In its updated NDC approved in November 2019, Mongolia increased its mitigation ambition from 14% to 22.7% reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to business-as-usual (BAU) by 2030 – 16,881 thousand tons CO2 eq. Share of the energy sector in total emission reduction is the highest – 66.7% followed by the agriculture sector (31.3%). The NDC also identifies adaptation priorities in the following sectors: animal husbandry and pastureland, arable farming, water, forest, biodiversity, natural disaster prevention, public health, and livelihoods and social safeguards. However, despite the commitments made to address climate change, implementation of the NDC remains a challenge and the Government of Mongolia (GOM) has note developed a long-term strategy consistent with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Therefore, this grant aims to address some of the barriers to implementation of the NDC and help to build the foundations for increase climate ambition consistent with the objectives of the Paris Agreement by delivering the following outputs:
– Strategy and institutional development plan for the new Climate
Change Research and Cooperation Center (CCRCC) developed and
implemented.
– CCRCC policies and human resource development plan developed
and implemented to ensure CCRCC has full legal and technical capacity to receive readiness funding from the GCF.
– CCRCC support to the NDA in the implementation of GCF
programming processes and the development of national systems for
managing climate change strengthened.
– Capacity of government staff in 21 aimags to integrate NDC at
subnational level planning and to finance and implement climate
actions strengthened.
– National Institute of Public Health database upgraded and query/report functions enhanced to facilitate integrated data analysis on climate change and health issues.
– Assessment of healthcare worker’s knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding climate change conducted.
– Nationally representative assessment of climate change awareness
and media consumption conducted to inform awareness raising and
capacity building needs for various stakeholders.
– Awareness of climate change amongst vulnerable groups and impacts on vulnerable groups increased amongst policy makers to improve engagement in climate change planning and programming.
– Capacity of staff of CSOs, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
(MSMEs) and other relevant private sector actors to develop new
business models and structure climate investments improved.
GCF CP updated 1 time to reflect progress and lessons learned and
integrate results of NAP and additional climate change research and analyses.
– Health sector emergency response and preparedness plan developed.
– Assessment of climate change impact on food security, nutrition and human health conducted.
– Policy recommendations to strengthen climate change response of
health sector developed.
– Site-specific wind resource assessment conducted to gather bankable wind resource data to use in competitive procurement (auction) for new on-grid wind resources and help discover the market price for wind in Mongolia to improve energy planning.
– Measures to de-risk scaled up investments in renewable energy (RE) and (EE) assessed to help meet NDC targets and scale up climate ambition in the energy sector.
– Capacity of national stakeholders to develop project concept notes that respond to the needs of the country and the investment criteria of the GCF increased.
The proposed Readiness grant will benefit to various stakeholders, both directly and indirectly.
Direct beneficiaries are the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET), Ministry of Energy (MOE), Ministry of Health (MOH),
CCRCC, and sub-national government. These institutes will directly benefit from the activities under this Readiness support. Indirect beneficiaries include government agencies, National Agency Meteorology and the Environmental Monitoring (NAMEM), Energy Regulatory Commission(ERC), National Renewable Energy Center (NREC), public and research institutes such as Public Health Institute (PHI), private sectors, sub-national government, any project proponents who have or will be submitting funding
proposals or concept notes, and local CSOs (Environmental Civil Society Council, Mongolia Elders’ Association, Mongolian Renewable Energy Association, Mongol Energy Club, and representatives of vulnerable groups). Civil society and private sector will benefit from knowledge sharing and awareness campaign on climate change as a result of this project.