Publication: Establishing Scaled-Up Crediting Program Baselines under the Paris Agreement: Issues and options
Date
2017-11
ISSN
Published
2017-11
Author(s)
Partnership for Market Readiness
Abstract
This technical note offers guidance
and identifies options for developing baselines for
scaled-up crediting programs under the Paris Agreement.
Establishing baselines is partly a technical, methodological
challenge, but the biggest uncertainties arise from
unresolved questions regarding international rules under
Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, as well as how crediting
programs may interact with achievement of countries'
"nationally determined contributions" (NDC). How
scaled-up crediting programs should complement a host
country's overall climate and sectoral policy goals,
and how to coordinate baseline development — and overall
crediting program design — with other aspects of national
climate policy? This note has laid out some core principles
that are likely to inform rules for new crediting mechanisms
(i.e., environmental integrity and avoiding double
counting), and presented some options and preliminary
considerations for how to establish baselines in light of
these principles.
Citation
“Partnership for Market Readiness. 2017. Establishing Scaled-Up Crediting Program Baselines under the Paris Agreement: Issues and options. Partnership for Market Readiness Technical Note, No.15. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28785 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”