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Enhancing the Clean Development Mechanism to Support Low-emission Development Strategies
issue within the TNA process, the potential for reducing GHG emissions The overall process is concluded by an analysis of those actions that
provides key criteria for selecting strategic sectors. can be aggregated across technologies to sector and/or country
strategies for low-emission development in the country concerned.
Once strategic sectors have been selected, a list of potentially applicable The idea is that for each of the technology categories (in terms of
low-emission technologies within these sectors can be compiled. These scale and short- to long-term availability), common elements to
technologies will subsequently be prioritised according to a set of support technology implementation could be identified (e.g. co-
criteria, such as costs, potential contribution to GHG-emission-reduction operation with other developing countries, training programmes and
and support in achieving the country’s development priorities. The TNA revision of legislation), and these elements could then form the basis
handbook suggests that country stakeholders identify portfolios with for a low-emissions strategy while moving on a pathway on which
priority technologies in different categories depending on whether the development priorities are reached. The TNA process is summarised
technology has a small- or large-scale applicability and is available in the in Figure 1.
short, medium or long term. The reason for such a differentiation is that
it would avoid a single focus on, for example, large-scale technologies Aligning the Clean Development Mechanism with
available in the short term. the Low-emission Development Pathways of
Developing Countries
Acceleration of Technology Development and Transfer The TNA approach results in a portfolio of low-emission technologies
As a next step in the TNA process, the priority technologies are further that, when successfully implemented, assist a country in achieving
analysed in terms of how their development and transfer within the its development priorities. Some of these technologies may
country could be accelerated. This can be achieved by analysing the already have achieved a full market potential and might be difficult
market system in terms of market actors, enabling environment to implement as CDM projects under the current CDM regime
(e.g. legislation, standards and customs) and supporting services (e.g. because they would not be considered ‘additional’. However, other
legal and financial assistance to investments). This leads to insights into projects may face market inefficiencies in their deployment or
where a successful implementation of a technology is supported diffusion and could be taken up as potential CDM projects. For
by existing incentives or blocked by inefficiencies (e.g. conflicting instance, the TNA process also provides insight into the costs and
legislation or lack of engineering knowledge to operate the required funding of a technology and suggests that international
technology) and what actions are needed to accelerate its development carbon markets could be used for financing technologies and
and transfer in the country. supporting actions.
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