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Millennium Development Goal 8 as well as other MDGs 115 ). All institutions involved in the project will have
been actively involved in the ‘learning-by-doing’ development of a portfolio of CDM projects, some of which
are expected to be picked up as investment projects by Austrian business and industry. Should there be any
remaining projects, these will be presented to the wider carbon investment community.
Implementation and co-ordination arrangements
The MEA/Climate Change Unit will implement the project. The implementation arrangements will be based
on teamwork. Cooperation will be sought from the NCPC & ITPO networks, Industrial Energy and Cleaner
Production Branch and other UNIDO branches (e.g. the COMFAR team), wherever appropriate to particular
activities and feasible within the project countries. In particular, the project aims to provide a learning
experience for the UNIDO NCPCs in the participating countries and help them to develop the skill sets
necessary for continuing support of the CDM process after the project has been completed. Therefore, the
project will endeavor to engage these NCPCs in the following activities:
. • Processes related to the identification of CDM projects;
. • CDM project formulation/facilitating the development of the carbon component of such
projects;
. • Identification of national training/capacity needs and their implementation;
. • Cooperating with local DNAs in the assessment and screening of CDM proposals as part of
the national approval process;
. • Utilizing the NCPC national contacts developed during the identification and
implementation of cleaner production projects (especially those dealing with energy and material
efficiency improvements in the industrial sector) in the awareness and knowledge sharing activates
targeting local business and industry.
In order to achieve these objectives, the workshops envisaged and the training of industry in the preparation
of PINs and PDDs will be carried out with the help of NCPCs acting as both organizers and recipients of
training at the same time.
Depending on existing skills and the availability of resources, NCPCs in the participating countries may wish
to strive for a role in some of the activities of the CDM project cycle, such as helping companies to conduct
environmental impact assessment as part of the PDD preparation process or leading the local stakeholder
review process for particular CDM projects. However, the exact role of these NCPCs in the CDM process can
only become clearer once the project is under way following consultations with the relevant NCPC staff and
the national authorities / institutions that are in charge of the CDM approval process.
Therefore, while fully engaging the NCPCs in its activities, the project will refrain from an a priori
determination of an institutional role for NCPCs in the context of the CDM process in the participating
countries.
As NCPCs have developed technical expertise in industrial environmental management and because of their
continuous involvement in cleaner production projects at the national level, the objective of getting them
engaged in this project is to enable them to augment their expertise and extend their services to industry in the
area of carbon assets generation. This will help industry to fully benefit from the emerging opportunities
under the CDM, thereby increasing the countries’ potential to generate certified emissions reductions (CERs).
It is expected that, after project implementation, the NCPCs will be better equipped to contribute to the
development of national CDM project portfolios and to support local institutions and industry in this process.
Thus the participation of the NCPCs is expected to add to the overall sustainability of the project.
115 Technology transfer to these countries should enhance their industries’ productivity and competitiveness, contributing to poverty eradication
(MDG 1) and related MDG of children’s well being (MDG 2, 4-5), gender equality (MDG 3) and health care (MDG 6). Industrial technology
transfer under the CDM/JI particularly focuses on resource/energy productivity. An effective climate change regime should halt/reverse the trend
of degradation of the natural environment and resources thus contributing to environmental sustainability (MDG 7).
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