Abstract
All Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) were requested to communicate intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) in a clear, transparent and understandable way before the Conference of the Parties (known as COP21) held in Paris in 2015. The Contributions were supposed to be balanced and comprehensive to ensure sustainable development and expected to include finance, technology requires, technology transfer and capacity building aiming at mitigation and adaptation. This research focuses on investigating the INDCs prepared by countries from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), one of the most water-scarce and dry regions in the world. Following a content analysis, this research has found that INDCs from the region have not been able to reflect the desired output. Submissions were also not timely and not sufficiently ahead of time. Many countries were not able to disclose the current status. INDCs can play a significant role by providing objective, timely, and reliable information, which is missing at present in the countries from MENA.
Highlights
While bringing couple of thousands of delegates from across the globe,‘environmental mega conferences’ [Seyfang, 2003] have been stipulating and instigating ideas as well as concrete plans and programs to address climate change both locally and globally.Through consensus the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) formulate strategies required to bring down global emission and thereby lessen the pace of global warming
Current and anticipated national spending on mitigation and adaptation, supports require for policies, sector strategies and projects as well as the needs of various types of environmentally sustainable technologies are expected to be elucidated in intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs)
Quantitative analysis of emissions and national mitigation contribution backed by adequate data are hardly found in INDCs from the countries in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) except the case of Morocco
Summary
‘environmental mega conferences’ [Seyfang, 2003] have been stipulating and instigating ideas as well as concrete plans and programs to address climate change both locally and globally.Through consensus the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) formulate strategies required to bring down global emission and thereby lessen the pace of global warming. Preparation of national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) and nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs)are such initiatives formulated during the Conference of the Parties (COP). In Marrakesh (i.e. COP7) and Doha (i.e. COP18), respectively. Later, during COP19 in Warsaw, based on the negotiations under the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban. Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP), Parties to the Convention were invited to prepare and submit intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) in an attempt to intensify domestic preparations
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