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ecbi. european capacity building initiative initiative européenne de renforcement des capacités. Mitigation and Transparency of Action Session I (Mitigation) Andr és Pirazzoli Team Leader, AILAC Support Unit.
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ecbi european capacity building initiative initiative européenne de renforcement des capacités Mitigation and Transparency of Action Session I (Mitigation) Andrés Pirazzoli Team Leader, AILAC Support Unit for sustained capacity building in support of international climate change negotiations pour un renforcement durable des capacités en appui aux négociations internationales sur les changements climatiques
Mitigation and Transparency of Action • A year ago, this Fellowship presented the UNFCCC Parties with the idea of a Dynamic Contribution Cycle (DCC); • At the core if its design, is a five-year cycle of three phases: • Ex-Post Reviews (confusing yes! Will explain!), • National Analyses, and • Ex-Ante Assessments, leading to periodic communications of intended contributions and inscriptions of contributions. • This would iterate as explain in figure One below
Is the idea of a DCC currently agreeable? Are parties comfortable with a 3 phase approach to Mitigation? To climate action? Communicate Consider Inscribe
ADP 2-10 • General Discussions on elements for the mitigation section of the agreement covered: • operationalization of the long-term goal, • progression, • accounting rules, • quantification;, • market mechanisms, • international transport, • joint implementation, • a registry or annex, • joint mitigation and adaptation actions, • differentiation, • sector-specific actions, • non-market-based mechanisms, and • response measures.
ADP 2-10: didwemakeprogress? • Initialthree spin-off groups • clarifyingprovisionson non-market-basedmechanisms, led by Bolivia; • addressinghowdifferentiationcould be formulatedunder individual efforts, led by South Africa; and • narrowingthejointimplementation concept, led byBrazil. • Progress?? • Lack of consensus • Differentiationis at core of theagreement and willonly be solvedby a politicaldecision in furthernegotiations; • Brazilpresentedtwodraft paras onthepreparation, communication and implementation of INDCsbyparties, and onarrangementsforINDCs.
Addtional 3 Spin Off Groups • response measures, led bytheUnitedArabEmirates; • marketmechanisms, led by Colombia; and • land use and REDD+, led bytheUnitedKingdom. • Progress? • On response measures, a series of optionsrangingfrom no text to itemsfortheagreement and/ordecisions; • Onmarkets, a diversity of terms, includingeconomicmechanisms, marketmechanisms, flexible mechanisms and cooperativemechanisms; • Onland use and REDD+, someconcernswithsinglingoutspecificsectors in theagreement and a callbysome to balance REDD+ withotherapproaches.
Working document [Section D - Mitigation] http://unfccc.int/files/bodies/awg/application/pdf/adp2-10_d_07sep2015t1400_wds.pdf Version of 7 September 2015@01:00 reflects: elements with broad support; elements whose inclusion requires further consideration; issues benefiting from further discussion to deepen understanding; and an overview of discussions.
AneffectiveMitigationsystemshould at leastestablish: Long termgoal – trajectory (signal); legallybindingmitigationcomitments –whatevertheverbis, withkeyfeaturesorcharacteristicsthatprovideclarity and understanding; cyclesthatenableprogressivelyenhancedaction Transparency rules/principles; Incentive basedimplememtation (looking at compliancepreventively);