David Waskow, World Resources Institute

UNDERSTANDING THE LINKAGES

BETWEEN NDCS AND SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT GOALS

CORE OBJECTIVES

• Build the narrative and evidence base for integration

• Starting point for countries to identify potential synergies between the pursuit of their NDC and SDG targets

– Optimizing implementation and finance

– Identification of new areas of action

– Aligned indicators/reporting

• Entry points for effective interventions across both agendas

SCOPE OF ALIGNMENT

• Identified “climate actions” from all 163 NDCs

• Identified potential alignment across all 169 SDG targets

• Classified alignment based on sector relevance and adaptation/mitigation

GLOBAL RESULTS: POTENTIAL ALIGNMENT WITH

154 TARGETS

http://www.wri.org/publication/examining-alignment-between-intended-nationally-

determined-contributions-and-sustainable

NUMBER OF SDG TARGETS FOR WHICH THERE

WERE ALIGNED CLIMATE ACTIONS IN NDCSSDGS

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Sustainably manage forests and ecosystems

Increase renewable energy capacity

Enhance adaptive capacity

Expand sustainable transport system

Integrated water resource management

to insure water security

Climate-resilient agricultural practices

Build climate resilient infrastructures

EXAMPLES OF ALIGNMENT

INDIA

WRI Analysis

JAPAN

WRI Analysis

ENERGY

140 NDCs contained climate actions relevant to energy –which were also aligned with the achievement of 9 SDGs and 37 SDG targets

1 out of 7 Targets

2 out of 8 Targets

5 out of 5 Targets

4 out of 8 Targets

5 out of 12 Targets

7 out of 10 Targets

7 out of 11 Targets

3 out of 5 Targets

5 out of 18 Targets

Universal access to modern energy services

ALIGNMENT WITH SDG 7

0% 50% 100%

7.1

7.2

7.3

7.a

7.b

Strong alignment across targets for SDG 7

63 out of 162 NDCs

35 out of 162 NDCs

127 out of 162 NDCs

132 out of 162 NDCs

63 out of 162 NDCs

Increase global share of renewable energy

Double global improvement inenergy efficiency

Intl cooperation on R&D

Infrastructure & technology formodern energy services

TARGET 7.2: GEOGRAPHIC ALIGNMENT OF NDCS

TARGET 7.3: GEOGRAPHIC ALIGNMENT OF NDCS

INDIA NDC: ALIGNMENT WITH

TARGET 7.3 ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY

• Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT)

• National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency

(NMEEE)

• Efficient lighting

• Standards and labeling programme for appliances

• Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC)

• GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat

Assessment)

JAPAN NDC: ALIGNMENT WITH

TARGET 7.3 ON ENERGY EFFICIENCY

• Energy efficiency and conservation process

technology in chemical industry

• Introduction of high-efficient air conditioners

• Introduction of high performance boilers

• Introduction of energy efficiency and conservation

farming machinery

• Promotion of compliance of energy saving standards

for newly constructed buildings and remodeling

• Introduction of highly efficient light

• Energy efficiency in water sector

SDG 7: SYNERGIES AND TRADE-OFFS

Fuso Nerini, et al. Mapping synergies and trade-offs between energy

and the Sustainable Development Goals. Nature Energy, November 2017.

Synergies Trade-offs

SYNERGIES WITH SDG 8 ON DECENT WORK

Source: CEEW and NRDC, 2017

INDIA’S 2017 SDG VOLUNTARY NATIONAL REVIEW:

CLIMATE AND ENERGY

• International Solar Alliance (global partnership, SDG 17)

• Sustainable and climate-adaptive agriculture has been boosted

by promoting organic farming and issuing of 62 million Soil

Health Cards to farmers (SDG 2)

• Installed capacity in non-fossil-fuel sectors has grown by 51.3%

and more than doubled in the renewable energy sector (SDG 9)

• National Investment and Manufacturing Zones with incentives

for clean technology and buildings (SDG 9)

• Over 22 million families have been provided with Liquefied

Petroleum Gas connections under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala

Yojana; from 2005-06 to 2015-16, households having access to

clean fuel have increased from 25.5% to 43.8% (SDG 1)

JAPAN’S 2017 SDG VOLUNTARY NATIONAL REVIEW:

CLIMATE AND ENERGY

National Priority 5: Energy Conservation, Renewable Energy, Climate Change Countermeasures, and Sound Material-Cycle Society (related SDGs: 7, 12, 13)

• Climate Change Adaptation Plan (set by the Cabinet in November 2015). Promote adaptation efforts by sharing climate risk information with local governments, private enterprises, and citizens through the Climate Change Adaptation Platform (A-PLAT)

• Plan for Global Warming Countermeasures (May 2016)

• Energy efficiency measures in the industrial, household and transportation sectors

• Fifth Science and Technology Basic Plan (formulated in January 2016, including climate change issues such as water, disease)

• Support for developing countries for the formulation of climate change adaptation plans and the assessments of climate change impacts, and for energy conservation and renewable energy measures

WHAT NEXT?

• Significant potential for alignment of NDCs and SDGs

through integrated national implementation

• BUT we will need:

o new ways to generate and share information,

expertise and priorities

o institutional innovation

o clear mandates for decision-makers

o national and international finance and investment to

re-directed and aligned

o tools for monitoring, reporting and review

SDG TARGET 13.2:

BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER

13.2 Integrate climate change

measures into national policies,

strategies, and planning

DISTINCT INSTITUTIONS FOR IMPLEMENTATION

Presidency 12

Prime minister22

Planning ministries27Finance, economy and development ministries

17

Social ministries3

Sustainable development ministries7

Environment ministries10

Foreign affairs and cooperation ministries12

LEAD INSTITUTIONS FOR THE SDGs

Presidency 3

Prime minister 4

Planning ministries 6

Finance, economy and development ministries 10

Sustainable Development ministries 4

Environment and climate change ministries 78

Agriculture 1

LEAD INSTITUTIONS FOR THE NDCs

KEY STEPS FOR INTEGRATED IMPLEMENTATION

Common vision

Integrated planning

Optimized financing

Aligned monitoring & reporting

Institutional coordination

ENHANCING ACTION OVER TIME

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THANK YOU

David Waskow

Director, International Climate Action Initiative

World Resources Institute

dwaskow@wri.org