Experience and best practices in the assessment of the environmental, social and economic co-benefits of climate change policies and actions informed by the best available science, including the use of existing tools and methodologies
Submission deadline: 31 October 2024
At its tenth meeting, the KCI agreed to a strategy to prepare concrete examples of experience and best practices in the assessment of the environmental, social and economic co-benefits of climate change policies and actions informed by the best available science, including the use of existing tools and methodologies. The KCI would like to receive input from stakeholders for this purpose.
Stakeholders can submit their inputs by filling the necessary information here by 31 October 2024. Below is the information that stakeholders should provide in their submissions. Stakeholders are requested to make one submission for each climate action.
Information to be filled by stakeholders
- Clearly describe the climate action (Describe the climate action, selection box for policy, programme or project; geographical coverage: national/subnational; objective; etc.)
- Describe the type of action: Mitigation, adaptation.
- List the sector(s) targeted by the policy.
- List the sector(s) for which co-benefits were monitored.
- List the co-benefits that have arisen from the implementation of such climate action. You may also include secondary co-benefits that may arise from the identified co-benefits.
- Clearly explain how such co-benefits were assessed and analyzed in detail, including how the assessment accounted for, among others, different groups of stakeholders, different types of households, gender considerations, and benefits to vulnerable groups. The KCI expects the input to be more specific than only describing in general what the co-benefits are.(For example, if improved health is the co-benefit: how was impacts on health further assessed; how changes were measured against baseline indicators; which specific groups of stakeholders (e.g. elderly, women, children) benefited from improved health; what would be the further positive consequences, or secondary co-benefits, of populations having improved health; was there impact on health budget of the country/region).
- Elaborate the process, including methodology(ies) that was used and data collection, of the assessment and analysis,
- Describe the sources of data that was used in the assessment and analysis.
- Describe the actions undertaken to promote these co-benefits, if applicable.
- Noting the co-benefits, describe the actions undertaken or policy/plan put in place to maximize these co-benefits, if applicable.
- If the implementation of this climate actions includes monitoring of co-benefits, list the indicators that are used to monitor these co-benefits.
- Describe the challenges, barriers and lessons learned from assessing, analysing and monitoring, as applicable, the co-benefits of climate actions.
Should you have any questions, please send to KCI@unfccc.int,