Partnership Assembly Meeting (PA5): Washington, DC
Chile, China, Costa Rica and Mexico received the first allocation of
Implementation Phase funding to support work on their MRPs, Peru joined as a new Implementing
Country Participant, and the U.S. increased its financial support. The Baseline Working Group
also met to advance work on its Baseline Setting Guidance Note.
Date:
Mar 11 - 13, 2013
Venue:
Washington, DC, USA
| Day 1: March 11, 2013 | ||
| 8:30 | Registration | |
| 1. Opening and Introduction | ||
| 9:00 | ||
| Co-Chair: Juan Pedro Searle, Ministry of Energy, Chile | ||
| Co-Chair: Robert Owen-Jones, Department of Climate Change & Energy Efficiency, Australia | ||
| Rachel Kyte, Vice President, World Bank | ||
| Dan Reifsnyder, State Department, U.S. | ||
| Xueman Wang, PMR Secretariat | ||
| Update Since PA4 | ||
| 2. Briefing on Doha Outcomes | ||
| The Co-Chairs briefed Participants on the main outcomes of the Doha UNFCCC conference. | ||
| 9:30 | ||
| Juan Pedro Searle, Ministry of Energy, Chile | ||
| Reflections on the Doha Platform | ||
| Robin Rix, UNFCCC | ||
| UNFCCC: The Future of Market-based Instruments after Doha | ||
| 10:15 | Break | |
| 3. Information Sharing and Update | ||
| Implementing Country Participants updated the PA on their PMR activities, in particular on the status of their MRP. The updates were made through PowerPoint presentations or oral briefings. | ||
| 10:30 | ||
| Pham Hoang Mai, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Vietnam | ||
| Vietnam: Green Growth Strategy | ||
| Bengt Boström, Energy Agency, Sweden | ||
| Sweden: Activities in the Carbon Market | ||
| Yuji Mizuno, Ministry of Environment, Japan | ||
| Japan: The Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM)/ Bilateral Offset Credit Mechanism (BOCM) | ||
| Vicky Pollard, DG Climate Action, European Commission | ||
| EU: Update on the EU ETS | ||
| 4. Presentation of the Organizing Framework | ||
| Implementing Country Participants presented their OFs for scoping of PMR activities for consideration and decision on the allocation of Preparation Funding. Decision on allocation of funding is under agenda item 10. | ||
| 11:30 | ||
| David Dall'Orto Cacho, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Peru | ||
| Peru: Organizing Framework | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 5.1 Informal Presentation of a Draft MRP | ||
| Turkey presented draft MRPs to seek feedback from the PA. In addition, the expert group presented their observations and suggestions. No decision on allocation of implementation funding at this meeting. | ||
| 14:00 | ||
| Yasemin Örürcü, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Turkey | ||
| Turkey: Draft MRP | ||
| Bahar Ubay, The Gold Standard | ||
| Turkey: MRP Expert Feedback Presentation | ||
| 15:30 | Break | |
| 5.2 Presentation of Final MRPs for Decision on Implementation Funding | ||
| Four Implementing Country Participants presented draft MRPs in Sydney at PA4 for feedback from the PA. Based on this feedback, these countries have revised their MRPs. Final versions were circulated to the PA on February 19, 2013. Under this session, Implementing Country Participants presented the core elements of the MRP, highlighting significant changes from the draft version. The PA considered this version of the MRP for a funding allocation decision. Adoption of resolutions on allocation is made under agenda item 10. | ||
| 15:45 | ||
| Sarah Moyer, PMR Secretariat | ||
| Implementation Funding Allocation Criteria and Grant Agreement Arrangements | ||
| Ignacio Fernandez, Ministry of Energy, Chile | ||
| Chile: Final MRP Presentation | ||
| Chile: Final MRP | ||
| 17:15 | Wrap up | |
| End of Day 1 | ||
| Day 2: March 12, 2013 | ||
| 5.2 Presentation of Final MRPs for Decision on Implementation Funding (cont) | ||
| 9:00 | ||
| Wang Shu, National Development Reform Commission, China | ||
| China: Final MRP Presentation | ||
| China: Final MRP | ||
| 10:15 | Break | |
| 10:30 | ||
| Alvaro Umaña, Ministry of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica | ||
| Costa Rica: Final MRP Presentation |
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| Costa Rica: Final MRP | ||
| Luis Muñozcano, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico | ||
| Mexico: Final MRP Presentation |
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| Mexico: Final MRP | ||
| Mexico: Final MRPl Appendix (Urban NAMA) | ||
| Mexico: Final MRP Appendix (Transport NAMA) | ||
| Mexico: Final MRP Appendix (Refrigeration NAMA) | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 6. Updates on Countries’ MRPs | ||
| Implementing Country Participants updated the PA on their PMR activities, in particular on the status of their MRPs. Participants did verbal or PowerPoint presentations. | ||
| 7. Results-based Financing and Incentives | ||
| 14:30 | ||
| Adrien de Bassompierre, PMR Secretariat | ||
| Holly Menten-Weil, Department of Energy and Climate Change, United Kingdom | ||
| United Kingdom: Results-based Finance for Low Carbon Development | ||
| Catalina Marulanda, World Bank | ||
| Carbon Finance in Solid Waste Management | ||
| 16:00 | Break | |
| 8. Next Steps | ||
| 16:15 | ||
| Xueman Wang, PMR Secretariat | ||
| Sarah Moyer, PMR Secretariat | ||
| Next Steps | ||
| 9. Election of Co-chairs for PA6 | ||
| 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. Contributing and Implementing Country Participants meet separately to elect their respective co-chair. Each group announced the results of their decision to the PA. | ||
| 16:45 | ||
| Election of Co-Chairs | ||
| 10. Decisions | ||
| 17:00 | ||
| Adoption of Decisions by Participants | ||
| o Allocation of the Implementation Phase Funding to Chile | ||
| Resolution PA5/2013-1 | ||
| o Allocation of the Implementation Phase Funding to Costa Rica | ||
| Resolution PA5/2013-2 | ||
| o Allocation of the Implementation Phase Funding to China | ||
| Resolution PA5/2013-3 | ||
| o Allocation of the Implementation Phase Funding to Mexico | ||
| Resolution PA5/2013-4 | ||
| o Allocation of the PMR Preparation Phase Funding for Activities in Peru | ||
| Resolution PA5/2013-5 | ||
| 18:00 | Wrap up | |
| End of Day 2 | ||
| Day 3: October 24, 2012 | ||
| 11. Building Readiness: Knowledge Sharing | ||
| The PMR generates a significant amount of knowledge and information, which forms important parts of “readiness” building. The Secretariat works with experts, organizations, relevant departments within the World Bank, as well as the World Bank Institute in order to provide systematic learning and knowledge sharing. In this session, a number of technical topics were presented to seek input and guidance from Participants. | ||
| 9:00 | ||
| Xueman Wang, PMR Secretariat | ||
| Introduction to the Technical Work Program | ||
| Mike McCormick, PMR Secretariat | ||
| Jonathan Grant, PwC | ||
| Data Management Systems: Key Issues and Emerging Findings | ||
| Martina Bosi, PMR Secretariat | ||
| Jürg Füssler, INFRAS | ||
| Draft Technical Note on Offset Standards Project Approach and Preliminary Results | ||
| 10:45 | Break | |
| 11:00 | ||
| Martina Bosi, PMR Secretariat | ||
| Ulla Blatt Bendtsen, Energy Agency, Denmark | ||
| Update on PMR’s Technical Work Streams | ||
| Philippe Ambrosi, World Bank | ||
| Modeling for Carbon Pricing Instruments | ||
| Pablo Benitez, World Bank Institute | ||
| Creating an E-Learning Platform | ||
| 12. Briefing from IETA’s Business PMR | ||
| 12:00 | ||
| Dirk Forrister, International Emissions Trading Association | ||
| IETA: Briefing on the B-PMR | ||
| 12:15 | Wrap up | |
| End of PA5 | ||