European Capacity Building Initiative Publication
A quick guide to the history of negotiations on capacity building under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the global institutional framework, and how global capacity building efforts can be improved. What can the UNFCCC do to promote long-term, sustainable capacity building where it is most needed? What has been done, and what remains to be done?
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This document provides information on how to apply the Circular Action Hub’s Principles and Criteria for Circular Credit Mechanism (CCM) projects involving the recovery and recycling of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW).
The Implementation Guidelines aim to assist users in the application of the Principles & Criteria to MSW projects. Following the “Learning by doing” principle, additional guidance documents will be provided as more projects are developed and more information is gathered about different approaches and different circumstances, to ensure a continuous improvement of the CAH’s Principles & Criteria and its guidelines.
The Operational Procedures describe the process to register and implement CCM projects, as well as the internal governance procedures to analyse and monitor these projects.
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This document describes the Principles & Criteria of the Circular Action Hub and its Circular Credits Mechanism for projects involved in the recovery and recycling of Municipal Solid Waste projects.
There are seven Principles and Criteria that outline the basic philosophy of the Hub and the mechanism for all sorts of projects. Their objective is to provide the rationale behind the aims, concepts, scope, and eligibility for projects willing to participate in the Hub and/or issue Circular Credits (CCs).
Specific guidance on the implementation of the Principles & Criteria for specific projects can be found in the Implementation Guidelines and Operational Procedures for different sectoral scopes.
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European Capacity Building Initiative Publication
How are decisions arrived at under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change? What are the rules of engagement? Who are the different actors? Are decisions legally binding on countries? How are deadlocks resolved? This and more in our new guide to the hardware that drives the international climate regime. Know your L docs from your CRPs, and your informal-informals from your informals.
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While the forest sector is at the centre of international concerns about the sustainable management of forest resources, the negative effects of the pandemic on the forest sector should not overshadow the crucial role of forests in securing the livelihoods on which local people depend.
BVRio, in collaboration with ATIBT and support from UK Aid under the Forest Governance, Markets and Climate Programme, carried out a study to ensure a better understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on the forest sector in the Republic of Congo.
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European Capacity Building Initiative Publication
Countries communicate their plans to implement the Paris Agreement through Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). What should these NDCs contain? What “information to facilitate clarity, transparency, and understanding” do countries need to provide? How should countries account for their actions? What happens if they fail to meet their NDC goals? Read our updated Pocket Guide, which now includes the provisions of the Paris rulebook, to find answers to these and other questions related to NDCs.
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European Capacity Building Initiative Publication
How has technology development and transfer (TDT) been dealt with under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement? What challenges do developing countries face in identifying and accessing technology needs for mitigation and adaptation, and how are these being addressed? What institutions deal with climate-related TDT at the global level? This Pocket Guide is for UNFCCC negotiators from developing countries, and for national policy makers who would like to understand how to access global support for climate-related TDT.
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The objective of this practical guide is to summarise the main documents that need to be collected, and how to interpret them, in order to conduct due diligence of timber consignments to be imported from Cameroon into the US and European markets. It also provides a summary of the main risks associated with timber legality that the due diligence must address, for Cameroon.
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While concerns about accelerating global warming preoccupy the public—as one can observe from the recent school strikes as protest against too few climate protection efforts—the Paris Agreement on Climate Change is starting to take effect in several areas of our planet. Yet, while in Europe, levels of carbon dioxide emissions are declining, in order to reach the 2 goal and even more the 1.5 goal of the agreement, global climate protection efforts have to be strengthened considerably. This becomes even more urgent as concentrations of methane, which is another very potent greenhouse gas besides carbon dioxide, have increased in an unexpectedly strong way in recent years. (…) Although the chapters in the book focus on the joint effects of climate policy, it is straightforward to apply the models and techniques used in this book also to joint production in other fields, for instance to research on philanthropy, performing arts, green goods consumption, terrorism, and military alliances.
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This paper highlights the risks inherent in issuing carbon credits for project scale emissions reductions relative to an estimate of what would have otherwise occurred – which is the basis of the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism – in the absence of an overall sectoral or national emissions budget within which carbon credit issuance would be accounted for through rigorous and transparently monitored double-entry bookkeeping.
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