Partnership Assembly Meeting (PA2): Istanbul
Brazil, India, Jordan, South Africa, and Vietnam joined the PMR as Implementing Country Participants, bringing the total to 15. The Partnership Assembly endorsed the Market Readiness Proposal (MRP) Tool, which countries will use to formulate their funding proposals. The PA also endorsed a set of criteria for allocating funding.
Date:
Oct 27 - 28, 2011
Venue:
Istanbul, Turkey
| Day 1: October 27, 2011 | ||
| 8:30 | Registration | |
| 1. Opening and Introduction | ||
| 9:00 | ||
| Joëlle Chassard, World Bank | ||
| Recep Sahin, Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, Turkey | ||
| Ulrich Zachau, World Bank | ||
| Xueman Wang, PMR Secretariat | ||
| Update Since PA1 | ||
| 2. Information Sharing and Update | ||
| Participants and Observers shared their recent domestic policy developments related to carbon markets and updated the PA on their PMR activities. | ||
| 10:00 | ||
| Aaron Wu, Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Australia | ||
| Australia: Clean Energy Future Legislation | ||
| Leila Pourarkin, Department for Energy and Climate Change, UK | ||
| United Kingdom: Lessons Learned from Market-based Policies | ||
| 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:15 | ||
| Saurabh Diddi, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, India | ||
| India: Market Mechanism to Promote Energy Efficiency and Renewables | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 3. Tool for MRP and Criteria and Process for Allocation of Implementation Phase Funding | ||
| 14:00 | ||
| Martina Bosi, PMR Secretariat | ||
| Tool for Market Readiness Proposal | ||
| Tool for the MRP Version 2 | ||
| Xueman Wang, PMR Secretariat | ||
| Criteria and Process for the Allocation of Implementation Funding | ||
| Note PA2-2011-1 | ||
| 15:45 | Break | |
| 4. Expression of Interest | ||
| Countries that have submitted an EoI presented their interest in participating in the PMR. The PA confirmed these countries as PMR Implementing Country Participants either after completion of all the presentations or under agenda item 9. | ||
| 16:00 | ||
| Aloisio de Melo, Ministry of Finance, Brazil | ||
| Rajiv Kumar, Ministry of Environment and Forests, India | ||
| Mohd Alam, Ministry of Environment, Jordan | ||
| Jordan: Expression of Interest Presentation | ||
| 18:15 | Wrap up | |
| 19:00 | Reception | |
| Day 2: October 28, 2011 | ||
| 4. EoI (cont’d) | ||
| 9:00 | ||
| Mandy Rambharos, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa | ||
| Nguyen Tuan Anh, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Vietnam | ||
| Feedback on Expressions of Interest | ||
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 5. Presentation of the Organizing Framework | ||
| Following the PMR Process, Implementing Country Participants presented their Organizing Frameworks for the Scoping of PMR activities to the PA for consideration and decision on allocation of Preparation Funding. | ||
| 10:45 | ||
| Vadym Sydiachenko, State Environmental Investment Agency, Ukraine | ||
| Ukraine: Organizing Framework | ||
| 6. Modality for Observer Engagement in the PMR | ||
| 11:45 | ||
| Sarah Underwood, PMR Secretariat | ||
| Modality for Engaging Observers (including Private Sector) | ||
| 12:45 | Lunch | |
| 7. Knowledge Management and Next Steps | ||
| 14:00 | ||
| Marcos Castro, PMR Secretariat | ||
| Knowledge Management | ||
| Xueman Wang and Lata Ganesh, PMR Secretariat | ||
| 15:30 | Break | |
| 8. Election of Co-Chairs for PA3 | ||
| In accordance with the Governance Framework, the World Bank will chair the first two meetings of the PA. Subsequent meetings will be co-chaired by a representative elected, respectively, from the Contributing Participants and from the Implementing Country Participants. Co-chairs serve for one PA meeting. It is proposed that the Contributing and Implementing Country Participants meet separately to elect their respective co-chair. Each group announced the results of their decision to the PA. | ||
| 15:45 | ||
| Election of Co-Chairs | ||
| 9. Decisions | ||
| 17:00 | ||
| Adoption of Decisions by Participants | ||
| o Version 1 of the Tool for Market Readiness Proposal | ||
| Resolution No. PA2/2011-1 | ||
| o Confirmation of Implementing Country Participants and Approval of Delivery Partner Arrangement for Vietnam | ||
| Resolution No. PA2/2011-2 | ||
| o Adoption of Criteria for Assessing MRPs and Endorsement of Process for Providing Feedback on MRPs | ||
| Resolution No. PA2/2011-3 | ||
| o Allocation of the PMR Preparation Phase Funding for Activities in Ukraine | ||
| Resolution No. PA2/2011-4 | ||
| o Election of the Co-Chairs of the Partnership Assembly | ||
| Resolution No. PA2/2011-5 | ||
| o MRP Review Process | ||
| Resolution No. PA2/2011-6 | ||
| End of PA2 | ||