Concept Note

Background

The COP 27, CMP 17 and CMA 4 requested the secretariat to organize a regional workshop on activity 3 of the workplan (https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/cp2019_13a01_adv.pdf#page=22) of the response measures forum before the fifty-ninth sessions of the subsidiary bodies, in collaboration with relevant organizations and stakeholders, to address regional needs and acknowledge the work that is being carried out by the Katowice Committee on Impacts.

In accordance with the mandate, the workshop is co-hosted by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP

Objectives

The overall objective of this workshop is to:

• Facilitate the development, enhancement, customization and use of tools and methodologies for modelling and assessing the impacts of the implementation of response measures (referred in decisions 20/CP.27, para.11, 7/CMP.17, para.11, and 23/CMA.4, para. 12).
• Have information-sharing with a view to developing policies that will support the implementation of nationally determined contributions and low-emission and climate-resilient development (referred in ESCAP resolution).
• The workshop also aims to:

• Enhance the capacity of Parties to develop and use impact assessment methodologies and tools for conducting their own assessments and analyses of the impacts of response measures, including on decent work and quality jobs, and economic, social, environmental, domestic, cross-border, positive and negative impacts; this includes facilitating the development of case studies as appropriate and the organization of targeted regional hands-on training workshops (forum’s mandate referred in decision 23/CMA.4 para 20a).
• Conduct peer-to-peer learning to facilitate planning and implementation of effective policies on just transition of the workforce and creation of decent work and quality jobs, and on economic diversification and transformation.

Agenda

Presentations