1. Presentation title
UNFCCC initiatives to encourage climate neutrality & showcasing SD benefits
Workshop 2: Using markets to deliver carbon and sustainable development goals
Asia Pacific Carbon Forum, Jeju.
7 September 2016
Benita Gurung, Regional Collaboration Center, Bangkok
UNFCCC secretariat, programme

2. Encouraging carbon neutrality -VC Platform
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Encouraging carbon neutrality -VC Platform
Promoting the co-benefits of CDM Project activities- SD Tool
CDM Project: 1754 Visakhapatnam (India) OSRAM CFL Distribution CDM Project

3. What is climate neutrality?
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What is climate neutrality?
Dec the Paris agreement- a global climate change agreement that laid the groundwork for a low-carbon future. In order to make that future a reality, companies, governments and individuals must work together toward climate neutrality. All of us have a role to play in rapidly moving the planet toward a pathway that keeps global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
To avoid the worst effects of climate change we need a climate neutral world. Every level, from national governments to corporations to individuals, has a role to play.
Climate neutrality is not about zero emissions. It is about reducing current emissions to the point where we reach the ultimate balance between emissions and the absorptive capacity of the Earth.
To achieve​ climate neutrality, we must measure what we emit and then reduce those emissions. Even with our best efforts to reduce, daily activities and business operations will result in unavoidable emissions. This is why offsetting, only after measuring and reducing, is key for climate neutrality.
In December, 2015, the world came to​gether to sign the Paris Agreement, a global climate change agreement that laid the groundwork for a low-carbon future. In order to make that future a reality, companies, governments and individuals must work together toward climate neutrality. All of us have a role to play in rapidly moving the planet toward a pathway that keeps global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
To avoid the worst effects of climate change we need a climate neutral world. Every level, from national governments to corporations to individuals, has a role to play.

4. “Climate neutrality is a long term vision of the world we want this century and backed by science. The new universal agreement to be inked in Paris this December at COP21 needs to be a springboard to that future. It is going to require action today and tomorrow and everyone needs to get on board-- from governments and corporations to cities, regions and individuals.”, Christiana Figures

5. Voluntary cancellation platform
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Voluntary cancellation platform
An online platform to allow the general public to voluntarily cancel CERs.
Makes CERs available for voluntary cancellation (VC) easily visible and searchable;
Contains a simple process to pay for the VC of those CERs;
For each purchase a certificate will be issued to the buyer;
No brokerage fee charged to any user;
Only CERs located in the CDM registry will be offered (both CP1 and CP2).

6. Voluntary cancellation platform
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Voluntary cancellation platform
Allows members of public easy access to offset their emissions and become carbon neutral;
Allows the public to support mitigation action (and sustainable development) in a voluntary manner;
Encourages voluntary use of CERs to offset the climate footprint of individuals and organizations;
Supports CDM project developers by providing an additional channel to offer their CERs for sale (and cancellation) to the public.
CERs purchased and cancelled are additional to the emission reduction efforts by the governments

7. Step 2: Reduce
Step 1: Measure

8. Step 3: Offset – purchase (https://store.climateneutralnow.org/)

9. Presentation title
Updates
Latest events that have been e neutralized with CERs: COP21, UN Environmental Assembly (UNEA) and High Level Thematic Debate on Achieving the SDGs (
An estimated 1,800 COP21 participants offset their travel footprint with the Platform.
Total amount of cancelled offsets to date (in tonnes): 40,199
Total amount of cancelled offsets to date (in USD): 52,757.69

10. Demand side initiatives- VC Platform
Promoting the co-benefits of CDM Project- SD Tool

12. SD Tool
The sustainable development (SD) tool enables Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project developers to showcase the sustainable development benefits of their projects and programmes of activities.
The tool contains a short survey about the project's co-benefits, which is used to create a detailed sustainable development co-benefits report that is then published on the UNFCCC's website for public access
Questionnaire

13. SD Tool http://cdmcobenefits.unfccc.int/

14. Thank you Email address: RCCBangkok@unfccc.int bgurung@unfccc.int
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Skype: RCC.Bangkok
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