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Vom 28. November bis 10. Dezember 2005 fand im kanadischen Montreal die 11. Klimakonferenz (COP 11) statt. Doch diesmal kamen nicht nur die Vertragsstaaten der Klimarahmenkonvention zusammen, sondern es traten gleichzeitig und erstmalig auch die mittlerweile 156 Mitgliedsstaaten des Kyoto-Protokolls zusammen (COP/MOP 1). Neben letzten Weichenstellungen für dessen Umsetzung ging es in Montreal insbesondere darum, Verhandlungen über die Fortentwicklung der Kyoto-Verpflichtungen auf den Weg zu bringen. Ein Anlass, um Bilanz zu ziehen.
After two weeks of negotiations, climate diplomats completed the implementation of the Protocol, refined some of its instruments for implementation and agreed on processes for moving forward beyond the first Kyoto commitment period. The report by the Wuppertal Institute provides an overview and assessment of the agreements reached in Montreal.
Grave concerns with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have increasingly surfaced in the international climate policy arena. The sectoral approaches described in this paper may be a way to address some of the shortcomings of this Kyoto mechanism. The paper outlines the criticisms that have been raised against the CDM as well as the conflicting interpretations of a sectoral approach and examines in how far it might resolve the mechanism’s perceived shortcomings. Furthermore, it outlines issues that need to be resolved when implementing a sectoral approach: distributing costs and benefits, defining the sector and its baseline, ensuring additionality and tackling procedural issues. A sectoral approach can enable countries to guide their structural development but it also opens up a gap between public and private investment that needs to be addressed before conflicts arise. Sectoral CDM activities may be able to lower transaction costs for projects that otherwise cannot compete in the CDM market and might even pave the way to sectoral greenhouse gas limitation targets in developing countries by establishing the necessary infrastructure for data collection. However, a sectoral CDM cannot be mistaken for a panacea. Some of the mechanism's problems remain, which highlights the need to establish additional instruments to support Southern countries in furthering sustainable development and embarking on a low-emission trajectory.