TITLE HEADER

1
Implementation of new procedures, standards,
tools and guidelines
Standardised baselines
1st Sustainable Development Mechanisms Joint
Coordination Workshop Bonn, Germany, 24-25 March
2012
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Slide title

• General agreement on usefulness of standardised
  baselines
• Difficulty to make it work
• Data availability/ data quality (QA/QC)
• Setting thresholds (level of harmonisation across
  countries and sectors)
• Financing standardised baselines in the face of
  uncertain demand
• Regulatory and administrative capacity at DNA
  level
• Will not help underrepresented countries to
  access CDM
• Risks of cherry-picking
• Can UN set thresholds or is this infringing on
  DNA powers?

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Slide title

• Action points/recommendations
• Fast track
• First concrete proposal (charcoal)
• Top-down
• setting thresholds for additionality and baseline
  (cookstoves, power, cement/aluminium/steel)
• database of costs of technologies
• developing guidelines for DNAs on how to set
  thresholds
• adopt procedures for submission of standardised
  baselines
• Stakeholder proposal for
• fast track registration of standardised baselines
• fast track registration of PoA for micro-scale
  projects
• standardise MRV, mainly for non-energy projects
• Extend the framework to non-energy (transport,
  agriculture)
• Conservativeness of thresholds vs. data quality
• Involve stakeholders