Zimbabwe and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: Home Page The Convention National Communication National Coordination National Legislation National Resources Activities Miscellaneous National Focal Point Response Measures Past and On-going activities on Climate Change Zimbabwe is quite active in climate change activities. Currently, Zimbabwe holds the Presidency of C0P2. The country was also fortunate in the fact that it benefited from the pilot phase of GEF by being granted the Photovoltaic Project with a total budget of 7 million US dollars over five years. The project was designed to have a long mitigatory effects by removing barriers to energy conservation and energy efficiency. Zimbabwe also took part in the US country studies which looked at various aspects of climate change, including inventories for greenhouse gases by sources, mitigation and adaptation policy options, as well as vulnerability assessments. These inventories were based on the IPCC methodology. However, these studies need regular updating since the sources for the greenhouse gases are dynamic. Zimbabwe also participated in the UNEP Greenhouse Gas Abatement Costing Studies carried out in 1993. The analysis was based on the base year of 1990, but the funding for the project was inadequate to allow for any update of the results. This project assessed inventories, options and cost of reducing greenhouse gases. The project was in three phases, which cover GHG inventories and mitigation implementation of options. Zimbabwe was one of the three countries together with Vietnam and Lithuania that took part in the pilot phase of the CC: TRAIN Project under the sponsorship of the UNFCCC Secretariat in Geneva. The objectives of the project were essentially awareness raising and training in climate change issues. Lastly, Zimbabwe is one of the four countries (together with Ghana, Kenya and Mali) in sub-Saharan Africa currently participating in the GEF Pilot Phase project entitled "Capacity Building in Sub-Saharan Africa to respond to the UNFCCC" implemented by UNDP. This project has just started in July 1996 and it is expected to be completed within two years. If you have any questions or comments please contact us at sanee@harare.iafrica.com.

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