1 / 14

Registries for Kyoto Mechanisms

Registries for Kyoto Mechanisms. Jukka Moisanen Energy Market Authority. Topics. Purpose Components Roles and Functions Case Finland. ETS/ System of Registries: PURPOSE. Ensuring and demonstrating compliance Accurate accounting Reporting of additions and subtractions Tracking

melina
Download Presentation

Registries for Kyoto Mechanisms

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Registries for Kyoto Mechanisms Jukka Moisanen Energy Market Authority

  2. Topics Purpose Components Roles and Functions Case Finland

  3. ETS/ System of Registries: PURPOSE • Ensuring and demonstrating compliance • Accurate accounting • Reporting of additions and subtractions • Tracking • Actions on allowances • Issuance and holding , transfer, cancellation etc • Transparency and reliability • Trustworthiness • Parties comply with the rules of Kyoto Protocol

  4. Registry system and Interest Groups

  5. ETS Registry system, UN schema Online Not later than 12/2007 2006/2007? Online

  6. Setting up a registry Case Finland

  7. Background:the EU Registries System • EU Emission Trading System • EU Allowances • 25 Member States • 12,000 installations with Operator Holding Accounts • Open for any individual or organization • Own National Registry for each MS • Compatible both for EU/ETS and Kyoto/ETS • Community Independent Transaction Log (CITL) • operated by the Commission • records and checks transactions

  8. Challenging start in 2003 • EU forerunner • UN rules not ready • only draft Data Exchange Standard available • EU Registry Regulation not ready • Only draft rules available • Extremely tight schedule

  9. Policy Entering into cooperation with other parties to understand all requirements and interpretations Licensing a existing registry software, not producing own one Acquire rights to add to or modify the licensed software code Automation of all processes to minimize the manual administrative work Outsourcing the software maintenance and server hosting Basic Policy Definitions Risk • Changing Requirement Specifications • Tight schedule • Localisation needs • Restricted resources

  10. Finnish RegistrySetup and Maintenance Process Transfer to production Localisation changes Reference installation

  11. What is learned Time is needed for learning. Time is needed for testing, testing and testing Dedicated technical staff Senior level expertise for selected technical solution Setting up the server environment Setting up the communication links Working contacts between Registry Administrators Source of information Way to solve issues Experiences Issue • Complication level is high • Human Resources are important • Practicalities are time consuming • Cooperation is invaluable

  12. EU Registries System today

  13. Licensed registry software in EU(6 / 2005) Greta Seringas ? Private company ? ? ?

  14. Questions? Jukka Moisanen Head of Unit, IT and Support Services Energy Market Authority Lintulahdenkatu 10 FI-00500 Helsinki, Finland + 358 9 6220 3625 jukka.moisanen @ emvi.fi

More Related