Capacity Development for CDM
The Sustainable Development Concept
in the CDM Perspectives
Tunis, 27-29 August 2004
Samir Amous, APEX, Tunisia
Regional Centre for North Africa and Middle-East
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•SD definition
 « our common future » (Bruntland, 1987)
« development that meet the needs of the present
generation without compromising the ability of the
future generation to meet their own needs »
 Agenda 21 : SD planning & changing the
consumption and production patterns
Art 12 KP CDM should help « the Parties (non
Annex 1) to achieve sustainable development »
•Challenge: How operationalize the SD concept ?
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SD Assessment for CDM projects
Prerequisite for considering CDM project
No formal approach recommended officially
Full Responsibility of host countries
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Some previous tentatives independent
from CDM
United Nations: A wide programme for determining SD
indicators: economic, environment, and social
OECD tentative to assist in better directing ODAa
set of criteria (ECO: GDP, Payment Balance, Commercial
Balance, tranfert of cleaner technologies, job creation,
etc., ENV: reduction of air pollution, reduction of water
pollution, etc., SOC: local jobs, assistance to remote
communities, reduction of social inequities, etc.)
World Business Council for SD: built on the OECD
work
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A SD approach is necessary
To avoid diverting Non-Annex countries from their
priorities
To avoid diverting scarce capacities and human
resources
To provide for more participatory approaches in
project development
 To identify any possible negative impact or
opposition to the project
To rank projects according to a consistent scaling
of priorities
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Establishing a SD assessment approach
Structure a relevant approach according to
country priorities
Identify Criteria
Operationalize the approach
Designate the instutional framework for SD
assessment
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Structure a relevant approach
in the country
What are the country priorities (energy, agriculture,
forestry, etc.)?
Should the method be different across sectors ?
 Should the approach be qualitative or quantitative ?
Who should participate in the SD assessment ? DNA
members, various stakeholders, stakeholders who
work directkly on the topic, etc.
How the final decision should be made ?
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Select SD criteria
Establish a participatory process to define criteria
Build on previous experiences in the country and
outside to develop the criteria table
Try to take the constraints related to
operationalizing the approach into account (not too
many criteria, not to few, avoid redundancy)
Prepare a comprehensive description of the criteria
to allow for a consistent interpretation among
stakeholders
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Operationalize the approach
How to integrate quantitative and
qualitative criteria together
How to integrate views of many persons
together for one criteria
How projects will be finally quoted/ranked
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Designate the instutional framework
for SD assessment?
Identify the institutions to be involved in the SD
assessment ?
Identify the persons and proceed with the
designations
Define modalities and procedures to state SD for CDM
projects: ad-hoc meetings, provide for intensive
discussions, work by email, etc.
Define Frequency of the meetings
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