Second Regional Capacity Building Workshop
The 2nd Regional Capacity Building Workshop for CDM is completed!
In collaboration with the UNEP Risø Centre and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (5Cs), the Ministry of Housing and the Environment carried out the 2nd Regional Capacity Building Workshop for CDM on November 8-9, 2011 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Above: The Honourable Dr Roodal Moonilal, Minister of
Housing and the Environment for Trinidad and Tobago, endorses
the urgent demand for climate change actions on a regional
scale.
"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in
the same boat now." ~Martin Luther King Jr.
This famous line quoted by Ms Felicia Whyte, CARILEC in her
presentation, reflects the ideology which set the
framework for the 2nd Regional Capacity Building
Workshop for CDM, held on November 8-9,
2011. It impresses upon the Caribbean
counterparts the need for collective action in adaptation and
mitigation efforts for climate change in the Caribbean, being all
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) with similar
vulnerabilities.
The classical structure of CDM uses a project-by-project process
for registering and verifying projects. This approach involves very
high transaction costs, a long time to market, and a high risk of
non-registration. It is also very difficult to implement such a
process in least developed countries (LDCs) and SIDS where average
project sizes and the scale of national markets tend to be smaller,
so relative transaction costs are higher.
In order to redress these challenges and reduce transaction
costs in CDM and expand the mechanism's applicability to micro
project activities, the CDM Executive Board launched the Programme
of Activities modality, which is defined as:
"...a voluntary coordinated action by a
private or public entity which coordinates and
implements any policy/measure or stated goal (i.e.
incentive schemes and voluntary programs), which leads to
anthropogenic GHG emission reductions or increases net
anthropogenic GHG removals by sinks that are
additional to any that would occur in the absence of
the PoA, via an unlimited number of CDM programme
activities (CPAs)" (EB 32 ANNEX 38, Para.1).
The Programme of Activity (PoA) approach aims
to:
- Aggregate emission reductions by actors, sector and
regions.
- Achieve economies of scale
- Reach wider groups of actors
- Support types of activities that are too small to be developed
as stand-alone CDM projects
- Open sectors that have so far been not been addressed by the
CDM
- Foster the promotion of environmentally friendly
activities
The PoA approach can lead to a range of
advantages, including:
- Contributes to scaling-up the use of CDM: Potential to
design regional or sector-wide programs
- Flexibility on the number of "component programs/ projects"
that can be included in a registered CDM Programme.
- Creates enabling arrangements and operational, frameworks for
the implementation of sector wide policies.
- Enables the use of the CDM market instrument to support the
implementation of climate-friendly standards and policies.
- Intends to foster an enhanced regional distribution of CDM
project activities, in particular, in less developed
countries.
Programmatic CDM occurs at two levels:
- Programme Level at Programmatic CDM (PoA)
- Activity Level at Individual CDM Programme
Activity (CPA)
Each CDM Programme Activity (CPA) must:
- Comply with all the procedures and modalities of the CDM.
- Follow in principle the CDM project cycle
- Comply with the inclusion criteria of the PoA
- Include activity that has a direct, real, and measurable impact
on emission reductions.
Examples of Technologies for PoA
development
- Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs)
- Household stoves
- Domestic biogas
- Solar water heating
- Industrial boilers
- Building refurbishment
- Efficient chillers
- Small hydro power
- Municipal Solid Waste Composting
The context for PoA development in the Caribbean was also
assessed, with break out groups identifying and developing the four
(4) most popular Programmatic CDM ideas in different sectors as
outlined below:
1.
Environmental Efficiency in Tourist Accommodations and
Attractions in the Caribbean Region
2. Methane Avoidance through
Composting
3. Conversion of Regional
Public Bus Fleet from Diesel Powered to CNG
4. Regional Renewable Energy
initiatives
For more information on the CDM programme of activities,
please click on the following links to access the
presentations delivered at the 2nd Regional Capacity Building
Workshop:
