WORKSHOP

The year 2020 will mark the beginning of the first cycle of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC). The NDC implementation period runs for five (5) or ten (10) years depending on the time horizon defined by countries in their submission. The actions and measures identified in the NDC are expected to start delivering outcomes to ensure countries achieve the targets and ambitions set in their NDC by the end of the implementation period. Showing leadership and ambition for climate actions, all 54 countries have signed the Paris Agreement and submitted ambitious conditional and unconditional Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). More than fifty (50) countries have ratified ambitious NDCs, with investment requirements above US$ 2.5 trillion, it is crucial that African countries are fully engaged with the implementation of their NDCs and secured significant and adequate support withmeans of implementation. The total cost of adaptation estimated for all African countries is US$7.4 billion a year consistent with the range of US$7-15 billion a year estimated by the UNEP Adaptation Gap Report.Since the submissions of their NDC in 2014, African countries have undertaken several steps to advance the implementation of their communicated NDC by:

 undertaking consultations on the implementation of NDC;

 refining or updating the analysis underpinning the NDC;

 developing NDC implementation or investment plans that prioritize specific sectorial or cross sectorial climate actions;

 aligning their NDC actions with their countries policy priorities;

 designing institutional arrangements and coordination mechanisms to support NDC implementation ;

 improving the regulatory and institutionalframework;

 identifying and prioritizing policies and measures;

 assessing how to attract or reorient investments toward climate actions and, designing monitoring systems to measure progress toward NDC goals etc.

These steps are important. They are necessary pre-conditions and enablers of effective actions that need to be implemented for delivery of the targets associated to NDC. However there is need to better understand how much has been actually delivered towards effective implementation of the NDC of African countries. Expectations on all countries to meet the level of ambition associated to the Paris Agreement are immense. While they are progressing towards the implementation of their first NDC, countries must also submit in 2020 the NDC of the second cycle, as well as their long-term low emission strategies in accordance with Paris Agreement Article 4:19 and Decision 1/CP.21 par. 35.

The current and projected adverse effects of climate change pose a real challenge for Africa, these adverse effects have proven to be detrimental for the continents economy, its people and its resources. Several leaders have expressed the need for climate action to become a high priority in the development agenda of all African States, but the challenges of addressing such multidimensional and conflicting imperatives remains important.

Le premier Dialogue sur la mise en œuvre des CDN africains sera l'occasion de faire le point sur la mise en œuvre effective des CDN dans les pays africains. Et de comprendre où en sont les pays dans leur cheminement vers la réalisation des objectifs et des ambitions associés à leurs CDN. L'accent mis sur le secteur agricole aidera les pays à élaborer une stratégie pour faire progresser la mise en œuvre des priorités identifiées dans ce secteur.