Wednesday 23 November - REDDy for Durban?
As legal advisors acting across a range of initiatives and projects relating to REDD+, we are active participants in international negotiation forums - seeking to ensure that environmentally robust international mechanisms are deployed that can provide a substantive role for reputable long term investors. If you wish to discuss the prospects of this occurring and what it means for your business then please get in touch with the team in Durban.
View update on the latest position for REDD
We don't often refer to non-Norton Rose publications, but we enjoyed this snappy number by Jennifer Morgan and Edward Cameron at WRI, and hope they don't mind us hanging on their coat tails!
What to Aim For, and Expect, at the UNFCCC Climate Talks in Durban
Tuesday 22 November - DRC or Kenya anyone?
Expectations are being firmly managed down, not just for COP 17, but for the prospects of a "global deal" being in place for many COPs to come. But how much should we be worried about this? To what extent does failure to agree at an international level deter investment in a low carbon future in developing countries?
Today we are publishing short briefings on two dramatically different African jurisdictions, DRC and Kenya. DRC seems to be making progress with the development of a REDD framework, which could have a significant impact on global emissions. Kenya is to be assisted by the Program on Scaling-up Renewable Energy in Low Income Countries (SREP) and has already introduced feed-in tariffs for the support of some renewable energy technologies. Both jurisdictions would benefit from further injections of climate finance.
View the briefing Scaling-up renewable energy in Africa: DRC
View the briefing Scaling-up renewable energy in Africa: Kenya
Join us at our side event in Durban to discuss how to bridge the public / private sector divide for financing renewable energy projects in Africa.
Climate finance in Africa – bridging the public/private divide
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Monday 21 November - One week to go!
This is the first of our "pre-Durban" blogs and with just a week until COP17 starts, we look at the expectations for the next round of climate negotiations. Catch up on our pre-Durban webinar.
The approach now seems to be baby steps. No hope of a bells and whistles treaty until later in the decade, so what can we move forward on?
Our focus for the COP will be:
- more clarity on the rules for measurement, reporting and verification of targets and actions to mitigate emissions, including the process of biennial reporting, International Consultation and Analysis (ICA) and the proposed "Nama Registry"
- progress on the legal form of an international agreement and the framework for mitigation targets and actions
- whether or not the EU can move forwards with its proposal to agree a roadmap towards a legally binding agreement
- greater clarity on the role of market mechanisms
- getting the Green Climate Fund up and ready for contributions in 2013
- more detail on REDD finance.
View the latest UNFCCC documents
Hurdles for the negotiators include coming up with something plausible in response to the looming "Kyoto gap" and finding a way to lock in existing mitigation pledges, but with the flexibility necessary to beef them up in the future. Convincing developing countries that fast-start climate finance is being delivered will also be a challenge.
Scaling-up renewable energy in Africa: South Africa
Over the coming week we will roll out a series of short publications which focus on in-country priorities for scaling up renewable energy in:
- South Africa
- DRC
- Kenya
- Nigeria
- Tanzania
- Morocco
View the briefing Scaling-up renewable energy in Africa: South Africa
Come visit us at COP!
If you are at COP, drop by for a chat at our stand on the ground floor of Standard Bank, 1 Kingsmead Way, 4001 Durban – just 10 minutes walk from the ICC.
Side Events
Also, don't forget to join us at our side events:
Climate finance in Africa – bridging the public/private divide
Tuesday 06 December 2011 at 10:15 – 11:30am
Auditorium, Standard Bank, 1 Kingsmead Way, 4001 Durban
The emerging Australian carbon and clean energy market: opportunities for international participation
Wednesday 07 December 2011 at 15.30 – 16.45pm
Auditorium, Standard Bank, 1 Kingsmead Way, 4001 Durban
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