Effectively Delivering on Climate and Nature: Policy analysis to maximize synergies and co-benefits in Mongolia
Focusing on Mongolia, the study examines how nationally determined contributions (NDCs), national adaptation plans (NAPs), and national biodiversity strategies and action plans (NBSAPs) align, identifying overlaps, gaps, and opportunities for enhanced coordination. It combines a policy document analysis with expert interviews. Key areas of analysis include governance structures, strategic goals, policy measures, financing, and monitoring systems.
Key Findings
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Mongolia lacks a formal mandate to align its NDC, NAP, and NBSAP, which contributes to fragmented planning and parallel project efforts. This limits coordination and potential synergies, reflecting an opportunity to strengthen shared understanding of the benefits of more integrated approaches.
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Limited coordination has led climate and biodiversity processes to evolve separately, resulting in parallel assessments and duplicated efforts. These patterns highlight an opportunity to strengthen linkages and improve coherence across Mongolia’s planning frameworks.
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Heavy reliance on development partners and consultants has contributed to parallel, project based policy efforts. This can lead to misaligned actions and missed opportunities for coherence, highlighting the value of strengthening nationally led coordination.
The climate and biodiversity crises are closely interconnected, yet national policies often address them separately, leading to fragmented approaches. This policy analysis highlights the need for stronger integration and defines synergies as the intentional coordination of planning and implementation across NDCs, NAPs, and NBSAPs to achieve more effective outcomes and co-benefits.
Focusing on Mongolia, the report begins by outlining the institutional landscape for climate and biodiversity, along with the current status of key national policies. This is followed by a synergies assessment, which examines how Mongolia’s NDC, NAP, and NBSAP intersect, highlighting shared objectives, targets, indicators, activities, stakeholders, sectors, potential trade-offs, and gaps. It then explores the potential challenges, gaps, and barriers that could hinder deeper integration and the development of effective synergies. The final section highlights actionable opportunities and strategic entry points to enhance alignment and strengthen coordination across Mongolia’s climate and biodiversity frameworks.
The analysis was guided by the Effectively Delivering on Climate and Nature: NDCs, NAPs and NBSAPs Synergies checklist. It aims to inform national focal points; NDC, NAP, and NBSAP policy-makers and planners; and civil society organizations in Mongolia working to align their climate and biodiversity policies and actions to seek more effective outcomes and multiple and co-benefits.
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