SB56 long-list of non-market approach examples

Overview of existing and prospective non-market approaches, as outlined in the May 2022 Synthesis Report, prepared by the UNFCCC Secretariat, on Views and information referred to in paragraph 6 of decision 4/CMA.3

Editorial notes: We have broken out the tables into numbered lists. We have added letters and numbers to order the lists, to make it easier to locate specific items for later reference. Headings are initial focus areas. Lists are existing or prospective non-market approaches.

TABLE 1 – Reported existing non-market approaches that may be facilitated in the initial focus areas of the activities of the work programme under the framework for non-market approaches

A. Adaptation, resilience and sustainability 

  1. Adaptation benefit mechanism
  2. Amazon Fund
  3. Climate Adaptation Notes
  4. Convention on Biological Diversity
  5. Forest Investment Programme
  6. Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Action Plan
  7. Global Climate Change Alliance
  8. Research and development of technologies that will enable increase in adaptation ambition
  9. Tropical Forest Alliance
  10. Voluntary contributions to adaptation by individuals

B. Mitigation measures to address climate change and contribute to sustainable development

  1. Climate and Clean Air Coalition
  2. Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
  3. Green Climate Fund pilot programme for REDD+ results-based payments
  4. ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
  5. REDD+ social and environmental standards
  6. Research and development of technologies that will enable increase in mitigation ambition

C. Development of clean energy sources

  1. Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue
  2. Clean Energy Ministerial
  3. International Energy Agency Clean Energy
  4. International Partnership for Energy Efficiency
  5. International Solar Alliance
  6. Sustainable Energy for All initiative

D. Cross-cutting

  1. Cleaner Energy Future Initiative for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
  2. Cooperative programmes that address agriculture, land, food security, biodiversity and climate change, as well as issues under related Sustainable Development Goals
  3. Frameworks referred to in Article 5 of the Paris Agreement
  4. LoCAL
  5. Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform
  6. Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest Finance Coalition
  7. Measures to prevent and minimize forest and land degradation, including promoting remote sensing tools
  8. NDC Partnership

E. Unspecified

  1. Accelerating and enhancing outcomes
  2. Actions that can be described as policies, strategies, regulations, or bilateral or voluntary agreements that result in increase in mitigation and adaptation ambition
  3. Bilateral and multilateral cooperation
  4. Blue carbon approaches
  5. Capacity-building: education and awareness-raising
  6. Capacity-building in relation to renewable energy for increasing electricity generation; climate risk insurance; and climate risk and vulnerability assessment, including mainstreaming such assessment in policies, strategies, programmes, projects and plans at the national and subnational level; and developing indicators and tracking metrics for monitoring and reporting on adaptation action
  7. Carbon pricing
  8. Circular economy, particularly in the waste sector
  9. Clean electrical and infrastructure grid enhancement (energy transition)
  10. Climate and biodiversity-smart and regenerative agriculture
  11. Climate bonds, loans and grants for mitigation actions
  12. Developing renewable energy for electricity generation
  13. Discussions and exchange of lessons and experience in relation to action towards decarbonization (sectoral or cross-cutting)
  14. Enhancing productivity and food security and piloting locally led climate action
  15. Using fiscal flows
  16. Financial policies and measures: import tax on fossil fuel products
  17. Financial policies and measures: levy on domestic and international aviation through an initiative to offset emissions developed by the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation
  18. Fiscal and economic incentives for applying non-market approaches, including incentives for investment in renewable energy and low-carbon motorized transport; and privatization of water supply services and application of tradable permits for water supply services and subsidies for purchasing environmentally sustainable technologies
  19. Green construction, in the context of both policy and technology
  20. Holistic rangeland management and restoration
  21. Identifying high-impact cooperation models
  22. Improving resilience in the water sector by enhancing water harvesting
  23. International trade policy
  24. Investment in technology development and transfer for energy efficiency, water harvesting and efficiency, climate-smart agriculture, sustainable waste management, sustainable charcoal production, and eco-innovation and sustainable trade for micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises
  25. Lifestyle for Environment
  26. Matching facility under the Paris Agreement to facilitate and enhance country cooperation to help address the ambition gap, including, but not limited to, achieving the 1.5 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent potential emission reductions currently reflected in the conditional components of NDCs
  27. National adaptation plans
  28. National programmes and frameworks that foster mitigation and adaptation benefits
  29. Nature-based climate action
  30. Piloting payment for ecosystem services schemes applicable to the forestry and water sectors to promote forest conservation, sustainable forest management landscape restoration and other nature-based solutions for increasing forest and tree cover; reduce deforestation, forest and land degradation, and biodiversity loss; improve water regulation; and enhance local communities’ resilience to climate change impacts
  31. Policies and measures for increasing tree cover
  32. Regulatory framework to enable relevant sectoral transformation, including incentives
  33. Replicating and implementing successful arrangements
  34. Research and development of technologies that will enable increase in mitigation and adaptation ambition
  35. Results-based finance for mitigation and adaptation, including for biodiversity conservation, water security and other environmental results
  36. Setting out pathways to decarbonization that ensure resilience in the long term
  37. Sharing experience of assessing the co-benefits of implementing climate-resilient strategies
  38. Sharing information and best practices drawn from experience of cooperation
  39. Social inclusivity and human rights protection
  40. Sustainable forest management and landscape restoration
  41. Tax incentives for importing waste recycling technologies
  42. Using instruments that promote development of, among others, renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies to support Parties in meeting their climate change commitments

TABLE 2 – Reported non-market approaches that may be facilitated in potential additional focus areas of the activities of the work programme under the framework for non-market approaches

A. Social inclusivity 

  1. Poverty eradication and action towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
  2. Social inclusion and diversity in the context of adaptation
  3. Social inclusion and poverty eradication in pursuing climate goals
  4. Social inclusion and poverty eradication in the context of just transition
  5. Supporting requirements appropriate to national circumstances in relation to sustainable development, equity and poverty eradication

B. Financial policies and measures

  1. A form of levy on domestic and international aviation
  2. Designing projects to attract diverse forms of investment, including environmental, social and governance investment
  3. Financial and technical cooperation, rules and regulations, fiscal measures and collective action
  4. Friends of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Reform initiative
  5. Using economic and fiscal instruments and implementing regulations (e.g. feed-in tariffs, carbon pricing, energy efficiency)

C. Circular economy

  1. Maximizing resource efficiency
  2. Mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from extractive industries, manufacturing, construction, transportation, waste management and other sectors

D. Blue carbon

  1. Blue economy approaches
  2. Sustainable policy, management and planning related to coastal ecosystems

E. Just transition of the workforce

  1. Approaches to and best practices for just transition
  2. International support for just transition, including through public grant finance
  3. Protecting jobs
  4. Reskilling and redeploying the workforce

F. Adaptation benefit mechanism

  1. Robust adaptation benefit mechanism

G. Other potential focus area and unspecified examples

  1. Adaptation action
  2. Addressing access to information
  3. Addressing access to new technologies
  4. Affordable low-emission alternatives
  5. Building on experience and plans in implementing the Cleaner Energy Future Initiative
  6. Co-benefits of mitigation and adaptation
  7. Developing safeguards to ensure no harm, respect of human rights and alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals and benefit-sharing
  8. Domestic mitigation measures in developing countries
  9. Enhancing research, technology and innovation in relation to the initial focus areas
  10. Ensuring direct access of indigenous peoples to support for non-market approaches
  11. Increasing capability
  12. Information, education and awareness-raising programmes
  13. LoCAL
  14. Quantification methods to contribute to emission reductions
  15. Recognizing, protecting and fulfilling the rights of indigenous peoples
  16. Reducing or removing barriers to accessing new low-emission technologies, particularly for Parties with small economies
  17. Regional and international cooperation in specific sectors or areas (i.e. adaptation, renewable energy, reducing specific greenhouse gases, technology transfer, corporate cooperation and other initiatives)
  18. Research and development (innovation and technology transfer (e.g. implementation of technology action plans on the basis of developing countries’ technology needs assessments))
  19. Supporting NAMAs
  20. Technology transfer and capacity-building
  21. Voluntary agreements without internationally transferred mitigation outcomes (bilateral, regional and multilateral)

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