Work Packages, Deliverables and Milestones - X

Table 1.2 d:    Work package description

Work package number	5		Start date or starting event:					Month 1
Work package title	National Policy Focus through Country Case Studies
Activity Type	SUPP
Participant number	1	2		3	4	5	6		7
Participant short name
Person-months per participant

Objectives Explore country-specific scenarios for socially, economically and environmentally justifiable mix of adaptation, mitigation and development options for the selected countries. Identification of national needs for financial and technological support, to inform WPs 2-4 on the development of international policy options in the areas of finance, technology and land use.

Description of work The first task in this work package will be the elaboration of background reports on the national circumstances and current status of climate policy in the selected countries. The papers should follow a consistent structure and format with the following main elements: ·      Geographical specifications and socioeconomic framework conditions (e.g., size and distribution of GDP, marginal costs of electricity and heating/transport fuel supply for the economy as a whole and for final consumers; structure of energy supply industries) ·      Past and projected emission trends and mitigation potential, broken down by sector (literature review) ·      Current and projected climate impacts (literature review) ·      System of government in general and working of the climate policy process in particular ·      Climate and climate-related policy instruments that are already in place and their effectiveness (e.g standards, taxes, trading schemes etc.) ·      Planned policy instruments or instruments affecting adaptation or mitigation (e.g. Agenda 21, Climate Change Mitigation Action Plans etc.) ·      Capacities of important stakeholders for technology transfer and technology cooperation ·      Preliminary identification of data gaps and research needs The reports will be elaborated mainly by the partners from the developing countries/emerging economies and reviewed by the European partners. Task 2a will be the collection of available data and research on possible future emission trends and emission reduction scenarios for each country. This information will be collated in a standardised format showing a business as usual scenario and 2-3 different mitigation scenarios based on different levels of effort. This analysis will be the basis for a further analysis on policy instruments to be implemented in the considered countries. Task 2b will identify adaptation needs and options for 2-3 different scenarios based on different levels of expected climate change / different degrees of warming, (taking into account demographic and socio-economic development trends). This analysis will be the basis for a further analysis on policy instruments to be implemented in the considered countries. Task 3 will be the development of suggestions for national action plans and description of different NAMAs for improving the existing mix and achieving better integration of policy instruments. On the mitigation side, it would ideally be possible to develop differentiated policy packages associated with each of the individual scenarios developed in Task 2 (so policy package 1 to achieve mitigation scenario 1, package 2 to achieve scenario 2 etc.). Furthermore, areas of financial and technological needs and possible options for international support in implementing additional national climate policy instruments will be identified.