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Towards a comprehensive and ambitious post-2012 climate change agreement |
1. Background information |
I reply: |
On behalf of an organisation or an institution
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NGO (international, national, regional or local)
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Full name of organisation and Register of interest representatives ID number |
Sustainable Landfill Foundation; ID-nummer: 8047501400-75 |
What is your country of residence/country where your organisation or institution is based? |
Netherlands
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2. The climate change challenge - a shared vision for the 21st century development |
Would this aspirational long term goal be appropriate in the light of the 2007 IPCC reports and latest scientific knowledge? (max 4000 characters) |
Yes, it would be. But only if we make a serious attempt to achieve a major reform in the anthropogenic energy consumption. Other contribution can be significant, but will without energy consumption reform fail to achieve the long term goal. |
Is there a need for other elements to be part of the shared vision in order to ensure the transition to a sustainable low carbon economy? (max 4000 characters) |
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3. Mitigation commitments by developed countries |
What should be the criteria for allocating emission reduction efforts among developed countries, considering also the need to ensure the "comparability of efforts" as agreed in Bali? (max 4000 characters) |
A criterion could be the ecological footprint per inhabitant. |
4. Mitigation actions by developing countries |
What type of mitigation actions should developing countries undertake? How should these be measured, reported and verified? What should be the scale and legal nature of these actions? How should differences in responsibility and capability of different developing countries be taken into account? (max 4000 characters) |
As approximately 80% of the anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions are related to fossil fuel consumption, it is inevitable to address energy consumption. This does however not mean less important contributors should be ignored. IPCC estimates that 3-4% of global GHG emissions are due to waste management. Approximately half is attributed to landfill methane emissions. In the EU-27 the landfill methane emission is estimated to be approximately 100 Mtonnes carbon dioxide equivalent or roughly 2% of the total. The European Environment Agency estimates that due to growth of waste production irrespective of the landfill reduction targets the amount of biodegradable waste landfilled in the EU will remain more or less constant until 2020. The potential landfill methane emission could remain at the same level as well. Landfill gas recovery is a very cost effective method to mitigate GHG emission. The cost is approximately 5 to 7 euro per tonne carbon dioxide equivalent and therefore much lower than most other measures. The EU Landfill Directive unfortunately does not contain detailed guidelines for landfill gas recovery. Making such guidelines in an Annex would both from a technical and legislative perspective fairly easy. It would result in quick and cheap results. |
To what extent and how should those actions be supported by technology and financial assistance from the developed countries? What kind of supporting tools could be developed at the international level to support domestic action and should there be respective roles for the public and private sector, including the carbon market? (max 4000 characters) |
The technology is proven and widely available. Transfer of landfill gas recovery knowledge and expertise to developing countries is still badly needed. It would also help if the public sector would help developing countries to improve their waste management services. The carbon market already has measures in place to accomodate landfill gas projects. |
How should technology and financial assistance by developed countries to developing country mitigation and adaptation actions be measured, reported and verified and should they be compared? (max 4000 characters) |
Effectiveness of landfill gas recovery projects can be measured relatively easy. It only requires a flow meter and intermittent gas quality checks. This is much simpler and results in much "harder" data than for instance forestry projects. |
5. Carbon market |
How should the existing Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation be improved in order to increase their environmental integrity and effectiveness? (max 4000 characters) |
Yes, they should be. There are start-up problems. But they result in an image of fraude and inappropriate enrichment. This image should be erased. That requires robust and rigid procedures. |
What new market mechanisms could be developed to improve the effectiveness of carbon market? (max 4000 characters) |
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6. Carbon leakage |
How could the delocalisation of emissions from developed countries with binding emission caps to other parts of the world be minimized? (max 4000 characters) |
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7. Sectoral approaches |
What type of sectoral approaches could effectively contribute to global emission reductions? (max 4000 characters) |
Within the EU-27 the carbon market can not improve reduction of landfill methane emission for the reason that it is not additional. The EU Landfill Directive requires landfill gas recovery. But because it does not provide detailed guidelines, it fails to optimise landfill gas recovery within the EU-27. Such a guidelines could have a quick result at relatively little effort and cost. |
8. Emissions from international air and maritime transport |
How could emissions from international air and maritime transport be effectively addressed? (max 4000 characters) |
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9. Emissions from deforestation and forest degradation |
What should be sources of financing emission reductions from deforestation and degradation? (max 4000 characters) |
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How financing of emission reductions from deforestation and degradation should be monitored taking into account non-permanence, leakage and liability issues? (max 4000 characters) |
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10. Adaptation needs and support for most vulnerable countries |
What mechanism should be used to finance cost-efficient adaptation action in the most vulnerable countries, in particular LDCs, SIDS and African countries? (max 4000 characters) |
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How should the effectiveness of adaptation measures be monitored and assessed? (max 4000 characters) |
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What should be the catalyst role of the UNFCCC, considering notably the role and contribution of other relevant international organisations addressing the impacts of climate change on their area of competence? (max 4000 characters) |
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11. Technology cooperation |
Is there a need for specific support schemes for the development, demonstration or deployment of certain technologies? If so, for which ones and how should these be structured? (max 4000 characters) |
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How to strengthen enabling environment for the deployment of the many existing clean technologies? (max 4000 characters) |
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12. Finance and investment |
How should additional public support be organised and which should be the three top priority areas for financial support in developing countries? (max 4000 characters) |
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How could private sector be involved in mobilising additional finance? (max 4000 characters) |
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13. Compliance and enforcement of the new agreement |
How should it be ensured that countries will comply with their commitments? (max 4000 characters) |
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14. Other suggestions |
Please enter any other suggestions that were not covered by previous questions (max 4000 characters) |
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