Browsing by Subject "United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Organization)"

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    International requirements for transparency of mitigation actions
    (Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town., 2014) Winkler, Harald
    Transparency of mitigation actions is an important element of the climate change regime, as negotiated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The focus of this report is to provide a concise description of the outcomes of the negotiations on transparency under the UNFCCC and their implications for South Africa. The first section of the report outlines the Cancun, or transparency, package for developing countries, the next identifies implications for South Africa, and the third section contains an assessment of South Africa’s preparedness (the latter provided by the Department of Environmental Affairs).
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    Long Term Mitigation Scenarios: Technical Report
    (University of Cape Town, 2007) Winkler, Harald
    The key objectives of the LTMS process are that: South African stakeholders understand and are focused on a range of ambitious but realistic scenarios of future climate action both for themselves and for the country, based on best available information, notably long-term emissions scenarios and their cost implications; the SA delegation is well-prepared with clear positions for post-2012 dialogue; and Cabinet can approve (a) a long-term climate policy and (b) positions for the dialogue under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Cabinet policy based on the scenarios will assist future work to build public awareness and support for government initiatives.
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    One step forward, two steps back? The governance of the World Bank Climate Investment Funds
    (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2008) Winkler, Harald; Müller, Benito
    The problem, in our opinion is that the World Bank tries to do so with complete disregard of the lessons reflected in the Paris Declaration. This is not only apparent in what does come across as a somewhat paternalistic tone in the blueprint (‘We need to transform … developing countries’) but much more seriously in the proposed governance structure for the CIFs. We feel that the many elements of the blueprint which are worthy of success will be unnecessarily doomed to failure if these governance shortcomings are not rectified speedily and whole-heartedly.
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    South African approaches to MRV of mitigation actions: the case of installing solar water heaters
    (Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town., 2012) Rennkamp, Britta
    How to measure, report and verify (MRV) mitigation actions? This question calls growing attention in the international negotiations on climate change, because industrialized countries agreed to support developing countries in their efforts of reducing emissions through so-called ‘nationally appropriate mitigation actions’ (NAMAs). In the process of defining those NAMAs, the question stands out how the emission reductions can be verified. This case study illustrates the way ‘MRV’ works in the case of solar water heating. South Africa has no officially registered NAMAs in the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) yet. Therefore, we chose one of the most advanced ‘mitigation action’, which is the roll out program for solar water heating, which is a key energy efficiency program. We find that the incentive system matters for collecting data for MRV. The responsible agency for the incentive needs to provide for data collection. The process becomes easier if previsions for MRV are already made in the stage of designing the policy. We recommend to design the MRV system of mitigation based on existing structures, such as the measurement and verification (M&V) standards, which apply to the monitor efficiency programs. We further recommend to make the data collection and management transparent, and to designate an independent, cross-sectorial agency to support the government in the data management and quality control, to ensure coherent and reliable reporting.