Regional Training on INDCs - Contributions to the Global Climate Agreement II
Date: 18.03.2015
Place: Tirana, Albania
Organizer: ECRAN Secretariat with EC TAIEX Unit
In order to facilitate the development of national climate policies converging with EU acquis as well
as promote awareness, ECRAN has launched a series of four regional workshops to familiarize the
beneficiaries with the EU 2030 framework for climate and energy and share experiences on
modelling and scenarios work, development of roadmaps and national climate strategies, as well as
on setting up of GHG targets. The first workshop was organized in January 2014 in Zagreb, Croatia
and provided an overview of various types of modelling tools and their application in support of
evidence based policy making. The second workshop took place on 28-29 October in Brussels and
focused on sharing information about the achievements and challenges in the UNFCCC process
running up to the 2015 Paris COP and exchanging information about the EU and enlargement
countries' preparations of their intended nationally determined contributions (INDCSs) to the 2015
Global Climate Agreement.
This third workshop which will take place on 18th March 2015 in Tirana will follow up on the
October 2014 workshop having the focus on the UNFCC negotiation process toward the successful
Paris outcome and the preparation of INDCs by beneficiaries in order to have their INDCs submitted
before COP21.
General objective
To strengthen regional cooperation between the EU candidate countries and potential candidates
in the fields of climate action and to assist them on their way towards the transposition and
implementation of the EU climate policies and instruments which is a key precondition for EU
accession.
Specific objective
To provide information on the possible processes to develop the INDCs and recommendations on
the content and format of INDC submission and to take stock on the existing expert work which can
be used during those preparations.
Expected Results of the Workshop
The expected results are:
- Participants familiarize themselves with the recent developments regarding the intended nationally determined contributions to the 2015 Global Climate Agreement;
- Introduction to the work towards guidance materials useful for INDC preparations and stocktake of the modelling work potentially useful for beneficiaries for their INDC preparations
- The workshop will discuss the challenges regarding the INDC preparations and on possible ways of supporting INDC preparations
