Activity 4: Build capacity
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Below are the global and regional obligations in this activity:
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Component 1: Build capacity for effective mitigation and adaptation activities
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Facilitate building capacity to ensure that climate change mitigation and adaptation projects deliver environmental and social benefits: CBD Decision VII/15, 9 SEE COMMENTARY 1
- Support capacity-building for the integration of adaptation concerns into sustainable development strategies: UNFCCC Decision 1/CP.8(e),
- Support the development of national adaptation programmes of action: UNFCCC Decision 5/CP.7, 15 SEE COMMENTARY 2
- Enhance capacities to formulate mitigation activities and policies and to integrate them with other policy instruments within the framework of sustainable development: KP Decision 29/CMP.1, 2(f) SEE COMMENTARY 3
Indirectly relevant obligations and commitments
- Build capacity within communities and relevant advisory services to sustainably use wetlands and their resources to improve livelihoods: Ramsar Resolution IX.14, 10 SEE COMMENTARY 4
- Organize workshops to enhance capacity-building on carbon dioxide capture and storage technologies and their applications: KP Decision 1/CMP.2, 20
Component 2: Build capacity to address climate change and wetlands linkages
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Pay special attention to building and strengthening institutional capacity and synergies between related instruments to address climate change and wetlands linkages: Ramsar Resolution VIII.3, 19 SEE COMMENTARY 5
Component 3: Build capacity to address threats to coral reefs
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Develop and support initiatives to foster active working relationships between scientists and managers to effectively respond to global change threats to local coral reefs: CBD Decision VII/5, 5 and CBD Decision VII/5, Annex I (elaborated programme of work on marine and coastal biological diversity) SEE COMMENTARY 6
Component 4: Build capacity to maintain mountain biological diversity
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Provide financial assistance support for the effective implementation of the programme of work on mountain biological diversity: CBD Decision VII/27, 7
- Further enhance the provision of additional financial resources and transfer of technology to implement the programme of work on mountain biological diversity: CBD Decision VII/27. 15
Component 5: Build capacity to manage protected areas
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Mobilize adequate and timely financial resources for the implementation of the programme of work on protected areas: CBD Decision VII/28, 9 SEE COMMENTARY 7
Component 6: Build capacity to manage wetlands
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Identify and make available sources of funds to undertake activities identified in the Guidelines for Global Action on Peatlands. Ramsar Resolution VIII.17, 20
Component 7: Build capacity to maintain island biodiversity
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Where appropriate, strengthen the capacity to develop and implement legal and other mechanisms that support this programme of work: CBD Decision VIII/1, 3 and CBD Decision VIII/1, Annex SEE COMMENTARY 8
Component 8: Build capacity to maintain biodiversity of dry and sub-humid lands
Directly relevant obligations and commitments
- Develop or implement activities, such as capacity-building, that will facilitate implementation of the programme of work, and overcome the identified obstacles: CBD Decision VIII/2, 7 and CBD Decision VIII/2, Annex.
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