Special event on Integrating Climate Change into National Sustainable Development Strategies

1. Climate change and French NSDS Christian BrodhagInterministerial delegate for sustainable development France Special event on Integrating Climate Change into National Sustainable Development Strategies Economic and Financial Committee of the UN General Assembly New York, 13 November 2007 Interministerial delegate for sustainable development Premier Ministre - Ministère de l’écologie, du développement et de l’aménagement durables

2. PNLCC 2000-2004 Climate plan 2004-2012 evaluation revision PNAQ 2007-2012 PNAQ 2005-2007 directive 2003/87/CE Spring Council EU European SD strategy Peer review new actions actualization SNDD 2003-2008 SNDD 2008-2013 CIDD CIDD 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Mandate : Parliament, Government Parliament, NSDC Reports France : processes 2002-2007 Climate change Sustainable development Christian Brodhag

3. 4 Key objectives 1 2 Place of climate change 7 key challenges SEDD SNDD European strategy for sustainable development National strategy for sustainable development Environmental protection Social equity and cohesion Economic prosperity international responsibilities Climate Change and clean energy      10 Policy guiding principles fundamental rights, solidarity within and between generations, democratic society, involvement of citizens, businesses and social partners, policy coherence and integration, best available know-ledge, precautionary principle, polluters pay Sustainable Transport     Sustainable consumption and production    Conservation and management of natural resources   Cross cutting policies 3 Education and training Research and development Public Health  • Financing & economic instruments • Mobilising actors • Implementation, monitoring & follow-up Social inclusion, demography and migration to be increased  Global poverty and sustainable development challenges   Europe & France SDS: content Christian Brodhag

4. Why NSDS and CC coherence ? • NSDS as: “a coordinated, participatory and iterative process of thoughts and action to achieve economic, environmental and social objectives in a balanced and integrated manner at the national and local levels” • Guidance in Preparing a National Sustainable Development Strategy: Managing Sustainable Development in the New Millennium, Background Paper, International Forum on NSDS, Accra, Ghana, 7-9 November 2001, n°13, DESA/DSD/PC2/BP13. United Nation, New York • Major processes : sustainable development, climate change, poverty reduction strategies… should integrate CC • Coherence : minimize adverse policies, avoid decision contrary to the CC policy, identify and mobilize the right institutional level (national, local) • Synergy : between sectoral policies, between political mechanisms (continuous improvement, indicators…) Christian Brodhag

5. context evaluation & diagnosis Mainstreaming at all steps CC peer review vision consensus building CC priorities and objectives evaluation & improvement outputs outcomes CC CC CC monitoring plans by themes by administration global processes & action plan CC CC implementation budgets capacity building CC at all stage of NSDS process • SD principles • inter-generational considerations • system thinking • multi-stakeholder participation • adaptive management component of strategic public management Inspired by Darren Swanson and Lássló Pintér, IISD, in Institutionalising sustainable development, OCDE, 2007 Christian Brodhag

6. National level Linking processes : political decision (NSDS authority/Designated National Authority DNA), stakeholder involvement (NSDC), administrative implementation and follow up, information and indicators… Linking content : adaptation and mitigation in all sectoral policies and crosscutting issues. International : Linking international organisations World Bank, FAO, IMF, OECD, WTO, ILO, WHO, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNEP, UNESCO, UNICEF… UNFCC Kyoto Protocol CSD : UN DESA, UNEP… World Bank, IMF Climate Strategy CDM criteria National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS) Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)* sustainable development poverty and development climate change Developing countries : NSDS mainstreaming strategies and climate processes Christian Brodhag

7. Difficulties : Asymmetric relationships between climate change and sustainable development • Apparent urgency of climate change issues / heavy and complex processes of NSDS or other issue (poverty, natural resources management…) • Organized scientific bases of CC (IPCC) / controversial visions about SD concept, lack of scientific community • Public opinion and decision makers have intuitive comprehension of CC / SD processes being complex • Technical content of CC solutions (energy, transportation, technical innovation…) / political and procedural processes • Easy measurement system (CO2 equivalent) / complex evaluation (sustainable development indicators) • Solutions : • Prove the efficiency of NSDS and local Agenda 21 • Exchange of practices on NSDS, including peer review and other information sharing mechanism • Use of other paradigms : ecosystem services, ecological foot print… Christian Brodhag