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Policy Submissions
29 Nov 2018

Recommendations for SBSTA49 agenda item 11(b) as it relates to rules, modalities and procedures for the mechanism established by article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement

Prepared for the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice 49th meeting, COP24, Katowice In determining the rules, modalities, and procedures for Article 6.4, it is imperative that Parties learn from past experiences and strive for this mechanism to contribute to greater ambition. Specifically, lessons should be drawn from the Kyoto Protocol’s carbon offsetting mechanisms,…
Policy Submissions
29 Nov 2018

Recommendations for SBSTA49 agenda item 11(a) as it relates to the guidance for cooperative approaches referred to in article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement

Prepared for the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice 49th meeting, COP24, Katowice As part of the Paris Rulebook discussions at COP24, further elaborations are needed on the rules for article 6. Guidance for cooperative approaches under article 6.2 is an important element of these rules, and will need to be determined in a…
Policy Submissions
27 Apr 2018

Recommendations for the Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement

Prepared for the Bonn Climate Change Conference 30 April – 10 May 2018 In elaborating the rules, modalities, and procedures for Article 6.4, it is imperative that Parties learn from past experiences with the Kyoto Protocol’s carbon offsetting mechanisms Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI), and integrate provisions to ensure environmental integrity, foster…
Policy Submissions
5 Apr 2018

Input to the Talanoa Dialogue: Scaling up carbon pricing for inclusive and effective climate action

The way our societies currently measure development and prosperity is strongly biased and incomplete. This leads most individuals and organisations to prioritise polluting activities whose net benefits to society have been artificially increased through the failure to correctly price their social and environmental impacts. The polluter-pays principle is therefore not being implemented, which is akin…
Policy Submissions
4 May 2017

Recommendations for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement

Prepared for the Bonn Climate Change Conference 8 – 18 May 2017 Carbon Market Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the discussions on matters relating to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Years of stalled negotiations leading up to Paris Agreement unexpectedly delivered a strong provision for markets in the Agreement’s Article 6,…
Policy Submissions
4 May 2017

Recommendations for the review of the modalities and procedures for the Clean Development Mechanism

Prepared for Subsidiary Body for Implementation, 46th Session, 8-18 May 2017 Carbon Market Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the discussions on the review of the modalities and procedures for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) – SBI agenda item 7. While the Clean Development Mechanism plays no role in the Paris Agreement, the ongoing…
Policy Submissions
4 Nov 2016

Recommendations for APA Items 3, 5 and 6 as they relate to the market-based measure established by ICAO

Carbon Market Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the APA discussions[1] as they relate to the market mechanism agreed in October 2016 at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) 39th Assembly and adjustments needed to accurately harmonize the climate measure with ongoing work in the UNFCCC.
Policy Submissions
4 Nov 2016

Recommendations for the review of the modalities and procedures for the Clean Development Mechanism

Carbon Market Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the discussions on the review of the modalities and procedures for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) – SBI agenda item 7a.
Policy Submissions
21 Oct 2016

Joint civil society submission to SBSTA on the Sustainable Development Mechanism

The Center for International Environmental Law, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Carbon Market Watch, CIDSE, European Association of Geographers, Forests of the World, Foundation for GAIA, Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Indigenous Environmental Network, Indigenous Livelihoods Enhancement Partners, International Movement ATD Fourth World, Jeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement, Norges Naturvernforbund (Friends of the Earth Norway), OCEANIA Human…
Policy Submissions
6 Oct 2016

Carbon Market Watch submission to SBSTA on cooperative approaches

Article 6, paragraph 2 of the Paris Agreement outlines how Parties must comply with guidance provided by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA) when engaging in “cooperative approaches that involve the use of internationally transferred mitigation outcomes towards nationally determined contributions” (ITMOs). Although not…

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