PRESENTATION TWO - FORMAT

CLIMATE COSTS AND ARGUMENTS FOR SUMMIT

Presentation Goal: Analyzing information about your country’s approaches to climate change, including the costs of adaptation and mitigation and arguments for negotiation for the climate summit.

3 General Topics

1. Economic Costs of CC

2. Country Arguments and Strategies

3. Overall Policy Design

 1. Economic Costs of Climate Change

• Costs of complying with Kyoto Protocol (if appropriate)
• Possible mitigation costs to curb GHGs
• Expected costs of  adaptation actions
• Expected costs and consequences of no action at this time

2. Arguments and Strategies

• Overall Country Philosophy

• Carbon Trading

• Technology Transfer

            1. Global Marshall Plan

            2. CDM

            3. Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate

• Economic/Development

• Legal Principles

3. Overall Policy Design

• Incentive structure (for both developed and developing countries)

      monetary

      economic

      technological

      transportation

      deforestation

      population & consumption

      alternative energy

• Short-term/long term solutions
• Monitoring
• Enforcement

For Renewable Energy:

• Main sources of alternative and renewable energy and their generating capacity.
• Amount of GHG’s and aerosols emissions abated with each energy source.
• Expected costs of each energy source.
• Projected growth rate of each energy source.
• Influence of each energy source on specific sectors of your economy (industrial, transportation, agricultural, commercial, etc.).
• Financial mechanisms used to promote the use of alternative or renewable energy in your country (e.g. subsidies, tax rebates, mandates, etc.).