Intended Nationally Determined Contribution of Saint Lucia.

This Saint Lucia's Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) is a cross-sectoral policy document. The mitigation targets of this INDC are set against a Business As Usual (BAU) projection with baseline of 2010 and consider emissions reductions from the energy demand, electricity generation and transportation sectors. Conditional targets measured against the BAU emissions projections are 16% reduction by 2025 and 23% reduction by 2030. The INDC further outlines the country's adaption efforts.
According to the INDC, a Strategic Programme for Climate Resilience (SPCR) is developed and this has highlighted some key priority areas in need of urgent action, including food security.
Seeking to make agriculture, fisheries and fisheries more sustainable, the following key priority areas have also been highlighted by the SPCR: 1.Coastal Zone Management for Climate Resilience; 2. Community and National Level Interventions in Water Resource Conservation and Management; 3. Sustainable Land Management/Slope Stabilisation; 4. Human Resource Capacity Building; 5. Research and Systematic Observation and Data and Information Acquisition and Knowledge Management; etc.
Given its unique circumstances as a Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in one of the most vulnerable regions of the world, the country accepts the need for it to contribute to the global mitigation efforts but intends to pay greater attention to adaptation efforts. To this end, Government has approved the Saint Lucia Climate Change Adaptation Policy (CCAP)(2015), which seeks to ensure that Saint Lucia and its people, their livelihoods, social systems and environment are resilient to the risks and impacts of climate change. Implementation measures are being identified at the national and community levels, with regional and international support and backstopping provided through agreed modalities. Effort is being directed to achieving the following objectives by 2022: a) Priority adaptation measures to the adverse effects of climate change developed and implemented at all levels; b) Identification of vulnerable priority areas and sectors and appropriate adaptation measures using available and appropriate information, recognizing that such information may be incomplete; c) Adaptation measures in vulnerable priority areas supported by existing data sets and traditional knowledge, or new data developed as necessary; and d) Appropriate adaptation measures integrated into national and sectorial development strategies and linked as far as national circumstances will allow to the national budgeting process.