Transcript UNFCCC Initiatives to Encourage Climate Neutrality

UNFCCC initiatives to encourage climate
neutrality & showcasing SD benefits
Workshop 2: Using markets to deliver carbon and sustainable development goals
Asia Pacific Carbon Forum, Jeju.
7 September 2016
Benita Gurung, Regional Collaboration Center, Bangkok
UNFCCC secretariat, programme
Outline
• Encouraging
carbon neutrality
-VC Platform
• Promoting the
co-benefits of
CDM Project
activities- SD
Tool
CDM Project: 1754 Visakhapatnam (India) OSRAM CFL
Distribution CDM Project
What is climate neutrality?
• Dec 2015- the Paris agreement- a global climate change agreement that laid the
groundwork for a low-carbon future. In order to make that future a reality,
companies, governments and individuals must work together toward climate neutrality.
All of us have a role to play in rapidly moving the planet toward a pathway that keeps
global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
• To avoid the worst effects of climate change we need a climate neutral world. Every
level, from national governments to corporations to individuals, has a role to play.
• Climate neutrality is not about zero emissions. It is about reducing current
emissions to the point where we reach the ultimate balance between emissions and the
absorptive capacity of the Earth.
• To achieve​ climate neutrality, we must measure what we emit and then reduce those
emissions. Even with our best efforts to reduce, daily activities and business operations
will result in unavoidable emissions. This is why offsetting, only after measuring and
reducing, is key for climate neutrality.
“Climate neutrality is a long term vision of the world we want this century and backed by science. The
new universal agreement to be inked in Paris this December at COP21 needs to be a springboard to
that future. It is going to require action today and tomorrow and everyone needs to get on board-- from
governments and corporations to cities, regions and individuals.”, Christiana Figures
Voluntary cancellation platform
An online platform to allow the general public to voluntarily
cancel CERs.
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Makes CERs available for voluntary cancellation (VC)
easily visible and searchable;
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Contains a simple process to pay for the VC of those
CERs;
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For each purchase a certificate will be issued to the buyer;
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No brokerage fee charged to any user;
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Only CERs located in the CDM registry will be offered (both
CP1 and CP2).
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Voluntary cancellation platform
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Allows members of public easy access to offset their
emissions and become carbon neutral;
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Allows the public to support mitigation action (and
sustainable development) in a voluntary manner;
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Encourages voluntary use of CERs to offset the climate
footprint of individuals and organizations;
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Supports CDM project developers by providing an
additional channel to offer their CERs for sale (and
cancellation) to the public.
CERs purchased and cancelled are additional to
the emission reduction efforts by the governments
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Step 1: Measure
Step 2: Reduce
Step 3: Offset – purchase
(https://store.climateneutralnow.org/)
Updates
• Latest events that have been e neutralized with CERs: COP21, UN
Environmental Assembly (UNEA) and High Level Thematic Debate
on Achieving the SDGs (http://www.un.org/pga/70/events/sdgs/).
• An estimated 1,800 COP21 participants offset their travel footprint
with the Platform.
• Total amount of cancelled offsets to date (in tonnes): 40,199
• Total amount of cancelled offsets to date (in USD): 52,757.69
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• Demand side
initiatives- VC
Platform
• Promoting the
co-benefits of
CDM Project- SD
Tool
http://cdmcobenefits.unfccc.int/Pages/Create-a-report.aspx
SD Tool
• The sustainable development (SD) tool enables Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM) project developers to showcase
the sustainable development benefits of their projects and
programmes of activities.
• The tool contains a short survey about the project's co-benefits,
which is used to create a detailed sustainable development cobenefits report that is then published on the UNFCCC's website for
public access
• Questionnaire
SD Tool
• http://cdmcobenefits.unfccc.int/
• http://cdmcobenefits.unfccc.int/Pages/SD-Reports.aspx
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