Organizer

• Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center, Japan (OECC)

Co-Organizer

• Ministry of Environment, Japan

Event Overview

Agenda of the Event

• Introduction

  OECC

• Presentations

  • "Scaling up of the JCM through collaboration with relevant organizations": Ministry of the Environment, Japan
  • "A Collaboration for scaling-up of the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM)": World Bank
  • "Role of market mechanisms and scale-up of the JCM to promote NDC implementation in Vietnam": Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Vietnam
  • "Role of market mechanisms and scale-up of the JCM to promote NDC implementation in Thailand": Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization
  • "Tips and findings through the experience in JCM project development": OECC

• Panel Discussion with Q&A

  • How can the JCM projects be effectively scaled up together with partner countries and other stakeholders?
  • How can countries use the JCM strategically to implement NDC and for realization of a low carbon/decarbonized society?

Speaker

• Makoto Kato, Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center, Japan, General Manager/Principal Researcher
• Maiko Uga, Ministry of the Environment, Japan
• Venkata Ramana Putti, World Bank, Program Manager
• Nguyen Van Minh, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Vietnam
• Paweena Panichayapichet, Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization, Manager
• Wakana Eriguchi, Overseas Environemntal Cooperation Center, Japan, Researcher

Event Summary

Japan has started the JCM since 2013 and has been implementing more than 160 JCM projects with 17 partner countries which promotes mitigation actions in these countries. In order to effectively scale up the JCM, collaborations with various stakeholders and effective contributions to NDCs implementation in partner countries are required. In this side event, speakers from relevant organizations and JCM partner countries reported and discussed the status of collaboration and progress of scaling-up the JCM.

Panelists and participants discussed how the JCM can be effectively scaled up and how countries can use it to implement their NDCs; the methodology for scaling up and replicating JCM projects; the potential for linking the JCM to the carbon market in Japan and/or regional carbon markets; and links between the JCM and multilateral development banks, with panelists stressing the need for country-driven programmes to meet national goals and targets.