UNDP-联合国开发计划署的高诚信碳市场倡议（英）-2023.12-26页_2mb

报告摘要

December 2023 UNDP’s High-Integrity Carbon Markets Initiative

Introduction

UNDP emphasizes high integrity as core to its carbon markets portfolio, aiming to support countries in accessing and implementing carbon markets aligned with the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The initiative focuses on four key offerings to enhance carbon market integrity and mitigate climate change.

Strategic Context

Carbon markets face challenges such as knowledge gaps, double-counting, human rights issues, and weak governance in developing countries. UNDP positions itself to address these by providing comprehensive support, building institutional capacity, and promoting equitable partnerships to scale up high-quality carbon finance.

UNDP Vision, Mission, and Strategic Outcomes

Vision: To make carbon markets work for host countries, NDCs, and the SDGs.
Mission: To assist host countries and local stakeholders in accessing high-integrity carbon markets at scale, contributing to global climate targets.
Strategic Outcomes:
- Unlock carbon market finance for enhanced NDC and SDG implementation.
- Foster equity in carbon markets, improving outcomes for host countries and local stakeholders.
- Increase the supply of high-quality carbon credits globally.
- Enhance social and environmental safeguards and sustainable development impacts.

Carbon Market Offerings

UNDP adopts a portfolio approach focused on two streams: Readiness and Implementation, covering four offers:

Offer 1: Readiness – Carbon Market Access Strategies: Provides introduction to carbon markets and country-specific technical assistance to develop access strategies, including assessment of NDC potential, financing instruments, and identification of risks for host countries and local stakeholders. Leads to a Carbon Market Access Strategy and roadmap.
Offer 2: Implementation – Article 6 ITMO Facility: Supports countries in capacity building for Article 6 (ITMOs), facilitates public-private partnerships, develops policies and regulations, and promotes digital infrastructure. Strategic outcomes include enhanced cooperation for NDC implementation, scaled-up carbon finance, and SDG support through high-impact projects.
Offer 3: Implementation – Jurisdictional Voluntary Carbon Markets: Assists countries in aligning jurisdictional voluntary carbon markets (VCM) with national frameworks, acting as a financial intermediary to connect buyers with sellers, and ensures technical quality with safeguard integration. Aims to unlock finance and advance climate ambition.
Offer 4: Implementation – Domestic Carbon Markets & Emission Trading Schemes: Provides technical support tailored to domestic mechanisms (compliance/ETS or voluntary programs), including accounting, legal feasibility, and registry setup. Outcomes include government capacity enhancement, private sector engagement, and increased public awareness.

High Integrity Guardrails

UNDP applies cross-cutting principles ensuring:

Carbon accounting and transparency: Additional emission reductions, robust quantification, permanence, no double-counting, transparency, independent third-party validation, unique credit identification.
Social and environmental safeguards and sustainable development benefits: Addresses FPIC (Free, Prior, Informed Consent), Indigenous Peoples' rights, gender equality, labor rights, robust safeguard risk assessments, benefit sharing, grievance mechanisms, and ensures positive SDG impacts.

Why UNDP?

UNDP offers a comparative advantage due to its Climate Promise (support for over 120+ countries' NDCs), expertise in social and environmental standards, SDG integration, sustainable finance network, role in forests, partnerships with key integrity initiatives (IC-VCM, VCMI), extensive expert network, and experience supporting Indigenous Peoples.

Next Steps

UNDP will implement its existing carbon market portfolio, assess demand for the initiative, and refine service offers based on feedback from governments, stakeholders, and partners to ensure holistic and sustainable engagement with carbon markets.