Country page - Namibia

Submitted on 8 April 2021

Pre-emptive adaptation:

  • Mitigation efforts: Revision and updating of NDC to UNFCCC before the next COP
  • Adaptation efforts: Continued collaboration and implementation of NSSCAP  and development of the country’s NAP
  • Climate engineering: N/A 
  • Knowledge base expansion: integration of the 3 Rio’s Conventions committees into one for better coordination and collaboration  

Contingency measures, e.g. through risk financing with regional risk pooling, insurance facilities and bonds, and through social protection measures, etc.:

  • Social protection measures through drought relief,
  • COVID-19 relief grants and social grants

Addressing losses through disaster relief funds, credit facilities etc.:

Disaster risk reduction focused strategies and measures through activities under the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, contingency and trust funds, disaster legislation, etc.:

  • National strategy for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation into Development planning 2017-2021(will be reviewed)

Transformative actions (which could include any such actions already mentioned above):

  • Reviewing of the Regional Contingency plans  

Examples of activities for which developing countries may ask for technical assistance

  • Reconstruction of historical climate databases including data rescue from old paper records to support climate information services.
  • Use of space technologies in systematic observations and geospatial analyses.
  • Establishment of a baseline on non-economic and social loss and damage, as well as regarding culture, territory, indigenous knowledge systems, ecosystem services.
  • Development of databases and information services to support risk profiling and risk assessment of a variety of timeframes by different actors and stakeholders in their decision-processes.
  • Setting up a registry/Mapping of at-risk populations to assess sea level rise induced relocation costs for coastal communities.

Analyses of data and information (including climate change projections, impact analyses, hazard mapping, etc):

  • Development of local to national climate change scenarios and production of projections of climate risk.
  • Conduct of pilot loss and damage assessments for certain key agricultural commodities which are vulnerable to climate change, such as rice, aquaculture, and fruits.
  • Construction of multivariate impacts and loss databases to support assessments and reporting including through the use of bigdata methods.
  • Costing of impacts in the present as well as for projected impacts for use in costs-benefit analyses to appraise options.
  • Methods for automated and semi-automated inventorying of infrastructure and assets such as involving geospatial technologies and artificial intelligence.
  • Estimation and outreach on future climate change risks to inform investor decisions.
  • Development of standardized set of risk assessment guidelines for community/subnational level to prepare and maintain inventories of at-risk assets.
  • National-scale site characterization to support hazard mapping, zoning and other land use planning.

Design and implementation of projects on Loss and Damage:

  • Setting up cross-ministerial/sectoral coordination mechanism for the dissemination and linking warnings with early action, and the deployment of emergency assistance for communities.
  • Development of infrastructure and plans for relocation/resettlement of households and communities from frequently affected areas.
  • Design of proposals and access to financing for climate information services and early warning systems under the GCF and other funding channels.
  • Development of funding proposals related to the strategic workstreams of the five-year rolling workplan of the Executive Committee.
  • Optimal design of sustainable public works (drainage, transportation and other critical and protective infrastructure).
  • Optimizing land use based on available resources (e.g. water resources, energy, etc).
  • Optimizing financing between different measures to address risk comprehensively/trade-off analyses in deciding on balance between investment in preemptive measures and measures to address residual risk.

Financial instruments (such as insurance, risk pooling, contingency funds, etc):

  • Design of combinations of appropriate risk finance tools and instruments applicable to a specific country context and vulnerable groups.
  • Development and deployment of forecast-based finance instruments to minimize potential losses to productive systems.
  • Design and financing of social protection measures.
  • Development of different insurance mechanisms.
  • Design of national trust/contingency/recovery funds.
  • Development of national finance instruments (bonds, etc).
  • Development of regional finance instruments (regional risk facilities, etc).
  • Development of legal instruments to manage planned migration.
  • Development of curriculum on various relevant aspects of climate change and loss and damage.

 

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