The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) serves as the integrator in the UN Development System, to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP has a Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise supporting delivery of the signature solutions in UNDP’s Strategic Plan.
Within the GPN, the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) develops all relevant policy and guidance to deliver on UNDP’s Strategic Plan, providing technical advice to Country Offices, representing UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora, and engaging in UN inter-agency coordination.
Climate change is the single greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. Climate change mitigation – or reducing greenhouse gas emissions – is essential to fulfilling commitments to the Paris Agreement and limiting the global mean temperature increase to 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels. UNDP, with more than 280 climate change mitigation projects and programs in over 110 countries, is a key actor supporting countries in their emission reduction plans, contributing to ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions. Activities in energy, as well as forests and agriculture, will be critical to meeting global mitigation objectives.
UNDP’s approach to forestry aligns with the SDG 15 and contributes to UNDP’s ‘signature solution’ on environment and nature-based solutions for development. Deforestation and forest degradation accounts for more than 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and it is clear that the stabilization of global temperatures cannot be achieved without reducing emissions from the forest sector. UNDP’s Climate and Forests programme supports countries to conserve and sustainably manage forests and ensure sustainable and equitable development paths that lead towards carbon neutrality. More information here: www.climateandforests-undp.org.
UNDP supports the Governors’ Climate & Forests Task Force (GCFTF) through the implementation of a pledge of NOK 200 million to the network to develop and implement innovative plans and actions for jurisdictional REDD+. Under this grant, UNDP is managing the Innovation Funding (Window B) which includes a project with the states of the Brazilian Legal Amazon on leveraging finance for low-emission development. The project is implemented by Fundação Amazônia Sustentável (FAS) in partnership with the GCFTF’s Regional Coordination in Brazil as well as six non-governmental implementing partners. Under the framework of this Window B project, UNDP is providing technical assistance to the nine states to access REDD+ finance using Architecture for REDD+ Transactions’ (ART) The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES), including submissions under the 2021 call for proposals by the Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest Finance (LEAF) Coalition, a public-private coalition including major international companies as well as donor governments like Norway.
An integral part of the support to the Brazilian states and their partners is the preparation of technical products and capacity building on the ART/TREES standard and the preparation of their LEAF proposals, in particular technical sections on carbon accounting. UNDP is seeking a contractor to support these efforts both online and in-person in each of the Legal Amazon’s states. The selected contractor will work closely with the UNDP Climate & Forests Programme, FAS, and the GCFTF coordinator in Brazil, as well as civil servants in each of the states and their non-governmental implementing partners.
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