中非共和国国家气候与发展报告（英）2024

Central African Republic Country Climate and Development Report

Major Recommendations

1. Infrastructure Resilience

   • Description: Enhance resilience to natural disasters in key infrastructure.
   • Impact: Supports ecosystem resilience by protecting natural buffers, ensures safety and well-being by reducing disaster risk, and strengthens policy and planning frameworks for disaster preparedness.

2. Renewable Energy

   • Description: Foster renewable energy partnerships for rural electrification.
   • Impact: Reduces environmental degradation by promoting clean energy, improves quality of life through reliable energy access, expands infrastructure for sustainable energy sources, and facilitates regulatory changes and public-private partnerships.

3. Climate Education

   • Description: Develop a national climate change education and communication strategy.
   • Impact: Raises awareness of the importance of preserving natural habitats, empowers individuals with knowledge and skills for sustainability, and enhances educational policies and integrates climate literacy.

4. Water Management

   • Description: Implement sustainable water resource management reforms.
   • Impact: Directly impacts water conservation and management of aquatic systems, enhances public health and access to clean water, involves infrastructure development for water conservation and management, and reforms policies related to water usage and management practices.

5. Climate Finance

   • Description: Increase coordination for optimizing climate finance.
   • Impact: Minimal direct impact, supports funded environmental projects, builds capacity by financing health and education projects related to climate, and improves the efficiency and effectiveness of financial resource allocation.

6. Financial Inclusion

   • Description: Promote financial inclusion to enhance climate resilience investments.
   • Impact: Facilitates investments in natural capital projects like reforestation, increases accessibility to financial services for economic stability, encourages investments in resilient infrastructure, and strengthens financial policies and systems to support sustainable development.

7. Community Monitoring

   • Description: Mobilize community-based monitoring for climate projects.
   • Impact: Enhances local environmental management and conservation efforts, empowers communities with oversight and active participation, supports the maintenance and effectiveness of physical projects like local dams, and strengthens governance through community engagement and accountability.

8. Sustainable Management of the Natural Capital

   • Description: Develop comprehensive policies for the sustainable development and management of natural capital.
   • Impact: Enhances natural capital by promoting sustainable land use and responsible resource management, including forests, supports job creation and skills development in sustainable industries, strengthens physical capital through improved resource efficiency and innovation in natural resource-based industries, and bolsters institutional capacity for governance and ensures compliance with sustainable practices.

9. Agricultural Resilience

   • Description: Strengthen agricultural resilience through climate-smart practices.
   • Impact: Improves land use and increases biodiversity, supports farmer welfare and community sustenance, enhances agricultural infrastructure like irrigation systems, and promotes policy shifts towards sustainable agricultural practices.

Contents

1. The Link Between Development, Fragility, and Climate Change

   • Economic and Social Development
   • Climate Change
   • Fragility
   • Conceptual Framework: Development-Fragility-Climate Nexus
   • The Way Forward

2. Climate Commitments, Policies, and Capacities

   • Navigating the Nexus Through Institutional and Governance Reform
   • Development Aspirations
   • Climate Commitments
   • Climate Commitments and National and Sectoral Strategies
   • Climate-informed Legislation and Coordination Mechanisms
   • Institutional Readiness for Climate Change Action
   • Enhancing Institutional Frameworks for Effective Climate Action
   • Climate Finance
   • Solutions to Enhance Climate Commitments, Policies, and Capacities