MRVAribility
11th December 2009 by Anne-Marie Warris
On day three of the COP 15, Madlen King, LRQA’s Global Climate Change Manager, joined Sean Cuthbert and Dr Anne-Marie Warris at the conference.
Below is the Blog from Dr Anne-Marie Warris:
‘MRVAribility - is this about the weather in Copenhagen, the negotiation sentiment or a technical term
In fact it is about the monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) in relation to voluntary or regulated carbon market as well as a concept used in the negotiations in relation to low carbon strategies and NAMA’s. Today I attended a set of sessions that cover the two issues. It was interesting to note how far the MRV in relation to the carbon market discussion has come since early CDM and EU ETS days (read 2004). IETA is putting together an analysis of MRV in relation to regulated and voluntary markets. The aim is to better understand linking issues in the MRV area. They are looking at some schemes, but not all of them. Be interesting to see what comes out of the debate. But the sessions generated some new and interesting questions and links.On the MRV in relation to NAMAs the session looked at what NAMAs are and the challenges to deal with in the negotiations. Included in the discussions was the use of a management system standard to capture MRV for some NAMAs. Be interesting to see how that works out.
Oh and weather dry and cool and negotiation sentiments still calm and focused based on a look round the corridors.
Read Madlen King’s Blog
Read Sean Cuthbert’s Blog
Read the entire Blog Series at http://copenhagencountdown.blogspot.com
Dr Anne-Marie Warris is the Lloyd’s Register Group’s leading climate change expert. She is also the chairperson for the ISO 140001 Technical Subcommittee 1, as well as the UK Emissions Trading Group.