Ihr Titel

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Mainstreaming Climate Change in German Technical
Cooperation (GTZ) Dr. Lorenz Petersen Geneva,
12 April 2007
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What has GTZ done so far?

• Portfolio Screening 2003
• Qualitative questionnaire to more than 100
  project in selected sectors
• Key results
• Most projects stated perceived changes in climate
• Mitigation of higher significance than adaptation
• High willingness to get engaged
• Lack of information and know-how

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Pilot projects in mainstreaming Climate Change

• Tunisia National Adaptation Strategy in
  Agriculture and Ecosystems
• Benin Adaptation to climate change through
  sustainable watershed management
• Mozambique Integrating adaptation within
  disaster risk management Early warning and
  education
• Nicaragua Adaptation to climate change through
  disaster risk management
• Planned
• India Mainstreaming adaptation into the national
  rural development bank NARBAD
• Indonesia Preparation of a National Adaptation
  Strategy

Current activities on mainstreaming CC in GTZ

• Development of a set of options how to mainstream
  Climate Change

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Framing question Do we have sound climate
information for mainstreaming?

• Who is
• mainstreaming?
• GTZ
• BMZ
• OECD

• Mainstreaming what?
• Adaptation?
• Risk?
• Adaptation mitigation?

• Where to mainstream?
• Project level (New classification, integration in
  old classification,)
• Strategic level (Integration in policy documents)

• Priorities for mainstreaming?
• Selection of projects?
• Selection of sectors?
• Selection of countries?

• How to mainstream?
• Risk screening tools
• Vulnerability Maps
• Country, sector, regional, hot spot analysis?
• etc.

Costs Time frame Stakeholders Justification
Process
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Efficiency in Mainstreaming I

• The time dimension When to adapt???

Intensity of climate change over time
Temporal dimensions of (investment) decisions
e.g. annual crops
Planning horizon of a development project
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Efficiency in Mainstreaming II

• Information, impact and cost dimensions

Information
Low certainty
High certainty
Climate Impact
Low impact
High impact
Positive Impact
Benefit Cost Ratio
Low ratio
High ratio
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Mainstreaming as organisational change Lessons
learnt in GTZ

• Small is beautiful!
• Clear messages and a good messenger
• Head, Heart and Hand consider both affective
  and cognitive aspects