The UNDP project, “Capacity development for policy makers to address climate change” seeks to strengthen the national capacity of developing countries to assess climate change policy options across different sectors and economic activities. The project will run in parallel with the “Bali Road Map” process agreed at the UN Climate Change Conference in December 2007, which includes the “Bali Action Plan” – the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations on long-term cooperative action on climate change set to conclude by the end of 2009.
The overall goals of the project are twofold:
• To increase national capacity to co-ordinate ministerial views, participate in the UNFCCC process, and negotiate positions within the timeframe of the Bali Action Plan; and
• To assess investment and financial flows to address climate change for up to three key sectors and/or economic activities.
The project will support these goals by expanding the knowledge base on climate change issues and broadening access to this knowledge so that policy makers, parliamentarians, technical experts, and other key stakeholders can participate and share experiences at the national, sub-regional, regional and global levels. As a result, both the technical understanding of key climate change issues and their economic and policy implications within the context of the Convention will be enhanced.
To assist policy makers in understanding the complex issues under discussion in the negotiating process, UNDP commissioned a series of background briefing papers on the key issues under the four main “building blocks” of the current international negotiations – mitigation, adaptation, technology and finance – as well as land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF).
This document contains summaries for policy makers of these briefing papers.

By: C. Carpenter (United Nations Development Programme)

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