What is Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions NAMAs Presentation

What is Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs)? Presentation at TERI NAMAs Workshop 11 th Aug, New Delhi, India Fei TENG Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University

What is NAMAs? Scope of NAMAs: coverage, actors, instruments, difference with QERLOs; Legal nature of NAMAs: binding, not binding, other legal obligation or legal consequence? difference with QERLOs; Linkage with support; Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable;

Observation from Submissions from BASIC Brazil: National wide deviation from BAU target underpinning by sectoral actions; South Africa: National wide deviation from BAU target; India: National wide energy intensity targets; China: National wide carbon intensity target, together with sectoral target (renewables and forestry);

How different from QERLOs? Project wide Programme wide Sectoral wide National wide Annex 1 Brazil, SA India, China Brazil, China QERLOs BAU Targets Intensity Targets Other Targets P&Ms Decisions Needs for detailed NAMAs in the next step.

What is Nationally M Appropriate ? M M AM Use “appropriateness” as an indicator to prioritize mitigation actions; Use “appropriateness” as an label to highlight some mitigation actions and to reflect them in an international context; M M A MA MA A A M M A A

International Reflection Vehicle Benefit Registry Possibility to access international support NC and BUR Annex, Appendix etc Cost Recognition Subject to ICA, domestic MRV Recognition Symmetry in legal nature with A 1 “appropriate” for international reflection.

Concluding Remarks Many questions regarding to NAMAs remains open; NAMAs is distinct from QERLOs, but how? “Appropriateness” can be used as an indicator or a label; NAMAs has legal consequence within UNFCCC context, then parties will tradeoff;