ASEAN CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVE

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ASEAN CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVE

• Presented by
• Liana Bratasida

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ASEAN consist of

• ten nations in South East Asia
• covering an area (4.5 million sq km)
• total population ?530 million people
• GNP of about US 312 billion and per capita of
  US 496
• average economic growth rate 5.5 (1980-1990) and
  FDI grew as fast as 40
• Bali Concord II 2003 declared that ASEAN aims to
  become a single market

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Climate Change

• Short term and no longer a long term global
  environment issues
• All countries in the ASEAN region are vulnerable
• Capacity to cope is low
• Local impact has been felt in many places
  including Southeast Asia
• All countries need to take action according to
  the principle of common but differentiated
  responsibility and respective capability

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KYOTO PROTOCOL

• ASEAN countries are advised to
• ratify Kyoto Protocol
• encourage key parties to the UNFCCC to ratify it
  ? Rusia
• Continue support Kyoto Protocol and UNFCCC

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Impacts of and Adaptation to Climate Change

• ASEAN countries need to
• take the issue of impacts of and adaptation to
  climate change as a priority
• Increase their involvement in the discussion and
  negotiation on impact (mitigation) and adaptation
• Expressly reject the efforts to delink the
  international agreements with Third Assessment
  Report of the IPCC

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Clean Development Mechanism(CDM)

• CDM serve to
• achieve emission reduction commitments of the
  industrialized countries
• Foster sustainable development while contributing
  to the ultimate objective of the UNFCCC

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Weakness That Needs to be Strengthened by the
ASEAN member countries

• CAPACITY
• Increase bargaining power in CDM global Market
• Net working and information sharing among DNA
• Create conducive policies for CDM Implementation
• Support programmes of building the capacity of
  project proponent and operational entities
• Enlarging the pool of investor
• Increase capacity of DNA
• Strengthening ASEAN position in internal
  negotiation

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• INFORMATION
• Increasing the flow of information
• Promoting communication among private
  sector/stakeholders, financial institution
• Considering a common approach and framework in
  setting up emission inventory system in each
  country
• Build network for government agencies who work
  with CDM

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• MARKET
• Increase the quality of the project
• Establish a Joint Marketing Strategy
• Establish an ASEAN level clearinghouse
• Consider joint approach on emission trading

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• INSTITUTION
• Support efforts to establish an ASEAN level
  Clearinghouse
• Representation of ASEAN interests in the
  Executive Board of the CDM
• Develop ASEAN position for the second period of
  commitment

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LONG TERM GLOBAL PARTICIPATION

• POSITION OF ASEAN MEMBER COUNTRIES
• Commencement of exchange of views among ASEAN
  countries
• Endorsement of the long-term climate change
  induced temperature change limit up to 2 degrees
  Celsius
• Setting up of trigger agreement for future
  action for both industrialized and developing
  countries

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ASEAN CLIMATE CHANGE WORKING GROUP

• ASEAN countries are advised to establish an ASEAN
  Climate Change Working Group (WG)
• WG has to consist of key stakeholder ? relevant
  research group, official within the Ministries
• The ASEAN secretariat in Jakarta is advised to
  facilitate the implementation of WG