Work Plan and Budget: August 2019 – July 2020

All Coalition initiatives continued to convene and implement joint activities, with the results and progress highlighted on their webpages and in the 2019-2020 Annual Report. Below is an overview of new funding approved during the same period. Note that in 2021 a simplified system for funding activities will be developed as part of the transition to the 2030 Strategy. 

Sectoral Action & Initiative funding

New initiative projects were approved in March 2020, based on concept notes submitted in November 2019. Most are expected to start implementation in 2021:  

• Bricks/South Asia - Reforming the brick sector in South Asia through skill development and promoting R&D (India, Pakistan and Nepal) (150,000 USD approved pending SC clearance of full proposal) 
• Bricks/LAC - Latin American Policy Advisory Network for Clean Brick Production: Momentum, Scale-up, Policy Promotion and Leveraging Third Party Finance (60,000 USD approved pending SC clearance of full proposal) 
• Efficient Cooling/Global - Awareness raising and technical workshops for efficient cooling (165,000 USD approved pending SC clearance of full proposal) 
• Vehicles/Global - Implementing the 1.5 degree Action Programme in the Heavy-Duty Vehicles Sector (200,000 USD approved pending SC clearance of full proposal) 
• National planning - Extending approaches to new CCAC Partners and developing and applying methods to integrate SLCPs and air pollutants into climate change MRV frameworks (304,858 USD approved pending SC clearance of full proposal) 

Small-scale strategic funding was approved by the Steering Committee for the following: 
  

• Vehicles/Global - The Global Status of Used Heavy Duty Vehicles (HDV) Trade Flows (approved by April 2020 SC for 50,000 USD) 
• Agriculture/China - Strategy for promoting methane mitigation from manure management in China (approved by July 2020 SC for 95,000 USD) 

National Action

Under the CCAC Action Programme to Address the 1.5 C Challenge, funding was approved by the Steering Committee and Working Group: 
   

• ASEAN/Integrated approach - Advancing the Clean Air, Health and Climate Integration Agenda in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Region (approved by April 2020 WG for 150,600 USD from 2019 budget) 
• Chile/Black carbon - Support the inclusion of black carbon in the design of Chile’s long term vision (approved by February 2020 SC for 40,000 USD from 2019 budget)  
• China/Integrated approach - An Integrated Assessment for China’s Paris and Air Quality Targets to support the China’s National 14th Five-Year Plan (approved February 2020 SC for 100,000 USD from 2020 budget) 
• East African/Vehicles - Soot-Free bus forum to secure city commitments and integrate soot free bus benefits in national NDC reporting (approved February 2020 SC for 100,000 USD from 2020 budget) 
• Peru/Waste - Enhancing NDC ambition and scaling up implementation in the Municipal Solid Waste sector in Peru (approved February 2020 SC for 100,000 USD from 2020 budget) 
• Global/Analysis - Estimation of Morbidity from Air Pollution and its Economic Costs (approved March 2020 WG for 133,312 USD from 2020 budget) 

Solution Centre Expert Assistance funding

Under the CCAC's Solution Centre Expert Assistance programme, funding was approved
 

• Mexico/Oil and gas (August 2019) - Capacity building for monitoring, reporting and verification of methane emission in the oil and gas sector (20,000 USD approved) 
• Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina/Waste (April 2019) - Informing the development of composting plants (2 requests from Serbia and BH merged into one project) (40,000 USD approved) More information 
• Congo/Household energy (October 2019) - Identify opportunities for transition to clean household energy (20,000 USD approved) 
• Indonesia (October 2019) - Conceptual design for the closure of open dumps (20,000 USD approved) More information
• Maldives/Vehicles (October 2019) - Developing a cost-benefit analysis for introducing fuel and vehicle standards (for land vehicles and boats), which is a follow up activity to Maldives national SLCP plan (20,000 USD approved) 
• Nigeria/Waste (December 2019) - Assessment of the current waste situation of waste treatment and disposal site in Nigeria. The assessment will include data collection and desktop research of the recent waste related work in Nigeria (20,000 USD approved) 
• Colombia/Oil and gas (February 2020) - Develop regulation proposal that outlines technical, operational and quantifiable standards for management of fugitive emissions in domestic oil and gas production – will be completed by Dec 2020 

Outputs & coverage during the reporting period

By country: 

• Argentina/Agriculture (Initiative funding, approved 2013) - Pioneer Argentinian farming method reduces air pollution and climate emissions 
• Bangladesh/Bricks (Initiative funding, approved 2013) - Toxic fumes give way to green brick kilns in Bangladesh 
• Bangladesh/National planning (Initiative funding, approved 2013) - Bangladesh’s National Plan 
• China/co-governance (Action Programme/SAP, 2019) - Synergizing Action on the Environment and Climate – Good practice in China and around the globe 
• Colombia/Bricks (Initiative funding) - Project for mitigating brick sector pollution receives SDG Award 
• Colombia/Health (Solution Centre, 2020) - Santiago de Cali and Aburrá Valley lead efforts in Colombia to calculate health burdens of air pollution  
• Colombia/Oil and gas (Initiative funding, approved 2017) - Gas flaring has dangerous side effects but these mitigation opportunities could be a win for everyone 
• Cote d’Ivoire/National planning (Initiative funding, approved 2013) - Cote d’Ivoire endorses National Plan  
• Malaysia/Waste (Initiative funding) - Cutting waste methane emissions in Malaysia | capture gases from food waste at source 
• Mexico/National planning (Initiative funding, approved 2013) - Mexico launches National Strategy 
• Moldova/National planning (Initiative funding, approved 2016) - Moldova on clear path to eliminating air pollution from road transport 
• Mongolia/National planning (Initiative funding, approved 2017) - Mongolia increases climate change ambition with actions that improve air quality and human health 
• Nigeria and Cote D’Ivoire/Oil and gas (Initiative funding, approved 2017) - Nigeria and Cote D’Ivoire join Global Methane Alliance 
• Nigeria/Household energy (Initiative funding) - Scaling clean cooking responsibly: Tackling air pollution through a woman-centered model in Nigeria 
• United States/Oil and gas (Initiative funding, approved 2017) - Aerial sampling offers a new look at escaping gases that contribute to global climate change 
• Uruguay/Agriculture (Initiative funding, approved 2013) - How Uruguay Can Have Environmental Sustainability – And Eat Its Beef Too 
• Vietnam/agriculture (Solution Centre, 2019) - Vietnam becomes global leader in greening up its agriculture  

By region: 

• SICA/Assessment (Solution Centre, 2019) - baseline document in Spanish for Central America and the Caribbean ministerial work in that region drawn from the Regional SLCP Assessment, to guide a regional plan. 
• West Africa/Vehicles (Initiative funding, approved 2014) - West African Ministers adopt cleaner fuels and vehicles standards 

Global: 

• Global/Agriculture (Initiative funding, 2018) - Reducing Emissions Intensity to Feed the Planet— Now and in the Future 
• Global/HFCs (Initiative funding, approved 2014) - CCAC project for climate friendly cooling in cars wins prestigious industry award  
• Global/National planning (Initiative funding, approved 2018) - How to enhance NDCs, reduce air pollution and improve human health 
• Global/Oil and gas (Initiative funding, approved 2017) - The first measurements of methane emissions from oil and gas platforms in the Gulf of Mexico are released  
• Global/Vehicles (Initiative funding, approved 2013) - Green freight Action Plan making it more efficient, better for the environment, and less expensive 
• Global/Waste (Initiative funding) - The CCAC's Waste Finance Programme Helps Cities Tackle Barriers to Transforming Their Urban Waste 

For progress and a full overview of outputs from each initiative, see their webpages.

Governance meetings

• 1 HLA on margins of 2019 UN Climate Action Summit (22.09.2019, New York City) 
• 2 WG meetings, both virtual (03.09.2020, 22-23.07.2020) 
• 7 SC meetings, 1 in-person and 6 virtual (14.08.2019, 24.10.2019, 18.12.2019, 11-13.02.2020 in Paris, 29.04.2020, 23-24.06.2020, 08.07.2020) 
• 7 Strategy Task Team meetings  

Outputs: 
   

• 2030 Vision adopted  
• CCAC Framework updated with extended duration of the CCAC’s mandate (to 31 December 2030) 
• HLA web-story - Climate and Clean Air Coalition leaders: We must significantly reduce short-lived climate pollutants by 2030 - The Coalition’s 2030 Vision is in response to the United Nations Secretary General’s call for increased ambition and action to address the climate crisis 
• CCAC minister and leaders video message  
• HLA coverage by IISD-RS - 11th High Level Assembly of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (CCAC) 

Science

• 1 Science-Policy Dialogue (22.06.2020) 
• 6 SAP meetings (19.11.2019, 06.12.2019, 20.02.2020, 15.05.2020, 29.05.2020, 23.06.2020) 

Outputs: 
  

• Opportunities for 1.5oC consistent methane mitigation: Agriculture Sector 
• Opportunities for 1.5oC consistent methane mitigation: Waste Sector 
• Opportunities for 1.5oC consistent methane mitigation: Fossil Fuel Sector 
• Opportunities for 1.5oC consistent black carbon mitigation (September 2020) 
• Opportunities for 1.5oC consistent HFC mitigation (September 2020) 

Other details

Partners can access further details on the Work Plan & Budget for each calendar year through the CCAC Intranet or by request to the Secretariat.