THE NECTAR PROJECT
The NECTAR (Reinforced Climate Negotiation for Africa) project was launched in 2008, after a call for tender organised by the French Agency for the Environment and Energy Conservation, for a project specification. This report was drawn up by FF4, and structured in methodological chapters in order to conduct separate sector-based studies for Africa.
Eight chapters were drawn up:
- A chapter on the general methodology
- Six chapters on the six socioeconomic sectors relative to mitigation and adaptation to climate change: buildings and land planning, agriculture, water and sanitation, transport, forest and energy.
- The last chapter summarizes the methodology in order to prepare the scenario-building phase.
This project aims to make development the core issue of the climate negotiation round for after 2012, at the UN Conference of the Parties (COP 15) in Copenhagen in 2009. The project is an attempt to build a successful scenario for developing countries that would reconcile mitigation of climate change, solutions to the energy issues, and a successful human and economic development.
The Climate and Development of the French-speaking countries launched in 2006 by the Institute of the Energy and the Environment for the French-speaking countries accompanies numerous partners, particularly the negotiators, the experts, and the African leaders, in order to reinforce their capacities and their role in the international negotiations. During the COP in Nairobi in 2006, the African leaders were interviewed in the corridors of the conference: “in your country, what are the major development issues at stake, relative to the issue of climate change?” …read more on the genesis of the project…
Based on the answers to this question, a document was drawn up and validated during a series of meetings in Paris, Bonn and Quebec in 2007. This project is the concrete realization of the climate development initiative of the Francophonie, by the FF4 team and Pierre Radanne. A number of experts, representative of the diversity of the countries, will also proactively participate in the project … read more on the state of the negotiations…
Each final study, specific to one socioeconomic sector, will be based on scenarios in order to draw up a prospective on climate and development for the African continent, and to establish a series of recommendations for the required sectoral policies in order to mitigate global warming and allow for structural mitigation ...read more on the methodology and the six sectors...
Recently, the sleeping partners agreed to open up the project to a wider participation by including other linguistic communities: the Commonwealth, and probably the Portuguese-speaking community. The calendar for the negotiation process until Copenhagen is under constraint. The studies, in a first phase, will be rather qualitative and realized in the first three months of the year, in order for the first conclusions and recommendations to serve the amendments to the protocol. In order to be taken into account, this final development program will be submitted to the UNFCCC Secretariat by mid-June 2009.
In a second phase, more in depth and quantitative studies with a lot of scenario-building will be launched during the second semester of 2009.