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The Prototype Carbon Fund in Latin America : Lessons Learned
dc.contributor.author | Fernandez-Asin, Francisco | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-13T11:21:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-13T11:21:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2002-11 | |
dc.description.abstract | Reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that affect climate change is one of the key challenges facing the international community. The Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) provides a framework for action, learning, and research to demonstrate how greenhouse gas emission reduction transactions can contribute to sustainable development, while lowering the costs of compliance with the Kyoto Protocol-the 1997 agreement to cut industrialized world emissions of greenhouse gases. The Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) Region has a growing number of successful Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) projects that have yielded useful experience for developing additional projects. This note highlights the lessons learned in the region, to date. The PCF is a public-private fund established in 2000 and administered by the World Bank acting as Trustee. It operates under the clean development mechanism principles of the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The PCF aims to demonstrate the potential of market-based mechanisms for reducing the cost of mitigating climate change. It does this by buying Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) from projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Bank client countries, particularly projects that replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources and those that improve end-use and supply-side efficiency. In return for their shares in the PCF, developed country governments and private sector companies receive CERs, which they can use towards their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol or domestic regulations. | en |
dc.identifier | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/11/2513635/prototype-carbon-fund-latin-america-lessons-learned | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10400 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.publisher | World Bank, Washington, DC | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | en breve; No. 13 | |
dc.rights | CC BY 3.0 IGO | |
dc.rights.holder | World Bank | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ | |
dc.subject | CARBON DIOXIDE | |
dc.subject | GREENHOUSE GAS | |
dc.subject | EMISSION REDUCTION | |
dc.subject | WIND POWER | |
dc.subject | SOLID WASTE | |
dc.subject | GAS FLARING | |
dc.subject | CHARCOAL | |
dc.subject | RICE HUSKS | |
dc.subject | CLIMATE CHANGE | |
dc.subject | BAGASSE | |
dc.subject | BIOMASS | |
dc.subject | METHANE ABATEMENT | |
dc.subject | AFFORESTATION | |
dc.subject | BAGASSE COGENERATION | |
dc.subject | BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION | |
dc.subject | BIOMASS | |
dc.subject | CARBON | |
dc.subject | CARBON CREDITS | |
dc.subject | CARBON DIOXIDE | |
dc.subject | CARBON FINANCE | |
dc.subject | CATALYSTS | |
dc.subject | CERTIFIED EMISSION REDUCTIONS | |
dc.subject | CLEAN DEVELOPMENT | |
dc.subject | CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM | |
dc.subject | CLEAN ENERGY | |
dc.subject | CLEAN WATER | |
dc.subject | CLEANER ENERGY | |
dc.subject | CLIMATE | |
dc.subject | CLIMATE CHANGE | |
dc.subject | CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION | |
dc.subject | CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS | |
dc.subject | COAL | |
dc.subject | CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE | |
dc.subject | COSTS OF COMPLIANCE | |
dc.subject | DIESEL | |
dc.subject | DISTRICT HEATING | |
dc.subject | ELECTRICITY | |
dc.subject | EMISSIONS | |
dc.subject | EMISSIONS BASELINES | |
dc.subject | EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS | |
dc.subject | END-USE | |
dc.subject | ENERGY EFFICIENCY | |
dc.subject | ENERGY RESOURCES | |
dc.subject | FORESTRY | |
dc.subject | FOSSIL FUELS | |
dc.subject | FUEL | |
dc.subject | FUEL SWITCH | |
dc.subject | GAS ENERGY | |
dc.subject | GAS FLARING | |
dc.subject | GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE | |
dc.subject | GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS | |
dc.subject | GLOBAL WARMING | |
dc.subject | GREENHOUSE | |
dc.subject | GREENHOUSE GAS | |
dc.subject | GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION | |
dc.subject | GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTION | |
dc.subject | GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTION TRANSACTIONS | |
dc.subject | GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS | |
dc.subject | GREENHOUSE GASES | |
dc.subject | HYDRO POWER | |
dc.subject | INCOME | |
dc.subject | IRON | |
dc.subject | IRON PRODUCTION | |
dc.subject | KYOTO PROTOCOL | |
dc.subject | LAND DEGRADATION | |
dc.subject | LAND USE | |
dc.subject | LAND USE CHANGE | |
dc.subject | METHANE | |
dc.subject | METHANE EMISSION | |
dc.subject | METHANE EMISSION REDUCTIONS | |
dc.subject | METHANE EMISSIONS | |
dc.subject | MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE | |
dc.subject | NATIONAL GRID | |
dc.subject | QUALITY EMISSION REDUCTIONS | |
dc.subject | QUALITY GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION REDUCTIONS | |
dc.subject | REDUCING CLIMATE CHANGE | |
dc.subject | REDUCING EMISSIONS | |
dc.subject | REFORESTATION | |
dc.subject | RENEWABLE ENERGY | |
dc.subject | RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES | |
dc.subject | RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES | |
dc.subject | RICE HUSK | |
dc.subject | RURAL ELECTRIFICATION | |
dc.subject | SOLID WASTE | |
dc.subject | SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT | |
dc.subject | SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT | |
dc.subject | WASTE | |
dc.subject | WASTE MANAGEMENT | |
dc.subject | WATERSHED | |
dc.subject | WIND | |
dc.subject | WIND ENERGY | |
dc.subject | WIND FARM | |
dc.subject | WIND FARMS | |
dc.subject | WIND POWER | |
dc.subject | WIND PROJECT | |
dc.subject | WORLD EMISSIONS | |
dc.title | The Prototype Carbon Fund in Latin America : Lessons Learned | en |
dc.title.alternative | El fondo prototipo del carbono en America Latina : lecciones aprendidas | en |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea | Climate Change | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research :: Brief | |
okr.doctype | Publications & Research | |
okr.docurl | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/11/2513635/prototype-carbon-fund-latin-america-lessons-learned | |
okr.globalpractice | Environment and Natural Resources | |
okr.globalpractice | Energy and Extractives | |
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum | 000090341_20030917140130 | |
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum | 2513635 | |
okr.identifier.report | 26724 | |
okr.language.supported | en | |
okr.pdfurl | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2003/09/17/000090341_20030917140130/Rendered/PDF/267240English0En0Breve0no10130PCF.pdf | en |
okr.region.administrative | Latin America & Caribbean | |
okr.topic | Energy :: Energy and Environment | |
okr.topic | Environment :: Montreal Protocol | |
okr.topic | Environment :: Carbon Policy and Trading | |
okr.topic | Environment :: Climate Change and Environment | |
okr.topic | Environmental Economics and Policies | |
okr.unit | LCR Regional Vice President (LCRVP) | |
okr.volume | 1 of 1 |
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