Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG) Global Forum

26-27 September 2012 - OECD Conference Centre, Paris (France)

This seminar, organised by the OECD and the IEA, aimed to promote dialogue and enhance understanding between a wide range of countries on technical issues in the international climate change negotiations. However, it was an informal meeting outside of the UNFCCC negotiations and discussions are non-attributed.

Agenda, presentations and final list of participants

DAY 1

9:40 –11:00	Opening Plenary: The Roadmap to 2015
Focus	The focus of this plenary session was to take stock of the international climate change negotiations and to discuss what the gaps are to 2015 and how they could be filled.
Facilitator	Simon Upton, OECD Environment Director
Speakers	René Castro, Minister for Environment, Costa Rica Tomasz Chruszczow, Poland and Chair of SBI, UNFCCC Farhana Yamin, Climate Strategies Katia Simeonova, UNFCCC
11:30 – 18:00	Breakout Group 2a: Leveraging/Mobilising Climate Finance
Focus	This breakout group explored policy interventions to mobilise climate finance and definitions of leveraged climate finance. Discussions focussed on which policy interventions could be considered as mobilising climate finance to meet the needs of developing countries; how effective these interventions have been in mobilising climate finance; and how leveraging or mobilising has been assessed to date.
Co-facilitators	Suzanty Sitorus, Indonesia Herman Sips, Netherlands
Speakers Part 1	Lamia El Bouanani, CDG (Morocco) Pierre Forestier, Agence Française de Développement Isabel Cavelier Adarve, Colombia
Speakers Part 2	Rupert Edwards, Climate Change Capital Ubaldo Elizondo, CAF Tomonori Sudo, Japan Alan Miller and Shilpa Patel, IFC Dennis Tirpak, WRI
Speakers Part 3	Jessica Brown, US Shelagh Whitley, ODI Seyni Nafo, Mali Stephanie Ockenden and Rosalyn Eales, United Kingdom
Background documents	Climate Finance: Annotated Questions Document by Jane Ellis and Colleen Regan Tracking Climate Finance: What and How by Christa Clapp, Jane Ellis, Julia Benn, Jan Corfee-Morlot Monitoring and Tracking Long-Term Finance to Support Climate Action by Barbara Buchner, Jessica Brown and Jan Corfee-Morlot A project level approach to forecast and monitor private climate finance mobilised, UK Working Paper by Stephanie Ockenden (DECC), Gail Warrander(DFID), Rosalyn Eales and Daisy Streatfeild (DECC) Defining “Mobilized” Climate Finance: Solving a Fractal Conundrum by Seyni Nafo

11:30 – 18:00	Breakout Group 2b: Good Practice in Setting National Baselines
Focus	Examples of good practice in national baseline setting in developing countries were shared in the first part of this session, highlighting progress made in the workstream initiated by the Danish Energy Agency in conjunction with UNEP RISOE and OECD. The second part of the session will involve a presentation by the CCXG Secretariat of the draft discussion document suggesting options for improving transparency and consistency in baseline setting, with presentations and responses from a range of country experts. Discussions will continue into the third part, focussing on elements of convergence/divergence in moving towards baseline guidelines.
Co-facilitators	Helen Plume, New Zealand Wondwossen Sitanyehu, Ethiopia
Speakers and Respondents Part 1	Ulla Blatt Bendtsen & Jacob Krog Søbygaard, Danish Energy Agency Alexa Kleystueber, Chile Atul Kumar, TERI Teng Fei, China
Part 2	Andrew Prag and Christa Clapp, OECD Lucia Cortina Correa, Mexico Chaiwat Munchareon, Thailand Stefan Raubenheimer, MAPS Secretariat
Background documents	Projecting Emissions Baselines for National Climate Policy: Options for Guidance to Improve Transparency by Christa Clapp and Andrew Prag. Outcomes of a Workshop on Setting National Emissions Baselines by Ulla Blatt Bendtsen, Jacob Krog Søbygaard and Andrew Prag. Setting National and Sectoral Baselines by Andrew Prag and Christa Clapp.

DAY 2	DAY 2
9:30 – 16:00	Breakout Group 3a: Leveraging/Mobilising Climate Finance
Focus	This second session on finance took stock of how much climate-related finance has been mobilised and what types of project flows may be included. Discussions included an examination of whether any initial lessons can be drawn from the current data on leverage ratios (e.g. are leverage ratios similar for similar types of projects or similar types of countries?) and which project types and flows should count as climate finance. The session concluded by identifying areas of convergence and divergence, as well as research gaps or needs for further policy dialogue that CCXG work could help to fill.
Co-facilitators	Suzanty Sitorus, Indonesia Herman Sips, Netherlands
Speakers Part 4	Jane Ellis, OECD Barbara Buchner, CPI
Part 5	Claudio Alatorre, IADB
Part 6	Identifying areas of convergence and divergence, needs for further policy dialogue
Background documents	Climate Finance: Annotated Questions Document by Jane Ellis and Colleen Regan Tracking Climate Finance: What and How by Christa Clapp, Jane Ellis, Julia Benn, Jan Corfee-Morlot Monitoring and Tracking Long-Term Finance to Support Climate Action by Barbara Buchner, Jessica Brown and Jan Corfee-Morlot Defining “Mobilized” Climate Finance: Solving a Fractal Conundrum by Seyni Nafo
9:30 – 16:00	Breakout Group 3b: Design and Governance of Market Mechanisms
Focus	At COP 17 Parties agreed both to define a new market-based mechanism and to consider a framework for various approaches undertaken by Parties, including the use of markets. This session focussed on commonalities in the purpose and design of market mechanisms, whether under the “framework” or the “new market mechanism”. The first session examined the role of market mechanisms in evolving international space and what mechanisms are trying to achieve both inside and outside of the UNFCCC. The second session focussed on identifying design elements common to different types of mechanism, and how tools and lessons learned from the operation and governance of non-KP mechanisms can be relevant. The third session aimed to identify areas of convergence and divergence in the discussion as well as areas where CCXG work could be valuable.
Co-facilitators	Robert Owen-Jones, Australia Mandy Rambharos, South Africa
Speakers Part 1	Introductory presentation: Gregory Briner Respondents: Dirk Forrister, IETA Martina Bosi, World Bank Alexandra Reyes Cedeno, Ecuador
Speakers Part 2	Andrew Prag, OECD Qian Feng, Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange Respondents: Elina Bardram, European Commission Jerry Seager, Verified Carbon Standard
Background documents	Making Markets: Unpacking Design and Governance of Carbon Market Mechanisms by Andrew Prag, Gregory Briner and Christina Hood. Crossing the Threshold: Ambitious Baselines for the UNFCCC New Market-Based Mechanism by Andrew Prag and Gregory Briner. Tracking and Trading: Expanding on Options for International Greenhouse Gas Unit Accounting After 2012 by Andrew Prag, Christina Hood, André Aasrud and Gregory Briner.
Closing Plenary	Summary slides: Climate Finance Summary slides: National Baselines

The CCXG Secretariat would like to thank New Zealand and Switzerland for providing funding for this event. The Secretariat would also like to thank Australia, the EC, Finland, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US as well as the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) for their direct funding of the CCXG in 2012; and the OECD, IEA and Denmark for their in-kind support during this period.

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Agenda, presentations and final list of participants

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