Good Practice: JIM.NRW - First German programmatic JI project, Germany

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Summary: Within the scope of the concrete application of the project-based Kyoto-mechanism, the Ministry of Economics of the Federal State of North Rhine- Westphalia intends to implement a pilot programmatic Joint Implementation (JI) project for this federal state. This is supposed to offer an incentive for the advanced renewal and modernisation of heating and steam boilers, both with and without fuel switch, which is not covered by the EU-Emission Trading Scheme (EUETS) Target groups are small and medium sized companies as well as public facilities in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The implementation of the JI-project is effected in accordance with the Track1- procedure and in the terms of the 'Programmatic CDM'. In this manner, new participants can be admitted continously to the JI-project, provided that they comply with the participation criteria - without the need for passing through the (JI-) authorisation process again.

This means that the applicant of the program is credited the proceeds of emission reductions, which are the result of actual measures, in the form of ERUs. Emission reductions can be reached by:

• efficiency increase due to improvement of the annual use efficiency of the boiler plant
• reduced CO₂-emissions due to lower specific emission values in case of fuel switch

The EnergieAgentur.NRW, which also functions as applicant general, conducts the entire procedure. The participants in the JI-project put specific reduction measures into practice and receive a refund according to their reduction achievements. An impartial monitoring finds out the actual reduction volume.

The potential emission reduction volume in every single case is too small to justify the implementation of a separate project. This gives reasons to the assumption that reduction measures without the involvement into the programmatic project would be delayed in many cases, if they would materialise at all.

Tying separate measures in a "Programmatic JI Project" shuns this obstacle. However, this approach requires the development of highly standardized calculation bases to assess the reduction volumes and of a feasible calculation scheme plus monitoring for the participants. 2

Aims: Demonstration of feasibility of programmatic JI-project, stimulation of implementation of new technologies, partial investment refunding via international emissions trading, creating strong publicity effects, promotion of political goals via inclusion in NRW-energy initiative, strong positive effects on innovation.

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