Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The role of compliance in an evolving climate regime
- Part I Context
- Part II The Kyoto compliance system: Features and experience
- 4 Key features of the Kyoto Protocol’s compliance system
- 5 Experience with the facilitative and enforcement branches of the Kyoto compliance system
- 6 Experiences with Articles 5, 7, and 8 defining the monitoring, reporting and verification system under the Kyoto Protocol
- Part III Compliance and the climate regime: Issues, options, and challenges
- Part IV A look forward
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
6 - Experiences with Articles 5, 7, and 8 defining the monitoring, reporting and verification system under the Kyoto Protocol
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The role of compliance in an evolving climate regime
- Part I Context
- Part II The Kyoto compliance system: Features and experience
- 4 Key features of the Kyoto Protocol’s compliance system
- 5 Experience with the facilitative and enforcement branches of the Kyoto compliance system
- 6 Experiences with Articles 5, 7, and 8 defining the monitoring, reporting and verification system under the Kyoto Protocol
- Part III Compliance and the climate regime: Issues, options, and challenges
- Part IV A look forward
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Measurement reporting and verification (MRV) of the achievement of the objectives of commitments is the backbone of any compliance system in an environmental agreement. Under the Kyoto Protocol, a new MRV system was set up with the decisions related to Articles 5, 7, and 8 under the Kyoto Protocol that were taken at the first Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (CMP-1).
This chapter explains the system for monitoring, reporting, and verifying emission reductions under the Kyoto Protocol. It aims to highlight the significant improvements achieved to date in developed countries, but also to assess the effectiveness and the weaknesses of the existing system. It will also provide an overview of the changes to the MRV system agreed at the sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-16) in Cancun in December 2010 and proposes improvements that would further increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the current system. The chapter is divided into three sections. Section 2 considers the monitoring and reporting of emission data and other information. Section 3 addresses the review and verification of the information provided. Each section includes a description of the current rules and procedures, an assessment of their effectiveness, and an outline of potential future developments.
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- Promoting Compliance in an Evolving Climate Regime , pp. 122 - 146Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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