Implementation of Flexible Mechanisms and EU ETS in Romania

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Implementation of Flexible Mechanisms and EU ETS
in Romania

• Mr. Vlad Trusca, UNFCCC National Focal Point
• Ministry of Environment and Water Management
•  SB 22 Side Event on JI, GIS and EU ETS in CEE
  Countries
• - 25 May 2005 -

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Overview

• Institutional Arrangements
• JI Co-operation and Projects
• Priority Areas for Projects
• Eligibility Criteria
• Green Investment Scheme
• EU ETS
• Future Activities

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History

• UNFCCC signed in 1992 at Rio Earth Summit
• ratified in 1994 by Law 24
• Kyoto Protocol signed in 1999
• ratified in 2001 by Law 3
• Romania first Annex I country to ratify the
  Kyoto Protocol
• Target 8 reduction of GHG emissions
• Base year 1989
• European Union Member State from 2007

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Institutional Arrangements

• Ministry of Environment and Water Management
  (MEWM) National Focal Point
• Nat. Env. Prot. Agency GHG Inv., EU ETS
• National RD Institute for Environmental
  Protection GHG Inventory, National Comm.
• National Administration for Meteorology IPCC WG
  12, impacts, National Comm.
• National Commission for Climate Change (NCCC)
  inter-ministerial consultative body coordinated
  by MEWM (Joint Implementation)

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Romanias GHG Inventory
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JI International Co-operation

• MoU with Switzerland - 1999
• MoU with the Netherlands - 2000
• MoU with Norway - 2001
• MoU with Austria - 2002
• MoU with Denmark - 2003
• MoU with Sweden - 2003
• MoU with France - 2004
• Host Country Agreement with the WBs Prototype
  Carbon Fund - 2003

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JI Projects in Romania
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Priority Areas for Projects (JIGIS)

• Energy efficiency
• Rehabilitation of district heating systems
• Construction of co-generation installations
• Recuperation of CH4 from urban waste landfills
• Fuel switching in energy productive installations
• Construction (or rehabilitation) of energy
  production installations (especially
  hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, solar, biogas or
  biomass)
• Reducing GHGs emissions in agriculture
• Afforestation and/or reforestation of land

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Eligibility Criteria JI-track I IET

• Party to the Kyoto Protocol
• Assigned amount calculated (Art. 3, para. 7,8)
• National system for estimating anthropogenic
  emissions by sources and anthropogenic removals
  by sinks of all GHGs (Art. 5, para. 1)
• National registry (Art. 7, para. 4)
• Most recent required inventory submitted annually
  (Art. 5, para. 2 and Art. 7, para. 1)
• Supplementary information on assigned amount
  (Art. 7, para. 1), and any additions to, and
  subtractions from, assigned amount

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Green Investment Scheme

• Optional instrument securing the environmental
  benefits of the AAUs sales through IET
• Bilateral agreements
• Flexibility in activities and project eligibility
  (greening should be defined)
• Bulgarian GIS Study relevant (one approach)
• Less stringent greening not another JI type
  of mechanism
• Contacts with potential buyers
• Design of GIS in the NAPCC expected this year

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EU ETS

• Preparing the full transposition of the EU ETS
  and linking Directive
• Establishing the institutional and procedural
  arrangements
• Informing the future participants from the energy
  and industry sectors
• Drafting the Ist and IInd NAP by mid 2006
• Introducing a monitoring system
• Setting up de ETS emissions registry
• NEPA preparing the inventory of installations and
  starting the collection of emissions data

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Future Activities

• Adopting the National Strategy for Climate Change
  and preparing the National Action Plan on Climate
  Change
• Increasing the institutional capacity
• Preparing the methodology for JI-track I
• Preparing the Ist and IInd NAP
• Developing one or more GIS
• Possible new co-operation with Japan, Canada, and
  Italy regarding JI and GIS
• Thank you