Status of negociations on CDM
Perumal Arumugam
Regional Workshop on CDM and NAMAs for Latin America and the Caribbean ,Bogota, (31 – 02
Sep 2014)
UNFCCC Secretariat
Background
• Decision 4/CMP.9, at the thirty-ninth session of the Subsidiary Body
for Implementation (SBI), requested the secretariat to prepare a
technical paper, by 19 March 2014.
• Three parties and eight other observer organizations submitted
inputs to technical paper.
• SBI 40 discussed the informal note prepared by the co-chairs in
WARSAW taking into account the technical paper.
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Elements covered in the technical paper
1. Membership and composition of the EB
2. Liability of DOE to compensate for the issuance
of CER resulting from significant deficiencies in
validation, verification and certification reports
3. Provisions for programmes of activities
4. Length of the crediting period
5. Requirements for the demonstration of additionality
6. Further elaboration of the role of designated national authorities
7. Simplification and streamlining of the project cycle for certain project
categories
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Key items in the Technical Paper - Governance
• Removing the distinction between members and alternate members
• Providing seats to private-sector and other organizations
• Allocating a seat for least developed countries
• Improving transparency in the nomination process
• Limiting total length of service and terms on the Board
• Improving gender balance
• Ensuring competence
• Protecting against conflict of interest
• Professionalizing chair and vice-chair roles
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Key items in the Technical Paper – DOE Liability
• Limiting the scope of liability
• Changing the threshold of designated operational entity behaviour
that triggers liability
• Creating a reserve of certified emission reductions
• Deducting certified emission reductions from later issuance
• Deleting current requirements
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Key items in the Technical Paper – Programme of activities
• Add new section in M&P
• Environmental impact assessment and the local stakeholder
consultation (PoA vs CPA)
• Additionality and baseline setting (PoA vs CPA)
• Inclusion of CPAs into a PoA by DOE
• Duration of the crediting period
• Several host Parties
• CPAs to have different monitoring and verification schedules
• Specific provisions on multi country PoA.
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Key items in the Technical Paper – Length of crediting period &
Additionality
• Shortening the length of each crediting period and/or reducing the
possibility of renewal
• Introducing a flexible approach to determining the length of crediting
periods
• Inclusion of [requirements] [principles] [means] for the demonstration of
additionality
• Possible [requirements] [principles] [means]
• Investment analysis;
• Common practice analysis;
• Barrier analysis;
• Positive lists;
• ‘First -of -its -kind’;
• Dynamic baselines;
• Standardized approaches.
• E+/E- policies
• Limiting technology types
• Reassess baseline scenario at RCP
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Key items in the Technical Paper – Role of DNA
• Inclusion of separate section in M&P
• Clarifying the roles of designated national authorities – (include current
roles)
• Increasing transparency at the designated national authority level
(elements under discussion)
• Validation by DNA
• Handling complaints and stake holder comments
• Requirements for the content and form of letters of approval
• Key principles on withdrawal and suspension of LoA
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Key items in the Technical Paper – Simplification in validation and A/R
• Remove validation for specific types of project activities
• Remove the thresholds of micro scale CPA.
• Land Parcel
• Timing of verification
• Permanence
• Additional activities (LULUCF)
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Outcome of June sessions
• Agenda item 6 (a) Review of the CDM modalities and procedures to
continue in LIMA
• Strong view of some Parties in favour (and against) to link the concept
of net mitigation in CDM M&P review
• Rule 16 of the Rules of Procedures followed
• A new Co-Chairs note is issued, it reflects
• the areas that Parties would like to further consider in Lima,
• "agreed" views of those issues that shall be included in the
review and finally
• those matters that are outside the scope of the review and
therefore do not require further consideration.
• No official status for this document
• It captures the progress of the deliberations by Parties and expected
to be used in LIMA.
• No mandated inter-sessional work has been agreed by Parties,
• Work will cover the possibilities for the scope of such a review and its
implications.
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THANK YOU!
A.K.Perumal,
Team Lead , Programme Officer,
Standard Setting Unit of SDM, UNFCCC
[email protected]
UNFCCC Secretariat
UNFCCC secretariat, SDM programme