Welcoming Remarks

• Fernando Tudela, Chair of the Climate Change Expert Group
• Rick Bradley, Head, Energy Efficiency and Environment Division, IEA
• Marie-Christine Tremblay, Head, Climate Change, Biodiversity and Development Division, OECD

Opening Plenary

• Brian Mantlana, South Africa
• Andrea Garcia Guerrero, Colombia
• Paul Watkinson, France

2a. Breakout Group:

Review: International Assessment and Review (IAR) and International Consultations and Analysis (ICA)

 Focus

Cancun agreed to provide for international examination of information reported by both developed and developing countries. This session examined the possible design options of: (i) international assessment and review (IAR) as well as enhanced review for developed countries; and (ii) international consultations and analysis (ICA) for developing countries.

Co-facilitators

• Helen Plume, New Zealand
• Chaiwat Muncharoen, Thailand

 Part 1: International Assessment and Review (IAR)

• Jane Ellis, OECD
• Baptiste Legay, EC

 Part 2: International Consultations and Analysis (ICA)

• Gregory Briner, OECD
• Karine Hertzberg, Norway
• Seyni Nafo, Mali

 Part 3: Similarities & differ-ences between IAR & ICA

• Areas of agreement and areas for further discussion (Outcomes)

  Final report (released November 2011)

“Design Options for International Assessment and Review (IAR) and International Consultations and Analysis (ICA)” by Jane Ellis (OECD), Gregory Briner (OECD), Yamide Dagnet (UK DECC) and Nina Campbell (IEA)

2b. Breakout Group:

Setting Baselines

Focus

Baselines can serve to assess progress made in GHG mitigation and can have financial consequences if used to generate emission credits. This session was in two parts: (i) discussion of best practice sharing between countries on setting national and sector baselines (following joint OECD/Denmark project), and (ii) discussion of the suitability of various baseline metrics used in different sectors and countries (based on the OECD/IEA discussion document listed below).

Co-facilitators

• Alexa Kleysteuber, Chile
• Pedro Martins Barata, Portugal

Part 1:

Choosing metrics for baselines 

• Andrew Prag, OECD
• John Drexhage, ICMM
• Kishor Rajhansa, UNFCCC

Part 2: National baseline scenarios

• Ulla Blatt Bendtsen, Denmark, and Andrew Prag, OECD
• Tran Thuc, Vietnam
• Hilina Getachew Belete, Ethiopia

Part 3:

• Summing up and conclusions (Outcomes)

Draft Discussion Document 2:

Draft Discussion Document 3:

“Setting Emissions Baselines: Choosing Metrics for National and Sectoral Baselines” by Andrew Prag, Jane Ellis and Andrew Bilski (OECD)

“Outcomes of a Workshop on Setting Emissions Baselines” by the Danish Energy Agency and Andrew Prag (OECD)

3a. Breakout Group:

MRV of Finance

Focus

Developed countries agreed to mobilise 100 billion USD/year of climate finance by 2020, but no system is in place to track all relevant flows and receipt of climate finance. This session highlighted approaches for both developed and developing countries to begin to systematically track commitments, disbursements and use of international climate finance.

 Co-facilitators

• Sinjini Mukherjee, UK
• Barbara Buchner, Climate Policy Initiative

 Part 1: What is currently needed in the negotiations?

• Yolando Velasco, UNFCCC
• Elina Bardram, EC
• Michele Campbell, Canada

 Part 2: Tracking North-South flows of climate finance

• Julia Benn, OECD
• Seyni Nafo, Mali

Part 3: Tracking receipt of climate finance

• Suzanty Sitorus, Indonesia
• Ariane Steinsmeier, The Nature Conservancy

Wrap up

• Areas of agreement and areas for further discussion (Outcomes)

Background document

“Monitoring and Tracking Long-Term Finance to Support Climate Action” by Barbara Buchner (CPI), Jessica Brown (ODI) and Jan Corfee-Morlot (OECD), OECD/IEA Information Paper, May 2011.

 3b. Breakout Group:

Managing  GHG Units from Multiple Market Mechanisms

Focus

There will be a growing number of GHG unit types after 2012, some of which will be traded nationally and internationally. In order to understand the extent of countries’ activities in relation to their national mitigation pledges, it will be important to be able to compare and track the flow of these different units. This session identified the challenges in governing and tracking multiple unit systems, and ways to overcome these challenges.

 Co-facilitators

• Kohei Nakamura, Japan
• Mandy Rambharo, South Africa

Part 1: Options for crediting mechanisms

• Andrew Prag, OECD, and André Aasrud, IEA
• MJ Mace, St Lucia
• Martin Cames, Öko Institut
• Benoit Leguet, CDC Climat

Part 2: Options for tracking of unit transactions

• Andrew Prag, OECD, and André Aasrud, IEA
• Kelley Kizzier, EC
• Kate Larsen, US

Wrap-up

• Areas of agreement and areas for further discussion (Outcomes)

Draft Discussion Document 4

Final report (released November 2011)

"Greenhouse Gas Unit Accounting After 2012: Managing Crediting Mechanisms and Tracking Transactions” by Andrew Prag, (OECD), Christina Hood (IEA), André Aasrud (IEA) and Gregory Briner (OECD)

"Tracking and Trading: Expanding on Options for International Greenhouse Gas Unit Accounting After 2012" by Andrew Prag, (OECD), Christina Hood (IEA), André Aasrud (IEA) and Gregory Briner (OECD)

4. Closing Plenary

Cross-Cutting Issues in MRV and Carbon Markets

• Outcome of breakout groups
• Discussion of next steps