Morocco

Mitigation Targets

Morocco is committed to incorporating climate change mitigation into its economic growth strategy, principally through the development of renewable energy. The country has defined an ambitious energy strategy to promote energy efficiency and develop large-scale renewable energy, which includes: targets to reduce energy consumption by 12% by 2020 and 15% by 2030 and to increase the capacity of renewable energy to 42% of the total power generation capacity by 2020. This 42% would be made up of  14% solar power, 14% wind power, and 14 % hydro power. Morocco seeks to build on its CDM experience and explore how it can develop its market readiness to support its climate change mitigation effort and facilitate the introduction of clean technologies.

Achieving the Targets

By 2016, Morocco aims to:

• Assess programs and mitigation actions in Morocco and define sectoral baselines;
• Select sectors to developm NAMAs and the technical, institutional, and legal design needed to implement them;
• Design and implement a national registry of emissions and mitigation actions;
• Implement a national MRV system to support the maintenance of a GHG emissions inventory and MRV systems for the selected NAMAs; and
• Implement capacity-building program for actors on market mechanisms instruments.

In the mid-term (by 2018), Morocco aims to pilot a carbon market instrument based on its experience with credited NAMAs. This could one day lead to a domestic carbon market instrument and/or integration with the international carbon market (i.e., potential inclusion in the EU-ETS).