Session 1A presentation from the 7th Strategic Dialogue of the Carbon Market Platform, 4-5 October 2022

1. Capacity Building and support for
Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
Event: Strategic Dialogue of the Carbon Market Platform 2022
Presenter: Bianca Gichangi, Coordinator EAA
4th October 2022

2. The Alliance was launched in June 2019 to ensure long term
participation of members in carbon market activities.
Membership comprising of Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya,
Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Sudan
It is country driven with activities based on requests from
members (submitted through focal points)
Hosted by the UNFCCC Regional Collaboration Centre –
Kampala, based at the East Africa Development Bank and
supported by BMWK through GIZ and the CiACA initiative
The Alliance works to
• Enhance Article 6 implementation in the region
though capacity building initiatives.
• Support active and well coordinated participation
of delegates in the UNFCCC negotiations.
• Promote regional exchange on experiences and
lessons learned related to carbon pricing.
About the Alliance

3. Alliance Highlights
• Study on Best Available technologies and carbon market
opportunities (on going)
• COP and SB negotiators training workshops (e.g.
Corresponding Adjustments training)
• Article 6 negotiators handbook
• Private sector Dialogues
• Institutional and infrastructure assessment
• Country carbon market profiles
• Country specific activities - Carbon Markets Youth
Workshop Kenya, Private Sector workshop Sudan, Article 6
Pre-COP Uganda, Climate Finance Rwanda
• Online Carbon taxation course – collaboration with
WAA/RCCs/supported by CiACA and BOAD
• Africa centric module added to World Bank e-learning
course on carbon taxation
easternafricaalliance.org

4. • Eastern Africa has 465 registered CDM activities: 53 Project
Activities and 412 CPAs within 58 PoAs. 393 (96 %) of CPAs
registered after 2012.
• CDM activities issued over 13 million CERs, this is from 52 % of
all activities (40 % of total Project Activities, 53 % of CPAs)
where as VCM activities have issued over 37.7 million credits.
• Art. 6 pipeline and selective transition of CDM could potentially
lead to a rapid build-up of in the region once Supervisory Body
are agreed and host country approval and authorization
procedures have been established.
Carbon Market Profiles
Data as of December 2020; currently under update by October 2022.

5. Institutional and Legal Framework
Assessment study
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• Assessed existing institutional structures for suitability for
use in implementing Article 6 activities;
• Identified capacity gaps and recommended measures ;
• Recommendations on capacity focused around -
Authorization of ITMOs (the process); Application of
corresponding adjustments to avoid double counting;
Reporting and Tracking requirements for the transfer of
ITMOs; Sustainable development; Environmental integrity
• Some countries in the region using existing institutional
arrangements from CDM for Article 6.

6. • An overarching national legal framework through policy/regulation
is required to guide on procedures and other necessary guidelines.
• On a technical level, Article 6 procedures required include
authorization, corresponding adjustment tools and criteria for
sustainable development.
• Country initiatives; Uganda - Establishment of taskforce to oversee
policy development. Article 6 blueprint workshops coordinated by
GIZ GCM Uganda, Gold Standard and EAA. Rwanda - Tender services
for Article 6 framework.
Policy and procedure development support

7. • Develop infrastructure to track Article 6 activity and comply with
reporting guidelines in 6.2.
• Capture data on ITMOs authorized, transferred, acquired, held,
cancelled, used and corresponding adjustments etc
• System developed needs to be compatible with the NDC MRV tool of
respective country and provides Article 6 information for the BTR.
• Simple interim registries may be applied
• Some countries piloting the World Bank Climate Warehouse
(Rwanda)
Alignment of Article 6 infrastructure with NDC
accounting and reporting

8. • Immense basic carbon markets awareness across public, private and cso
stakeholders.
• Government actors – go beyond the DNA to technical officers/capacity for an office
team and constituted inter-ministerial working groups/taskforces.
• Non- state actors - private sector, financial institutions, consultants, lawyers, civil
society. Involve academia in development of professionally credible courses.
• Project developers (lessons from 2022 private sector dialogue)
- Article 6 implementation is learning-by-doing process.
- Need to maintain public-private dialogue to build knowledge on the new
markets and share experiences on what works and what may not.
- Capacity building is needed for the transition of CDM activities, application of
corresponding adjustments , transparency, and accountability.
Stakeholder capacity building

9. Participation in Article 6.4 and CDM transition
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Environmental integrity
• Support for baseline design and setting (capacity building programme through RCCs).
• Continuation of standardized baselines.
• After principles of methodologies determined by SB, review of most used methodologies.
Sustainable development
• Develop criteria to evaluate projects with their NDCs and contribution to sustainable development.
• Procedures on how to - confirm and explain how activities promote SD, establish process for the
assessment and approval of SD.
• Alignment with SDG reporting and ensure institutional coordination with responsible Ministry/Unit.
• Policy decision on community benefit sharing.

10. Website:
www.easternafricaalliance.org
Thank You
Member States: Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia, Sudan
Contact Us
secretariat@easternafricaalliance.org