Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center

Summary of the Joint Crediting Mechanism proposed by the government of Japan through the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ).

Version 6.0

In the absence of specific guidelines from the UNFCCC on how to develop NAMAs, implementing organizations, donors, and host countries have been formulating NAMAs in a trial-and-error basis. By extracting lessons from these experiences, the previous version of this guidebook introduced basic elements of NAMAs and also different approaches for NAMA-related decisions.

The Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) is a Japanese initiative designed to facilitate the diffusion of climate-friendly technology to developing countries. At the 2015 Paris climate talks (COP21), a side event on the JCM was presented by the Global Environment Centre Foundation, the Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center, Japan (OECC), and Japan’s Ministry of the Environment. The event provided an update on progress that the JCM has made in achieving its goals, and looked at how partner countries, such as Indonesia, have benefitted from the mechanism to date.

Articles and case studies about NAMAs written by several international research organizations.

Manual for practitioners working with mitigation actions.

Articles and case studies about NAMAs written by several international research organizations.

Context

Vanuatu is a small island country in the Pacific which depends almost entirely on imported fossil fuel for its energy and transport needs. The continuous reliance on these fossil fuels is not only unsustainable for Vanuatu but goes against Vanuatu’s national climate change mitigation ambition as reflected in its Nationally Determined Contributions, its Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Policy, its National Energy Roadmap and Vanuatu’s Sustainable Development Plan.