1. Martin Krause
Team Leader - ECIS
Environment, Energy, Climate
UNDP

2. State of Affairs
Common Root Causes &
Obstacles
 Governance and
Institutions
 Capacities and Skills
 Policies, Regulations Drained peatlands extracted for fuel
 Financing and
Incentives

3. State of Affairs (2)
The Issues
 Ecosystems and Natural
BEFORE
Resources
• Land
Degradation, Water, Biodiver
sity Loss
 Energy and Climate Mitigation
• Renewable Energy and
Energy Efficiency
AFTER
 Chemicals
• HCFCs and other ODS
 Vulnerability to Climate
Impacts, Disaster Risk Reduction

4. Approach and Positioning
Sustainable Human Development;
Inclusive Green Growth; MDGs
Environment, Energy, Climate
 Removing
Barriers, Pressures, Threats
(policies, regulations, capacities, in
stitutions, behavior, finance)
 Creating a favorable environment
for investments from public and
private sector – ODA is not
sufficient

5. Approach and Positioning (2)
 Policy dialogue, knowledge sharing
 Projects, access to financing

7. International
Waters
Energy
Chemicals
Ecosystems/
Biodiversity
Climate
Adaptation

8. Belarus - Peatlands
• 1960: 14.2% of the country
2012: 6.4% of the country
71% drained for
agriculture, forestry, fuel Before
extraction
• Ecosystem restoration - hydro-
technical works in the field to
raise the ground-water table to
soil level
• 28,000ha restored. In addition to
environmental
benefits, development dividends
for local communities:
cranberries, fish After
grounds, ecotourism + policy
changes

9. Regional (Belarus, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan) - Accelerated
HCFC Phase Out
• Phase out for HCFCs under
Montreal Protocol
Curtail HCFC consumption
• Legislative measures to control
HCFC import/use; supply of
analytical and servicing
equipment/tools for the
Environmental Inspectorate and
Customs Departments and
refrigeration technicians;
technological conversions for
solvents and rigid foams
• Protecting human health and the
environment by assisting
countries to phase out
consumption and
production, and prevent releases
of ODS

10. Armenia - Energy Efficient District Heating
• New legal and regulatory
framework for rehabilitation of
DH systems, including feed-in
tariff for power generation
• USD 10m direct foreign (private)
investments leveraged into new
DH system (Avan district of
Yerevan, 213 buildings, 30.000 Multi-apartment panel building with
residents) exhaust chimney from gas heater
installed in one apartment
• System features combined heat
and electricity and introduced
apartment level metering
• 640 new contracts signed
between customers and heat
supply companies in the pilot Heat meter installed at the entrance to an apartment in
areas Avan district of Yerevan

11.  Promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency
programmes - SE4ALL
 Management of Ecosystems and Natural Resources -
including sust. agriculture, forests, peatlands, pastures
 Climate adaptation – Crisis and Disasters
 Transboundary water programmes such as the Black Sea
 Sound chemicals
management
 Poverty-Environment
Initiative

12. Thank You