DAC-EPOC Joint Task Team on Climate Change and Development Co-operation9-10 April 2014

Update on ENVIRONET work

Jan Corfee-Morlot (jan.corfee-morlot@oecd.org) OECD Development Co-operation Directorate

Outline

1. ENVIRONET-WP-STAT Task Team Rio markers, environment and development finance statistics:

• Brief introduction and key results OECD DAC’s environmental statistics

• Task Team: goals and overview

• Communication and exchange of information with users

2. Partnership for Climate Finance and Development

3. Green Growth and Development• Including biodiversity and development co-operation

4. DAC Work on Disaster Risk and Resilience

1. Brief introduction to DAC environmental statistics There are five environmental markers within the OECD DAC Creditor Reporting

System (CRS). • the ‘environment marker’, introduced in 1992; • the ‘Rio markers’ for climate change mitigation, biodiversity, and desertification, introduced

in 1998;• the ‘Rio marker’ for climate change adaptation, introduced in 2010.

Statistics are important to:

enable development finance to be allocated and channelled more effectively

hold developed countries to account on their international commitments

Aid to biodiversity, climate and total environment Bilateral  commitments, 2006-2012, USD billion, constant 2011 prices

Source: OECD DAC Statistics, February 2014

www.oecd.org/dac/stats/rioconventions.htm

2. Communication and Dissemination of Statistics1. Statistical Analysis & Flyers:

2. Joint ENVIRONET-WP-STAT Workshops in 2013:

• February and September; Workshops with International Financial Institutions (IFIs) on Tracking Climate Finance

• June; Workshop on Rio Markers, Climate and Development Finance Statistics

3. UNFCCC COP19, Warsaw: OECD-CPI Consultation on Development and Climate Change Sessions on Tracking Climate Finance and Adaptation

4. Submissions to UNFCCC Standing Committee on Finance and Adaptation Committee – July 2013 & January 2014

3. ENVIRONET-WP-STAT Task Team:Improving Rio markers, environment and development finance statistics

Goal: ensure DAC methodologies and data remain a reference for the international community

• ODA and non-export credit Other Official Flows targeting environmental objectives

• Climate change but also biodiversity, desertification and environmentApproach:

i. What options to improve the quality and robustness of the Rio markers?ii. What information needs across international communities & how to build

on the existing DAC system and data?iii. How to improve communication, outreach and use of data?iv. How to increase transparency and accountability in donor reporting to

Rio Convention’s? Provide evidence, information and options in a timely manner to

inform key international discussions and support good outcomes

First Experts’ Meeting of the Task Team – 20-21st March, OECD. Second Experts’ Meeting of the Task Team – 3rd June, Bonn, Germany -

Hosted by GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development .

4. Partnership for Climate Finance and Development Emerged in Busan 2011 – loosely linked to Global

Partnership on Effective Development Co-operation Global Forum on Using Country Systems to

Manage Climate Change Finance2-3 December 2013, Incheon, Korea• 150+ participants, from 24 countries

Focus Session on Climate Finance and Development: Challenges, priorities and ways forward in the post-2015 era15 April 2014, 1st High Level Meeting of the GPEDC, Mexico City• Countries’ experiences in managing climate finance• Forward-looking: climate finance and development processes in the

post-2015 era Regional Platforms

• Planning session on climate finance and side meeting for African officials at the LEDS GP Annual Workshop 24-27 June 2014, Nairobi

• 3rd Regional Dialogue on Climate Finance in Latin America and Caribbean August 2014, Buenos Aires

5. Green Growth

CURRENT WORK: Green growth in developing countries,

development policy and co-operation • Climate change is set in context of broader environment and

development policy objectives and priorities • Examination of country-level experience, e.g. pilot work with

Government of Zambia• Examination of specific themes e.g. biodiversity, where

policies and objectives have large overlap with climate objectives

2013 OECD BOOK: Putting Green Growth at the Heart of Development – collection of experience and practical examples

5a. Biodiversity and Development Co-operation

30-page Scoping Paper on Biodiversity and Development Co-operation, to be delivered in December 2014

Sections Official Development Finance to Biodiversity

Mainstreaming Biodiversity into Development Policy and Planning

Tools to address biodiversity-development trade-offs and to manage for results

Donor practice in partner countries: alignment and harmonisation

Purpose

1. Support international processes in 2014 (WGRI 5, CBD COP12)

2. Provide evidence base for development co-operation community on biodiversity

3. Basis for joint DAC-EPOC work in the 2015-16 biennium

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Overlaps between adaptation and biodiversity finance

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Bilateral aid commitments targeting biodiversity and adaptation together amounted to USD 2.8 billion per year in 2010-2012, representing:• 31% of total adaptation finance

• 49% of total biodiversity finance

Overlaps between adaptation and biodiversity finance continued

In relative terms, see a high degree of overlap (i.e. high % of adaptation finance also targeting biodiversity, or high % of biodiversity finance also targeting adaptation) in the following activity groups:• Primary production groups (forestry, fishing, agriculture)

• Food security assistance

• Education

• Health

• Disaster risk reduction and response

• General environment protection

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OECD DAC Work on Disaster Risk and Resilience

DAC Expert Group on Disaster Risk and Resilience • March 2014: 49 participants from donor capitals, UN agencies, NGOs,

Red Cross movement and academia.

“Resilience Systems Analysis”: field testing to make risk and resilience analyses more concrete and relevant to all actors,

Launching a pilot eastern DR Congo, Apr 2014: • Resilience of livelihood systems to natural (including climate), economic

and geo-political shocks and stressors

Issues to be addressed:• Risk landscape for displaced people, returnees and host communities • What systems in this context are resilient, why or why not?• Next steps: action agenda including advocacy• Monitoring disaster risk management in DAC statistics

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For more informationOECD Environment and Development Homepage: www.oecd.org/dac/environment-development (including this Task Team!)

OECD DAC CRS Rio marker statistics and analysis: www.oecd.org/dac/stats/rioconventions

Partnership for Climate Finance and Development: http://www.oecd.org/development/environment-development/climate-partnership

OECD Biodiversity and Development Co-operation: http://www.oecd.org/dac/environment-development/green-growth-development

Contacts:Stephanie.Ockenden@OECD.org and Valerie.Gaveau@OECD.org (Rio Markers Task Team); Alexis.Robert@OECD.org (Partnership on Climate Finance and Development); Juan.Casadoasensio@OECD.org (Adaptation); Anna.Drutschinin@OECD.org (Biodiversity); Rachel.Scott@OECD.org (DAC Resilience Expert Group)