The National Climate Change Policy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 2013-2020

• To achieve a pro-active, climate risk resilient Jordan; remaining a low-carbon growing economy, sustainable water and agricultural resources, healthy ecosystems and climate resilient communities
• To build adaptive capacity of communities and institutions, including social issues related to gender and vulnerable groups, increasing resiliency of ecosystems to climate change, especially as it relates to water resources and agriculture; taking full advantages of any mitigation opportunities
• To prioritise both mitigation and adaptation to climate change, but with emphasis on adaptation given Jordan's relatively low carbon emissions

• Provide guidance to government ministries in order to implement policy related to climate change adaptation and mitigation
• Facilitate the incorporation of climate change adaptation and mitigation into various private and public sectors, policies and legal frameworks
• Encourage strategies maximising co-benefits as it relates to health and minimising unintended negative consequences
• Encourage the integration of climate change mitigation objectives into key sectors' policies (energy, transport and waste)
• Take note of the needs of vulnerable groups while devising adaptation and mitigation policies, and incorporating adaptation and mitigation into green growth strategies and other policies as they relate to vulnerable groups (youth, elderly, women, poor)
• Mainstream climate change considerations in infrastructure and land-use planning and services
• Provide a strategy to ensure adequate financing for mitigation and adaptation objectives, strengthening institutional and human resource capacity

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