 🟡 Moderate Gaps: 1, 2, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 Progress Narrative: WASH in Education with pilots implemented in 2019 and 2022 in Penama Province, currently undergoing nation wide scale up. Five activity frameworks developed in 2022: 1) Profincial consultation, 2) Base lines 3) WASH Improvement Plan (WIP) 4) Procurement 5) Handyman training 6) Review of full programme. HPS policy developed, facilities inclusive of gender and special needs. An inclusive education policy in progress. Inclusive training conducted by NUV's School of Education (SoE) under Bachelor programme 2021. |
Health
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Adaptation | Other |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Children, Youth, and Education (A91 – A100) A99 Vanuatu commits to achieving 100% of schools and school communities with early warning systems that are child-sensitive and ensure children and their caregivers receive and understand timely information about climate hazards. Sector Policy: Vanuatu Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Policy Second Edition 2022 – 2030 Policy Reference: 6.4 NSDP Reference: ECO 3.2 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 4 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 100% Finance Required USD: USD 12,700,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13 Progress from NDC 2: 🔴 Limited Gaps: 1, 8, 10, 13, 14, 16 Progress Narrative: The VCAP project funded by GEF/UNDP have progressly installed early warning systems in the communities **Due to their disporportionate role in caregiving, women are likely to benefit from this measure. |
Unpaid care work
Health
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Adaptation | Other |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Children, Youth, and Education (A91 – A100) A100 Vanuatu is committed to equipping 100% of schools with climate-resilient infrastructure, safe and accessible WASH facilities, and adopting low-carbon design standards for all new buildings, to ensure safe, sustainable, and resilient educational environments. Sector Policy: Vanuatu Education and Training Sector Strategy 2021 - 2030 Policy Reference: VETSS Strategy 3 NSDP Reference: ECO 3.3 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 4, 13 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 100% Finance Required USD: USD 35,200,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13 Progress from NDC 2: 🔴 Limited Gaps: 1, 2, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 Progress Narrative: An Asset Master Plan assessment was done in all primary schools throughout Vanuatu on the new buildings that will need to be constructed. **According to ILO data (2020), there are more than 1.6 women employed in edcuation for every 1 man, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
Health
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Adaptation | Other |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Children, Youth, and Education (A91 – A100) A94 Vanuatu commits to integrating and enhancing climate, environmental, and disaster risk education into the national curriculum and teacher training, including DRM and emergency curricula in both pre-service and in service programmes. Sector policy: School Based Disaster Risk Reduction & Education in Emergency Policy (SBDRR&EiE) Policy reference: 4.6 NSDP reference: SOC 2.2 SDG goal most relevant: 4 Conditionality (%): 90% Finance required (USD): USD 6,500,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC2: Substantial Gaps: 1, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16 Progress narrative: Implementation of climate change and disaster risk management curriculum: • ECCE - 2014: development and implementation and now 2025 review of curriculum and syllabus with teacher's training funded by DFAT • Years 1-6 - 2014: development and implementation of the syllabus with teacher's training funded by DFAT • Years 7-10 - 2021-2026: development and implementation of the syllabus with teacher's training funded by MFAT • Years 11- 13 - 2018-2025: development, implementation and review of the syllabus with teacher's training funded by Vanuatu Government **According to ILO data (2020), there are more than 1.6 women employed in edcuation for every 1 man, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
Health
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Adaptation | Disasters |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Children, Youth, and Education (A91 – A100) A98 Vanuatu commits to strenghten child protection by establishing quality counselling services and safeguarding protocols in all schools across the country. This is to prevent and response to abuse and harm of children, which can be exacerbated during and after disasters and to promote their mental well-being responding to trauma and climate-related anxiety. Sector policy: Child Protection Policy 2021 - 2026 Policy reference: Strategy 8 NSDP reference: SOC 5 SDG goal most relevant: 4 Conditionality (%): 100% Finance required (USD): USD 12,200,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Progress from NDC2: Limited Gaps: 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 12 Progress narrative: MoET, in collaboration with MoH and MoJYCS, has initiated the establishment of counselling services in schools, by introducing counselling training for identified focal points and strengthening referral pathways, and by developing national minimum standards for child counselling (currently going through the formal government endorsement process) - including parameters for accreditation, monitoring and supervision, to ensure the services do no harm to children. ** Vanuatu's Child Protection Policy notes that 30% women were sexually abused before the age of 15 years (majority of perpetrators being male family members and boyfriends) and that 28% of women's first sexual experience was forced. It also notes 7% of girls are married before 15 years and 23.8% before 18. It also identifies women and women's groups as key actors in child protection. |
Gender-based violence
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Adaptation | Other |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Partnerships and Collaboration (A101 – A103) A101 Vanuatu commits to continue meaningful consultation with actors outside of government, including acknowledging and formalising the private sector and civil society, as important for analysis, context-setting and identification of partners for climate actions. Civil society organisations (CSOs), non-government organisations (NGOs) and community-based organisations (CBOs) are important actors at subnational and community levels, particularly for ensuring the integration of climate action at the local level, and with women, girls, youth, children, indigenous minorities, the elderly and people with disabilities. Sector Policy: Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Policy Policy Reference: 7.1.1 NSDP Reference: SOC 4.4 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 17 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 60% Finance Required USD: USD 450,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 Progress from NDC 2: 🟢 Substantial Gaps: 1, 5, 7 Progress Narrative: Vanuatu Association of NGOs (VANGO) is a NAB member, and the Vanuatu Climate Action Network (VCAN) and Vanuatu Business Resilience Council (VBRC) are active observers on the Vanuatu National Advisory Board on Climate Change & Disaster Risk Reduction. GCF FP184: Vanuatu community-based climate resilience project (VCCRP) is implemented by Save the Children with Government of Vanuatu |
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Tourism (A117 – A125) At the heart of Vanuatu’s tourism adaptation strategy is inclusive economic empowerment. The government, in partnership with local councils and the private sector, is working closely with grassroots micro- and small-scale enterprises, especially those led by women and youth—to build capacity, access finance, and link to sustainable tourism markets. Moreover, the electrification of tourism sites with renewable energy solutions not only decarbonizes the sector but also provides reliable power for climate-resilient infrastructure and essential services. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Tourism |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Finance (A127 – A131) A130 Vanuatu commits to gender-responsive budgeting for climate change, including prioritising climate financing tools that target women’s grassroots initiatives and resilient development outcomes Sector Policy: National Sustainable Development Plan Policy Reference: Soc 4 NSDP Reference: SOC 4.1 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 13 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 80% Finance Required USD: USD 590,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC 2: 🔴 Limited Gaps: 1, 9, 10 Progress Narrative: No efforts undertaken to date to operationalise gender-responsive budgeting for climate change Finance – Commitments A127 – A131 ➡ The five finance commitments are estimated to cost approximately USD 10 million. ➡ Key sources of finance include: 1) MDBs (e.g., ADB, World Bank), 2) multilateral climate trust funds (e.g., GCF, GEF, PRF), 3) multilateral development trust funds and programs (e.g., IFAD, UNCDF), 4) Institutional development partners (e.g., UNDP, GIZ, GGGI, Regional Pacific NDC Hub), 5) bilateral development agencies and funds (e.g., DFAT, MFAT, China Aid, JICA, AFD), 6) national climate funds (e.g., NGEF), 7) national development banks (e.g., VRDB), 8) national pension fund (e.g., VNPF), 9) domestic government budget (e.g., parliamentary budget allocation, new taxes / levies), 10) corporate finance and ESG initiatives, 11) corporate finance and ESG initiatives, 12) impact and investment funds, 13) private sector finance and commercial banks (e.g., domestic and regional commercial banks), 14) carbon markets and compliance schemes (e.g., voluntary and compliance carbon-market buyers), 15) insurance and risk transfer mechanisms (e.g., PCRIC, PICAP), and 16) litigation and settlement funds. ➡ Preferred instruments include grant-financed technical assistance, concessional MDB or multilateral climate fund loans, and blended finance vehicles that could support establishing adaptation funds, levy schemes, and climate risk insurance pools. Green or sustainability linked bonds, results-based grants tied to fiduciary milestones, and parametric risk transfer products could support diversified revenue streams. Credit guarantee and first-loss facilities could crowd in commercial lending for PPP projects and gender-responsive finance tools. ➡ Sources and instruments footnotes: 1 – 16. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Adaptation | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | Adaptation - Statistics (A132) To make statistics more fit-for-purpose in a climate-vulnerable context, Vanuatu is implementing a range of best practices in climate data collection. These include the development of localized wellbeing indicators to monitor holistic adaptation outcomes, the application of geo-referenced data for disaster risk analysis, and the inclusion of climate risk modules in socioeconomic surveys. Vanuatu is also advancing new methodologies to capture the lived experience of climate change, such as integrating participatory approaches in data collection and tracking non-economic losses. These investments ensure that adaptation priorities are based on grounded realities and that progress is regularly monitored using inclusive, climate-relevant, and gender-sensitive metrics. |
Gender mainstreaming
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Loss and damage | Other |
| Vanuatu | Loss and Damage (L1 – L52) L7 Vanuatu commits to establishing school infrastructure that can serve as safe shelters during and after disasters or emergencies, recognising that schools may be repurposed as temporary havens for affected communities. Sector Policy: School Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Education in Emergency Policy (SBDRR&EiE) Policy Reference: Pg.22 NSDP Reference: ENV 3.3 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 4 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 100% Finance Required USD: USD 7,489,204 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13 Progress from NDC 2: 🔴 Limited Gaps: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15 Progress Narrative: Schools are often used for safe evacuation centre during and in the aftermath of disaster. All new school buildings are being designed to meet disaster standards and can be repurposed as shelter during disasters. **According to ILO data (2020), there are more than 1.6 women employed in edcuation for every 1 man, meaning that measures targeting the climate preparedness in the healthcare sector will have a disproportionate impact on women's safety, wellbeing and livelihoods. |
Health
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Loss and damage | Other |
| Vanuatu | Loss and Damage (L1 – L52) L12 Vanuatu commits to ensure that climate displaced people, people at risk of displacement, internal migrants, people living in informal settlements, communities relocating to new locations and host communities, have continued access to basic health and medical services, including post-sexual assault treatment and care relating to sexual and reproductive health and chronic illness, as well as nutrition advice and information. Sector Policy: Vanuatu National Policy on Climate Change and Disaster-induced Displacement Policy Reference: 7.1 NSDP Reference: ENV 3.3 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 3 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 70% Finance Required USD: USD 16,700,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10 Progress from NDC 2: 🟡 Moderate Gaps: 1, 8, 9 Progress Narrative: IDisplacement and Evacuation Centre Management Cluster has collected data on health needs after all recent displacement events including TC Judy / Kevin, TC Lola, Vanuatu Earthquake, and provided referrals to Health Cluster to ensure displaced populations in evacuation centres and host households have continued access to basic health and medical services. Coordination with Evacuation Centre Coordinator within the Health Cluster has been established and continues. World Bank Affordable and Resilient Settlements Project, US$25 million subsidising housing costs for low-income erners which may enable the resettlement of vulnerable urban populations. MoH provides health services to evacuation centers, and treat and screen NCD, skin diseases,, psychosocial support, nutrition packages and supplements, deworming, vitamin tablets, mosquito nets, general medications and reproductive health via mobile health teams. |
Gender-based violence
Health
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Loss and damage | Health |
| Vanuatu | Loss and Damage (L1 – L52) L17 Vanuatu commits to expand its calls for and actions taken to obtain compensation for climate loss and damage (including quantifiable as well as intangible and non-economic loss) within the UNFCCC multilateral climate regime. Sector Policy: Climate Diplomacy Strategy Policy Reference: 1.1 NSDP Reference: ENV 3.3 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 13 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 100% Finance Required USD: USD 1,290,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 16 Progress from NDC 2: 🔴 Limited Gaps: 1, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15 Progress Narrative: Vanuatu ICJ climate obligations case awaiting advisory opinion **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. |
Economic security
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | Loss and Damage (L1 – L52) L18 Vanuatu commits to pursue compensation for climate loss and damage (including quantifiable as well as intangible and non-economic loss) through legal action outside of UNFCCC processes. Sector Policy: Climate Diplomacy Strategy Policy Reference: 1.2 NSDP Reference: ENV 3.3 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 13 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 100% Finance Required USD: USD 2,580,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 16 Progress from NDC 2: 🟡 Moderate Gaps: 1, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15 Progress Narrative: Vanuatu ICJ climate obligations case awaiting advisory opinion **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. |
Economic security
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | Loss and Damage (L1 – L52) L21 Vanuatu commits to designing new and enhanced loss and damage assessment approaches and methodologies to address specific use-cases and tangible decision-making needs, including for example, the determination of financial, technical and capacity needs to address loss and damage in a specific geographical area and estimating long-term non-economic impacts and solution options for slow onset impacts. Sector Policy: Loss & Damage Policy Policy Reference: 2.3 NSDP Reference: ENV 3.3 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 13 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 100% Finance Required USD: USD 4,300,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Progress from NDC 2: 🔴 Limited Gaps: 1, 10, 14, 15 Progress Narrative: BOLD project under SPREP will work towards loss and damage needs assessments. Some NELD now being incorporated into PDNA processes **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. |
Economic security
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | Loss and Damage (L1 – L52) L24 Vanuatu commits to ensuring a balanced and dual-track consideration of economic and non-economic loss and damage impacts and extreme and slows onset events, in all climate related assessments, programmes, initiatives and funding arrangements. Sector Policy: Loss & Damage Policy Policy Reference: 4.1/5.1 NSDP Reference: ENV 3.3 SDG Goal Most Relevant: 13 Conditionality (Expressed as %): 40% Finance Required USD: USD 2,300,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC 2: 🔴 Limited Gaps: 1, 10, 12, 14, 15 Progress Narrative: Currently most loss and damage considerations and actions focus on economic or market oriented effects **Measures addressing non-economic loss and damage are likely to benefit women by addressing the social, cultural, and wellbeing impacts of climate change—areas where they are often most affected yet overlooked in recovery efforts. |
Economic security
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Loss and damage | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | L45 Vanuatu commits to develop an Adaptive Social Protection National Coordination Protocol (ASP-NCP), including the establishment of an Adaptive Social Protection Taskforce and a unified social registry that consolidates data on beneficiaries, vulnerabilities, and social protection program participation. Sector policy: Adaptive Social Protection Policy Policy reference: Annex 1 NSDP reference: ENV 3.3 SDG goal most relevant: 13 Conditionality (%): 100% Finance required (USD): USD 8,900,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 3, 4, 5 Progress from NDC2: Substantial Gaps: 1, 6, 8, 10 Progress Narrative: Adaptive Social Protection Policy adopted in 2024 **Inputs from the UN Women Regional/Country office have confirmed that the Adaptive Social Protection Policy includes gender considerations and UN Women was consulted in its development. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Other |
| Vanuatu | Means of Implementaion and Financing Needs Vanuatu Climate Finance Country Platform to implement the NDC Vanuatu’s NDC Climate Finance Country Platform performs the following core functions: • Link investment directly to national priorities, leveraging the NDC as a guiding policy and implementation framework. • Coordinate multiple modalities of finance, including direct budget support, small grants for communities and civil society, concessional loans, insurance and risk finance instruments, and public-private partnerships. • Strengthen national systems, by channeling an increasing share of climate finance through national fiduciary systems, incentivizing public finance management reform and improving long-term financial sustainability. • Promote inclusivity and ownership over climate priorities, ensuring strong engagement of women, youth, customary leaders, persons with disabilities, and civil society in decision-making, implementation, and accountability processes. • Coordinate the Vanuatu Climate Funds, which will include the National Green Energy Fund, the Emergency Fund, the Loss & Damage Fund and the Environmental Trust Fund. |
Participation and leadership
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Cross-cutting | Multisectoral |
| Vanuatu | Indigenous People (A87 A90) A87 Vanuatu commits to build on and share existing traditional knowledge and expand its use by collecting, recording and incorporating climate-relevant traditional knowledge into planning, decision-making, and school curricula, while ensuring appropriate cultural protocols are respected. Sector policy: Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Policy Policy reference: 7.3.2 NSDP reference: SOC 1.2 SDG goal most relevant: 17 Conditionality (%): 90% Finance required (USD): USD 3,610,000 Preferred Sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 Progress from NDC2: Substantial Gaps: 1, 14 Progress narrative: Projects VANKIRAP and VCCRP support farmers traditional practices e.g intercropping, agroforestry, cover cropping and crop diversification. Tools developed through VANKIRAP identify weather and climate traditional knowledge, and a national traditional knowledge booklet and calendars for each province. Continued research required on climate adaptability of traditional crops, and merging of contemporary climate smart farming practices with traditional knowledge (e.g. traditional pest management practices and cropping calendars). Refer to Annex II for explanations of footnotes listed under 'Gaps' and 'Preferred Sources'. **The VCCRP project is a Green Climate Fund project that targets women farmers. |
Economic security
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Adaptation | Agriculture |
| Zambia | Annex 2. Indicators for Adaptation No. 1. Indicator (Global Goal on Adaptation): Significantly reducing climate-induced water scarcity and enhancing climate resilience to water-related hazards towards a climate-resilient water supply, climate-resilient sanitation and towards access to safe and affordable potable water for all. National Indicators (Zambia NDC): Water security of all Zambians is promoted and protected, via gender-responsive and climate-smart water infrastructure Baseline in 2020: Low Desired Status by 2030: High |
Unpaid care work
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Adaptation | Water resources |
| Zambia | Annex 2. Indicators for Adaptation No. 6. Indicator (Global Goal on Adaptation): Substantially reducing poverty and livelihood vulnerability in areas with high climate risk for communities, in particular by promoting the use of adaptive social protection measures National Indicators (Zambia NDC): Increased gender equality and inclusiveness for both women and men in Community Forest Management Groups (CFMG); Reduced vulnerability and strengthened resilience of livelihoods in forest communities Baseline in 2020: Low Desired Status by 2030: High |
Economic security
Participation and leadership
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Adaptation | Land use and forestry |
| Zimbabwe | Cross-cutting issues and enablers: 5.2 Capacity building, education, training and awareness The cross-cutting nature of the climate actions outlined in this NDC require continuous capacity building of adaptation and mitigation experts as well as training of technicians in the various sectors. The enhanced integration of climate change into the basic and higher levels of education will assist in the raising broad societal awareness, provide for inclusivity and set the base for specialized climate change capacity building and innovation. In addition, the education sector can assist in reducing the gender disparities in climate change information and actions. |
Economic security
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Cross-cutting | Other |
From monitoring to action
As countries step up their gender commitments in their updated NDCs, the challenge is no longer to promise change, but to deliver it. Experiences in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America show how the Scorecard’s flexible, multidimensional approach to gender analysis makes it a tool not only for monitoring policies, as originally coined, but for actively shaping them.
Frequently asked questions
- How are gender-responsive measures defined?
The Scorecard defines gender-responsive measures as ongoing activities or forward-looking commitments to action that target one of the six gender dimensions covered by the Scorecard: economic security, unpaid care and domestic work, gender-based violence, health, participation and leadership, or gender mainstreaming. These commitments vary in level of detail and scope, ranging from broad pledges to concrete policies, targets or activities. The Scorecard uses the terms ‘actions’ and ‘measures’ interchangeably to reflect this range.
- How does the Scorecard evaluate or “score” country NDCs?
The Scorecard evaluates each NDC against 50 indicators across the six gender dimensions. For each dimension, reviewers assess whether the NDC identifies gender-specific risks, recognizes women’s contributions, and commits to concrete actions. It then evaluates the comprehensiveness of gender integration in an NDC by assessing the number of gender dimensions addressed. Countries that include gender-responsive measures across a broader range of dimensions are considered more gender-responsive.
- Why hasn’t my country’s NDC been analyzed?
Currently, the Scorecard dashboard and factsheets feature analysis of the 67 third-iteration NDCs submitted by 30 September 2025. Because NDC submissions occur on a rolling basis, NDCs submitted after 30 September 2025 will be included in future updates of the Scorecard.
- Why isn’t everything my country is doing on gender equality and climate change reflected in the Scorecard?
The Scorecard focuses on NDCs because they are the only climate policy documents submitted by all UNFCCC Member States under a common reporting framework, allowing for cross-country analysis. Many countries also advance gender-responsive climate action through other national or local policies not captured here. The Scorecard methodology can be applied to these other policies to provide a broader picture of national gender-responsive climate action.
- How can the Gender Equality and Climate Policy Scorecard support accountability?
The Scorecard supports accountability by systematically monitoring national commitments to gender-responsive climate action, creating a baseline for monitoring progress on these commitments. It provides comparable evidence on how NDCs address gender inequalities across climate policy areas and sectors, helping to identify policy gaps and good practices. By offering a global snapshot of what countries are doing – and not doing – it helps civil society, governments and the UN monitoring efforts by promoting transparency, informing advocacy, and catalyzing policy learning and diffusion.
- Will the Gender Equality and Climate Policy Scorecard be updated?
Yes! The Scorecard is a “living database” that will be regularly updated as more countries submit their revised NDCs and make more implementation information available. The dataset will be expanded throughout 2026 to incorporate around 100 recently submitted NDCs. If you have relevant information to update the Scorecard’s NDC evaluation in your country, please reach out to us at [ Click to reveal ].