Promoting Mitigation Actions through Measuring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) System, ISAP, 29 July 2015, Yokohama, Japan

Role of MRV and necessary conditionto address Climate Changeto address Climate Change

Akio Takemoto (Ph.D.)DirectorResearch and Information Office Global Environment BureauResearch and Information Office, Global Environment BureauMinistry of the Environment, JapanE-mail: akio_takemoto@env.go.jp

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Key points

• Data and information are fundamental to take mitigation actions

– GHG inventories; emission by sources, removal by sinks (can’t manage what you don’t measure)sinks, (can t manage what you don t measure)

– Energy supply and consumption

t h l– technology

– Economic and social condition

– Good practices, lessons learnt

– Lack of capacity to collect and analyze dataLack of capacity to collect and analyze data 

Key points

• Lack of data and information is a major barriers to enhance mitigation actions in developing countriesg p g

• Capacity to collect, analyze, access to data and information should be enhancedinformation should be enhanced

• Scientific capacity, to conduct research, survey, monitoring should be also enhancedmonitoring should be also enhanced   

• MRV system requires innovation

• Newly launched projects to develop monitoring, modelling and verification (MMV) system in Indonesia has a big potential to innovate climate mitigation measures in Indonesia and other developing countries 

Smart Symbiosis Initiatives for Eco City Innovation Initiatives Smart ICT network will promote and complement the synergetic network functions among 

stakeholders

Energy and consumption demand control system  

for rban sectors

Smart industrial complex supported by synergetic 

i f i k

stakeholders

Information support for optimizing local and regional material and energy 

circularizationfor urban sectors  information network among industries

Local energy supply 

circularization

気象情報発電量予測 Local Data 

Collection 

Smart industrial complexSmart i

and demand

Renewable

Center

Smart Recycle Center

High value

substitutiveUrban Waste

Local symbiosis

community

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Renewableenergy

発電 熱量

Energy demand

Waste Power plant

Steel 

Cement

By‐product information

methaneincineration

発電・熱量demand information

Demand 

Chemical Energy demand response

incineration

Operation information

Urban and Regional symbiosisWaste and material 

Energy

FY2014 Bogor City Measurement Point

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Innovative Monitoring and Reporting, Verification System in Asian Countries

Greenhouse gasGreenhouse gas Observing SATellite

GOSATGround Monitoring System of GHG

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Smart Monitoring Network System

Validation

①District energy behavior support network project

・Energy consumption monitoring system・Two way communication tablet・Installation in 50 to 100 homes

School

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Solar panels of the existing

③Local transportation behavior support network project

Network System for Eco Cities

Joint carbon CreditVerification

Service performance

GPS

Housing 

information of power saving

Data accumulation

Public transportation system operation plan responding to the super-aging society

Two way information 

Energy consumption data

Housing reconstruction, etc.

Production of

electricity from solar

panel

You are the ○ in the district in the power saving rankings

We accomplished energy conservation equivalent to CO2 ○ amount.

Let's tell friends how to do this.

We conserved a lot of power

today.

Mass transit system

Utilize basic information for creating the future town

Information of welfare

④Smart hybrid center project

International Financial System for

Joint carbon Credit Mechanism Projects

Heat supply facility

Thermal power plantLNG terminal

Factories

Solar thermal

CO2 and heat

Plant factory

②Aging community living support network project

reconstruction, etc.

Energy plan to utilize local industry stock being deployed

in the future

network using the internet

The actual situation of the

use

Housing reconstruction, etc.

Public facility

Let's go to the library since I have 5 fellows waiting to play Go.

International Financial System for Low Carbon City Development

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Eco-city Evaluation and Validation7

Global environmental monitoring for climatemonitoring for climate change policies

Science is basis of and indispensable to climate change policy. Therefore, we should understand science on climate change.

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Comments at Low Carbon Asia Research Network (LoCARNet) 3rd

Annual Meeting, 25 November 2014

• CO2 and Methane observation with GOSAT is ….– Sparse monitoring  to scanning monitoring.– Verifying ground observation

• New 10 year space development plan will be f l d GOSAT 2 ill bl iformulated soon, GOSAT‐2 will enable us to monitor the GHG emissions in more detail that could be used for mitigation measures (validate emission reductionfor mitigation measures (validate emission reduction fro industrial complex and commercial areas, validate national, local GHG inventories)  , )

• Big potential to utilize satellite observation data for REDD+  under the UNFCCC

• MOEJ wiling to establish G‐G cooperation to develop the MMV system for promoting mitigation policies d land measures  in partnering countries, in particular, 

JCM and REDD+ 

Key pointsKey points

• Monitoring modeling verification survey researchMonitoring, modeling, verification, survey, research,

Need Fund

• Strategic approach for enhancing scientific capacity includesStrategic approach for enhancing scientific capacity includes the following;

i. developing country governments will establish national p g y genvironmental research funds

ii. regional /international funding agencies will facilitate developing countries to establish /enhance national environmental research finds

l / l f d d liii. regional / international funding agencies and national governments will link the research funds with each other.   

Case of Japan (Ministry of the Environment)

▫ Domestic research programme Global Environment Research Fund (since 1990),

integrated to Environment Research and Technology integrated to Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (ERTDF)

Budget: JPY 5,3 billion (FY2014) Annual call for proposals submitted by researchers

in Japan, peer review process Thematic areas;Thematic areas; climate change 3R (waste management & recycle) biodiversity and ecosystem Safe and secure society Strategic Research and developmentStrategic Research and development cross cutting

Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research

Inter‐governmental Network of 22 member countries

Funding Agency for Global Change Research

Established in 1996 Hyogo Prefecture hosted the Permanent Secretariat Established in 1996, Hyogo Prefecture hosted the Permanent Secretariat since 1999

financial contribution support  by Japan, USA, Republic of     Korea and New Zealand

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Co-financing Partnership between MOE Cambodia and APN

CAPaBLE/CAF Contribution

Partnership established on 10 July 2014;

CAPaBLE/CAF Contribution breakdown (example)

Country A (by APN)

Term of partnership: July 2014 to June 2019;

10%

70%

Country B (by APN)

Cambodia (by MoE)

Scope of partnership (year 1): CAPaBLE, CAF, other partnership activities;.

20% Cambodia (by APN)

h ll bpartnership activities;.  

Other Collaborative Activities (example)

738 60%40% APN

MoE60% MoE

Provided by APN Secretariat (Sep. 2014)

Thank you so much for your attention!