18th PMR Partnership AssemblyKyiv, UkraineApril 24-26, 2018

PMR’S TECHNICAL WORK PROGRAM: UPDATE

ON FY18 ACTIVITIES AND PLAN FOR FY19

Daniel BesleyCoordinator, Technical Work ProgramPMR SecretariatWorld Bank

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Activities completed in FY18

Activities underway and planned for FY19

Activities under consideration for FY19 and beyond

Outline

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Establishing scaled-up crediting program baselines under the Paris Agreement: Issues and options

Activities in FY18 - publications

Two case studies on the development of South Africa’s MRV system

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Translating the Carbon Tax Guide into French and Spanish

Activities in FY18 - publications

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State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2017 and 2018

Activities in FY18 - publications

China Carbon Market Monitor Q3 2017

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Workshop at Innovate4Climate Conference in Frankfurt, May 2018 in partnership with CPLC

Getting the message right: how to effectively communicate carbon pricing

▪ Will explore key principles and approaches for effective engagement on carbon pricing for both government and business communications. Workshop will contribute to the development of a guidebook to be released late 2018.

Activities in FY18 – workshops & training

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Guide on communicating carbon pricing in partnership with CPLC

Technical Note on verification and accreditation systems

Technical Note on emissions measurement

Activities underway & planned for FY19 – publications

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Technical Note on use of revenue

Guide to developing crediting systems

Working with Ci-Dev, TCAF and CPF to share experiences and lessons learned about climate finance and crediting.

Translate the BPMR Readiness Training Guide (and videos) into Mandarin

Activities underway & planned for FY19 – publications

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Development of a comprehensive online course on carbon taxation in partnership with UNITAR.

Development of a face-to-face training course on carbon taxation with UNITAR.

Potential ETS training in Mexico

Potential carbon tax training in Ivory Coast

Activities underway & planned for FY19 – training

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Workshop on using carbon revenues.

▪ Time TBD. PA19?

Activities underway & planned for FY19 – workshops

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Firstly, please respond to the survey on communicating carbon pricing!

Continue to use working groups in FY19:

▪ ETS working group

▪ Carbon tax working group

▪ Offsets and Crediting working group

▪ MRV working group

Need to update working group contacts.

Representatives can be nominated to participate in the working groups at any time

Working groups

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Re-vamping the e-learning course on ETS design▪ Based on ETS guide

E-learning course on crediting▪ Based on crediting guide

➢ Integrate courses into a carbon pricing curriculum. ➢ Could do in partnership with UNITAR and CF Assist.

➢ Above work based on popularity / demand

Activities under consideration (FY19 and beyond)

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Please take 5 minutes to complete the survey sheet

Activities under consideration (FY19 and beyond)

18th Meeting of the PMR Partnership AssemblyKyiv, UkraineApril 24-26, 2018

PMR’S POLICY ANALYSIS WORK PROGRAM: UPDATE ON FY18 ACTIVITIES AND PLAN FOR

FY19

Daniel BesleyCoordinator, Policy Analysis Work ProgramPMR SecretariatWorld Bank

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Currently no further funding under the Policy Analysis Work Program.

Focus is on completing the remaining 7 country projects

▪ 5 to be complete by the end of FY18

▪ 2 to be complete by end FY19

Program level activities can be considered as part of the Technical Work Program

Key Points

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Country projects in FY18 and FY19

Country Description Status

Chile Modeling of policy options and developing implementation plan for NDC

in energy sector

Completed in FY18

Colombia Macro-economic modeling of carbon pricing instruments

Modeling of ETS design options and design roadmap

Completed in FY18

Completed in FY18

Costa Rica Developing modeling framework, database, and technical capacity for

exploring decarbonization pathways to achieve NDC target

Completed in FY18

Morocco Bottom-up model with focus on the building sector (2030).

Rapid assessment of potential carbon pricing options

Ongoing; expected to

be complete FY18

Ongoing; expected to

be complete FY18

Turkey Marginal Abatement Cost curve tool (linked with CGE under MRP

activity); Investors’ perspective approach

Ongoing; expected to

be complete FY18

Vietnam Bottom-up energy model (power, industry), and Marginal Abatement

Cost curve tool (2050)

Ongoing; expected to

be complete FY19

Thailand Economic modelling of carbon pricing instruments including carbon tax,

ETS and crediting mechanism to contribute to Thailand’s NDC mitigation

goal.

Ongoing; expected to

be complete FY19

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THANK YOU