Developing a selection criteria and supporting tool that aims to help countries prioritize Article 6 activities that contribute to long-term climate goals and the mobilization of SDG finance.
The Mitigation Activity Selection Criteria aims to complement the existing GIZ country-level catalog of criteria to guide national authorities in the decision-making process on mitigation activities to promote under cooperative approaches. Specifically, this toolkit focuses on aspects that could be incorporated into countries’ Article 6 activity selection process to ensure the contribution of the Article 6 activities to the achievement of long-term climate goals and mobilization of SDG finance. In other words, this selection criteria and supporting tool aims to help countries prioritize Article 6 activities that contribute to long-term climate goals and the mobilization of SDG finance. This should assist countries in negotiating cooperative approaches with other Parties to prioritize collaboration for activity types aligned with the long-term priorities of the country. It can also inform the activity approval process for Article 6.4 projects. Countries can, for example, establish different administrative fees based on the level of alignment
The process for the identification of Article 6 activities that contribute to long-term climate goals and the mobilization of SDG finance is proposed in two steps:
The Transformational Change Learning Partnership (TCLP) by CIF defines transformational change for climate action as “a fundamental change in systems relevant to climate action, with large-scale positive impacts that shift and accelerate the trajectory of progress towards climate-neutral, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable development pathways”. There are several resources to assess the transformational change of a mitigation action; in general, it relates to the scale, sustained nature of outcome, and shifts in system structure.
The long-term financial sustainability of the mitigation action is critical to ensure the contribution to climate goals beyond one NDC cycle and also the contribution to SDG, what normally require long term support. It is proposed to use the program-level MAAP tool to assess long-term financial sustainability. This tool is designed for assessing comprehensive programs that involve policy and project implementation. The UNDP MADD assessment tool includes a streamlined approach for single-instance projects or programmatic projects.
This set of indicators assesses the activity contribution to sustainable development beyond emissions reduction. It is based on the MAAP tool sustainable development module. It evaluates the planning, implementation and monitoring aspects of the activity social, environmental and financial benefits, and assesses how different stakeholders are considered in the design or implementation of the mitigation action.
Users of this toolkit are strongly encouraged to have a fundamental understanding of Article 6 and NDC concepts. Such knowledge will facilitate the application of the toolkit and ensure the generation of more reliable results.
On behalf of GIZ Article 6 Capacity Building Project. Component of global project NDC Assist II
On behalf of GIZ Article 6 Capacity Building Project. Component of global project NDC Assist II