Jordan Climate change Consultancy
Co is a well established firm, specialized in
providing consultancy services to the public and
private sectors in the field of improving the
quality of environment through the reduction of
Green House Gases, in conformity with the KYOTO
protocol.
The company is associated with
international well known organizations and expert
firms necessary to provide the following services in
Jordan ,UAE and other GCC countries as well as MENA
countries.
Vision
Our vision is to be
leaders in the region markets in improving the quality of
life of its people through clean climate.
Mission
Our mission is to keep
our countries clean by having the best environmental
technologies in accordance to the United Nations mandates
related to climate change
Associations
*Cooperation agreement
in place with EcoSecurities Group PLC, an Ireland-based
company, and one of the leaders in the field of developing
CDM projects.
*Associated with European firms in the field of Renewable
energy
*Associated with local agencies and departments in the field
of climate change
*Associated with well-known consultants in the field of
environmental
What do we aim to be?
We aim to build a
long lasting relationship with our clients through day to
day follow-up in their projects.
Our projects are not ending with signing the contract with
customer, but our services will be available after that by
monitoring third parties whom hired by UN or by us to
monitor the projects.
What is CDM project?
Under the Kyoto
Protocol industrialized countries agreed to reduce their
emissions. The amount
they agreed to is their
target. The targets are expressed as a percentage reduction
of greenhouse gas emissions compared to 1990 emission
levels, which has to be achieved in the period 2008-2012.
So, for example, Japan has a
target of 6%, which means that in the period 2008-2012 its
emissions must be 6% below what they were in 1990.
Based on that UNFCCC
issued that any project can reduce emissions to atmosphere
will be considered as CDM ( clean and development mechanism)
At the 1992 Rio Earth Summit,
countries agreed to the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC ) in response to growing
evidence that human activity was contributing to global
warming. The UNFCCC contained a non-binding
commitment by industrialised countries (listed in Annex I of
the Convention) that they would reduce their emissions of
greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000. It soon
became clear that this wasn’t enough to avoid dangerous
climate change and in 1995, at the first Conference of
Parties (COP) after the Convention entered into force, parties began to
negotiate a Protocol that would set tighter and legally
binding targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
In 1997 at the 3rd COP to the
Convention in Japan, Parties agreed on a Protocol that set
targets for industrialized countries to reduce their
emissions by an average of 5% below 1990 levels2 in the
period 2008-2012, known as the first commitment period. The
Protocol was given the name of the city in which it was
negotiated – Kyoto. To help reduce the cost of meeting these
reduction commitments three market-based “flexible
mechanisms” were designed : Emissions Trading (ET), Joint
Implementation (JI) and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
While different in operation,
the three mechanisms are based on the same principle : that
industrialized countries be allowed to reduce emissions
wherever in the world those reductions are cheapest, and
then count those reductions towards their national target.
JI and the CDM are called the “project-based” mechanisms
because they fund actual projects ; JI generally funds
projects in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union3,
while CDM projects can only happen in developing countries
which do not have an emissions reduction target under the
Kyoto Protocol.
As such, the CDM is the only
part of the Kyoto Protocol which directly involves
developing countries in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The CDM is also different in that emission reduction credits
that are generated by CDM projects before the period
2008-2012 can be counted as reductions in that five year
period. Lastly, the CDM has an explicit mandate to promote
sustainable development,unlike JI or Emissions Trading. |