Call for submissions from Parties and non-Party stakeholders on the 2022 PCCB focus area

The PCCB annually focuses on an area related to enhanced technical exchange on capacity-building and determined in its 2021-2024 workplan to make a call for submissions from Parties and non-Party stakeholders to guide its work on the annual PCCB focus area.

At its fifth meeting in June 2021, the PCCB agreed on the following focus area for 2022:

‘Building capacity to facilitate the coherent implementation of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) in the context of national development plans and sustainable recovery’.

The call is now closed and inputs received are being synthesized

How will the inputs be used?

The inputs will feed into the PCCB's workplan activities in 2022. This will include a focus area day at the 4th Capacity-building Hub at COP 27, and envisaged regional activities and webinars.

Further, in response to the COP request for the SBI to align the theme of the Durban Forum on capacity-building with the annual focus area of the PCCB (Decision 15/CP.24, para. 6), the inputs will also inform the design and preparations of the 11th Durban Forum on capacity-building envisaged to be held during the Bonn Climate Change Conference in June 2022. 

Topic and elements considered in the submission

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated multiple crises. Solutions for economic recovery efforts need to be responsive to the climate emergency and facilitate a transition to a greener, fairer, and more sustainable world. Capacity-building is a key enabler for this.

Building closely on the PCCB’s 2021 focus area on building capacity to facilitate coherent implementation of NDCs in the context of national development plans, the 2022 focus area is dedicated to the question of how this process can support a sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

In seeking to align NDC implementation and national development planning with recovery efforts that are focused on sustainability:

  • What are the major capacity-building needs and gaps in this area? The key institutional barriers?
  • Who should be the target recipients of such capacity-building? At the subnational, national and regional levels?
  • What are the key interventions, the enabling conditions, the knowledge and skills priorities?
  • What are the good practices and lessons learned? The tools and methodologies?

Background

The PCCB was established at COP 21 in 2015, with the aim of addressing gaps and needs, both current and emerging, in implementing capacity-building in developing country Parties and further enhancing capacity-building efforts, including with regard to coherence and coordination in capacity-building activities under the Convention (Decision 1/CP.21, para. 71). In 2019, the CMA decided that the PCCB shall also serve the Paris Agreement.

The PCCB was reviewed at COP 25 in 2019. With a 5-year extension (Decision 9/CP.25, para. 12), its mandate was refined with three priority areas:

  1. Enhancing coherence and coordination of capacity-building under the Convention with a focus on avoiding duplication of efforts, including through collaboration with bodies under and outside the Convention that engage in activities related to capacity-building, as appropriate and in accordance with their respective mandates;
  2. Identifying capacity gaps and needs, both current and emerging, and recommending ways to address them;
  3. Promoting awareness-raising, knowledge- and information-sharing and stakeholder engagement with bodies and relevant actors under and outside the Convention, as appropriate and in accordance with their respective mandates (Decision 9/CP.25, para. 9).

Related information

Submissions received