Center for Clean Air Policy-Europe
Avenue de Tervueren 402, 1150 Bruxelles, Belgium
Email: ccapeurope@interel.eu
Phone: +32 (2) 808 04 84
Fax: +32 (2) 777 05 10
Sectoral Study
By focusing on GHG-intensive and/or trade-sensitive industries, sectoral approaches can help developed nations meet their responsibilities for technology transfer, sustainable development, and other goals and provide a platform for world industries to next-generation levels of performance.
By exploring proof-of-concept and gaining experience in formulating and applying industry-based sectoral approaches, policy-makers around the globe could better understand the implications for GHG emissions and international market competition. In addition, developing countries could better understand the opportunities and measures available for reducing energy use and GHG emissions in key sectors, and receive technical and administrative capacity to implement such measures.
The study consisted of three main elements:
- A practical data gathering and capacity building exercise in certain industry sectors;
- An analytical component to model the benefits of sectoral approaches; and
- A policy element to determine what would be needed to make sectoral approaches operational as part of a post-2012 climate framework.
The work consisted of a country-specific dimension with studies and workshops being carried out in China, India, Mexico and Brazil with a focus on the electric power, aluminum, cement, and iron and steel sectors.
Partners and Stakeholders:
The study was conducted by an international consortium led by the Center for Clean Air Policy- Europe, based in Brussels, together with its partners:
- Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels;
- Climate Change Capital (CCC), London;
- Institut du developpement durable et des relations internationals (IDDRI), Paris; and
- Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftforschung (ZEW), Mannheim- Germany.
In-country team members included National Institute for Environmental Systems Analysis at Tsinghua University, China; Centro Mario Molina Research Center, Mexico; Giovanni Barontini of Fabrica Ethica Brasil, Brazil; and ICF International, Brazil.
Program Goals and Objectives Included:
- Explore the proof-of-concept and gain experience in formulating and applying industry-based sectoral approaches for climate mitigation;
- Identify financial incentives that would encourage developing countries to take additional sectoral actions;
- Understand the implications of sectoral approach on international market competition; and
- Provide recommendations for the most feasible approaches including sectoral strategies in UNFCCC post-2012 framework.