Planning & policy

By 2030, all CCAC State Partners have further integrated air quality and climate planning and have implemented SLCP mitigation actions. This should occur in ways that complement and reinforce major efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and achieve multiple benefits. 

By 2025, all CCAC state partners will have undertaken steps and aspire to achieve the following:

• developed, prioritized and endorsed SLCP mitigation strategies and/or plans consistent with their commitments to support global climate goals and national air quality standards, including estimates of cost and benefits and implementation and finance plans for mitigation measures;

• included SLCP mitigation priorities in their national climate plans and/or other relevant national air quality or development plans, policies, and reports and into national and sub-national policymaking;

• demonstrated/documented that integrated climate and air quality plans are under implementation;

• developed institutionalized monitoring of implementation of planned SLCP measures and measurement and reporting systems that can track progress in taking action and reducing emissions and impacts.

Steps required to support the achievement of the 2025 milestones above:

• prepare up-to-date, nationally endorsed, regularly updated emission inventories informing and monitoring implementation of SLCP mitigation actions;
• prepare emissions projections for at least 2030, 2040 and 2050;
• assess implementation pathways and engagement of implementation facilitators (i.e. sectoral hubs, funding mechanisms at national/international level, relevant national entities) and promote linkages within and between relevant government ministries;
• document mitigation actions compatible with Paris Agreement and references to equitable access to sustainable development, eradication of poverty and safeguarding food security, and with a 1.5°C pathway as appropriate, explaining how they consider that this will help to put the world on this pathway.

2025 Milestones for ODA-Eligible Countries

The CCAC through the Strategic SLCP planning, policy and implementation and the sectoral hubs will support Official Development Assistance (ODA)-eligible countries with the aim of achieving the following by 2025:

• At least half of the ODA-eligible CCAC state partners have SLCP mitigation implementation plans and/or have included SLCP mitigation as part of a climate or clean air plan and contributing to their development priorities – these should be integrated and adopted in national political processes, considering how measures are to be financed and implemented – and have the institutional capacity for implementation.

• At least half of the ODA-eligible CCAC state partners actively engage with the relevant stakeholders in the country involved in the implementation and funding of mitigation actions, and ensure that the plans to address SLCPs are fully integrated with relevant national plans, policies and strategies (e.g. climate, air quality, agriculture, economic, development, etc.).

• All ODA-eligible CCAC state partners that have requested support in the planning process (i.e. development of integrated climate and air pollution emission inventories for historical years; development of baseline and mitigation scenarios to inform mitigation strategy development and to identify action; capacity building to understand the multiple benefits of taking action) and with identified SLCP mitigation priorities, have received technical, financial, or other support, as applicable, have identified and prepared funding applications/proposals for national and international funding including with the support of sectoral hubs. The Hub will identify how to increase the rate of delivery of these plans as compared to 2012-2020. 

Subnational 2025 Milestones 

• By 2025, at least 20 countries have alignment between national climate and clean air plans and sub-national plans, and implement those plans coherently/complementarily; at least 20 sub-national authorities have developed SLCP mitigation plans and are implementing priority mitigation measures.

Action to achieve these goals:

• The CCAC will increase the engagement of its state and non-state partners to provide mentoring and knowledge exchanges between countries, as well as to ramp up the dissemination of guidance tools and resources for national SLCP planning and policies.
• CCAC state and non-state partners will also provide capacity building on key aspects of SLCP planning and implementation, including: technical assessment of SLCP emissions; identification, evaluation and prioritization of SLCP mitigation measures, implementation pathways and resource mobilization.
• The National Planning Hub will coordinate its activities closely with those of the Sectoral Hubs (see Annex 2) to allow for continuity from national planning to sectoral action.
• The Hub will engage early on in countries’ SLCP planning processes with the sectoral hubs to support the implementation of the plans. Engagement of sectoral hubs will also be sought to provide more details to the plans based on their technical expertise.  Sectoral hubs will play a key role in advising and supporting on the issue of the barriers to delivering and implementing those policies that have been identified as priorities.
• The Scientific Advisory Panel will: i) help prioritize key countries, sectors and pollutants, ii) share knowledge, assessments and tools of relevance to national planning and policy; iii) review technical outputs; iv) keep the coalition and the Hub abreast of relevant scientific findings and new developments; v) advise on needs for further scientific investigation; and vi) discuss questions from national stakeholders and foster science policy linkages at science-policy dialogues.