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Item 4 (d) of the provisional agenda
Abstract
The Conference of the Parties (COP), by its decisions 11/CP.7 (para. 2(e)) and 17/CP.7 (para. 10(b)), requested the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) to develop definitions and modalities for including afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism (CDM) in the first commitment period, taking into account the issues of non-permanence, additionality, leakage, uncertainties and socio-economic and environmental impacts, including impacts on biodiversity and natural ecosystems, and being guided by the principles in the preamble to draft decision –/CMP.1 (Land use, land-use change and forestry), with the aim of recommending a draft decision for adoption by the COP at its ninth session on these definitions and modalities, to be forwarded to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP) at its first session. The COP, by its decision 17/CP.7 (para. 11), further decided that the decision by the COP at its ninth session, on definitions and modalities for inclusion of afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM in the first commitment period, referred to in paragraph 1 above, shall be in the form of an annex on modalities and procedures for afforestation and reforestation project activities for the CDM reflecting, mutatis mutandis, the annex to decision 17/CP.7 on modalities and procedures for the CDM (hereinafter referred as “modalities and procedures for the CDM”). The SBSTA, at its sixteenth session, agreed on the terms of reference and an agenda for the work referred to in paragraph 1 above. It invited Parties to submit their views on issues related to modalities. It requested the secretariat to prepare, under the guidance of the SBSTA Chair, an options paper on modalities for addressing socio-economic and environmental impacts, including impacts on biodiversity and natural ecosystems, based on written submissions from Parties and other inputs from Parties at the seventeenth session of the SBSTA. This options paper, prepared in response to the above mandate, builds on the modalities and procedures for the CDM. It presents possible approaches to addressing issues relating to modalities for socio-economic and environmental impacts, including impacts on biodiversity and natural ecosystems, for afforestation and reforestation project activities in the first commitment period. In accordance with the mandate contained in the terms of reference of the SBSTA, this paper does not propose legal text. The document includes questions in italics for further consideration by Parties. The annex contains, for easy reference, selected references to existing modalities addressing socio-economic and environmental aspects in relationship to the CDM project cycle. This paper should be read in conjunction with the options paper on modalities for addressing non-permanence and the options paper on modalities for baselines, additionality an leakage. The three papers aim at facilitating the exchange of views on issues relating to modalities in a workshop to be held in February 2003. Parties are encouraged to refer to the report of the workshop for further elaborations on the approaches reflected in this document (to be available before SBSTA 18)
Meeting
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), Eighteenth session, 4-13 June 2003, Bonn, Germany
Keywords
LULUCF
clean development mechanism
conference papers
Content
Publication date
24/12/2002