Carbon Market Watch submission on SBSTA on cooperative approaches

The document discusses the transition from Kyoto Protocol carbon markets to the Paris Agreement's cooperative approaches, specifically the use of internationally transferred mitigation outcomes (ITMOs). It warns that without robust accounting and oversight, these transfers risk introducing 'hot air' carbon units into ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which could jeopardize the goals of limiting global temperature increase to 1.5C or well below 2C.

• Article 6, paragraph 2 of the Paris Agreement allows countries to use emission reductions from other countries toward their own targets through internationally transferred mitigation outcomes (ITMOs), which replaces the Kyoto Protocol's Assigned Amount Units (AAUs).
• The use of ITMOs poses a risk to the environmental integrity of ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) if they are not governed by limits, rules, robust accounting, and oversight, as they could be contaminated by 'hot air' carbon units.

APA

Carbon Market Watch (2016). Carbon Market Watch submission on SBSTA on cooperative approaches. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/carbon-market-watch-submission-on-sbsta-on-cooperative-approaches/

Chicago

Carbon Market Watch. Carbon Market Watch submission on SBSTA on cooperative approaches. 2016. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/carbon-market-watch-submission-on-sbsta-on-cooperative-approaches/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{carbonmarketwatch2016carbon, author = {{Carbon Market Watch}}, title = {{Carbon Market Watch submission on SBSTA on cooperative approaches}}, publisher = {Carbon Market Watch}, year = {2016}, month = oct, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/carbon-market-watch-submission-on-sbsta-on-cooperative-approaches/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }