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Developing Country Meetings in China, India, and Brazil
Jake Schmidt, International Program
Manager, and Matt Ogonowski,
Policy Analyst, from CCAP were in Beijing, China (26-28 March) and Delhi,
India (30-31 March) for meetings with key government, industry, academic,
and NGO representatives for workshops to present results of greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions and mitigation analysis in these countries.
A similar workshop will be held in Brasilia,
Brazil
(10-11 March) for key Brazilian policymakers. These workshops are a part of
the project Assisting Developing Country
Climate Negotiators through Analysis and Dialogue and serve as
an important forum to present the results of this project, receive feedback
from key policymakers, and help policymakers in their deliberations on GHG
mitigation activities. The project is conducting bottom-up GHG projections
for the entire economy and for key sectors (e.g., electricity, iron and
steel, cement, transportation), assessing cost and emissions reduction
potential of key technologies and approaches, and identifying potential
approaches for overcoming the major barriers for the promising options.
Similar analysis is being conducted in Mexico
and a workshop on the preliminary results will be held later in 2006 in Mexico City.
For more information on the project, see: http://www.ccap.org/international/developing.htm
CCAP Presents at
the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Conference
Jake Schmidt, International Program
Manager, presented on a "Sector-based Approach to the Post-2012
Climate Change Policy Architecture" at a meeting hosted by the UN
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok, Thailand.
The meeting, the Asia-Pacific Dialogue
on Innovative Options for Non-Annex I Countries Participation for Climate
Change Action, was attended by leading climate change
policymakers from across the Asia-Pacific region. The presentation was
based upon a proposal for the post-2012 architecture that has grown out of
CCAP's Dialogue on Future International Actions to Address Global Climate
Change.
For a copy of the presentation, click
here.
For more information on the Future Actions Dialogue, click
here.
CCAP Report and
Presentation on Clean Energy in Latin America and the Caribbean
President Ned
Helme and Fran Sussman
recently presented at a workshop to the Inter-American Development Bank
(IADB) on Clean Energy Investment Framework in Latin
America and the Caribbean (LAC).
As part of a session on "Trends and Challenges to Increasing Clean
Energy in LAC", Mr. Helme presented a paper entitled, "Barriers
to Increasing Clean Energy Investment and Consumption in Latin America and
the Caribbean." His presentation
focused on categorizing the financial, institutional, cultural, market, and
other barriers to increasing investment in both renewable energy and energy
efficiency in the LAC region, and provided numerous examples both of
existing barriers, and of instances of projects and programs that have
found ways to reduce or eliminate barriers and move investment forward in a
meaningful way. The presentation highlighted both broad-based programs
funded by multi-lateral institutions and country-level efforts in Brazil, Mexico,
Chile, Peru, Bolivia,
and Colombia.
The work represents another in an ongoing series of CCAP papers looking at
investment flows to developing countries and ways to overcome barriers and
finance climate-friendly technologies.
View the Presentation
Click Here to View the Final Report
CCAP Presentation
on Cap & Trade in the West
On April 20, 2006, senior policy analyst, Stacey
Davis, will present ideas on "What Should Cap &
Trade Look Like in the West" at the California Climate Action
Registry's annual conference, Connecting
the Dots on Climate Change, in Dana Point, California. Her talk
will build from the Center's recent study of mitigation options in various
industry sectors in California
and policy responses for achieving mitigation actions. The summary of this
study, "Cost-Effective GHG Mitigation Measures," was released on
January 19, 2006 [view
report]. Supporting sector papers were released previously as comments
on the Energy Commission's Integrated
Energy Policy Report.
Her comments will also draw on the Center's 2005 assessment of approaches
for addressing emissions leakage resulting from a cap-and-trade program for
the power sector, "Design of a Cap on Emissions from California Power
Demand." Our assessment of mitigation options found that significant
reductions towards the Governor's target could be achieved cost-effectively
in the agriculture, cement, forestry, solid waste, and transportation
sectors and through reductions in other high GWP gases. In all, we found
that such measures, when combined with actions already underway in California, could
achieve 88% of the Governor's 2010 target and 86% of the Governor's 2020
target for marginal costs of less than $30 per ton and for average costs of
less than $6 per ton.
Our analysis of approaches to leakage found that a demand-based cap in California has some
clear advantages over a cap on generation, including the ability to address
emissions from out-of-state plants, the ability to more directly encourage
development of energy efficiency and renewable energy, and reduced
potential for leakage. The success of a cap on emissions associated with
power demand rests on resolving data and monitoring and verification
issues.
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CCAP Presentation
on the 'US Experience with GHG Reduction'
March 20-12, CCAP Brussels Representative, Andrzej
Blachowicz, presented on the "US Experience with GHG
Reduction" to over 100 participants gathered for the CO2 Emissions Trading – Present Status and
Perspectives Conference . The event was organized by the Polish
Steel Association (HIPH) and co-partnered by CCAP.
Key discussion points included: status of the National Allocation Plans I
and II in Poland,
organization of the Competent Authority (Krajowy Administrator Systemu
Handlu Uprawnieniami do Emisji), verification of emission reports due March
31, accounting rules, exchanges and international carbon markets, guidance
for NAPs II and the revision of EU ETS directive. Discussions involved all
complexities and problems related to the implementation of the Emissions
Trading directive in Poland.
To view the agenda, go to: http://www.hiph.com.pl/program_en.pdf.
To view the presentation in Polish,
click here.
CCAP to Present on
Carbon Trading System Options
CCAP will be represented by Dan Chartier at an April 20th workshop in St. Paul sponsored by the University of Minnesota's
Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Project [http://www.extension.umn.edu/water/carbon/index.html].
CCAP's presentation will provide information on carbon trading system
design options to help guide Minnesota
as they work to determine what policies for greenhouse gas reductions would
be a best fit in their State, with a focus on policies would provide the
best opportunities for the inclusion of emission reductions from
sequestration-based activities.
President Ned Helme will Present to the Environmental Markets Conference
On Monday, April 24, Ned Helme
will speak at the Environmental Markets Association's (EMA) 10th Annual
Spring Conference held at the Trump International Sonesta Beach Resort in N. Miami, Fla.
from April 23-25.
His presentation will include the following questions:
- When might we get to an
international GHG market that includes the US?
- What are developing
countries such as Brazil,
China and India
doing to prepare for entry into a global emissions market that has
greater potential than just CDM?
- Does the sector-based
approach being discussed under AP-6 provide a linkage to trading under
the Kyoto Protocol?
- Could a US solution be crafted that allows
participation in international emission markets outside Kyoto?
The Environmental Markets Association (EMA), an international nonprofit
trade association, was originally formed in 1997 to promote market-based
trading solutions for environmental management. Today EMA consists of more
than 250 individuals from 190 companies worldwide. EMA is the world's
largest membership-based organization dedicated to advancing environmental
markets.
See www.environmentalmarkets.org for additional information.
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