Dr. Ralph O. Harthan

Guidance for Accounting for NDCs with Greenhouse Gas Emissions Target. Second edition — Updated for the provisions of the Katowice Rulebook and decisions taken at COP26 in Glasgow

Accounting for Nationally Determined Contributions

The 2015 Paris Agreement requires Parties to regularly communicate nationally determined contributions (NDCs) in which they specify their national climate mitigation targets and actions. This document provides practical guidance for countries on how to account for greenhouse gas emissions targets co

NDC Accounting Rules

The requirement to account for the emissions and removals corresponding to the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) was introduced nearly three years ago by the Parties to the UNFCCC. Since then, there have been further negotiations, discussions, exchange forums and workshops. Yet, NDC account

Guidance for the Establishment of an Accounting for NDCs for absolute or relative mitigation targets with a baseline

Accounting of Nationally Determined Contributions

The general NDC accounting guide is applicable to quantified absolute mitigation targets and mitigation targets relating to an emissions baseline. It includes a proposal on the accounting for several mitigation targets comprised in an NDC, for example conditional and unconditional targets and keeps

Assessment of Project Vulnerability and Options to Support Continued Mitigation

Vulnerability of CDM Projects for Discontinuation of Mitigation Activities

This study forms part of a broader project, supported by the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), with the primary objective to analyse the current situation and development of the international carbon markets. This report investigates the current situation of existing project-based ca

Summary of second final report

Climate Protection Scenario 2050

The results of the first round of modelling were published in August 2014. The results of the second round of modelling are now available and are provided in this report. Three scenarios were created for the time frame up to 2050. The framework of targets for Germany, which its 2010/2011 Energy Conc

Analysis of the application of current tools and proposed alternatives

How additional is the Clean Development Mechanism?

While this study provides important insights to improve the CDM up to 2020, the approach taken in this study could also be applied more generally both to assess the environmental integrity of other compliance offset mechanisms, as well as to avoid flaws in the design of new mechanisms being used or