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ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

United Nations Development Programme

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword: Moving Towards Sustainable Development ...................................3

Overview ...................................................................................................................... 4

Rio+20: Commitment to People and the Planet ................................................7

Sustainable Energy for All .....................................................................................11

Managing Chemicals Safely and Sustainably...................................................14

EETTF as Catalyst for Mobilizing Climate Finance ..........................................17

Building Resilience to Climate Risks...................................................................20

In Sum .........................................................................................................................24Financial Overview .................................................................................................. 26

Annex

Annex 1: Results by UNDP Strategic Plan Outcomes/ 2012 Workplan .............28

Annex 2: M atrix o Detailed Repor ted Results ................................................. 33

Annex 3: List o Reerences .................................................................................43

List of Acronyms .......................................................................................................46

Acknowledgements .................................................................................................48


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FOREWORD: MOVING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

In 2012, the United Nations Conerence on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, recognized that an era o transormative

change is upon us. We can no longer continue down a path o unbalanced patterns o consumption and production,

with gaping inequities and the inecient use o scarce natural resources. We cannot hope or human well-being and

irreversible poverty reduction in the midst o environmental degradation and destruction.

The conerence underlined that we must leave the time o treating the economic, social and environmental aspects o

sustainable development as isolated pillars and instead take an integrated approach. When actions to advance economic

and social progress accompany those to protect the environment, developmental gains or all can be sustained.

Both Rio+20 and more recent global discussions on the post-2015 development agenda have armed that sustainable

development is about making links. Environmental protection has ties to employment, education, political participation

and gender equality, or example. Energy production has a proound impact on the environment through greenhouse

gas emissions, and is vital to human development.

Other links include those across the institutions that traditionally and separately work on dierent aspects o sustainable

development, between countries and the global commons, among many public and private partners, and even between

short and long term goals.

UNDP, with its long history o development support in over 170 countries around the world, is taking these connections to

heart in its orthcoming strategic plan, where sustainable development is a primary ocus. The organizations Environment

and Energy Group has stood behind the plans shit to integrated programme areas, and has oten spearheaded new and

integrated approaches as a regular witness to how closely environmental and development issues interact.

The Groups Environment and Energy Thematic Trust Fund (EETTF), the subject o this report, is an existing unding

mechanism that has as its main objectives to bridge diverse issues, work across practices and regions, and be innovative

and catalytic. It deliberately seeks to invest in new approaches and learning. And as an active supporter o programmes in

dierent environmental and geographical areas, it osters collaboration and cross-ertilization, across the global, national

and local levels, rom capacity building to gender inclusion while providing livelihoods or the poor and the vulnerable

through sustainable management o natural resources.

I am pleased to present this report, which this year ocuses on a ew key examples o how the EETTF in 2012 propelled

progress towards sustainable development and the integrated and ocused approach proposed or the next strategic

plan. The achievements build on those reported in previous annual reports o the EETTF and urther support the

implementation o the UNDP Strategic Plan 2008-2013.

The Environment and Energy Group is grateul or the contributions that have been made to the Environment and Energytrust und, and even more so or the clear improvements in human and environmental well-being that stem rom them.

Veerle Vandeweerd

Director, Environment and Energy Group

United Nations Development Programme


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OVERVIEW

Rio+20 highlighted the urgency o shiting the world towards sustainable development. Only by linking the

social, economic and environmental dimensions o sustainable development can we ensure that we live within

planetary boundaries. Otherwise, we risk reversing decades o hard-won development gains, and depriving

uture generations o ull opportunities to live and thrive.

Reecting this understanding is a 2012 world-wide survey conducted in the ramework o the QCPR which

reported that a vast majority o developing countries see the environment and sustainable development as

the oremost priority or United Nations support.1 UNDP has long been a leading provider o this assistance

and requests or its support only continues to grow. Demands are outstripping available resources. Currently,

we aid 150 countries in linking strategies and implementing programmes that advance both human

development and environmental stewardship. Assistance in this area rose by more than 50 percent between

2008 and 2012.

In all countries, sustainable development could not just be an aspiration, but a easible goal. Towards that end,UNDP works to embed the key principles o sustainable development in all levels o development debate and

action, rom the local to the global levels. Within countries, we help develop appropriate institutions, expertise,

plans and policies, and fnancial mechanisms to orward an integrated approach towards sustainability.

The EETTF plays an important role in the quality and responsiveness o UNDP programmes on environment

and energy. It oers relatively ast and exible access to unds or initiatives that are innovative and/or promise

to catalyse ar-reaching changes. Small, careully chosen investments can generate big impacts, as shown in

this report. Because o the EETTF, dierent areas o UNDP work are better aligned and coordinatedcore to

eectively assisting sustainable development.

In 2012 EETTF continued to support the UNDP 2008-2013 Strategic Plan, with our key result areas:mainstreaming environment and energy into development, mobilizing environmental fnance, promoting

adaptation to climate change, and expanding access to environmental and energy services or the poor.

Activities to achieve these goals include policy advice and advocacy, strategic planning, the sharing o new

thinking and knowledge, and the ostering o human and institutional capacities, oten geared towards

helping countries make sound policy and investment choices. In many cases, the und aids in linking national

programmes with global policy processes, both to broaden space or country perspectives on the international

stage, and to encourage national actions consistent with global commitments.

Since 2011, resource constraints have shrunk the scope o EETTF activities. This has been both a concern and

an opportunity to defne a more strategic ocus. There has been a shit towards innovative programme areas

that work across sectors (environment, resilience, capacity building, poverty reduction, governance) and are

most in demand by countries, namely climate change and the mainstreaming o environment and energy in

development plans and actions.

1 Report o the Secretary-general on the Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review o Operational Activities or

Development o the United Nations System. The survey carried out to prepare the report involved 111 developing

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Funds have been targeted to activities with a greater chance o impact and successul replication. Policy

advocacy oers the possibility or setting agendas that inuence a wide array o actions, moving beyond the

project-by-project approach. Capacity development allows change to take root and continue over the long

term. Bringing people rom dierent countries together helps them learn rom each other to solve common

problems. Partnerships result in closer coordination and collaboration, and by pooling unds, activities and

accomplishments can be scaled up and replicated.

This report presents fve stories highlighting some EETTF-supported activities in 2012. A ull list o results

supported by the EETTF appears in the annex as well as the progress against the 2012 indicators and targets.

The main text ocuses on how the und, or example, made meaningul contributions to Rio+20, suchas through a massive global dialogue and the creation o a platorm to register conerence commitments

or sustainable developmentboth activities were the frst o their type. Other resources went towards

supporting the launch o the UN Secretary-Generals Sustainable Energy or All initiative and the initiation

o related national plans. While the Mainstreaming o Sound Management o Chemicals programme came

to a close in 2012, as part o a drive or more targeted EETTF support, it has aided 12 nations to signifcantly

improve oversight in this area.

Santona Begum harvests okra in Gaibanda, Bangladesh. IFAD/ GMB Akash


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A growing number o countries are equipped to access fnancing so they can better aord the huge costs

o mitigating and adapting to climate change. Five countries are piloting the innovative Climate Public

Expenditure and Institutional Review developed in part with und resources; or the frst time, it allows an

assessment o spending on climate change against national development objectives. Local governments

in several countries have explored new strategies or climate risk assessments, vulnerability mapping and

planning to increase resilience.

The EETTF continues to back knowledge products that are oten unique resources, such as a toolkit on green

growth requested by the G20, and the frst guidebook on environmental fnancing tools. Support in 2012 went to

some o the frst regional dialogues around the emerging loss and damage agenda in the area o climate change.

All EETTF activities in the end speak to the heart o the UNDP visionto help countries reduce poverty

and exclusion through sustainable development. Moving orward, the und will continue to make essential

contributions, strategically leveraging investments that, step by step, help uel the transormative changes

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RIO+20: COMMITMENT TO PEOPLE AND THE PLANET

It was a landmark global gathering. In June 2012, nearly 50,000 people attended Rio+20, the UN Conerence

on Sustainable Development. One o the largest UN conerences ever held, it galvanized global consensus

that sustainable development is the only viable path orward, linking economic and social development with

environmental protection. The President o Brazil summarized the challenge ahead in her closing speech:

Rio+20 had been a crucial step on a long path o transormative changes that should lead to more sustainable

and inclusive societies and economies.

Indeed, prevailing unsustainable consumption and production patterns have come at a heavy cost or people

and the planet, damaging natural resources vital to economic and social development, and deepening

exclusion and inequities among peoples. In UNDPs global advocacy and support or individual countries, we

advocate policies and programmes that move away rom trade-os and towards triple winsor economies,

societies and the environment.

Rio+20 was a major opportunity to deepen agreement and stimulate actions on sustainable development. EETTFunds helped catalyze UNDPs contributions beore, during and ater the conerence and as such the contribution

o the EETTF to Rio+20 is a good example o how the und supports the linking o global and local policy setting

and action taking; the initiation o innovative approaches and partnerships; and the integration o the three

strands o sustainable development in the work o UNDP and other partners at national and international levels.

Reaching out to the world

To prepare or Rio+20, EETTF assistance backed a UNDP partnership with the United Nations Department

o Economic and Social Aairs. It brought together a cross-section o people in 72 countries in national

dialogues to defne priorities in the negotiations o the Rio+20 Outcome Document and beyond. Over 60

countries submitted national reports that synthesized lessons learned and priorities or the road ahead. Keypriorities included bridging the agendas o sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals

(MDGs), meaningully engaging people in development decisions that aect them, and moving rom rhetoric

to integrated action -issues reected in the fnal conerence agreement.

Among the 11 countries supported directly by the EETTF, or example, Nigeria ormed a national Rio+20

committee to assist the Government in taking stock o past sustainable development planning as well as

opportunities going orward. Findings were debated in all 36 states,

with widespread media coverage. The President o Nigeria endorsed

the fnal national Rio+20 report. It is now being used to defne how the

country can incorporate conerence agreements in its own development

planning. The national report o the Philippines drew on an assessment

o strategies and institutions needed or sustainable development, and

inputs rom national and local government, the private sector, academic

institutions, the media and civil society.

The EETTF also contributed to an innovative series o online Sustainable Development Dialogues designed

to engage citizens rom around the world, and recommended by participants or replication in uture global

UNDP assistance in the area o

environment and sustainable

development rose by more than

50 percent between 2008 and

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conerences. More than 10,000 people rom over 180 countries took part

and posted recommendations or sustainable development. The most

requent ideas were put to a vote, with over 1.3 million votes cast on top

priorities. At Rio+20, civil society panels continued the discussion, helping

to shape 30 recommendations submitted directly to the more than 100

heads o state or government in attendance.

The proposals included linking tax reorms to environmental protection and

benefts or the poor, eliminating ossil uel subsidies, restoring degraded lands

and securing water supplies. I want to make a dierence in the decision-making process. I eel that it was important

to stand up and put my ideas orward, and that people rom other places could hear them, said Cristiane Galvo, a

journalist at a panel on sustainable energy.

The ormat o the Rio dialogues is now extensively used in soliciting inputs rom all over the world in defning

the post-2015 development agenda, and will be a back bone o the work o the Rio+ Center, established in

Brazil in ollow up to the Rio+20 conerence.

Stimulating knowledge and innovation

During the conerence, EETTF unds helped UNDP sponsor several events on issues key to the negotiations.

For example, Thought Leadership on Beyond GDP presented conceptual groundwork or a uture sustainable

human development index, building on UNDPs two decades o widely renowned work on measuring

development progress the Human Development Index (HDI). The discussions on an expanded HDI responded

to a requent call at the conerence to fnd new measurements actoring in the costs o environmental

degradation into human development.

Other events engaged conerence participants in discussions on the green economy, and integrated poverty

reduction and environmental policies. A session on commodity platorms, where public and private partners

could help scale up sustainable agricultural production, engaged government representatives and leading

corporations such as Krat, Johnson & Johnson and IKEA. The EETTF supported the Green Commodities

Programme to mobilize unds or individual countries.

A special Rio+20 celebration o the 2012 Equator Prize winners attracted over 1,700 people, including

luminaries such as Richard Branson and Muhammad Yunus. The awards, sponsored by UNDP in part through

EETTF unding, recognize outstanding local eorts to advance sustainable development. Over the past

decade, 152 organizations have received the awards. The EETTF also assisted a workshop or winners to share

experiences and learn successul practices rom each other.

By the time the Rio+20 conerence closed, it had mobilized $513 billion in voluntary commitments to actions onenergy, transport, the green economy, disaster reduction, desertifcation, water, orests and agriculture. Governments,

businesses, civil society groups, universities and others each agreed to play their parts in ensuring that development

serves people and respects the environment, now and in the uture. EETTF unds spearheaded the creation o

a platorm to register the commitments, nearly 740 in all. Another Rio+20 innovation, the platorm encourages

transparency and accountability by allowing anyone to go online and see what has been promised. UN DESA is

now ollowing up on the commitments and proposing a regular reporting structure.

Over 10,000 people rom

more than 180 countries

participated in an innovative

series o online Sustainable

Development Dialogues. Over

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Towards better UN coordination

EETTF unds have encouraged closer coordination inside UNDP, bringing together experts rom poverty

reduction, democratic governance, capacity development and other areas integral to sustainable

development. This cross-practice approach strengthened UNDP substantive support or Rio+20-related

country preparations. It also helped encourage the adoption o sustainable development as a rame

o reerence or the 2014-2017 UNDP Strategic Plan, with a series o objectives that build on links among

traditional economic, social and environmental areas o assistance.

Within the UN system, UNDP has, together with UN DESA and UNEP, a leading role in coordinating actions to

support sustainable development and implement Rio+20 commitments. EETTF unds have contributed to new

guidance by the United Nations Development Group (UNDG) on how UN country teams can assist national

sustainable development initiatives. UNDG Rio+20 ollow-up includes establishing additional guidelines so that

sustainable development considerations systematically eature in country-level UN development assistance

rameworks.

With EETTF unds, UNDP has provided expert inputs to the UN Secretary-Generals post-Rio+20 reports on

technology transer mechanisms, and on mainstreaming sustainable development in the UN system. The latterincludes a roadmap or accelerating integration o sustainable development across UN activities.

At the same time, UNDP and UNEP concluded a typology study that reviewed ongoing collaboration and

resulted in principles to better coordinate and implement joint programmes in countries.

Increasingly, UNDP has sought to walk the talk on sustainable development. By 2012, 103 o our country

oces had adopted corporate social and environmental quality standards issued in late 2011. These are now

mandatory or screening all projects o more than $500,000. With EETTF assistance, compliance review and

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dispute resolution processes are being put in place to respond to any claims by people aected by projects

where saeguards have not been upheld.

We have also championed the UN-wide Greening the Blue initiative, ocused on reducing and osetting

greenhouse gas emissions. The UNs participation at Rio+20, or instance, was carbon neutral. In 2012, UNDP

headquarters became carbon neutral or the frst time through a 34 percent reduction in emissions over 2008,

and the purchase o emissions reduction credits that support sustainable development and the MDGs. Aull-time greening specialist position was established to absorb work previously fnanced by the EETTF, and

an environmental management system is under development. It is expected to ully institutionalize green

practices, rom travel to procurement to building management.

Box: A G20 Request for Green Growth Tools

In 2012, as Rio+20 preparations intensifed, the Group o 20 (G20) Development Working Group

requested the Arican Development Bank, Organisation or Economic Co-operation and Development,

United Nations and the World Bank to develop the Toolkit o Policy Options to Support InclusiveGreen Growth. EETTF unds assisted coordination o inputs rom experts at diverse UN organizations,

reecting the broad scope o the issues at stake.

The toolkit targets low-income countries in particular. It provides policy options to develop inclusive

green growth, and oers tools to address potential challenges. Most o the tools, such as environmental

fscal reorm to create incentives spurring sustainable development investments, and social protection

instruments, are well known. But or the frst time, the toolkit brings them together and assesses their

economic, social and environmental implications. Policy makers can use it to exibly tailor inclusive

green growth plans and budgets to diverse national contexts.

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SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FOR ALL

Energy powers human development, rom lighting schools and businesses to heating homes. But gaping

defcits in access remain around the world, trapping people in poverty. Nearly one in fve people have no access

to modern energy services. Three billion burn wood, coal, charcoal, or animal waste or cooking and heating.

The UN Secretary-Generals global Sustainable Energy or All (SE4ALL) initiative is mobilizing diverse

stakeholders groups and eorts to achieve universal access, as well as a doubling o energy eciency and

renewable energy use rom 2012 to 2030. At Rio+20, businesses, governments and international organizations

pledged over $300 billion to extend sustainable energy services, particularly to people living in poverty.

UNDP has years o experience in working with countries to extend sustainable energy services to the poor,

and is an active partner in SE4ALL, including through EETTF support. We have led the recent development o a

bottom-up strategy that ocuses frst and oremost on reaching poor urban and rural communities, and makes

direct connections between energy access and reducing poverty, obtaining gender equality and achieving

international development goals.

Focusing on energy access for rural and poor populations

In 2012, the UN Resident Coordinator system, led by UNDP to coordinate UN country assistance, orchestrated

a series o discussions with national partners around sustainable energy priorities and goals. EETTF resources

backed the provision o experts to help guide the discussions. By Rio+20, political momentum had begun to

build, and 55 countries committed to new national plans and actions linked to SE4ALL goals. Thirty had embarked

on rapid assessments and gap analysis as a baseline or new policies and programmes. UNDP with unds rom

the EETTF ensured that major emphasis was given to the poor and vulnerable, o the grid, rural populations.

2012 was the International Year or Sustainable Energy or All. EETTF unds helped UNDP raise awarenessand leverage action. All UNDP country oces received targeted advocacy materials. At Rio+20, a special

event, Energy Day, highlighted the International Year and presented what some countries are already doing

to implement SE4ALL. It underscored the message that SE4ALLs goals are easible with the right political

support, resources and capacities.

Just beore Rio+20, ministers and senior policy-makers rom Arica, the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean met in

Barbados at the high-level Achieving Sustainable Energy or All in Small Island Developing States Conerence.

In conjunction with the meeting, EETTF unds helped draw in national coordinators o the SIDS DOCK

programme, including government technical experts on energy and public utilities. SIDS DOCK is a sustainable

energy initiative o the Alliance o Small Island States supported by a UNDP-World Bank partnership.

Conerence discussions ended with agreement on the Barbados Declaration, which calls or universal access

to modern and aordable renewable energy services, while protecting the environment, ending poverty and

creating new opportunities or economic growth. In an annex, 20 countries collectively agreed to specifc targets

on renewable energy, eciency, access and low-carbon development. The Maldives, or example, committed

to carbon neutrality in the energy sector by 2020, and the Marshall Islands to the electrifcation o all urban

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o its energy supplies rom renewable energy by 2030. Barbados promised to increase its renewable energyshare to 29 percent o total use. By 2029 we expect that total electricity costs would have been cut by US$283.5

million and CO2 emissions would have been reduced by 4.5 million tons, said Prime Minister Freundel Stuart.

We also envisage an overall 22 percent reduction in projected electricity consumption based on the use o

energy eciency measures.

National action

The EETTF contributed to pooled UNDP unds backing the ormulation o national SE4ALL action plans, with

16 in place by the end o 2012, along with 20 gap assessments.

Ghana has been an early champion o the initiative, and one o the frst to develop a plan, with UNDP assistancein bringing together representatives rom government, business and civil society to shape it. The plan ocuses

on increasing renewable energy capacity and extending reliable energy services to all citizens. Priorities include

promoting the use o liquefed petroleum gas, a cleaner uel than the frewood and charcoal typically used or

cooking in poorer households, where indoor smoke raises risks o illness and death. As a urther measure, the

Ghanian Parliament recently passed the Renewable Energy Act providing a legal and regulatory ramework or

advancing towards a national goal o renewables constituting 10 percent o total energy use.

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Support or SE4ALL is growing and the institutional mechanisms are being put in place to manage this

global and ambitious programme, to which many partners are envisaged to contribute. This is intended to

bring about a transormation in the national energy mix and make sustainable energy access or all a reality.

UNDP has been a key advocate to ensure the SE4ALL initiative remains ocused on the poor and vulnerable,

including the women who live on one dollar a day. While this bottom-up approach is now part o the global

business plan, continued eorts will be needed so that SE4ALL does

take into consideration the o-the-grid customers that are too poor topay and to take part in national electrifcation and other commercial

activities. Continued support rom the EETTF will thereore be needed

till SE4ALL has mobilized the partnerships and resources to be sel

sustained.

UNDP supported the ormulationo national SE4ALL action plans,

with 16 in place by the end o 2012,

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MANAGING CHEMICALS SAFELY AND SUSTAINABLY

Chemicals fltering into air, water and soil threaten human lives and the environment. There has been

international recognition that sound chemicals management is essential to avoid harm and needs to be

squarely situated in national development plans. This ensures that sucient attention is paid to the sound

management o chemicals, and encourages alignment to diverse elements o development aected by

chemicals, rom poverty to health, jobs to gender equality.

Through a UNDP-UNEP partnership, backed partly by EETTF unding, the Mainstreaming o Sound Management

o Chemicals programme has helped 12 countries around the world pursue more eective oversight o the

production, use and disposal o these substances. Some cumulative results since the programme began in

2008 are reported here. In 2013, the programme came to a successul close, with support phased out due to

resource constraints, and the EETTFs drive to sharpen strategic priorities.

Mainstreaming sound chemical management in national policies and action plans.

Besides integration in national development planning, sound management o chemicals requires cultivating

enduring national management capacities, and encouraging the participation o environmental agencies and

NGOs. The programme was active on all o these ronts. It worked with participating countries on a methodical

process that started with a detailed diagnostic assessment, and moved through an economic valuation o

agreed priorities to the incorporation o appropriate responses in national plans and budgets. The process

made clear links between sound chemicals management and sustainable development, and underlined that

the cost o doing business as usual can ar exceed investments in reducing improper chemical use.

Kyrgyzstan, or example, suered rom various types o chemical pollution, including rom agricultural

pesticides. In 1991, agricultural reorms split 500 state arms into 334,000 smaller enterprises, and loosened

systems or pesticide control and accounting. As a result, two large open and unguarded disposal sites arelittered with nearly 2,000 tons o obsolete pesticides, mostly persistent organic pollutants or POPs. There are

ew options or proper disposal.

The programme helped the State Agency on Environmental Protection and Forestry, the ministries o health,

agriculture, fnance, economic regulation and emergency situations, and a national NGO come together to

develop a drat national roadmap or better chemicals management. A cost-beneft analysis o priorities led to

selected recommendations or amending the drat national plan on transitioning to sustainable development.

It includes measures to introduce organic arming, saeguard against chemical disasters, initiate disposal o

obsolete pesticides and adopt the global system or labeling and certifcation.

Kyrgyzstan also conducted its frst assessment o links between the environment and healthno previous

national studies had been done on this issue. New regulations have been drated to strengthen coordination

across diverse government entities with roles in chemicals management, and to streamline and coordinate

actions to comply with international agreements, such as the Stockholm, Rotterdam and Basel conventions

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Cambodia sought to improve its chemicals management given concerns such as the large number o

unregistered companies supplying agrochemicals and a high proportion o illegally imported pesticides.

Fertilizer runo posed serious threats to clean water, even as improved access to water is a cornerstone o the

national poverty alleviation strategy.

The programme worked with national authorities to integrate chemicals management across the current

national development plan. It now has provisions guiding the use o organic and inorganic chemicals in rice

and vegetable production, environmentally riendly hazardous waste management, and public education

campaigns on the dangers o hazardous wastes rom production to disposal. The Ministry o the Environment

in 2012 drated comprehensive legislation that would go a step urther by tightening regulations on chemicals

registration and use, and emergency responses, among other measures.

A foundation for national planning

Liberia is at an earlier stage o sounder chemicals management, having just fnished its frst national situation

report. It aces issues with unsound storage and disposal o agricultural, industrial and mining-related

chemicals, as well as leakage linked to the storage o gas and oil.

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Under the aegis o the national Environmental Protection Agency, and with support rom the programme, a variety

o dierent government agencies in late 2012 came together with representatives rom the private sector and the

United Nations Country Team. They discussed issues diagnosed in the report and agreed on national priorities, such

as to develop a harmonized system or labeling chemicals, improve training on chemicals management, adopt and

enorce strengthened legislation, and cultivate partnerships with businesses.

A roadmap was developed showing specifc steps that Liberia will take over the next our years to integratechemicals management in the existing poverty reduction strategy and plans or dierent sectors. It lays a

oundation or making sure chemicals management eatures widely across the next poverty reduction

strategy, slated to begin in 2017.

Taking gender on board

UNDP has led eorts to highlight the importance o actoring gender issues into

chemicals management. Due to the dierent ways that men and women oten live

and work, exposure to toxic chemicals can vary; eective and air management

must take this on board. In 2012, EETTF unds helped ensure that an updated

version o UNDPs Gender and Chemicals publication was widely disseminatedat international meetings, including negotiations to prepare a globally binding

instrument on mercury, and the third session o the International Conerence on

Chemicals Management.

Promoting integrated approaches

The chemicals programme showed that UNDP is uniquely placed to help countries incorporate environmental

concerns that impact on the lives o the poor into their national planning strategies, policies and action plans.

Oten this starts with a phase gathering evidence o the social and environmental cost o unsound chemicals. As

the examples above show, this is then ollowed by extensive stakeholders consultations, raising the awareness

on the issue and its possible solutions with all those that are involved in the lie cycle o chemical management.

Lastly, UNDP then helps its government counterparts to take the necessary action to address the environment

related issue and make the link with poverty reduction. UNDPs long standing cooperation with all ministries

rom planning to fnance and environment is instrumental to achieve

these results. This approach is commonly used by UNDP throughout the

many areas in which it supports governments at national and local level

to mainstream environmental concerns that impact on the lives and

livelihoods o the poor men and women into governmental decision

and policy making.

12 countries around the world

pursue more eective oversight o

the production, use and disposal

o chemicals with EETTF support.


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EETTF AS CATALYST FOR MOBILIZING CLIMATE FINANCE

From changes in energy supplies to protections against natural threats, mitigating and adapting to climate

change will be enormously expensive, requiring an inux o public and private resources. Developed countries

have pledged to mobilize $100 billion in climate fnancing a year by 2020, channeled through a variety o

mechanisms.

Based on national demand, and with EETTF resources as a catalyst, UNDP has become a leading source o support

or countries readying themselves to obtain and manage international fnancing, and take integrated climate

change action that also address the concerns o the poor. One aspect is to strengthen countries capacities or

direct access, while at the same time continue to beneft rom operating through international intermediaries.

This encompasses establishing accountable institutions, designing programmes eligible or unding, assisting

in implementing them and tracking and reporting their progress. Building these capacities at the country level

requires time and eort, but without that accountable, transparent and verifable use o international resources

and concomitant reductions o greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will be dicult to document. Our emphasis is

also on achieving multiple and mutually reinorcing development benefts, including poverty reduction, andaccess to jobs and clean energy.

Investing in cleaner development

In Latin America, the EETTF helps und the Carbon 2012 programme - a collaboration between UNDP and the

UNEP Ris Centre. Through this programme, seven countries have secured signifcant fnancing rom sources

such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), the Adaptation Fund and the Global Environment Facility

(GEF). This demonstrates the catalytic eect the EETTF can have in mobilizing resources. Since Carbon 2012

began in 2008, countries engaging with it have demonstrated a marked increase in the number o ormally

registered CDM projects, or example. Honduras has increased its projects rom 14 to 22, Peru rom 12 to 30,

and Uruguay rom 3 to 8.

In Honduras, Carbon 2012 aided an assessment o the potential or

biogas projects in dierent sectors, such as coee, sugar cane, palm

oil and livestock production. The study was widely distributed, raising

awareness that cutting emissions can be fnancially attractive, on

top o the environmental and social benefts. The notion caught the

attention o managers o the Hondupalma palm oil mill. Comprising

30 armer collectives, the mill is located in the Yoro region, where it

is one o the primary sources o economic activity and has been a

heavy emitter. With Carbon 2012 support, the mill developed and successully registered a CDM project thatreceived fnancing or biodigesters and a biogas recovery system that generate electricity and heat used

or producing oil. For seven years, starting in 2012, the project is expected to cut emissionsboth rom the

cleaner wastewater treatment and lower use o ossil uels or energyby nearly 241,000 tons.

In El Salvador, a new CDM-registered project sponsors the replacement o inecient rural cook stoves

that, on top o contributing to indoor air pollution, have contributed to make the country one o the most

The EETTF backed Carbon 2012

project has catalyzed nancing

rom other sources. Since 2008,

Honduras, Peru and Uruguay

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deorested in Latin America. The newly developed Turbococina cook stove reduces wood consumption

by 90 percent and emissions nearly to zero. UNDP helped bring together the stove manuacturer and the

Ministry o Education or an initial pilot o the stoves in 300 schools. A second phase o the project includes

plans or distribution to 100,000 poor rural households. Through SEA4ALL this programme is now linked with

the work o the Global Alliance or Clean Cookstoves.

Carbon 2012 supported Peru in convening a cross-section o national ocials to develop a set o nationallyappropriate mitigation actions, or NAMAs, on energy, part o reaching a voluntary emissions reduction target.

Additional assistance acilitated a proposal to the GEF that approved its frst-ever project to implement

NAMAs, providing $5 million or Peru to jumpstart the process.

Sharing strategies that work

Because Carbon 2012 is a regional project, it has been ideally positioned to bring countries together to

learn rom each other about climate-related fnancing. This includes collaboration between Uruguay and El

Salvador to share experiences o accreditation to support El Salvadors application or direct access to the

Adaptation Fund.

To allow regular intra-regional exchanges around carbon fnancing, a partnership between Carbon 2012, the

Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank has established the Finanzas Carbono web platorm. A

new Low Emission Development Strategy Community o Practice, one o many eatures, has already attracted

over 300 members to webinars and online discussions.

Another EETTF-assisted initiative, Integrating Climate Change Risks into Development Planning and

Programming, complemented the Carbon 2012 work by supporting Latin Americas frst regional dialogue on

climate fnance and development eectiveness. Held in Honduras in 2012, the regional dialogue was based

on similar experiences the year beore in Asia and Arica. It pointed to the need or addressing barriers to

eective management o climate fnance.

El Salvador subsequently became the frst country to study these barriers and how to overcome them. Based

on the fndings, it is developing a roadmap or continued institutional development and adaptation o the

national fnancial system, and increased involvement o people beyond the executive branch o government,

including parliamentarians, civil society and the private sector. Colombia, the Dominican Republic and

Honduras are considering this experience in embarking on their own studies.

The EETTF has also backed climate fnance readiness in Arica, through a series o six national and regional

inormation workshops or policy makers, and an assessment o capacity needs in 17 nations. The EETTF-

supported Regional CDM Capacity Development in Arica programme, among other activities, has aided

countries in developing standardized baselines or emissions, a ollow-up recommendation under the UNFramework Convention on Climate Change. In 2012, as the programme entered its fnal year, assistance to the

Arican Carbon Forum was geared towards strengthening its abilities to work with countries on improving

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A first guidebook on financing tools

In 2012, with EETTF support, UNDP published a new global resource that was the frst o its typethe

International Guidebook o Environmental Finance Tools. It provides a one-stop source o basic inormation

on the most commonly used fnancial tools, along with 100 case studies rom 30 developing countries and

covering 4 sectorsenergy, protected areas, agriculture and orestry. The cases chronicle how fnancing can

be adapted to diverse eorts to protect the environment and advance human

development. Simpler fnancing toolssuch as ees, payments or ecosystem

services and loansare highlighted as commonly used and oten readily

implemented. The evidence documented in the publication makes clear that even

or these simple fnancial tools extensive, and long term, awareness raising and

capacity building is needed. While innovative fnancial mechanisms might be

discussed at the international level, there is still a long way to go to mainstream

basic environment fnancing tools such as taxes and subsidies, ees and permits

into the day to day management o natural resources in most places on earth.

UNDP is in a unique position to bring the evidence rom the ground level to the

attention o international policy makers and vice versa, and to make sure decisions

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BUILDING RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE RISKS

Climate change could devastate development gains, taking a heavy toll on human lives and livelihoods,

and the natural resources upon which all people depend. Increasingly evidence indicates that this is already

happening. Developing countries are particularly vulnerable: The World Bank estimates that they may bear

up to 80 percent o the costs o damages. Arica and South Asia, with already high concentrations o people

in poverty, will be the hardest hit.

UNDP assists countries to devise plans and manage investments aimed at building resilience to climate shits

today while preparing or an uncertain uture. We advocate or balancing climate and development priorities,

in line with sustainable development, and pursuing complementary climate adaptation and emissions

mitigation measures.

Recent innovations related to public expenditure reviews and local risk assessments have stemmed directly

rom EETTF support. The unds involvement with diverse UNDP initiatives helps connect their eorts, ensuring

that they complement each other.

Reviewing where the money should go

Typically, reviews o national spending on climate change look narrowly at unds dedicated to that purpose,

and mainly ocus on international climate fnancing. But since climate change is so interlinked with all aspects

o development, UNDP and UNEP jointly pioneered a new approach, based on the public expenditure reviews

o national budget. Dubbed the Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Review (CPEIR), it takes a broader

perspective, assessing spending on climate change against national

development objectives. The exercise helps clariy required investments

and actions in dierent sectors. Starting in 2011, fve countries

Bangladesh, Cambodia, Nepal, Samoa and Thailandpiloted the CPEIR,in part with EETTF support.

A country o rivers lying low on the Bay o Bengal, Bangladesh is one

o the nations most vulnerable to climate change. Poor peoplestill a

third o the population despite impressive economic growthsuer most rom cyclones and ooding, and

environmental degradation. Abdul Mazid lives in one ood-prone district and has watched his livelihood

drain away with diminished fsh stocks. Our parents could catch fsh in two or three hours, he says. Now we

need at least three days to get the same amount.

The Government o Bangladesh is strongly committed to dealing with climate change, but the CPEIR approach

was newand welcome. Five ministriesfnance, agriculture, disaster management, water resources and

local governmentand the Planning Commission led the exercise. Concluded in 2012, it ound, against

expectations, that the Government, not international donors, unds most climate expenditures. It also revealed

that the poorest communities in Bangladesh are being landed with a crippling development defcit and need

ar more to adapt to climate change.

Recent innovations related to

public expenditure reviews and

local risk assessments have

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The CPEIR also identifed gaps. The large number o actors involved in climate change work37 central

ministries and 10 donors, along with local governments and NGOsunderscored the need to strengthen

coordination. The lack o specifc reerences to climate change in social protection policies suggested

consideration o how to make links, such as through agricultural subsidies or cash transers to poor amilies

most exposed to climate threats. Based on the CPEIR, fnance ministry ocials are now working to improve

access to climate fnance, boost capacities to absorb scaled-up investment and introduce a climate budget

code that will track expenditures across public budgets.

The CPEIR took place against the broader backdrop o the UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative whichworked in conjunction with the EETTF unded Integrating Climate Change Risks into Development Planning

and Programming (ICCPP) project. The ICCPP project provides direct support to countries on specifc climate

change-related demands rom national stakeholders. In particular, ICCPP has intensifed UNDPs policy

support to national governments, particularly in LDC and low-income countries, to support in the preparations

and engagement in the UNFCCC, the integration o climate change into development planning and policy

processes, the positioning o UNDP as a leading development partner on climate change, the enhancement o

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UNDPs knowledge and evidence-base in the area o climate change policy, and the strengthening o UNDPs

climate change portolio and specifc policy-related needs.

Developing local strategies

Assessing and responding to climate risks is particularly important at the local level, where the brunt o

changes is most acutely elt. In Moldova, EETTF unds have helped UNDP support local risk assessments thatbreak new ground or the country, and have allowed communities to better protect themselves.

Moldova is prone to droughts, landslides, earthquakes and oods. A severe drought in 2007 crippled

agricultural production, causing $1.2 billion in damages in a country that is among the poorest in Europe. The

ollowing year, torrential rains and ooding inicted another $120 million loss. Poor rural areas are particularly

vulnerable. With Moldova currently decentralizing government unctions to the local level, where they can

be more directly responsive to local concerns, UNDP piloted a climate risk project to show how the issue can

become integral to new local planning processes and vital to improved resilience.

The project identifed 20 local communities most vulnerable to climate variability. It worked closely with local

authorities, the Moldova Red Cross Society and local citizens, including members o vulnerable groups, tocarry out risk assessments and ensure multiple issues were reected. Newly aware o the threats they ace,

10 communities then used combined UNDP and local unds or measures to manage them. Hordiste, or

instance, modifed the local riverbed, reconstructed two bridges and strengthened a dam to prevent oods,

which have washed out roads in the past. The village o Otac installed 20 rainwater-collecting reservoirs to

nourish kitchen gardens in times o drought.

These experiences convinced people in the communities that even though a national adaptation strategy is in

process, they wanted more immediate local progress. By the end o 2012, the project had taken an additional

step by piloting three approaches to systematically integrating climate risk reduction in local planning and

services, a frst or Moldova. The experiences provide reerence points or consideration and replication as

communities across the countryand the Europe and the CIS regionseek to adapt to new realities.

The EETTF-assisted programme Down to Earth: Territorial Approaches to Climate Change works with local

governments in several other countries to actor mitigation and adaption into sustainable development

plans. Colombia has been able to create a climate profle o its Cundinamarca region, including data on

climate variations and an inventory o emissions. New guidelines assist local authorities in including climate

adaptation measures in territorial planning. Under the Towards Low-Emission, Climate-Resilient Local

Development programme, Senegal has created regional climate change committees, and initiated a mapping

o vulnerabilities and emissions as part o local planning.

Preparing for loss and damageUNDPs support or countries on enhanced adaptation, risk assessment and management, and recovery

is becoming even more critical in light o the loss and damage deliberations under the UN Framework

Convention on Climate Change. Parties to the convention have recognized the importance o addressing

losses and damages caused by adverse climate eects, that is, the eects that cannot be mitigated against or

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In 2012, the UNFCCC Work Programme on Loss and Damage organized a global workshop on the issue, which

brought together Parties to the UNFCCC and relevant organizations to identiy needs, share experiences, and

agree on ways orward. Similarly, three regional workshops and one workshop or small island developing

states also provided opportunity or regional dialogues on the issue and defnition o approaches to address

the challenge. Through EETTF unding, UNDP participated in all fve events, sharing the broad spectrum o

related work we are engaged in and providing an opportunity to add value to UNFCCC negotiations and

uture action on Loss and Damage.

The work done in 2012 has placed UNDP at the heart o these discussions, and has set the oundation or UNDPs

continued contribution to guiding the discourse and action moving orward. Specifcally, in 2013 the Parties

to the UNFCCC have agreed to establish institutional arrangements, such as an institutional mechanism on

Loss and Damage which will be discussed, negotiated and eventually decided in 2013. As such, by illustrating

the relevant and valuable work UNDP is already doing in the area, and drawing on experiences and lessons

learned, the work in 2012 has provided an important launching point or UNDPs contribution to shaping this

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IN SUM

The selection o achievements resulting rom the use o EETTF unds detailed in this report, illustrate how

trust und money, careully used, can indeed contribute to the objectives or which the EETTF was established,

namely to:

strengthen the integration o pro-poor environment and climate issues into national, sector, and sub-

national development plans and budgets to ensure that environment actions beneft the poor;

support national and sub-national governments to prepare sustainable development action plans to

identiy priority measures, and provide guidance on how to design the most appropriate fnancing

schemes and policies to implement them;

support national, local and regional planning bodies to respond eectively to climate change and

promote, low-emission, climate-resilient development;

strengthen the capacity o national and local institutions to manage the environment and expand

environment and energy services, especially to the poor.

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IN SUM

These achievements demonstrate how relatively little money allows UNDPs Environment and Energy Group to:

be exible, and cover new domains, over and above implementing ongoing unds and programmes such as

the Global Environment Facility, Multilateral Fund or the Implementation o the Montreal Protocol, United

Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions rom Deorestation and Forest Degradation

(UN-REDD), Low Emission Capacity Building Programme, Water Governance Programme, etc.

respond to new international developments, such as the launching o SE4ALL or the convening o the

Rio+20 summit;

be innovative and explore new sustainable management venues such as the CPEIR, eective

mainstreaming approaches as well as new ways to involve the public at large in sound environmental

management, such as the Rio dialogues and voluntary commitments;

raise resources to help countries address environmental challenges while reducing poverty, such as

through the Carbon 2012 programme;

manage knowledge and make it widely available such as through the Rio dialogues, the environmental

fnance guidebook, UNDPs Environment and Energy Network and Teamworks spaces; promote an integrated delivery o UNDP development services, across the social, economic and

environmental strands o sustainable development.

We are confdent that, with the help o donors, we can continue this innovative and catalytic path throughout

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FINANCIAL OVERVIEW

The EETTF receives both non-earmarked and earmarked contributions, directed towards specifc programmes

and projects. Non-earmarked contributions allow or greater exibility to respond to emerging demands and

are crucial or UNDPs capacity to address country level requests and new challenges related to sustainable

development; however, these unds have been decreasing since 2010, aecting the capacity o EEG to

contribute to innovative, catalytic and strategic initiatives.

Income in 2012

In 2012, the EE TTF received non-earmarked contributions amounting to US$ 2.51 million, rom Norway and

Luxembourg. Total earmarked contributions amounted to US$ 9.56 million. The government o Germany was

the largest donor o earmarked unds, contributing US$ 6.49 million or the project Low Emission Capacity

Building Programme and US$ 2.99 million to UNDPs multi-donor Global Biodiversity Finance Initiative,

Building Transormative Policy and Finance Frameworks to Increase Investment in Biodiversity Management.

The opening balance o the earmarked unds includes major contributions received rom Denmark in 2011 orthe SIDS Dock Initiative, unds rom Spain related to climate change programmes, as well as unds rom Finland

or Rio+20 and contributions rom local governments or the TACC programme. The tables below show detailed

inormation on Income or 2012. Expenditure fgures are low as unds were received by the end o 2012 or multi-

year programmes that are expected to continue until 2015.

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE IN 2012 (NON-EARMARKED)

Year Donor Income ($) Balance ($)

2012 Adjusted Opening Balance* 4,871,952.85

2012 Income

Government o Norway 1,650,165.02

Government o Luxembourg 863,213.81

Total Income 2,513,378.83

2012 Available Resources 7,385,331.68

2012 Expenditures 2,525,588.81

2012 Closing Balance 4,859,742.87

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Income and Expenditure in 2012 (Earmarked)Year Donor Income ($) Balance ($)

2012 Adjusted Opening Balance 9,433,309.28

2012 Income

(TACC) UK Department orInternational Development

80,775.44

(Low Emission Capacity Bldg) Government o Germany 6,493,506.49

(BIOFIN EC BD Policy

& Financing)

Government o Germany 2,987,012.99

Total Income 9,561,294.92

2012 Available Resources 18,994,604.20

2012 Expenditures 1,883,022.88

2012 Closing Balance 17,111,581.32

In 2012, the EE TTF disbursed US$ 4.4 million through a variety o programmes and projects. The table

below shows expenditures by key result area.

Expenditure in 2012 by key results areaThematic Area Expenditures in 2012 (US$)

Mainstreaming Environment and Energy 945,696

Mobilizing Environmental Finance 607,986

Promoting Adaptation to Climate Change 2,332,002Expanding Access to Environmental & Energy Services or the poor 523,786

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ANNEX 3: LIST OF REFERENCESNote: Numbers relate to matrix o reported results in Annex 2

1. UNDP-UNDESA support programme to countries on national preparations or Rio+20:

http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/rio20nationalreports.html

2. Synthesis o National Reports or Rio+20: http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/

environment-energy/integrating_environmentintodevelopment/synthesis-o-national-reports-or-

rio-20/

3. Rio Dialogues: http://www.uncsd2012.org/index.php?page=view&nr=596&type=13&menu=23

4. Thought Leadership on Beyond GDP: http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/presscenter/

pressreleases/2012/06/20/oing-beyond-gdp-undp-proposes-human-development-measure-o-

sustainability.html

5. Equator Initiative event at Rio+20: http://equatorinitiative.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=a

rticle&id=730&Itemid=863

6. Building Tomorrows Markets: http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/presscenter/

pressreleases/2012/06/18/building-tomorrow-s-markets-governments-and-businesses-join-undp-to-

boost-sustainable-agriculture/

7. Rio+20 Voluntary Commitments: http://www.uncsd2012.org/content/documents/790Summary%20

o%20Voluntary%20Commitments%20Registered%20at%20Rio20%20v6.pd

8. A Toolkit o Policy Options to Support Inclusive Green Growth: http://www.g20civil.com/upload/iblock/

e0d/1igg.pd

9. Green Economy in Action: http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/librarypage/environment-

energy/integrating_environmentintodevelopment/green-economy-in-action/

10. Matrix on Sustainable Development: http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/unsystem.html

11. Task Team on Environmental Sustainability, Climate Change and Rio+20 http://staging.undg.org/index.

cm?P=1050

12. Options or a Technology Facilitation Mechanism: http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.

php?menu=1453

13. UN Secretary-General report on Mainstreaming Sustainable Development in the UN System:

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15. UNDPs Gender Equality Strategy: http://www.undp.org/content/dam/aplaws/publication/en/

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16. Greening the Blue Initiative:http://www.greeningtheblue.org/resources/climate-neutrality

17. Proposal or Environmental and Social Compliance Review and Dispute Resolution Processes

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18. Guidance Note: UNDPs Dispute Resolution Process or Country Level Programmes and Operations


19. Joint UNDP-World Bank Guidance Note or REDD+ Countries: Establishing and Strengthening GrievanceResolution Mechanisms


20. UNDP Guide or Integrating the Sound Management o Chemicals into Development Planning:

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