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125 Developing Countries to get more support in new Climate Promise Campaign, says UNDP

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May 4, 2024

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Garfield Ekon

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The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has embarked on a new approach to undertake measures to manage Climate Change challenges, with support for developing countries on their Climate actions.

Launched by the UN Secretary General, António Guterres and UNDP Administrator, Achim Steiner at an event at the UN Headquarters in New York City, it seeks to revitalise strategies on Climate action across the UN System, ahead of 2025, when commitments on global warming will be scrutinise.

The campaign is dubbed, Climate Promise 2025, and is seeking build on the organisation’s ongoing support for more than 125 developing countries to align the next generation of their national Climate pledges, known as ‘Nationally Determined Contributions’ or ‘NDCs,’ to the goals set forth under the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and increase resilience to climate impacts.

Mr. Guterres told the launch that the new efforts aim to make or break for the 1.5-degree limit. “In 2025, all countries need to submit new and ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions to avert Climate calamity, and these new national Climate plans must align with the 1.5-degree limit and cover all greenhouse gases, all sectors, and the whole economy. If done right, these Climate plans can double as National Investment Plans, and reinforce National Development Plans.,” he said.

Adding that the measures can catapult sustainable development, by connecting billions to clean power, boosting health, creating clean jobs, and advancing equality, he said they are complex, technical documents.

“And developing countries have consistently asked for support in making them as ambitious, inclusive, and comprehensive as possible. Through the Climate Promise, the entire UN system is coming together to help developing Governments to seize the opportunity and create new national Climate plans aligned with the 1.5-degree limit,” the Secretary General stated.

“The next two years are critical to put the world on a 1.5° pathway. UNDP has committed to bring the UN system together to support developing countries to scale-up climate action,”

Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator, said the UNDP’s Climate Promise 2025 will support countries around the world to develop and deliver their pledges under the Paris Agreement and take “bold steps toward a net zero, resilient, and inclusive future.”

For Cassie Flynn, Global Director of Climate Change at UNDP, the UNDP has the largest Climate portfolio in the UN system, and supporting Climate action in nearly 150 developing countries, with a proven track record of supporting the first and second generation NDCs, including over 85 percent of developing countries’ NDCs in 2020.

“We’re bringing together the UN system behind this effort and linking Climate diplomacy and thought leadership with Climate action and sustainable development at the national and local levels”, she said.

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KINGSTON, April 29 (JIS):

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda, says the outcome of discussions arising from the Jamaica National Stakeholder Consultation on Climate Services and the 1st National Climate Forum (NCF-1) will assist in guiding the Government’s planning for climate change.

This, he points out, is important for climate mitigation as well as building Jamaica’s resilience.

“We look forward to the discussions that will, no doubt, take place. We look forward to the basis of planning for the Government to streamline its investments to ensure you have the tools that you need to better advise us, that the WRA (Water Resources Authority) has the tools to digitise its monitoring network, and that all of the agencies that touch our planning mechanisms have the tools. But we need to know what we are facing, and we’re guided by your expertise,” Minister Samuda said.

He was addressing the opening ceremony for the Jamaica National Stakeholder Consultation on Climate Services and the 1st National Climate Forum (NCF-1) at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in New Kingston on Monday (April 29).

Senator Samuda said given the fact that the climate has changed and continues to do so, investments in and collaborations on building Jamaica’s predictive and scientific capacity must be prioritised.

“Ultimately, we need to be able to assess our current climatic realities if we are to better plan, if we’re to insist and ensure that our infrastructure meets the needs that we need it to. I’m very happy that this event is happening… because this is a critical issue.

“Jamaica, last year, faced its worst and most severe drought… and this year, we’re already seeing the impacts of not quite as severe a drought but, certainly, a drought with severe impacts, especially in the western part of the country,” he said.

Principal Director, Meteorological Service of Jamaica, Evan Thompson, explained that the forum aims to, among other things, establish a collaboration platform for climate services providers and users to understand risks and opportunities of past, present and future climate developments, as well as improve inter-agency coordination of policies, plans and programmes.

Among the other presenters were Ambassador, European Union to Jamaica, Her Excellency Marianne Van Steen; Chief Scientist/Climatologist, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, Adrian Trotman; and Head, Regional Climate Prediction Services, World Meteorological Organization, Wilfran Moufouma-Okia.

The Meteorological Service of Jamaica hosted the Jamaica National Stakeholder Consultation on Climate Services and the 1st National Climate Forum (NCF-1) in partnership with the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology and the World Meteorological Organization.

The National Stakeholder Consultation is a governance mechanism that guides how different sectors or actors work together to create products that contribute to adaptation and resilience-building. It seeks to create a road map for the development and implementation of climate services to inform decision-making.

NCF-1 aims to bridge the gap between climate providers and users. It increases the use of science-based information in decision-making and operations with the aim of generating and delivering co-produced and co-designed products and services.

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