Developing Countries Project - Helping Developing Countries Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
As the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) moves forward, it is critical that developing countries are ready and able to make significant progress toward reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. CCAP is helping developing countries prepare for and participate in UNFCCC negotiations through its Developing Country Project.
CCAP is assisting developing countries by identifying opportunities that will result in substantial economic gains and other benefits from reductions in GHG emissions. Since February 2005, CCAP has been working on the ground with policy-makers and researchers in Brazil, China, India and Mexico. Indonesia was recently added to this project.
Partners and Stakeholders In Brazil
In Brazil, CCAP has worked with policy-makers and researchers in the government and private sectors, particularly Isaias de Carvalho Macedo (NIPE/UNICAMP) for ethanol production and Luiz Augusto Horta Nogueira (UNIFEI) for biodiesel production, to identify technologies and approaches to reduce GHG emissions.
Program Goals and Objectives
The Developing Country — Brazil project has two phases:
The goals and objectives of Phase One included identifying and analyzing mitigation options in electricity, industry, transportation, commercial and residential buildings, agriculture and forestry. CCAP presented the results of Phase One with its in-country partners at a workshop in Brasilia in April 2006, at the UNFCCC meeting in Nairobi.
Key Documents from Phase I
The goals and objectives of Phase Two include:
- Design detailed implementation paths and analyses for specific mitigation options and policies, highlighting the key actors, barriers and co-benefits associated with each option and developing alternative approaches for implementing each policy;
- Create specific analyses for the expansion of: ethanol and biodiesel production for domestic consumption and exportation, increased development of renewable electricity sources, and efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation; and
- Examine the international frameworks within which these options could be implemented and supported.
Key Documents from Phase II
Presentations at COP-15
CCAP organized a side event at the 15th session of the Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC on the 16th of December 2009. Following are the presentations from the event.
North America
