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Lesotho
Southern Africa
Title
Enabling Lesotho's Enhanced Transparency Framework
Objective

To build and strengthen Lesotho's national capacities for planning, monitoring and evaluating its climate policies and actions as defined in the Nationally Determined Contribution in order to comply with the Paris Agreement Enhanced Transparency Framework.

GEF project grant
USD 1.182.500
Status
Concept approved
Concept approval
Project document approval
Pending
Start date
Pending
End date
Pending
Implementing agencies
Executing agencies

Project outcomes

Lesotho uses climate change data and information as input to plan, monitor and report climate change strategies, policies and actions in compliance with the Enhanced Transparency Framework.

Stakeholders

Lesotho Meteorological Services (LMS)

Ministry of Energy and Meteorology (MEM)

Ministry of Development Planning

Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security

Ministry of Forestry and Land Reclamation (MFLR)

Lesotho Bureau of Statistics (BOS)

Ministry of Gender and Youth, Sports and Recreation

Academia and Research institutes

Development Partners

NGOs and civil society organizations (CSOs)

Knowledge Management Approaches

LMS, as the executing agency responsible for overall coordination related to MRV of climate change, will be leading the management of information and knowledge products produced by the project and ensuring their appropriate dissemination to relevant stakeholders and the general public.Knowledge products and communication materials produced by the project will be documented and widely shared at the national level through existing information sharing networks and
forums. 

Lesotho subscribes to the full implementation of the Paris Agreement and aims to remain an active partner of the CBIT Global Coordination Platform and the processes of sharing lessons with other parties to the UNFCCC. This national project will allow the country to participate in the CBIT global coordination platform by providing and receiving inputs. Sharing lessons learnt and experiences under the platform will ensure alignment of this CBIT project with other national, regional and global transparency initiatives.


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Level of capacity
  12-2018
Reporting national greenhouse gas inventory
8%
Reporting progress made in implementing NDCs
1%
Reporting on climate change impacts and adaptation
2%
Reporting financial, technology transfer, and capacity-building support needed and received
0%
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Lesotho
Southern Africa
Ratification of UNFCCC
07 . Feb . 1995
Kyoto Protocol
06 . Sep . 2000
Paris Agreement
20 . Jan . 2017
Population
2020
2,142.00
Thousands
SourceUN Data
GDP per Capita
2020
2,631.00
current US$
SourceUN Data
Energy Production
2020
18.00
Petajoules
SourceUN Data
Total GHG Emissions per Sector
Year 2000
UNIT GG CO2 Equivalent
Energy
1,079.00
Industry
0.00
Agriculture
2,234.00
Land Use Change and Forestry
-1,378.00
Waste
200.00