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ecbi
european capacity building initiative initiative
européenne de renforcement des capacités
Post-2012 Scenarios Elements of the BASIC Sao
Paoulo Proposal Benito Müller
for sustained capacity building in support of
international climate change negotiations pour un
renforcement durable des capacités en appui aux
négociations internationales sur les changements
climatiques
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Task 4 Designing international climate change
policy and enhancing negotiations skills (Brazil
Team)
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Core Elements 2 4 Annex I Commitments
Core Element 2 Commitments of Annex I/B Parties
Annex B is amended to list the annual emissions
caps of each Annex I Party from 2013 through
2018 in tCO2e/year.

• After the commitments have been agreed each Party
  may choose to convert its commitment into a
  combination of
• an absolute emissions limit
• emissions intensity limit and
• new and additional funding (lt 10 of its
  commitment)

Any financial payments are divided by the COP/MOP
between the Adaptation Fund and a new Technology
Funding Mechanism
Core Element 3 Automatic Extension of Annex I/B
Commitments
Core Element 4 Economic Hardship
Core Element 1 Medium and Long Term Goals
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Core Element 5 Non-Annex I Parties Quantified
Sustainable Development Actions and No-Lose
Commitments

• A Non-Annex I Party may
• host Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), including
  programmatic CDM, projects
• quantify the emission reductions achieved by its
  sustainable development actions, including
  policies to reduce deforestation
• adopt a sectoral, excluding LULUCF, or national
  no lose commitment

A no lose commitment (also called
non-binding or one way commitments) entails
no compliance obligation if actual emissions
exceed the commitment, but allows the surplus
credits to be sold if actual emissions are lower
than the commitment.
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Core Element 5.2 Non-Annex I Parties Quantified
Sustainable Development Actions
Quantified sustainable development actions can
NOT generate tradable credits. But Parties will
be entitled to use simplified procedures for
access to funding from the Adaptation Fund and
Technology Funding Mechanism.
A Non-Annex I Party that prefers to generate
tradable units could implement its sustainable
development actions as programmatic CDM
projects.
The entitlement is to (i) fast tracking of
funding requests and (ii) for these to be on the
basis of simplified procedures (e.g. simplified
ways of meeting the incremental cost conditions
for policies and measures that support a
Non-Annex I Partys quantified sustainable
development actions).
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Core Element 5.3 Non-Annex I Parties No-Lose
Commitments
A Non-Annex I Party that adopts a sectoral or
national no lose commitment can earn voluntary
emission reduction units (VERs) for the net
emission achieved. VERs (equivalent to CERs for
Annex I/B compliance purposes) can be banked or
traded. A proposed commitment is subject to
independent review by the CDM Executive Board to
ensure that it is more stringent than the
emissions that would otherwise occur and assess
the calculation of net emission reduction
achieved.
VERs are subject to the 2 per cent levy for
adaptation assistance. A no lose commitment
must be maintained until the Party becomes an
Annex I/B Party.
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Core Element 6 Limits on Transfers of CERs and
VERs by Non-Annex I Parties
Graduation Trigger for each developing
countrys that takes the form of a limit on
cumulative transfers of CERs and VERs by each
Non-Annex I Party. A Non-Annex I Party is
expected to become an Annex I/B Party and adopt a
national emissions limitation commitment when its
cumulative transfers of CERs and VERs reach its
share of the global transfer limit.
A Non-Annex I Party that does not adopt a
national emissions limitation commitment when it
has reached its transfer limit is deemed to have
withdrawn from the Protocol.
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Core Element 7 to 9 The Kyoto Mechanisms
Core Element 7 Clean Development Mechanism
Core Element 8 Joint Implementation
Joint Implementation will continue to function
unchanged except that ERUs transferred from the
national registry of the host Party will be
subject to a share of proceeds equal to 2 per
cent to assist technology development.
Core Element 9 Emissions Trading
Emissions trading will continue to function
unchanged except that AAUs and RMUs transferred
from the national registry into which they were
issued will be subject to a share of proceeds
equal to 2 per cent to assist technology
development.
Core Element 10 Compliance
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Core Element 11 Enhanced Implementation of
Adaptation
The Adaptation Fund is funded by the 2 per cent
share of the proceeds on CERs and is
supplemented by a similar levy on VERs and a
share of the funding from Annex I/B Parties
financial commitments as decided by the COP/MOP
Despite implementation of measures to adapt to
climate change, extreme weather events will
continue to inflict serious damage. Parties
assess mechanisms to manage the risk of damage
and to provide compensation for damages incurred
as a result of extreme weather events and to
adopt an appropriate legal instrument to give
effect to such mechanism(s) no later than the
end of 2010.
Emergency response to extreme weather events
medical assistance, food, water, shelter, etc.
is better addressed by institutions such as the
International Red Cross/Red Crescent and hence is
excluded from this revised Protocol.
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Core Elements 1213 Technology
Core Element 12 Technology Transfer
Any Party that believes another Party is
restricting the transfer of a technology may
present its case to the Facilitative Branch of
the Compliance Committee.
Core Element 13 Technology Research and
Development
A Technology Funding Mechanism is established

• Funds from the Technology Funding Mechanism can
  be used
• to participate in international efforts to
  develop technologies to reduce emissions of
  greenhouse gases or adapt to climate change, or
• to enhance diffusion of relevant technologies by
  buying down their cost.

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Core Element 14 Misc.
Core Element 14 Memoranda of Understanding
Extending the Scope of the Agreement
Core Element 15 Trade Restrictions
Core Element 16 Review