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FCCC/SBSTA/2003/6
[located on Vol. 3]
Title
Methodological issues. Land use, land-use change and forestry: definitions and modalities for including afforestation and reforestation activities under Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol in the first commitment period. Options paper on modalities for addressing baselines, additionality and leakage. Note by the secretariat.
Full text (PDF)
Full text of this documents is located on Volume 3, 2000-2002
Notes
Agenda 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 baselines, additionality and leakage, 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 options on how to address issues relating to modalities for baselines, additionality and leakage for afforestation and reforestation project activities in the first
commitment period. The final chapter also contains options on how to address cross-cutting issues, in particular those relating to monitoring plans and the crediting period. In accordance with the mandate contained in the terms of reference of the SBSTA, this paper does not propose legal text. Some options are followed by notes in italics which contain questions and/or explanatory comments. This paper should be read in conjunction with the options paper on modalities for addressing
non-permanence and the options paper on modalities for addressing socio-economic and environmental impacts, including impacts on biodiversity and natural ecosystems. 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 elaboration of the options 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
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