Prioritizing expected adaptation outcomes

1. Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG)
LEG regional training workshop on national adaptation plans (NAPs) for Anglophone Africa
27 February to 03 March 2017
Bingu International Convention Centre
Lilongwe, Malawi
Climate change and sustainable development:
prioritization of outcomes

2. The Sustainable Development Goals
• The SDGs represent a benchmark for national development
• The goals and targets are interlinked, and promote an integrated approach
to development planning
• The Paris Agreement expands on the SDG 13 on Climate Change by
providing specific targets
• The SDGs provide a complete/idealized representation of a national
development process/system
• They help define the boundaries for complete coverage of the development
process, and collectively define success/development.
• They help define a future, as might be defined through a visioning exercise.
That future is defined through essential functions of major components of
the national development process
• Climate change can be considered at a higher level to the other SDGs, as it
influences all the others, directly or indirectly

3. SDGs as a linked system of goals and targets
Source: David Le Blanc, "Towards integration at last? The SDGs as a Network of Targets“,
Rio+20 Working Paper 4

5. Themes in capturing major areas for adaptation (result areas)
• Agriculture and Food Security: Achieve and Safeguard Food Security
• Water resources: Achieve and safeguard water security and sanitation
• Physical safety: Protecting life and property against climatic extremes and disasters
including low-lying coastal areas
• Protecting livelihoods and enhancing adaptive capacity
• Climate proofing major components of national economies and sustainable development
(Climate proofing the socio economic growth engine)
• Supporting and enhancing the human health and safety
• Protecting and enhancing ecosystem structure and function for sustainable provision of
ecosystem goods and services including land use
• Climate proofing renewable energy sources and supplies
• Protecting and preserving cultural values and cultural systems
• Protecting and improving the design of critical Infrastructure and Land Use Planning
Originally introduced in the LEG Step by step guide for the preparation of the NAPAs

6. Contact:
The Chair
Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG)
leghelp@unfccc.int