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The Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) are a set of climate change
policies and actions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC). NAMAs, designed with a bottom-up approach through national processes, focus
on active involvement of developing countries in climate change mitigation actions.
One term, “transformational impact,” has been widely used as a key concept or metric
of the NAMAs. However, this concept does not have one internationally agreed-upon
definition, thus creating barriers especially for the NAMA funding process. Therefore,
it is essential to examine how “transformational impact” is defined and to understand
commonalities and variations in this definition across different organizations involved
in the NAMA process. As a part of the Masters Project, interviews were conducted with
people from 12 different organizations and the interview transcripts were qualitatively
analyzed. The analysis suggests that interviewees believe that the NAMAs’ transformational
impact should go beyond a project-centric approach to mitigation actions to include
non-greenhouse gas benefits, such as broad national government projects. Each organization
emphasized different themes in the interviews. The international organizations and
institutions mainly focused on national ownership of the NAMAs, whereas funding agencies
stressed the actual projects of developing countries. The results of this study suggest
that the NAMAs should create a platform to facilitate communication about the NAMA
process among different organizations.
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