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Start date: 8 August 2017
End date: 7 October 2018
Project Duration:
BENEFICIARIES
The beneficiary countries of the RIPAP project are:
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Albania,
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
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Kosovo *
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Montenegro
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Serbia
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Turkey
OBJECTIVES
The overall objective of this Technical Assistance is to
support the beneficiaries in the development of resourceefficient,
low-emissions and climate-resilient economies.
The specific purposes of the project are:
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to support the beneficiaries to build their capacity for
the implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement and
low emissions development strategies
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to enhance regional cooperation through the
exchange of information, best practices, experience
and awareness-raising between IPA beneficiaries.
*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and it is in line with
UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence
Project Components
COMPONENT 1
Identify climate policies and strategies to support the
implementation of IPA beneficiaries’ commitments under
the Paris Agreement.
Enhance awareness on the outcomes and provisions
of the Paris Agreement
COMPONENT 2
Assist in preparing plans for capacity building on national
GHG inventories.
Upgrade of some national GHG monitoring, reporting
and verification practices towards compliance with
Paris agreement and its subsequent developments
as well as with the EU Monitoring Mechanism
Regulation – National systems, data management
and QA/QC
COMPONENT 3
Strengthen monitoring and reporting, and accreditation
and verification requirements targeted at operators,
authorities and verifiers, CSOs under the EU ETS.
Focus on the legal and institutional requirements
related to EU ETS implementation. It will be based on
best practices and experiences from Member states
Project Activities
Regional modelling training activities – building
modelling capacity to implement the Paris Agreement and
relevant EU legislation;
High-level, expert and bilateral meetings – to share
experiences and identify joint approaches to meeting the
agreed outcomes of the Paris Agreement, relevant EU
legal acts and climate analysis and assessment needs;
Engagement in a technical knowledge sharing portal
– with technical solutions for National Systems and GHG
inventory compilation. Also providing distance mentoring
and training on development of Implementation Plans for
compliant GHG inventory development;
Webinars – to discuss technical assignments between
experts from various beneficiary countries;
National GHG system workshops – development of
MRV systems for GHG inventory compilation, reporting
and review;
Sectoral workshop – Focused training in the development
and enhancement of greenhouse gas estimation methods
for key categories;
In-country workshops – to support public authorities in
implementing emissions trading and industry to prepare for
participating in emissions trading;
Regional knowledge exchange workshop – to
exchange lessons learned and progress in implementation
of specific climate dossiers;
Electronic newsletter – to inform various stakeholders
on emissions trading system and other key climate change
activities
Further demand-driven activities as requested by
beneficiary countries.