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Dieser Bericht ist das Resultat eines Diskussionsprozesses mehrerer Akteursgruppen zum Thema "Senken und CDM/JI", durchgeführt vom Wuppertal Institut vom September 2002 bis Juni 2003. Der Prozess wurde vom Bundesumweltministerium in Auftrag gegeben und hatte das Ziel, die nationale Debatte um Senken-Projekte zu strukturieren und so eine verbesserte politische Entscheidungsfindung zu ermöglichen. Dringend nötig wurde dies, nachdem sowohl auf nationaler, als auch auf europäischer und internationaler Ebene politische Entscheidungen ausstanden. Die Debatte hat unterschiedliche Aspekte: Zum einen besteht die Sorge, dass Senken-Projekte die wahren Ursachen des Klimawandels verschleiern könnten, zum anderen wird argumentiert, dass die Sequestrierung von Kohlenstoffdioxid nicht gleichwertig zu einer Emissionsreduzierung ist. Hinzu kommt das Problem ihrer Quantifizierung. Die Befürworter entgegnen, dass diese Probleme beispielsweise mit Hilfe des TCER-Ansatzes behoben werden können. Zusätzlich werden die sozio-ökonomischen und ökologischen Nebeneffekte von Senken-Projekten diskutiert.
CDM-Projekte ohne CDM?
(2004)
CDM-Projekte : neue Wege für die entwicklungspolitische Arbeit lokaler Initiativen in Deutschland?
(2004)
COP 10 vervollständigt CDM, bringt aber keine neue Bewegung in die internationale Klimapolitik
(2005)
The first Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (MOP 1) took place from 28 November to 10 December 2005 in Montreal, in conjunction with the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 11). This meeting signifies a successful start into a new era of international climate policy: The Kyoto Protocol, which in the past had been sometimes declared as being dead, has become operational.
The challenges of the meeting were framed along the "Three Is", Implementation, Improvement and Innovation. The first challenge (Implementation) entailed in particular the adoption of the Marrakesh Accords, the agreements reached at COP 7 in Marrakesh that set out the detailed rules for making the Kyoto Protocol operational. The second challenge (Improvement) referred to improving the work of the Framework Convention and the Kyoto Protocol in the near future. The third and most important challenge (Innovation) referred to the further evolution of the regime.
This article by Bettina Wittneben, Wolfgang Sterk, Hermann E. Ott und Bernd Brouns provides an account of the main developments in Montreal along the lines of the "Three Is". The paper concludes with an assessment and outlook on international climate policy.
Addressing opportunities and challenges of a sectoral approach to the Clean Development Mechanism
(2005)
There is an extensive potential for GHG emission reductions in the new EU member states and the EU accession countries by improving energy efficiency, investing in renewable energy supply and other measures, part of which could be tapped by JI. However, the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) and especially the recently adopted "Linking Directive" is probably going to have a significant impact on this JI potential. Especially two provisions are important:
The baseline of a project has to be based on the acquis communautaire, the environmental regulations of which are substantially higher than the Accession Countries' existing ones. Projects, which directly or indirectly reduce emissions from installations falling within the scope of the EU ETS, can only generate certificates if an equal number of EU allowances are cancelled. JI is thus put into direct competition with the EU ETS. In this paper we analyse the impact of these provisions first in theory and then country by country for six Central and East European countries that recently acceded the EU or are candidates for accession. As a result, we give an overview of the potential and the limitations of JI as an instrument for achieving emission reductions in the selected Accession Countries and provide important overview information to policy makers.
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.