This document sets Mauritius' government strategy for enhancing the role of renewable energy sources within the country's electricity sector. It defines capacity targets to reach by 2025 and 2030. The technologies include solutions generating current from tidal/wave, offshore wind, solar and hydro.

Mauritius' Vision 2030 is a three-year strategic plan that is updated when budget are presented before parliament. It notably identify climate-related priorities and allocates funds to specific adaptation and mitigation projects.&nbsp;

This document aims to enhance food security and nutrition in the country. It recognises the need to adopt "climate-friendly", sustainable agricultural development methods and to safeguard farmers livelihoods. The vision of the plan is stated as follows:&nbsp;“An integrated development to build vibrant non-sugar agriculture and agri-business sectors that utilise natural resources sustainably, contribute significantly to national food security and safety, empower producers to higher productivity, and enhance the welfare of the farming community.”<br><br><br>A new version of the plan is due to be released in 2021 or 2022.&nbsp;

This Strategy sets the country's energy vision over the medium and long term, emphasising environmental sustainability as a key aspect. The Strategy notably calls for energy security, encourage energy efficiency through legal, administrative, communication and sectoral actions, improve demand side management, encourage the uptake of sustainable buildings, and foster the production and use of renewable resources, including bagasse, solar, wind and hydro. Technology transfer is encouraged. An energy strategy for the transport sector is further laid out to promote the use of buses and promote low emission vehicles and fuels. Financial incentives, including carbon financing, are discussed.

This document aims at consolidate several sectoral and cross-sectoral policy goals under one common approach of environmental management. Climate change impacts are one of the key challenged considered by the document to handle in order to achieve resilience.

One of the national target concerning the built environment is to establish new constructions and building standards in the context of climate change and Tsunami (viii). The policy further seeks to enhance preparedness of the country to address the impacts of extreme weather events, climate change, including sea level rise, and other environmental disasters.

The policy further aims at fostering renewable energy production and energy efficiency.

This Act sets Mauritius' budget for the fiscal year 2021-2022. It amends existing legislation to insert climate-related clauses. It notably 1) grants to the Bank of Mauritius the ability to issue guidelines, directives, rules or instructions regarding the framework for the issue of sustainable bonds, including blue and green bonds (by amending the Bank of Mauritius Act), 2) improves the legal framework to support the production and use of renewable energy sources, including biomass.

The Prime Minister's budget speech included an announcement of a coal use phase-out by 2030.

This document is Mauritius' framework climate law. Parts II, III and IV of the Act create climate-focused institutions and bodies and set their attributions.&nbsp;<br><br>Part II of the document creates the Inter-Ministerial Council on Climate Change, which is in charge of setting national objectives, goals and targets with a view to making Mauritius a climate change-resilient and low emission country.<br><br>Part III creates the Department of Climate Change within the Ministry responsible for climate matters. The Department's attributions encompass broad policymaking duties, including the following: 1) promoting adaptation and mitigation measures in all sectors, 2) establishing mitigation procedures and reporting mechanisms, 3) establishing and maintaining a climate change database, 4) promoting the implementation of Article 6 of UNFCCC on education, training and public awareness on climate change and related matters, 5) monitoring the implementation of mitigation and adaptation policies, and 6) annually publish the National Inventory Report on greenhouse gas emission by sources and removal by sinks.&nbsp;<br><br>Part IV creates the Climate Change Committee and charges it with a range of coordination and recommandation missions.&nbsp;<br><br>Part V mandates the Department, in collaboration with other executive bodies, to formulate a National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan, a National Climate Change Mitigation Strategy and Action Plan, and a National Inventory Report. It also sets a number of further procedural and reporting duties, and obliges departments to undertake public consultations when developing climate-related strategies and policies.&nbsp;<br><br>Part VI defines the legal applicability of the Act to the island of Rodrigues, for which dedicated institutional bodies will be created, and strategies and policies will be developed.<br><br>Part VII contains implementation, enforcement, liability, consequences of liability and confidentiality clauses. It also amends the Beach Authority Act, the Environment Protection Act, the Local Government Act, the&nbsp;<br>Pas Géométriques Act, the Planning and Development Act, the State Lands Act and the Tourism Authority Act with climate-related clauses.&nbsp;

This law creates a National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council to formulate a National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Policy and a National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Centre to act as the main institution in Mauritius for coordinating and monitoring the implementation of disaster risk management activities. It also requires the government to, through these institutions, create a National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Strategic Framework and a National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Plan for implementing concrete disaster risk management measures.

This Act establishes the Mauritius Renewable Energy Agency.

The Agency's missions are to 1) promote the adoption and use of renewable energy with a view to achieving sustainable development goals, 2) advise on possible uses of liquid natural gas, 3) create an enabling environment for the development of renewable energy, 4), increase the share of renewable energy in the national energy mix, 5) share information and experience on renewable energy research and technology, and 6) foster collaboration and networking, at regional and international levels, with institutions promoting renewable energy.

The Act further defines the functions, powers, composition and financing of the Agency.
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Mauritius. Biennial update report (BUR). BUR 1., Biennial Update Report from Mauritius in 2021

Mauritius. Biennial update report (BUR). BUR 1. National inventory report., National Inventory Report from Mauritius in 2021

Mauritius First NDC (Updated submission), Nationally Determined Contribution from Mauritius in 2021

Mauritius. National Communication (NC). NC 3., National Communication from Mauritius in 2017

Mauritius First NDC (Archived), Nationally Determined Contribution from Mauritius in 2016

Climate Change Act 2020 (no 11/2020)

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