JISC Concluded its forty-fourth meeting

23 September 2021 – The Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC) held its forty-fourth meeting in a virtual environment, on 14 September. At this meeting, the JISC elected Mr. Derrick Oderson from Barbados and Mr. Jakob Wiesbauer Lenz from Austria, as the Chair and Vice-Chair of the JISC respectively, until the first meeting of the JISC in 2022. The JISC then proceeded to consider its agenda, including accreditation of independent entities, matters relating to determination and verification reports, and the Joint Implementation two-year management plan (MAP) for the biennium 2022-2023, which was adopted (see Annex I of the meeting report). In addition, the JISC agreed on its annual report to the Conference of the Parties Serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol at its sixteenth session (CMP 16), which covers the period from 17 October 2020 to 14 September 2021. The JISC requested the secretariat to finalize the report in consultation with the Chair and Vice- Chair, so as to make it available on both the UNFCCC and the JISC websites in the near future. Finally, the JISC considered the analysis of a survey conducted by the secretariat, on behalf of the JISC, among Parties with quantified emission reduction or limitation commitments included in the third column of Annex B to the Kyoto Protocol (as adopted through decision 1/CMP.8) that have ratified the Doha Amendment. The survey prompted participants for an update on their intended participation in Joint Implementation with respect to the second commitment period. Based on the survey results, the JISC concluded that the current level of operations could be maintained until the end of the additional period for fulfilling commitments in respect of the second commitment period. Therefore, no further specific guidance is deemed necessary from CMP 16. The JISC decided to not hold any additional meeting in 2021, and proceeded to agree on the agenda of its forty-fifth meeting (see Annex 2 of the meeting report). - - - - - Joint Implementation – a mechanism established under the Kyoto Protocol to facilitate cooperation between Annex B Parties to the Kyoto Protocol to achieve and transfer emission reductions in the form of Emission Reductions Units (ERU) – has been used by some 900+ emission reductions projects since its start. Joint Implementation offers Parties cost-efficient means of fulfilling a part of their obligations under the Kyoto Protocol.