Regional Distribution - Nairobi Framework

Background

The Nairobi Framework (NF) was initiated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Bank Group, the African Development Bank, and the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with the specific target of helping developing countries, especially those in sub-Sahara Africa, to improve their level of participation in the CDM.

The Framework was first announced by the UN Secretary-General, in his his address during the opening of the high-level segment of COP/MOP 2 in which he stated that the CDM has become a multi-billion dollar source of funding for sustainable development … an outstanding example of a UN-led partnership linking government action to the private sector in the developing world. The Secretary-General went on to encourage donor countries to help make these efforts [under the Nairobi Framework] a success. Subsequently, in its decisions 1/CMP.2 (Further Guidance to the clean development mechanism) and 6/CMP.2 (Capacity building under the Kyoto Protocol), CMP 2 welcomed the Nairobi Framework and encouraged Parties to undertake a number of actions in these areas.

More recently, during the seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties, acting as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 7), Parties renewed their call to NF partners to enhance their capacity building activities under the Framework, in particular in least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for, inter alia, the following:

    (a) Skills enhancement and training to assist designated national authorities, applicant and designated operational entities and project participants with regard to technical matters related to the clean development mechanism;

    (b) Institutional strengthening through, inter alia, support to designated national authorities in the development and submission of standardized baselines and microscale renewable energy technologies that are automatically defined as additional;

    (c) Activities of designated national authorities and stakeholders in the implementation of the guidelines on standardized baselines and suppressed demand through system development and application;

The NF has also benefited from cooperation with other international organizations which are not formal members of the Framework, but whose goals and workplans support its goals. These organizations include the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), the Asia Development Bank (ADB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES).

Objectives and activities

Nairobi Framework partners side event in Cancun - CMP6/COP16 - 01 December 2010 Introductory Presentation

Nairobi Framework : The way forward and facing new challenges (179 KB)
Nairobi Framework : UNFCCC (136 KB)

Partners' activities in response to the Nairobi Framework

Nairobi Framework : UNEP (1653 KB)
Nairobi Framework : AfDB (218 KB)
Nairobi Framework : UNDP (144 KB)
Nairobi Framework : UNITAR (1164 KB)

The Framework consists of five objectives, agreed to by the initiating agencies, considered to be key priority targets in order to move the CDM forward in the beneficiary countries:

  • Build and enhance capacity of DNAs to become fully operational
  • Build capacity in developing CDM project activities
  • Promote investment opportunities for projects
  • Improve information sharing/outreach / exchange of views on activities / education and training
  • Inter-agency coordination

Information sharing

The UNFCCC secretariat, in its function of facilitator of the Nairobi Framework and the broader work to enhance the regional distribution of CDM project activities, coordinates relevant activities to be carried out by partners and other cooperating organizations. The implementing agencies, working together, address identified needs and opportunities according to the specific situation in each country where they are active, as well as their own mandates.

Other agencies, private institutions, bilateral programmes and NGOs are also encouraged to provide assistance to enhance the regional distribution of CDM project activities and to inform the Secretariat, so that this information can also be made available through this webpage.

The information accessible from this web portal will provide an overview of assistance (ongoing or planned) under the Framework, partly as an outreach tool to demonstrate progress being made towards the objectives of the Nairobi Framework and partly to provide lessons from past experiences. It will also assist in evaluating the coverage and effectiveness of the activities and act as a guide to improve future ones.

Initiatives   already undertaken + Third African Carbon Forum in Marrakech, Morocco, 4-6 July 2011
+ Donor consultation meeting during SB32, Maritim, Bonn in June 2010Nairobi Framework Donor Consultation Meeting (201 KB)
+ 2nd Africa Carbon Forum in Nairobi, Kenya (03 - 05 March 2010)2nd African Carbon Forum Brochure (596 KB)
+ Side event during COP 15 on "Nairobi Framework - Status and Future Impacts in Africa" (on 11 December 2009)Nairobi Framework: Achievements and Challenges (216 KB)
+ The first Africa Carbon Forum was held in Dakar, Senegal in September 2008
+ Plenary sessions on the Nairobi Framework are included during all meetings of the CDM DNA Forum and in the Joint Coordination Workshops (JWS) since November 2007
+ The third meeting of the CDM DNA Forum was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in October 2007
+ The CDM Bazaar website was launched in September 2007
+ A Nairobi Framework mobilization event at SB 26 in May 2007   |   by collaborative partners and organisations + Project developers and investors are involved in offset projects: Gazprom, Camco, Eneco
+ The IETA member company Carbonflow produces software tools that ease the tasks of project developers and DNAs IETA Report of Activity (161 KB)
List of capacity building activities that WB CF-Assist Program intends to implement in AFR region (83 KB)

CDM methodology and CDM technology selection tools

In the context of these needs, the UNFCCC Secretariat is acting as a catalyst and facilitator for the Framework. + Identifying the needs to be addressed (98 KB)
+ Maintaining regular contact with the implementing agencies in order to keep them up-to-date and to solicit information on their latest developments to enable enhanced inter-agency coordination
+ Providing a centralized information platform/portal on individual and joint activities - Ongoing and planned activities of partner agencies (UNDP, UNEP and World Bank)
+ Developing some new initiatives and inter-agency activities/projects
+ Assisting in mobilizing resources for activities under the Framework.

+ As part of its initiative under the Nairobi Framework to help spread CDM, especially in Africa, the UNFCCC secretariat is now offering audio files in French on a wide range of CDM topics, in simple terms more »