Implementation of new procedures standards tools and guidelines

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

Slide title • General agreement on usefulness of standardised baselines • Difficulty to make it work a) Data availability/ data quality (QA/QC) b) Setting thresholds (level of harmonisation across countries and sectors) c) Financing standardised baselines in the face of uncertain demand d) Regulatory and administrative capacity at DNA level e) Will not help underrepresented countries to access CDM f) Risks of cherry-picking g) Can UN set thresholds or is this infringing on DNA powers? 2

Slide title Action points/recommendations a) Fast track b) First concrete proposal (charcoal) c) 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 d) Stakeholder proposal for • fast track registration of standardised baselines • fast track registration of Po. A for micro-scale projects • standardise MRV, mainly for non-energy projects e) Extend the framework to non-energy (transport, agriculture) f) Conservativeness of thresholds vs. data quality g) Involve stakeholders 3