Division of Early Warning and Assessment

United Nations Environment Programme

Regional Consultation on Climate Services for the Indian

Ocean Islands, Ebene, Mauritius 14-16 March 2016

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CORE AIM OF CLICC:

To facilitate global understanding of country-level climate

impacts to support action on climate change, by

informing national mitigation and adaptation planning,

and international dialogue

To promote good practice and collective learning in

assessing climate impacts

By facilitating the development of a common process to

enable countries to present their climate change impacts

and risks in a more consistent way.

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July-Dec 2014

31 countries consulted to gauge interest in the project

Jan-April 2015

Written consultation on the purpose and benefits of CLICC, the technical approach, and possible governance structure

May 2015

International workshop for further development of the technical approach, funding approaches and governance structure

December 2016 COP21 Paris Side event organised by Government of Vietnam to publicize CLICC

The CLICC story so far

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Refined

proposal

Dashboard Learning Journey

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CLICC AT PRESENT

Development and testing of refined proposal through pilot projects with a

small number of countries

• CLICC 1st round of pilots are underway (November 2015 – March 2016)

• Countries that have confirmed they are undertaking CLICC pilots are:

UK, Russia, China, Vietnam, Ghana

• Presentation of the results and lessons learned from the CLICC pilots at

Adaptation Futures Conference, Rotterdam in May 2016

• Transition to a longer-term project through UNEP partnership – under discussion

• Raise the profile of CLICC among other countries

NEXT STEPS

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Establishment of CLICC in UNEP

• UNEP will host a Secretariat to administer the day-to-day operations, finance and overall

coordination and management of the project activities;

• A Scientific Steering Committee will provide overall direction and scientific guidance to

CLICC;

• UNEP’s Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA), Scientific Assessment

Branch will provide an institutional oversight of CLICC activities;

• Affiliated Partners are international organizations and UN agencies who could

substantially contribute to CLICC through collaborations and synergy with their relevant

ongoing projects, UNEP has already started consultation with WMO and UNFCCC;

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• To establish a long-term CLICC initiative, UNEP is exploring supports to coordinate CLICC

activities at the international level.

• UNEP-Live and the Integrated Reporting Information System (IRIS) that provide safe

landing to setup a long-term international initiative for CLICC; UNEP-Live deploys the IRIS

at the national level, connecting to different Ministries and agencies to enable the sharing and

updating data and information.

• UNEP is working on:

– Immediate and long-term resources mobilization for CLICC

– Communications and outreach, COP21 and AF2016

– CLICC capacity building programme

UNEP’s vision for a long-term CLICC initiative

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CLICC webpage is currently hosted in PROVIA website

www.unep.org/provia

Thank you