# gst_axes

axis_name: Key objective 6
axis_full_name:
Efforts to conserve, protect, and restore nature and ecosystems with solutions for climate, biodiversity and desertification


axis_name: Key objective 26
axis_full_name:
Governance, state capacities and institutional strengthening for climate action, planning and preparedness


# targets

target:
Securing commitments of the main emitters to increase ambition of their NDCs by 2020 with the view of cutting CO2 emissions by at least 45 percent by 2030 in line with the global objective of net zero CO2 emissions by 2050 and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.


target:
By 2030, all CCAC partners collectively ensure that agricultural SLCPs are fully considered in national climate policy and that many countries contribute to achieve the 20-25% methane reduction goal


target:
The mission is to ensure that nature provides around a third of the climate solution needed by 2030, i.e.. about 10 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent a year.


target:
Restoration of 350 million hectares of degraded land over the next 10 years could remove between 13-26 gigatons of CO2-e from the atmosphere.


target:
SIDS will need support to achieve as much as 100% renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) targets, in particular in the power sector, by 2030 within the framework of the SIDS Lighthouses Initiative (LHI).


target:
By 2030, the top ten agricultural burning nations commit to eliminate unnecessary agricultural burning, with detailed implementation plans and buy-in at the subnational level


target:
100 stakeholders committed by 2020 and 100 signatories by 2018, representing $1 trillion in revenues


target:
Leveraging at least $5 billion in funding and financing to implement strategic and innovative projects in 100 African cities by 2032


target:
Almost all SIDS have set indicative national renewable energy targets coupled with strong political commitments which resulted in 12 LHI SIDS partners targeting for more than 80% RE penetration in the power sector


target:
The initiative is supported by all AOSIS countries and will leverage the already operational and ambitious IRENA LHI, additional and enhanced donor commitments will be made to support accelerated collective energy transition in SIDS. Secured new funding through LHI which include 7.5 Mio USD (2019-2023) from Denmark and 3 Mio EUR (2020-2022) from Germany.


target:
All by 2020: Mobilize USD 500 million, Deploy 100 MW of new solar PV, Deploy 20 MW of new wind power, Ensure all participating islands develop renewable energy roadmaps


# actors

actor_name:
United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UNOHRLLS)


actor_name:
Network of Indigenous and Local Populations for the Sustainable Management of Central African Forest Ecosystems (REPALEAC)


# cci_overview

name: Business Alliance for Water and Climate
alt_names: BAFWAC
web_url: https://bafwac.org/
description:
Launched in 2015 at COP21, the “Business Alliance for Water and Climate” initiative demonstrates the crucial role of companies, through concrete commitments, in addressing the issue of sustainable management of water resources in the context of a changing climate. The long-term monitoring of commitments is ensured through the endorsement of the ‘CEO Water Mandate’ and reporting to CDP Water. The Alliance is led by the UN Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate, CDP (ex-Carbon Disclosure Project) Water, WBCSD (World Business Council for Sustainable Development) Water and the French company SUEZ. All companies and private-sector-related organizations/networks can join the initiative. Each year, BAFWAC tracks and reports the progress of signatory companies towards the commitment at the UNFCCC Conference of Parties. COALMA is an initiative uniting the public and private sectors around the sustainable management of water resources, particularly in Morocco. During the 8th World Water Forum in Brasília in 2018,  the Business Alliance for Water and Climate (BAFWAC) signed an agreement with the Moroccan Coalition for Water (COALMA) to collaborate on water and climate, in particular around knowledge sharing and policy engagement.


name: Cement Sustainability Initiative
alt_names: CSI
web_url:
https://archive.wbcsd.org/Sector-Projects/Cement-Sustainability-Initiative/Cement-Sustainability-Initiative-CSI

description:
The Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) is a global effort by 24 major cement producers with operations in more than 100 countries. CSI members believe there is a strong business case for the pursuit of sustainable development. Collectively these companies account for around 30% of the world’s cement production and range in size from very large multinationals to smaller local producers.\n\nThe purpose of the CSI is to:\n1. Explore what sustainable development means for the cement industry;\n2. Identify actions and facilitate steps cement companies can take, individually and as a group, to accelerate progress toward sustainable development;\n3. Provide a framework for other cement companies to become involved;\n4. Create the content and context for further stakeholder engagement.\n\nUp until 2018, the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) was a flagship initiative of World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). \n\nThe Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) announced the formation of a strategic partnership with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) to facilitate the sustainable development of the cement and concrete sectors and their value chains. The new partnership also created synergies between work programs to benefit both the GCCA and WBCSD and their respective member companies. As part of the new agreement, the work carried out by the Cement Sustainability Initiative (CSI) transferred from WBCSD to the GCCA on 1 January 2019 with activities managed out of the GCCA’s London offices.


name: The SIDS Lighthouses Initiative
alt_names: SIDS LHI,Accelerating renewable energy transition in SIDS
web_url: http://islands.irena.org
description:
The Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Lighthouses initiative (LHI) is a framework for action to support SIDS in the transformation from predominantly fossil fuel dependence to a renewables-based and resilient energy system. SIDS LHI brings together 38 SIDS as well as 31 partners, including developed countries, regional and international organisations, development and multilateral agencies, private companies, research institutes and non-profit organisations. IRENA is the coordinator and facilitator of the initiative.\nThe SIDS Lighthouses Initiative is committed to providing its SIDS partners (i) policy, regulatory and technical advisory services for RE roadmaps, assessments and grid stability analyses, project planning, identification, structuring and execution; (ii) capacity building for local policymakers, utilities, private sector, financing institutions and other relevant actors, (iii) funding for early-stage transactions and project finance aiming to attract private investments in RE projects and (iv) a platform to share information, knowledge, lessons learned and good practices.\n\nSummit/ Mobilisation process: United Nations General Assembly, New York (2014)


name: CCAC: Agriculture Hub
alt_names: CCAC Agriculture Initiative
web_url: http://www.ccacoalition.org/en/initiatives/agriculture
description:
The Agriculture Hub is a voluntary network of governments and key stakeholders working together to reduce the sectors short-lived climate pollutant (SLCP) emissions from livestock, paddy rice cultivation, open burning of agricultural residue, and food loss and waste.\n\nOur work aims to raise ambition in 2030 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to include actions to reduce agricultural SLCP emissions. To get there, we are building a group of leaders in the field and raising awareness about the actions that can be taken now. We assist countries with tools and capacity-building to identify increasingly ambitious actions, policies and targets, while also supporting strengthened coordination at the national level. To unlock the potential for scale-up, we work to marshall evidence that enables financing for large-scale climate impact.


name: Nature for Climate
alt_names: Nature4Climate
web_url: https://nature4climate.org/
description:
Nature4Climate is a coalition of organizations across the environmental sector, dedicated to raising the profile of nature as a solution for a more sustainable, equitable and nature-positive future.\n\nOur goal is to accelerate the implementation of nature-based solutions (NbS) on a global scale, using communications, advocacy and movement building to catalyse government action and private sector investment into the protection, restoration and sustainable management of ecosystems. The ultimate objective is to unlock nature’s full climate potential to mitigate 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually by 2030.\n


name: Global Alliance of Territorial Communities
alt_names: GATC
web_url: https://globalalliance.me/
description:
The Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (GATC) is a political platform of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities united to defend Mother Earth for all humanity’s present and future benefit. We guarantee our legitimacy and representativeness thanks to democratic processes, ranging from the community to the plurinational level.\nOur alliance represents 35 million people living in forest territories from 24 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. We are defenders of over 958 million hectares of land.\nThe five organizations that make us are the Indonesian Alliance of Indigenous Peoples of the Archipielago (AMAN); the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests (AMPB); the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB); the Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA); and the Network of Indigenous and Local Populations for the Sustainable Management of Central African Forest Ecosystems (REPALEAC).


name: The Restoration Initiative (TRI)
alt_names: Ecosystem Restoration as a nature-based solution for climate action (FAO, UN Environment, IUCN)
web_url: https://www.therestorationinitiative.org/
description:
FAO is engaging in the Climate Action Summit at many levels, and has been an active participant in the discussion since the first inception workshop in early 2018. We are well aware of the critical moment we  re facing and the need to stimulate significantly increased ambition at a time when so many climate indicators are not pointing in the right direction. While FAO is also closely engaging with other coalitions, such as Resilience and Infrastructure & Cities, the bulk of FAO’s expertise and mandate lies within the NBS area. FAO estimates that 24% of all greenhouse gases are caused by the AFOLU sector, however at the same time 44% of the existing, scalable and operationally feasible solutions to bend the curve and stay within the agreed climate goals come from the same sector.\nVirtually every sector FAO works on contains important elements that are helping countries to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change. For this first round of discussions and prioritization, FAO has opted to highlight seven major technical areas that do not yet receive sufficient attention, despite the fact that they provide some of the quickest impact solutions available. FAO is also working closely with a wide range of partners, contributing to other joint proposals on a wide range of topics, and looks forward to backing up the NBS coalition with its full technical experience, its strong in-country linkages, and its normative and convening role.\nThe seven priority areas of FAOs contribution are:\n- Ecosystem Restoration as a nature-based solution for climate action\n- Low Carbon Livestock Coalition\n- Recarbonization of Global Soils\n- Climate Change and the Ocean - adaptation strategies for fisheries and aquaculture\n- Food Loss and Waste Reduction for Climate Action\n- Forests and trees: a nature-based solution to global urban challenges\n- Climate Change and Plant Health: Biodiversity to the Rescue\nSeveral of these areas are relatively new for the entire climate community, and FAO is working hard to  collect examples of scalability, potential impact prediction and costs. This is especially true for the areas of plant health and of food loss & waste. FAO is also working on detailed concepts to FAO’s work on “Spatial observation and monitoring tools for cooperative climate action”, and to “Global cooperation for combating wildfires as climate change mitigation policy”. Given the short timeline for proposals, it has not yet been possible to fully develop the concepts along the required format, but these will be available in the future as useful cross cutting tools.


name: The High Carbon Stock Approach (HCSA)
alt_names: Putting No Deforestation into Practice
web_url:
https://highcarbonstock.org/#:~:text=The%20High%20Carbon%20Stock%20(HCS,values%20that%20may%20be%20developed.

description:
The High Carbon Stock Approach began in 2014 as a collaborative initiative between pulp and palm oil producers and environmental and social justice NGOs to develop a methodology that would identify forests in need of protection from deforestation.\n\nToday the HCSA is a global not-for-profit membership organisation dedicated to stopping commodity-driven deforestation in tropical rainforest landscapes while respecting the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities.


name: African Cities Water Adaptation Fund (ACWA Fund)
alt_names: ACWA Platform
web_url: https://www.wri.org/initiatives/urban-water-resilience-africa/acwa-fund
description:
The African Cities Water Adaptation Fund (ACWA Fund) uses an integrated approach to finance innovative urban water resilience solutions at scale, with the aim of leveraging at least $5 billion in funding and financing to implement strategic and innovative projects in 100 African cities by 2032.\n\nWRI is working with partners, including the African Center for Cities, ICLEI Africa, WaterAid, Resilient Cities Network, Arup, Cap-Net UNDP along with a strong steering committee with representation from key financial institutions and private sector investors, to develop a one-stop shop for African cities, offering full project lifecycle support.\n\nThe ACWA Fund will support local leaders to utilize the latest knowledge and resources to understand climate-water risks and socioeconomic impacts; identify, prioritize and prepare projects; structure deals and connect to grants and capital; and scale delivery by standardizing project development manuals, deals and contracts.\n\nThe African Cities Water Adaptation Platform (ACWA Platform) is a coalition of cities and partners including research institutes, civil society actors, development agencies, national governments, businesses, private sector investment groups, national banks, professional consultancies and associations joining forces to advance urban water resilience in Africa.\n\nThe ACWA Platform aims to coordinate, align, harmonize and scale existing programs, expertise and solutions across a wide network of partners to accelerate advocacy and implementation of new solutions to build resilient water systems in cities. Building on existing work in six African cities, the platform partners with city champions to overcome water challenges through research, planning and analysis on urban water resilience pathways; providing technical assistance and capacity-building support to identify, design, finance and implement innovative solutions; and leveraging collective action to improve the enabling environment for mature water resilience programs.\n\nThe African Cities Water Adaptation Fund (ACWA Fund) is the key funding and financing instrument of the platform, with the target of leveraging $5 billion to scale urban water resilience solutions to 100 African cities by 2032.\n\nDeveloped through deep engagement with a diverse group of institutions and individuals, the ACWA Platform is founded on a set of strategic priorities and principles, as identified in the 2030 Joint Agenda for Urban Water Resilience in Africa, and a strong call for implementation.


name: Global Alliance for Water and Climate’s Incubation Platform (GAWCIP)
alt_names: 100 water and climate projects for Africa
web_url: https://climateaction.unfccc.int/Initiatives?id=100_water_and_climate_projects_for_Africa
description:
The Paris Pact was launched on the opening day of the climate summit COP21. It was the starting point of a global momentum for the identification of solutions for climate adaptation and mitigation. Thus, a Global Alliances for Water and Climate (GAWC) was established at the COP22, within which a Global Alliance for Water and Climate’s Incubation Platform (GAWCIP) has been set up gathering international private, institutional and financial partners, with the support of French ministries of ecology and foreign affairs. This platform is based on key investments/projects dealing with enabling knowledge and soft infrastructures.\n\nAs part of this initiative, the 100 Water and Climate Projects for Africa initiative is a large-scale effort aimed at addressing the challenges related to water and climate change across the African continent. The main goal is to identify, fund, and support one hundred innovative projects that contribute to sustainable water management and climate change mitigation and adaptation. These projects cover various areas, such as access to clean drinking water, protection of water resources, climate resilience, and the promotion of sustainable agricultural practices. The initiative seeks to mobilize financial and technical resources, as well as strengthen collaboration between governments, international organizations, and local communities to tackle these critical challenges in Africa.


