Stage 3b: Assessing Opportunities

Stage 3b

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Introduction to Framework Assess current country plans, policies, practices, and capacities Develop_BAU Stage 4: Prioritizing and Planning for Actions

Begin execution of implementation plans

• 1.0. Organizing the LEDS Process
• 1.1. Institutional Structure for LEDS
• 1.2. Workplan to Develop the LEDS
• 1.3. Roles and responsibilities to develop LEDS

• 2.1. Assess current country plans, policies, practices, and capacities
• 2.2. Compile lessons learned and good practices from ongoing and previous sustainable development efforts in the country
• 2.3. Assess public and private sector capacity to support initiatives
• 2.4. Assess and improve the national GHG inventory and other economic and resource data as needed for LEDS development
• Greenhouse Gas Inventory Development Toolkit

• 3a. Analytical Decision Making - Developing BAU Scenario
• 3b. Analytical Decision Making - Assessing Opportunities
• 3b.1. Assess technical potential for sector technologies
• Renewable Energy Technical Potential Toolkit
• Building Energy Assessment Toolkit
• Power System Screening and Design Toolkit
• Land Use Assessment Toolkit
• Bioenergy Assessment Toolkit
• Transportation Assessment Toolkit
• 3b.2. Assess economic and market potential of technologies and initiatives
• Clean Energy Market Analysis Toolkit
• 3b.3. Prioritize development options
• 3c. Analytical Decision Making - Developing and Assessing Low Emissions Development Scenarios
• 3c.1. Develop low emissions growth scenarios
• 3c.2. Assess institutional framework for LEDS
• Financing Initiatives Toolkit
• Policy and Program Design Toolkit
• 3c.3. Assess in-depth contributions of selected scenarios to goals across sectors
• Land-use Scenario Analysis Toolkit
• Energy System and Scenario Analysis Toolkit
• 3c.4. Perform multi-criteria impact analysis and assess stakeholder responses
• Clean Energy Impact Assessment Tool
• Sustainable Land-use Impact Assessment Toolkit

• 4.1. Preparations for Implementation
• 4.2. Prepare comprehensive implementation plan
• 4.3. Launch implementation

• 5.1. Begin execution and monitor progress of implementation plans

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Stakeholders in this stage can use analyses of technical and market potential of climate initiatives and capacity constraints in the public and private sectors to assess how mitigation actions can contribute to national development goals (e.g., employment, GDP, health, local environment) and to establish concrete near and long-term goals.

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