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JISC adopts two-year plan to navigate challenging times

Bonn, 22 March 2013 – At its 31st meeting, the Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC) adopted a two-year business plan and detailed management plan intended to improve and sustain the mechanism through the current period of low demand and high uncertainty. At the meeting, the JISC elected Derrick Oderson of Barbados as Chair and Piotr Dombrowicki of Poland as Vice-Chair.

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New JI project to protect forest, endangered species in Russia

Bonn, 7 January 2013 – A forest management project designed to protect pristine forest and endangered species in eastern Russia has just been approved under the Kyoto Protocol's JI market mechanism. The project, in Primorsky Krai in south-eastern Russia, aims to protect and preserve 461,154 hectares of forest, preventing an estimated 232,379 tonnes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually.

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Amur Tiger - Panthera tigris. Source: Courtesy of Vasily Solin, WWF Amur Branch (From project design document)

New FAQs available on JI in KP2

Bonn, 14 December 2012 – The JI Frequently Asked Questions page has been updated to reflect the decisions taken by the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol at the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar. The FAQs summarize clearly and concisely the agreed upon rules relating to the mechanisms during the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.

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JISC Q&A session webcast now available on demand

Doha, Qatar, 27 November 2012 - At the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar, JISC chair Wolfgang Seidel gave a presentation on the activities of the JISC and the future of the JI and answered questions from the audience. A webcast of the event is now available online. more »

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JI Photo Contest winners selected

Bonn, 12 October 2012 – Congratulations to Mihai Brasoveanu, whose photo of the inner workings of the Lubin landfill gas plant in Poland took the top prize in the first Joint Implementation Photo Contest. To look at his photo, along with those of the runners up, please click here.

Mihai Brasoveanu, Mazurskie Landfill Gas Project

JISC agrees recommendations for revamped mechanism

Bonn, 27 September 2012 – The Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC) has agreed key recommendations that, if adopted, will see a smooth transition to a revamped JI mechanism in the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.

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Vidmantas Kniuksta, JI Project 0025: Wind power project

New JI audio files added

Bonn, 13 July 2012 – Three new audio files on the JI review process, the national approval process for Ukraine and JI project benefits to host countries are now available on the JI Audio Files page. The files feature the voices of JISC members and DFPs.

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JI Project 0001: Wet-to-dry cement project

Joint Implementation

Under Joint Implementation, countries with commitments under the Kyoto Protocol are eligible to transfer and/or acquire emission reduction units (ERUs) and use them to meet part of their emission reduction target.

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JI Governance - meetings and documentation

  • + JISC 32 Provisional agenda available more »

  • + JISC 31 report available more »

  • + Annual report of the JISC to CMP 2011-2012 more »

  • + Revised set of key attributes and transitional measures and draft revised joint implementation guidelines more »

  • + JI-AP 28 report available more »

ERU issuance

In response to a request by Parties at the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar, the secretariat has begun publishing weekly an updated table of issuances of emission reduction units.


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Publication of one JI PDD and one JI verification report   more >>

Publication of one JI monitoring report   more >>

Two JI verifcations deemed final   more >>

    JI Calendar: 2013

    March 2013
    + 31st Meeting of the JISC, 21 - 22, Bonn, Germany more »

    June 2013
    + 32nd Meeting of the JISC, 17 - 18, Bonn, Germany (in conjunction with the meeting of the Subsidiary Bodies) more »

    August 2013
    + 29th Meeting of the JI AP, 22 - 23, Bonn, Germany more »

    October 2013
    + 33rd Meeting of the JISC, 3 - 4, Bonn, Germany more »

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