Ldc undertakings under the convention and the paris agreement

1. Stocktaking meeting of the work of the LDC Expert Group
10 February 2020
Antananarivo, Madagascar
LDC requirements under the Convention and the
Paris Agreement

2. Undertakings under the Convention and the Paris Agreement
❑ Underlying / basic information
➢ National circumstances, institutional arrangements, and legal
frameworks
➢ Contribution towards achieving the objectives of the Convention
❑ Mitigation
➢ Update of national GHG inventory
➢ Assumptions, conditions and methodologies related to the
emission reduction target
➢ Information on mitigation actions
➢ Information on mitigation co-benefits
➢ Mitigation policies and measures
➢ Progress in achievement of the emission reduction target
including projections

3. Undertakings under the Convention and the Paris Agreement
❑ Adaptation
➢ Impacts, risks, and vulnerabilities
➢ National adaptation priorities, strategies, policies, plans, goals
and actions
➢ Adaptation priorities and barriers
➢ Implementation of adaptation actions and plans (with mitigation
co-benefits)
➢ Information related to averting, minimizing and addressing loss
and damage associated with climate change impacts
➢ Monitoring and evaluation of adaptation actions and processes
➢ Information on gender-responsive adaptation action, traditional
knowledge, knowledge of indigenous peoples and local
knowledge systems related to adaptation, where appropriate

4. Undertakings under the Convention and the Paris Agreement
❑ Means of Implementation
➢ Constraints and gaps, and related financial, technical and
capacity needs, including description of support needed and
received
➢ Provision of financial, technological and capacity-building
support to developing countries
❑ Education and outreach
➢ Cooperation, goof practices, experience and lessons learned
➢ Education, training and public awareness

5. Undertakings under the Convention and the Paris Agreement
❑ Enhanced action
➢ As nationally determined contributions to the global response to
climate change, all Parties are to undertake and communicate
ambitious efforts as defined in Articles 4, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 13
with the view to achieving the purpose of this Agreement as set
out in Article 2. The efforts of all Parties will represent a
progression over time, while recognizing the need to support
developing country Parties for the effective implementation of
this Agreement (3)
➢ Aim to reach global peaking GHG emissions as soon as
possible and undertake rapid reductions thereafter (4.1)
➢ Prepare, communicate and maintain successive NDCs that it
intends to achieve (4.2)

6. Undertakings under the Convention and the Paris Agreement
❑ Transparency
➢ Information needed for clarity, transparency and understanding
➢ Shall regularly provide the following information:
❖ A national inventory report of anthropogenic emissions by
sources and removals by sinks of GHGs
❖ Information necessary to track progress made in
implementing and achieving its NDC under Article 4
❖ Should also provide information related to climate change
impacts and adaptation
➢ Shall cooperate in taking measures, as appropriate, to enhance
climate change education, training, public awareness, public
participation and public access to information (12)

8. Contact:
The Chair
Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG)
E-mail: leghelp@unfccc.int
Webpage: https://unfccc.int/process/bodies/constituted-bodies/least-developed-
countries-expert-group-leg