Bhutan

This document makes hydropower a core energy source for the country, and intends to protect the resource from adverse effects of climate change, notably by storing water from melting glaciers.

<div>This document aims to maintain a safe and healthy environment, create the conditions for sustainable development, enable economic self-reliance, and increase private sector engagement.&nbsp; The eleventh goal of the strategy is to enhance and promote resilience to climate change impacts &amp; Low emission development. Priority initiatives are listed as following:&nbsp;</div><ul><li>Develop climate smart and resilient farming technologies&nbsp;</li><li>Maintain carbon sequestration capacity of forest ecosystem</li><li>Increase capacity and investment in climate change research&nbsp;</li><li>Develop integrated agriculture landscape systems&nbsp;</li><li>Promote green technologies (Biogas, Green infrastructure, Organic inputs etc.)&nbsp;</li><li>Strengthen agrometeorological information and data management&nbsp;</li></ul>

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is implementing a pilot project to roll out 300 EVs with a provision of 20 percent subsidy and access to 70 percent loan from the financial institutes (FIs).

The objective of this policy is to develop national capacity to research climate change and address local impacts. This policy includes the establishment of a Bhutan Science Foundation to support the operationalization of the policy

This document has been identified in Bhutan's updated NDC, however no further documentation is available.

The Water Regulation aims to enforce the objectives and purposes of the <a href="http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/law/water-act/">Water Act (2011)</a>, effectively implement it and to identify roles and responsibilities of designates Competent Authorities.

It provides details for the preparation of the National Integrated Water Resources Management Plan (NIWRMP) and the River Basin Management Plans (RBMP).

This Act aims to establish and strengthen institutional capacity for disaster management, the mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction, and for integrated and coordinated disaster management focusing on community participation. It creates the National Disaster Management Authority, as the highest decision-making body on disaster management in the country and establishes that there should be a National Contingency Plan, as well as contingency plans at the Dzongkhag level.

This Act aims to ensure that the water resources of Bhutan are protected, conserved and managed in an economically efficient and environmentally sustainable manner and to establish suitable institutions for this task.

It establishes the National Environmental Authority (NEC) as the main authority responsible for the implementation of the Act and mandates the establishment of River Basin Committees. It also includes measures in case of water emergencies such as droughts and floods.

This Act aims at conserving and protecting the environment through actions led by the National Environment Commission (or administrative successors), and to promote sustainable development. Forest protection is one main objective of the Act (Chap. 5).

The Electricity Act enables the restructuring of the power supply industry and the possible participation of the private sector, by providing mechanisms for licensing and regulating the operations of power companies. The establishment of the Bhutan Electricity Authority as an autonomous body is meant to ensure a transparent regulatory regime; the Authority also has the role of laying down the standards, codes, and specifications of the Electricity Supply Industry. The Electricity Act must define the roles and responsibilities of suppliers and protect the interests of the general public. Two of the core objectives of this act are to promote the development of renewable energy resources and to promote efficiency in management and service delivery.

Art. 60.3 states that the Minister may, on the recommendation of the Authority, direct Licensees to undertake certain public service obligation which may include obligations in relation to the use of renewable energy sources (60.3.v).

Art. 25.1. states that when granting or rejecting applications, the Authority shall take into consideration energy efficiency, as far as adequate for the project applied for.

The project’s main goal is to enhance the resilience of smallholder farmers in Bhutan to key identified climate risks and enhance their food security by rolling out innovative index-based microinsurance through an integrated resilience building approach. The project will achieve its goal through the following three objectives: 1. Strengthen climate-resilient agricultural practices to underpin integrated climate risk management by smallholder farmers; 2. Roll out innovative climate risk transfer mechanism and build smallholder farmers’ resilience through integrated approach; and 3. Institutionalise innovative climate risk management for long-term sustainability. The project will meet these objectives through three interlinked components as detailed in Part II.A that will deliver an integrated package of interventions to address key causes of vulnerability to climate change and food insecurity for vulnerable smallholder farmers in selected districts in Bhutan. Component 1 focuses on enabling risk reduction to decrease overall exposure to more frequent and less severe climate
risks on the part of smallholder farmers. The bulk of the project budget will be allocated to Component 2 for the rolling out of index insurance, including for the
necessary associated activities of increasing access of predominantly women farmers to savings products and
microfinance and of facilitating concrete adaptation activities to enhance climate-resilient production, as well as
diversified livelihoods through value chain and marketing support for climate-resilient value chains. Under Component 3 the project will implement activities to institutionalise the innovative climate risk management
approach of index-based microinsurance delivered in an integrated resilience building approach for long-term
sustainability.

Given the amount of the past and current activities on climate change in the country, the present proposal will extensively draw from and build upon the past and current work rather than duplicating what has been and is being undertaken. Thus, the main objective of this proposal is to support the Kingdom of Bhutan prepare and submit the First Biennial Transparency Report and a combined Fourth National Communication and Second Biennial Transparency Report (BTR1 – NC4+BTR2) in compliance with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Paris Agreement’s (PA) reporting obligations.

SGP-OP8 builds on 30 years of successful experience in empowering local CSOs and CBOs in community driven initiatives that have enhanced wellbeing, increased awareness and resilience, and generated global environmental benefits. With economic development pressures intensifying in the developing world and the associated rising inequalities, local communities, particularly vulnerable and disadvantaged groups are becoming increasingly marginalized. The objective of Part 1 of SGP OP8 is to engage local CSOs/CBOs in landscape-seascape approaches across the 99 participating countries, providing them access to knowledge and information, capacitating them through learning-by-doing, skills development, and delivering technical and grant assistance for interventions that enhance socioeconomic conditions and generate global environmental benefits. In line with the GEF-8 SGP Implementation Arrangements Paper, core SGP resources are to be allocated equally among all eligible countries.

The proposed strategy, elaborated through four complementary outcomes, reflects the key features of GEF Small Grants Programme 2.0, including new approaches to support youth, women and Indigenous Peoples, linking up with complementary partnerships, cooperating with the two additional GEF agencies, and leveraging opportunities with other GEF programs. SGP-OP8 will facilitate opportunities for innovation and scaling up, catalyze multi-stakeholder alliances, and leverage dialogue platforms for greater impact.

An important comparative advantage of SGP is the focus on social inclusion and vulnerable groups, including women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, the elderly and youth. Expected results under OP8-Part 1 include 225,000 ha of land and ecosystems under restoration, 3,800,000 ha of landscapes under improved practices, 90,000 ha of marine protected areas under improved management, 270,000 ha of marine habitat under improved practices, and 500,000 direct beneficiaries, of whom 250,000 are women.

To strengthen the management of climate risks, and reduce the vulnerability of urban landscapes and communities to the impacts of climate change in Thimphu-Paro.

The project for climate resilience building in water stressed communities in Bhutan proposes an articulated approach that will lead to healthier ecosystems and improved associated services, better management of water use for human activities, improved information systems and decision-making, and linking with the most relevant level of governance. Issues related to water availability and use all along the watershed, the various components of sustainability (including at technical, financial and institutional level), and the participation of the beneficiaries are key aspects of the project.

Submission of Bhutan Call to include mountains and the cryosphere in the Global Stocktake Report, 2023, Submission to the Global Stocktake from Bhutan in 2023

Joint submission by Bhutan and Nepal: Inputs to the technical phase of the First Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement, Submission to the Global Stocktake from Bhutan,Nepal in 2022

Bhutan Second NDC, Nationally Determined Contribution from Bhutan in 2021

Bhutan. National communication (NC). NC 3., National Communication from Bhutan in 2021

Bhutan First NDC (Archived), Nationally Determined Contribution from Bhutan in 2017

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