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Box 1: Ghana’s R-PP Implementation Phases The R-PP document represents Ghana’s ongoing efforts to get ‘ready’ for a future mechanism for REDD+. It presents a three-step approach to REDD+ strategy development and establishment of the technical, policy, legal, management and monitoring arrangements necessary to enable Ghana to fully participate in a mechanism for REDD+. Implementation of the R-PP is anticipated to continue through 2013. The steps of this stage will include: Step 1: Analysis, Preparation and Consultation Detailed analysis of REDD+ policy, legal and technical requirements Setting of the Reference Emissions Level (REL) Confirmation of institutional roles, responsibilities and oversight for REDD+, establishment of the entity responsible for MRV Selection of potential pilots / demonstration activities Continued consultation, information sharing and awareness raising on REDD+ strategy, legislative and institutional proposals Finalization of REDD+ strategy (to progress towards REDD+ readiness) Step 2: Piloting and Testing Initial capacity building for pilots Establishment of pilots / demonstration activities Establishment of carbon accounting registry Testing of carbon measurement, accounting and MRV procedures Consultation around demonstrations and pilots Consultation on potential REDD+ policies, decisions and actions Training Needs Analysis for full REDD+ implementation Step 3: Becoming Ready Approval of any new legislation (e.g. carbon rights) and legal texts (as required) Finalized financing mechanisms, procedures, audit and controls Finalized operating procedures for MRV entity Recruitment of staff Training and capacity building on the development and technical aspects of REDD+ Operational plan to scale up REDD+ in Implementation Phase 3. Introduction to REDD+ Registries Registries for national carbon accounting and associated transactions constitute a crucial part of the infrastructure needed for realizing and consolidating REDD+. If designed in a comprehensive and transparent manner, a registry ensures that all the relevant data and information linked to REDD+ are captured, processed and stored in a centralized repository which is accessible to various categories of stakeholders and end-users for decision making purposes. This can be done at multiple scales, including national to sub-national and project levels. A REDD+ registry is a data management platform that integrates technology, policies, and operational procedures to document, approve and track the development, compliance, performance, purchase, and retirement of emissions reductions (or removals) through either national, regulatory, or voluntary markets or systems. REDD+ registries aim to serve as a repository of reliable, easy-access information, to ensure accurate accounting of emissions reductions from projects or programs, and to foster compliance with established regulations and standards. As such, a REDD+ registry enables a country (or jurisdiction) to be fully informed of all REDD+ activities taking place within its boundaries, to vouch for the quality, value, and impact of projected or reported emissions reductions or removals, 2
and to follow the issuance of REDD+ credits/units and the issuance of results based payments, irrespective of where the units are transacting within a market framework. In existing carbon markets, transactions are documented in registries where carbon offsets can be bought, sold or retired, and all these dealings tracked in real time and validated accordingly. The latter is particularly crucial for ensuring environmental integrity across different REDD+ initiatives and also promoting transparency and appropriate benefit sharing amongst stakeholders. Figure 1: Flow of Information in a Registry Information uploaded Assessed for compliance Stored in database Open to public Reported, monitored, verified Emissions Reductions Transactions, retirement recorded For most countries, the registry will be database driven, though the database does not have to be especially complex. Despite the fact that most of the attention to date has focused on registry technology and systems, at its core, a registry is simply an enabler of policies and rules. Therefore, the most complex elements of registry development are likely to be the policies and government finance requirements which are needed to support registry development and roll-out. There are five critical functions or elements to achieving a successful REDD+ registry: 1. transparency; 2. accountability; 3. efficiency; 4. environmental integrity; 5. compliance. A registry that cannot meet these five criteria will quickly lose the confidence of key REDD+ stakeholders, including project developers, communities, buyers, validators, etc., and will ultimately undermine its own objective. To date, there are very few operational REDD+ registries in Africa. While many countries are exploring options in light of their REDD Readiness plans (R-PP), the DRC is the only African country engaged in REDD that has developed and begun to pilot a registry system. Box 2 gives an overview of Ghana’s aims in developing a registry. At the global scale, however, many countries are articulating national and jurisdictional (sub-national) registries, depending on their respective REDD+ architectures. Registries are also being used in the voluntary market and in other sub-national markets focused on jurisdictional REDD+. Along similar lines, registries have been developed for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM); the main registry sits in Bonn, Germany, while Ghana’s national list of CDM projects is housed at the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology (MEST). Registries are also being developed for Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMA), though in Ghana a NAMA registry has yet to be developed as NAMAs are only in the early stages of articulation. Furthermore, African countries are engaged in national accounting and reporting of national emissions, and as such are in the process of developing registries to monitor and to compile sector-level emissions data for reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In Ghana, this is conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 3
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