This presentation gives an overview of the current status, progress and improvements to the Kyoto Protocol's CDM. Delivered June 2013.

1. Executive Board of the CDM:
Progress update
Question and Answer Session
Bonn, Germany, 4 June 2013
Peer Stiansen, Chair
CDM Executive Board

2. PRESENTATION OUTLINE
I. INTRODUCTION
CDM in numbers
Business plan
II. STATUS UPDATE ON CMP RECOMMENDATIONS
FROM COP 18
1. Review of modalities and procedures
2. Methodologies and additionality
3. Registration and issuance
4. Regional distribution
III. CDM FIT FOR THE FUTURE
CDM Perception survey – Preliminary results
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3. I. INTRODUCTION
To date, more than
6900 registered projects in 86 countries
1.3 billion certified emission reductions (CERs) issued
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4. Years of strong growth, steady
improvement, evolution in CDM toward
scalability
Currently:
• Low demand for CERs, resulting in
• Low prices, resulting in
• Lack of incentive to develop projects
I. INTRODUCTION
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5. Number of projects entering validation per month
I. INTRODUCTION
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6. I. INTRODUCTION
• Provide for simplicity in the operation of the
CDM
• Ensure the integrity of CERs
• Ensure CDM’s contribution to climate change
mitigation and sustainable development
• Expand the geographic reach of the CDM
• Promote the use, and safeguard the reputation
of, the CDM
BUSINESS PLAN INCLUDES PROJECTS THAT WILL:
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7. II. STATUS UPDATE
STATUS
• Stakeholder input to EB in January; secretariat input in
March
• EB submitted 22 recommendations in March for
consideration by the SBI
• Parties and admitted observer organizations submitted
input in March
• Secretariat prepared compilation document for
consideration by SBI
Further steps:
• Secretariat to organize workshop to facilitate progress
• SBI to prepare recommendations for
consideration by the CMP
1. REVIEW OF CDM
MODALITIES AND PROCEDURES
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8. II. STATUS UPDATE
STATUS
• Simplified modalities for the demonstration of
additionality are being further extended (work plan
approved)
• Positive lists are being applied to a wider scope of
small-scale projects
• Requirements for programmes of activities being
further developed to enhance simplicity while
ensuring environmental integrity
• Methodologies being further simplified and
streamlined with the aim of reducing transaction costs
• More cost-effective approaches in
afforestation/reforestation methodologies being
explored
2. METHODOLOGIES AND ADDITIONALITY
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9. II. STATUS UPDATE
STATUS
• Ways to streamline the registration and
issuance of projects and PoAs being considered
to ensure that average time between submission
and completeness check is fewer than 15
calendar days
• Possibility of reviewing validation process of
projects that are deemed automatically
additional is being explored
3. REGISTRATION AND ISSUANCE
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10. II. STATUS UPDATE
STATUS
• Regional collaboration centres (RCCs) are
operational in Lomé, Togo and Kampala, Uganda
• RCC in St George's, Grenada to start operation in
early July 2013
• RCCs to be established: Manila and Bogota
• New approaches being further developed
(PoAs and Standardized Baselines)
• Rules are further simplified
• Capacity-building activities, DNA Help Desk, Loan
Scheme
• More targeted methodologies being developed
4. REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION
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11. III. CDM FIT FOR THE FUTURE
• CMP reiterated importance of CDM as a tool to
mitigate climate change
• Second commitment period of Kyoto Protocol
agreed
• CDM a mature mechanism that has
proved its worth
• Possible expanding role for the CDM in emerging
emission trading systems
• Potential new sources of demand
FIT FOR THE FUTURE
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12. IV. CDM FIT FOR THE FUTURE
77.5% of recipients strongly agree or agree
that there is a role for the CDM in the future.
CDM PERCEPTION SURVEY: Preliminary results
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13. 55.9% of recipients believe that the CDM’s biggest strength is
its standards for estimation of emission reductions
IV. CDM FIT FOR THE FUTURE
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14. SOME UPCOMING EVENTS
7th
CDM Roundtable – Bonn, 20 April
Regional Calibration Workshop – China, 3-4 June,
India, 7-8 June
8th
CDM Roundtable – Bonn, 17 June
African DNA training – Cote D’Ivoire, 30 June-2 July
African Carbon Forum– Cote D’Ivoire, 3-5 July
DNA training for Asia, Pacific and Eastern Europe –
Philippines, 2-3 September
9th
CDM Roundtable – 23 August
Regional Calibration Workshop – Bonn, 5-6 Sept.
DOE/AIE Forum – Bonn, 28 Oct.
DNA Forum– Warsaw, 9-10 Nov.
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT EVENTS
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15. FURTHER INFORMATION:
http://cdm.unfccc.int/
THANK YOU
Peer Stiansen, Chair
CDM Executive Board
CDM EB Q & A session