Transcript Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable

Measurable, Reportable and
Verifiable
ECBI
Background
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Annex I took on Quantified Emission Limitation Reduction Commitments, while non-Annex I Parties in there
national communications have undertaken mitigation programmes that are not quantified . In the Bali Action
Plan, the
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The line has been upped for developing countries and you see it in the following paragraphs 1b(i) and 1b(ii)of the
Bali Roadmap:
“(b) Enhanced national/international action on mitigation of climate change, including,inter alia, consideration of:(i)
Measurable, reportable and verifiable nationally appropriate mitigation commitments or actions, including
quantified emission limitation and reduction objectives, by all developed country Parties, while ensuring the
comparability of efforts among them, taking into account differences in their nationalcircumstances;
ii) Nationally appropriate mitigation actions by developing country Parties in the
context of sustainable development, supported and enabled by technology,
financing and capacity-building, in a measurable, reportable and verifiable
manner”
Background cont.
• MRV is applied to mitigation in both developed and
developing countries, but applied in the former to
“commitments or actions”, including QELROs, and in the
latter simply to “actions”.
MRV in 1b(ii) also applies to the means of implementation.
MRV is applied to mitigation in both developed and
developing countries, but applied in the former to
“commitments or actions”, including QELROs, and in the
latter simply to “actions”.
• MRV in 1b(ii) also applies to the means of
implementation.MRV is applied to mitigation in both
developed and developing countries, but applied in the
former to “commitments or actions”, including QELROs, and
in the latter simply to “actions”.MRV in 1b(ii) also applies to
the means of implementation.
What are we Measuring, Reporting
and Verifying?
• Article 2 of the Convention
• “..... Stabilisation of of GHG concentration in the
atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous
anthropogenic interference with the climate
system......”
• The IPCC AR4 – established what is needed to keep
stabilization levels low and hence avoid the worst
impacts of climate change.
• for any stabilisation level,the assessments conclude
there will have to be absolute emission reductions by
Annex I and relative emission reductions for non-Annex
I countries.
What are we Measuring, Reporting
and Verifying?Cont...
• For developing countries, the reductions required in the
most ambitious IPCC scenario are a substantial deviation
below baseline in several regions by 2020,
• considering the less ambitious stabilization levels (not
forgetting the associated adverse impacts), then the
numbers change,but the pattern remains the same.
Developed countries must reduce absolute emissions
significantly and in absolute terms by 2020, and deeply by
2050.
• For developing countries,only for the 650 ppmv level can
emissions follow the business-as-usual emission
trajectories,and then only in the medium-, not the longterm. In all other scenarios, developing countries as a group
would be required to make relative reductions.
Queston to be addressed
• Outcomes or decisions that give further content to
paragraphs 1b(i) and 1b(ii) of decision 1/CP.13, the Bali
Action Plan, include answers to the following:
• How should measurable, reportable and verifiable
mitigation commitments by all developed countries be
made comparable?
• What does measurable, reportable and verifiable mean in
relation to technology, finance and capacity-building
support by developed countries for developing countries?
• What does measurable, reportable and verifiable mean in
relation to nationally appropriate mitigation actions by
developing countries?
For now........
• Whether the deal in Copenhagen will agree to
actual numbers what we as Africa and as
developing countries want to see is ,a fair,
equitable,effective, flexible and inclusive
package deal will have to strike a core balance
between development and climate
imperatives