Toshiaki Nagata

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Progress on CDM registrydevelopment Inter-ses
sional consultations on registry systems Bonn,
Germany 8-10 November 2004
Toshiaki Nagata UNFCCC secretariat www.unfccc.int
tnagata_at_unfccc.int
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CDM Registry

• Standardized electronic database for ensuring
  accurate accounting of CERs, tCERs and lCERs
• To issue units and them to national registries
• To have temporary holding accounts for Annex I
  Parties to receive credits, until national
  registries are established
• To be administered by the secretariat under
  authority of EB
• To start operation in 2004 and connect to the ITL
  in 2005
• Developer selected through UN procurement
  procedures

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Selected vendor

• Perrin Quarles Associates Inc (PQA)
• Based in Virginia, USA
• Established in 1979
• Business activities
• Design and support of information systems
• Support for regulation development and
  implementation
• Registry system for SO2 and NOx trading in USA
• Development of Emission Allowance Tracking System
  (EATS)
• Involvement in state-level trading schemes in USA
• Peer review of transaction log development under
  the EU trading scheme (for the European
  Commission)

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Overall approach

• Two phase development
• Registry not connected to the ITL ? issuance
  and distribution within the CDM registry ? by
  the end of November 2004
• Registry connected to the ITL ? transfer to
  participants accounts in national registries ?
  by June/July 2005 (in parallel with ITL
  development)
• Contractor to ensure registry functioning
  (deploy, test, handover, initialize, document,
  train)
• Options still open on longer-term hosting
• Contractor available for operational support for
  3 years