The UNEP DTU Pipelines have been updated at www.cdmpipeline.org, www.namapipeline.org, and at https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/climate-change/what-we-do/mitigation/pledge-pipeline and www.climateinitiativesplatform.org

CDM news:

The UNEP DTU Pipelines have been updated at www.cdmpipeline.org  , www.namapipeline.org, and at

www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/climate-change/what-we-do/mitigation/pledge-pipeline

CDM news:

In October one new CDM projects were submitted from Mauritius.

Two CDM project got their registration action in October. The total number of registered CDM project is still 7809 or 93% of the 8367 of the CDM projects that is alive. Only 561 projects are still at validation and 1 has requested registration.

For 2348 CDM projects the DOEs terminated validation, and for 276 the DOEs gave a negative validation. 279 projects were rejected by the EB, and 64 projects were withdrawn.

The total issuance is now 1956 MCERs, this is an increase of 2.7 MCERs compared to last month. 3156 registered projects have now got issuance. The average issuance success is 84.2%.

Voluntary cancellation of CERs has now increased to 36.2 MCERs. In South Korea CERs can be converted into Korean Carbon Units if they are from CDM projects in South Korea and cancelled voluntarily. This already happened for 18.8 MCERs. In Colombia a carbon tax can be avoided by buying voluntary cancellation, which has reached 3.3 MCERs.

PoA news:

Two new PoAs were submitted in October:

“Viet Nam Improved Cookstove Project by KCM”, and

“Fostering an ESCO industry in UAE (PoA)”.

Subtracting the 71 PoAs that the DOEs terminated validation of, the 3 PoAs rejected by the EB, the 5 PoAs withdrawn, and the 31 resubmitted PoAs we now have 402 PoAs in the Pipeline: 86 at validation, and 316 are registered.

No new CPAs were submitted in October:

In total 2313 CPAs exist hosted by 75 countries.

The total issuance from the 54 PoAs with issuance is now 15.0 MCERs.

NAMApipeline news: see www.namapipeline.org

The UNFCCC NAMA Registry can be accessed by the public at the webpage:  www4.unfccc.int/sites/nama

In October two new NAMAs were submitted from Iran:

“Energy Efficiency Improvement in Iran's Agricultural Irrigation Systems through the Replacement of Inefficient Water Pumping Systems (EEIIA)”, and

“Participatory development and arrangements of the National Strategy and Action Plan for low-carbon water and sewage industry”.

The total number of NAMAs is 172 (2 NAMAs were withdrawn, and 2 was resubmitted).

The total support offered is 164 MUS$ only 1.2% of the total support requested of 14007 MUS$, and the total cost for the NAMAs is 55078 MUS$.

NDC & PledgePipeline news:

Available at:  http://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/climate-change/what-we-do/mitigation/pledge-pipeline

Our Pledgepipeline includes the Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs/NDCs) that are submitted to the UNFCCC.

Now 155 Parties (182 countries) responsible to 88.8% of the total GHG emissions have ratified the Paris Agreement.

Two more countries ratified the Paris Agreement in October: Equatorial Guinea and Guinea Bissau.

At this site you can also find our CitiesAndRegionsPipeline, which in addition to the country pledges contain 284 pledges from regions and 1991 pledges from cities.

Non-state actor news:

Our Climate Initiatives Platform (CIP) at http://climateinitiativesplatform.org has been updated and we have a new Initiative. CIP now contains 247 International Cooperative Initiatives and CIP is a data provider to the UNFCCC NAZCA platform, the Non-state Actor Zone for Climate Action.

The CIP web-site has just been updated to a complete impact-monitoring framework for measuring progress of the initiatives: You can now choose between 5 different monitoring Functions, for each Function a number of Activities, and for each Activity a time series for the Indicator.

If you are in a secretariat/focal point for an ICI, you can register and be upgraded to a user, where you can get a password to update the information about your ICI.

Joergen Fenhann and Marco Schletz

UNEP DTU Partnership (formerly known as UNEP Risoe)
Danish Technical University

UN City in Copenhagen, Denmark

Phone: (+45) 40 20 27 89
jqfe@dtu.dk

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