Status Report on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) - Mid-year update 2016

This Status Report on NAMAs Mid-year Update 2016 is the first update since the 2015 climate year߿ݠcame to a close. In June 2015, the seven major industrialised economies (the G7 countries) agreed to decarbonise the world economy by the end of this century. This means that climate-damaging fossil fuels need to be phased out. About six months later, at the 21st UNFCCC conference in Paris, 194 countries adopted the Paris Agreement which marks a historic breakthrough in international climate diplomacy. It is the first legally binding climate treaty in which all UNFCCC parties both developed and developing countries committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions through NDCs. Together, they agreed to reach global greenhouse gas emissions neutrality by the end of this century in order to keep global warming well below 2°C. They also agreed to strive for a temperature increase of less than 1.5°C compared to pre-industrial levels. With this new dynamic in international climate politics, emission mitigation actions in developing countries are more than ever a focus of attention. This leads to the question of how mitigation actions that developing countries have already developed under UNFCCC, and that they seek to move to a further implementation stage, including NAMAs, can play a key role in the new climate landscape. A lot of political capital has been invested in NAMA development. The role of NAMAs in implementing the Paris Agreement will therefore be important to ensure the success of the international climate process in developing countries. This Report takes a closer look at the role of NAMAs in light of the Paris Agreement (Chapter 2) and includes opinion pieces from countries in Africa, Asia, and South America (Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Thailand) on their expectations, plans and needs with regards to NAMAs after Paris (Chapter 3). As usually, this Mid-Term Update also provides an update of the latest NAMA development and support world-wide (Chapter 1).