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Using results-based finance for climate action : existing initiatives and the role of the CDM
(2014)
Results-based finance is receiving increasing attention, being considered as a potential key funding mode in climate finance. The Clean Development Mechanism has been cited to potentially contribute to this goal. Against this background, the policy brief outlines the rationale of the concept and analyses six climate change mitigation initiatives that build on the results-based finance approach. The analysis puts a special focus on the role of the CDM.
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is in crisis. More and more market participants are leaving the sector. In the light of this development, some argue that governments should step in as buyers of Certified Emission Reductions (CERs). Given the limited volumes of public funding, however, governments will have to prioritise some projects over others. This policy brief therefore analyses national purchase programmes and multilateral carbon funds in order to identify criteria public investors are applying in the selection of the projects they finance. The aim is to identify a vision of a high quality CDM project that be can be made use of when designing a possible support programme.
This policy brief discusses the opportunities and obligations of host country DNAs within the Standardized Baselines framework and identifies options for strategic intervention. Host countries can, for example, intervene by selecting the right sectors for which they develop an SB in the first place. DNAs can also tailor their SBs to some extent to support certain technologies, fuels or feed- stocks over others by choosing the right level of aggregation of the sector to be covered. Last but not least, the paper discusses the DNAs' role in managing the data for the development and maintenance of the SB. Host countries should take full advantage of potential synergies between data collection for SBs and other data intensive processes such as national greenhouse gas inventories or national statistics. SBs and the data gathered in the process of developing them can also be a basis for the development of other mitigation instruments such as Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) or New Market Mechanisms (NMM).
Industry
(2014)
Das Ziel dieser Untersuchung war, das technische Regelleistungspotenzial von BHKW in Deutschland für die Jahre 2010, 2020 und 2030 zu bestimmen. Der Fokus lag auf den kleineren Leistungsbereichen für die objektscharfe Versorgung von Wohngebäuden sowie von gewerblichen Objekten (Nichtwohngebäuden). Ergänzend wurde exemplarisch eine größere BHKW-Anlage mit Wärmenetz und ein industrieller Anwendungsfall untersucht.
Achieving sustainability has become one of the fundamental goals of many urban transportation systems in the past two decades. The emerging concept of sustainability has developed enormous interests among researchers and practitioners to develop a sustainable transport system. While many have focused on developing an appropriate definition of a sustainable transport by measures and indicators of sustainability to assess if a transport system is moving towards or away from sustainability, many others have put forward different strategies to make a transport system sustainable. Defining sustainable transport and identifying indicators are important to make this concept more correct, focused, and measurable.
This study tries to measure and monitories urban transportation sustainability from viewpoint of anÿurban planner. The question comes out from the relation between urban transportation sustainability and usage of public transportation. How these two facts link to each other? Are there any logical relations between usage of public transportation and sustainable development? How we can define specific indicator for measuring sustainability of transportation or on the other words, how can we standardized indicator to measure and monitor the urban sustainable transportation?
For response, exceeding questions two cities are selected which have a similarity and differences in structure and data sets. Our approach is to draw upon a raft of suitable analytical techniques to find out the approach base for comparison of structure between different cities, and then to apply the examples to examine the degree to which specified policy targets might be met in the future. The analytical framework includes Descriptive statistics, correlation and Regression analysis, and application of sustainable transportation indicator for case studies distributions.
The techniques proposed to provide a starting point for that dialogue toward more appropriate policies and their monitoring. It can be concluded that the new approach of sustainable transportation indicator for measuring sustainability of transportation is highly correlated with selected variables, which indicates that the new indicator has meaningful applicability to be used as indicator for transportation certificate system. This methods can be used for measuring, monitoring, and evaluating the sustainability of urban transportation for different areas and used the results as a standardize indicator for transportation certificate system for comparing and ranking the transportation sustainability of different cities. In addition, the result of this study can be used as for monitoring and assessment of plan for (SUMP) Sustainable urban mobility planning.
The EU has set itself ambitious targets with regards to a significant reduction of its greenhouse gas emissions and has presented roadmaps depicting an overall decarbonisation of its economy by the middle of the century. In this context European policymakers and stakeholders are currently discussing the targets and the level of ambition of the 2030 climate and energy policy framework. The Commission is expected to present its own vision for the further development of the energy and climate policy framework in its White Paper "For a 2030 climate and energy policy framework". At this decisive point in the political debate the Wuppertal Institute presents a brief working paper that analyses some of the analytical work - particularly the underlying energy and GHG emission scenarios - behind the Commission's proposals to be presented in the forthcoming White Paper.
Als eine der energieintensivsten Branchen wird auch von der Stahlindustrie ein Beitrag zum Klimaschutz erwartet. Da die bestehenden kohlebasierten Verfahren der Stahlerzeugung kaum noch Verbesserungspotential besitzen, kann langfristig nur über neue Verfahren ein großer CO2-Minderungseffekt erzielt werden. Die vorliegende Arbeit bewertet drei innovative Verfahren der Stahlerzeugung im Vergleich zur etablierten Hochofenroute. Die vergleichende Bewertung schließt nicht nur technische und betriebswirtschaftliche Aspekte, sondern auch gesellschaftliche, sicherheitstechnische und ökologische Aspekte mit ein und soll so eine ganzheitliche Einschätzung der neuartigen Verfahren ermöglichen. Die untersuchten Verfahren sind die Hochofenroute in Kombination mit Kohlenstoffabscheidung und -speicherung (CCS), die Wasserstoff-Direktreduktion und die Eisenerzelektrolyse. Die ganzheitliche Bewertung der drei Verfahren zeigt eine kläre Präferenz für die Wasserstoff-Direktreduktion als Zukunftsverfahren am Standort Deutschland, knapp gefolgt von der Eisenerzelektrolyse. Unter Verwendung dieser innovativen Methode könnte auch langfristig Primärstahl zu wettbewerbsfähigen Konditionen am Standort Deutschland produziert werden. Spätestens ab 2050 werden politische Rahmenbedingungen, steigende Preise für fossile Energieträger und Rohstoffe, sowie ansteigende Kosten für CO2-Emissionen voraussichtlich dafür gesorgt haben, dass die konventionellen Verfahren der Stahlerzeugung unattraktiv werden. Wichtige Voraussetzungen für die rechtzeitige Einphasung der neuen Verfahren sind eine konsequente Umsetzung der Energiewende und international verbindliche Klimaschutzziele sowie damit korrespondierende Anreizmechanismen.