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United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Sustainable Development

Climate Change platform

Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Mauritius
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    Description
    Description
    Sustainable development of Small Island Developing StatesThe objective of this partnership is to enhance resilience to climate change and extreme weather events- This platform will serve as a repository for regional climate change information and data and will help in sound decision making.- It will help build strategic partnerships with key regional institutions promoting sharing of knowledge, lessons learnt and best practices between states and other regions as well as ensuring maximum synergies with existing initiatives.
    Implementation of the Project/Activity

    - The existing Climate Change Information Centre at the Ministry of Environment & SD will also act as a Regional Climate Change Centre;- Memorandum of understanding will be signed between Countries with regard to data sharing;- Regional Climate Change Indicators will be developed;- Countries will have read/write access over their data and only read access over other countries data;- Yearly regional report will be prepared on climate change impacts and best practices; and- Monitoring and Evaluation

    Capacity

    Facilities will be included for hand-on training and knowledge enhancement at the Centre

    Governed

    This partnership could be coordinated by the Indian Ocean Commission through the WIOCC.

    Partners
    Indian Ocean Commission, Japan International Cooperation Agency, United Nations Development Programme, WIOCC, Relevant Ministries and Departments from member states of Indian Ocean Commission and Eastern Africa, and relevant research institutions

    Goal 13

    Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

    Goal 13

    13.1

    Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

    13.1.1

    Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population

    13.1.2

    Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030

    13.1.3

    Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies

    13.2

    Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

    13.2.1

    Number of countries with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

    13.2.2

    Total greenhouse gas emissions per year

    13.3

    Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

    13.3.1

    Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment

    13.a

    Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible

    13.a.1

    Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025

    13.b

    Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities


     

    13.b.1

    Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

    1. Regional Indicators developed
    2. Number and reports/best practices uploaded
    In-kind contribution
    Staff, logistics, facilities
    No progress reports have been submitted. Please sign in and click here to submit one.
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    Action Network
    Small Island Developing States
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    Timeline
    01 January 2014 (start date)
    01 January 2018 (date of completion)
    Entity
    Ministry
    SDGs
    Region
    1. Africa
    Countries
    Mauritius
    Mauritius
    Contact Information

    Mrs Sin Lan NG Yun Wing, Director of Environment