Integrating Co-benefits into Nationally Determined Contributions, Climate Policies and Air Pollution Policies in Asia

Policy Report
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The Asian Co-benefits Partnership (ACP) was created to support the mainstreaming of co-benefits into
projects and policies in Asia and the Pacific in 2010. The increase in the number of policies featuring cobenefits
in Asia and the Pacific suggests the ACP has had some success achieving this objective. Recent
changes in the international climate policy landscape (the continual strengthening of Nationally Determined
Contributions (NDCs) and the creation of an Article 6.4 financing mechanism) as well as developments with
air pollution initiatives have nonetheless generated demand for concrete examples of how countries are
integrating co-benefits into NDCs and other sectoral interventions. The main purpose of this report is to
share with policymakers how countries are working on co-benefits in NDC and related processes. The hope is
that that the opening chapter and three case studies— Thailand, Mongolia, and China—will shed light on the
progress and gaps encountered in leveraging cobenefits to integrate climate and other development
priorities in NDCs and related areas.

Author:
Ueno
Ittipol
Dagvadorj
Damdin
Rupu
Yang
Liping
Li
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