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 unep.org/climatechange/pledgepipeline

CDM news:

In April no new CDM projects were submitted.

Two CDM projects got their registration action in April, increasing the total number of registered CDM project to 7803 or 93% of the 8366 of the CDM projects that are alive. Only 559 projects are still at validation and 4 have requested registration.

For 2349 CDM projects the DOEs terminated validation, and for 276 the DOEs gave a negative validation. 278 projects were rejected by the EB, and 64 projects were withdrawn.

The total issuance is now 1905 MCERs, this is an increase of 4.1 MCERs compared to last month. 3128 registered projects have now got issuance. The average issuance success is 86%.

Voluntary cancellation of CERs has now increased to 29.9 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 16.9 MCERs. Same story in Colombia where voluntary cancellation has reached 1.4 MCERs.

PoA news:

Two new PoAs were submitted in April:

“Latam Landfill PoA” in Brazil, and

“SHINE – Distribution of LED Lightbulbs in India”.

Subtracting the 71 PoAs that the DOEs terminated validation of, the 3 PoAs rejected by the EB, the 5 PoAs withdrawn, and the 31 resubmitted PoAs we now have 395 PoAs in the Pipeline: 83 at validation, 1 has requested registration, and 311 are registered.

3 new CPAs were submitted in April for ref=7997:

“Improved Cook stoves Programme – India”

In total 2261 CPAs exist hosted by 75 countries.

The total issuance from the 51 PoAs with issuance is now 13.9 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 April no new NAMAs were submitted.

The total number of NAMAs is 169 (2 NAMAs were withdrawn, and 2 was resubmitted).

The total support offered is 164 MUS$ only 1.5% of the total support requested of 11711 MUS$, and the total cost for the NAMAs is 51966 MUS$.

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 148 Parties (175 countries) responsible to 88.2% of the total GHG emissions have ratified the Paris Agreement.

The last country to ratify was Kuwait.

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.

Our Emission Gap Report 2017 is available at:

http://www.unenvironment.org/resources/emissions-gap-report

Non-state actor news:

Our Climate Initiatives Platform (CIP) at http://climateinitiativesplatform.org has been updated and we have added 11 new Initiatives. CIP now contains 237 International Cooperative Initiatives and CIP is a data provider to the UNFCCC NAZCA platform, the Non-state Actor Zone for Climate Action.

We have now improved the “Participants” section for all the initiatives.

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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