10 February 2015
Mitigation Partnership, UNDP Launch Second Round of Good Practice Analysis
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The International Partnership on Mitigation and MRV and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Low Emission Capacity Building (LECB) Programme are launching a new round of the Global Good Practice Analysis (GPA 2.0) that will include good practice examples of mitigation-related activities in developing and industrialized countries.

The first round of GPA examined mitigation actions in 21 developing countries worldwide.

mrv-lecpFebruary 2015: The International Partnership on Mitigation and MRV and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Low Emission Capacity Building (LECB) Programme launched a new round of the Global Good Practice Analysis (GPA 2.0) that will include good practice examples of mitigation-related activities in developing and industrialized countries. The first round of GPA examined mitigation actions in 21 developing countries worldwide.

In its first phase, the GPA documented examples of effective design and implementation of low-emission development strategies (LEDS), nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) and measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) systems in different contexts. The analysis was carried out in the framework of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUB), by a consortium of Ecofys and partners, including the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).

The countries included in the first round of the analysis are located in Asia, the Americas and Africa. Good practice case studies, which are presented through fact sheets available in English, Spanish and French, include, inter alia: integration of gender targets into LEDS and NAMAs in Bhutan; development of a public-private carbon management programme in Chile; design and implementation of a climate-resilient green economy strategy in Ethiopia; and integration of waste management and renewable energy planning in Thailand. A summary report of the GPA’s first round, titled ‘Global Good Practice Analysis on LEDS, NAMAs and MRV’ was published in June 2014.

The International Partnership on Mitigation and MRV supports exchange on mitigation-related activities and MRV between developing and developed countries with the aim of closing the global mitigation ambition gap. The LECB Programme is a collaboration between the European Commission, Germany, Australia and UNDP, which provides technical and institutional capacity building for low-emission development in 25 countries. [International Partnership on Mitigation and MRV Press Release] [Good Practice Analysis Website] [IISD RS Story on GPA Publication]