INTRODUCTION TO PLANNING OUTLINE CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT TO IMPLEMENT CDM IN VIETNAM

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INTRODUCTION TO PLANNING OUTLINE CAPACITY
DEVELOPMENT TO IMPLEMENT CDM IN VIETNAM
NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CAPACITY BUILDING FOR CDM
Hanoi November 27-28 2002Horison Hotel 40
Cat Linh Hanoi

• Dr. Bui Huy Phung National Centre for Natural
  Science Technology
• Mr. Nguyen Khac Hieu
• Ministry of Natural Resources Environment

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Capacity Development to implement CDM in Vietnam
(Cont.)

• Objectives
• Activities
• CDM awareness raising
• Establishing legal Framework for CDM
• Institutional set up
• Capacity development for related officers,
  experts to develop, manage and implement CDM
  projects
• Formulating and developing CDM potential projects
• International cooperation
• Survey
• Manpower
• Timeline
• Budget

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Capacity Development to implement CDM in Vietnam
(Cont.)

• Objectives
• CDM awareness raising for public and cadres
• Promoting capacity development for officers,
  experts to develop, manage and implement CDM
  projects
• Establishing Designated CDM National Authority
  with its functions and relationship
• Setting up legal framework for local CDM
  activities
• Formulating and Developing CDM feasible projects

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I. CDM awareness raising for public and cadres

• 1- Preparing related documents
• Climate Change and Environment protection
• UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol,Conventions and other
  related protocol
• COPs documents and decisions
• In and out country legal documents
• Introducing to related organizations

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I. CDM awareness raising for public and cadres
(Cont.)

• Results, experiences, good practices CDM
  activities in the region and the world
• Results, experiences in good practices to
  protect Climate system, mitigate harmful impacts
  of climate change
• Financial information
• Training information
• New technology and technology transfer

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I. CDM awareness raising for public and cadres
(Cont.)

• 2- Mass media
• CDM information introduced by Newspapers
• CDM information propagated by local and central
  broadcasting and television stations
• Organizing tele-communication conferences
• Organizing communication working teams
• Propagating to CDM one day per month
• 3- Establishing National CDM Website
• Communicating necessary information
• Propagating and providing CDM information

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II. Establishing legal framework

• 1. Reviewing existing legal framework regarding
  CDM activities
• Laws Land, Environment, Oil and Gas
• Regulations, rules
• Policies, Programs, Developing plans at sector
  and National level

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II. Establishing legal framework (Cont.)

• 2. Making recommendation to establish or
  replenish legal framework for CDM
• In Electrical sector
• In Coal sector
• In Oil and Gas sector
• In Agricultural sector
• In LULUCF sector
• In Transportation sector

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II. Establishing legal framework (Cont.)

• 3. Establishing evaluation criteria and CDM
  project cycle
• Compulsory criteria
• Prior criteria
• Project cycle including
• Designing and Formulating
• National approval and ratification
• Registration
• Implementing finance
• Monitoring
• Verification/ Certification
• Issuance of CERs

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III. Institutional set up for CDM

• 1- Reviewing organizational structure in
  Governmental, non-Governmental, Central and Local
  agencies that related to CDM activities, mainly
  in sectors Energy, Agriculture, Land use, land
  use change and Forestry
• Ministries
• Ministry of Natural Resources Environment
  Ministry of Industry Ministry of Planning
  Investment Ministry of Science Technology
  Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Agriculture
  Rural Development.

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III. Institutional set up for CDM (Cont.)

• Research institutions for Science Technology
• Universities and colleges
• People s provincial committees and related
  sectors
• Non-Governmental organizations (NGOs)
• - Vietnam Union of Science Technology
  associations ( VUSTA )
• - Central and local specific associations
• - Private enterprises

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III. Institutional set up for CDM (Cont.)

• 2- Making recommendation for related structure
• Replenishing CDM additional functions for
  existing related agencies
• Formulating a new organization
• Relationship among organizations
• 3- Preparing to establish CDM National Authority
  (CNA)
• Functions and Tasks
• Interior and Exterior relationship
• Structure, Role and Position of CNA
• Meeting CDM requirement to establish
• - Designed CDM National Authority (DNA)
• - National Executive Board ( EB )

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IV. Capacity Development for cadres, officers to
develop, manage and implement CDM projects

• 1- Organizing technical workshop
• CDM international regulations
• Baseline
• Criteria
• CDM project cycle
• CDM Market
• 2-Manage, implement CDM projects for different
  officers
• Rules and policies
• Economy and finance
• Science and technology
• Application
• Training courses to develop

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IV. Capacity Development for cadres, officers
to develop, manage and implement CDM projects
(Cont.)

• 3-New technology and technology transfer
• Identifying informations demand regarding
  appropriate technologies
• Identifying and evaluating appropriate
  technologies
• Analyzing disadvantages and advantages including
  benefits of technology transfer
• Encouraging programs to exchange technology and
  technology transfer
• Implementing effectively environmental technology
  transfer for governmental as well as private
  sectors

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V. Establishing and developing CDM potential
projects

• 1- Compulsory criteria
• a/ Sustainable
• Correspond with sectors plans and national
  policies
• Correspond with Governmental legal framework and
  do not violate sovereignty
• It is not worse than sectoral baseline

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V. Establishing and developing CDM potential
projects (Cont.)

• b/ Addition
• Baseline
• Baseline methodologies
• Emission reduction in comparison with baseline
  emission
• Financing
• Financing of CDM project is taken mainly by a
  host country
• Supporting finance is only an additional part in
  trading investment flow, cost of emission
  reduction to assist it can be competed with the
  project in baseline

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V. Establishing and developing CDM potential
projects (Cont.)

• c/ Feasible
• Having Governmental support
• Monitoring method and implementation are clear
  and simple

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V. Establishing and developing CDM potential
projects (Cont.)

• 2- Prior criteria
• 1/ Sustainable
• Good effect to other projects
• Technology transfer program and qualified
  training
• Good impacts to socio-economic
• 2/ Addition
• Additional regarding results environment
  protection
• Easy to certify amount of emission reduction
  level
• 3/ Feasible
• Infrastructure and manpower are available

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VI. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

• 1- Information and data
• 2- Experience exchange, study-tour and survey
• 3- Technology transfer
• 4- Financial support
• 5- Participating in International CDM workshops

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VII. SURVEY

• 1- Objectives
• Legal framework
• Institutional set up for CDM including CDM
  National Focal Point
• Activities for training, capacity development for
  CDM implementation
• 2- Objects
• Manager, senior experts in sectors law,
  economic, technique, finance and bank
• Governmental and non-Governmental organizations
• 3- Carry out survey
• 4- Preparing survey form
• 5- Synthesizing and making reports

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MANPOWER

• 1- Formulating a Working Group ( 5-7 experts)
  complete the detail outline
• 2- Preparing and establishing Steering Committee
• Key persons from related ministries with high
  experiences
• Director of the Committee will be selected in
  MONRE

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MANPOWER (Cont.)

• 3- Establishing Expert Team (15 experts)
• Experienced experts in sector laws,
  technological sciences and finances...
• Members of Expert's team will be selected in
  related ministries and organization including
  NGOs
• Expert's team will be divided in groups that
  depend on determined mission

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• TIMELINE TO IMPLEMENT
• From January 2003 to December 2005
• BUDGET
• About 200.000 - 300.000 USD for the whole period
• Contribution from 10 of total budget.

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CONCLUSION

1. CDM is new activities, it plays an important role
   in process of sustainable development
2. CDM knowledge understanding is limited in the
   country
3. It is necessary to carry out capacity development
   for CDM. Some existing barriers should be
   overcome
4. Work plan for CDM Capacity Development need
   researching in more detail as well as
   implementing step by step
5. Capacity development is the development of
   internal forces as well as international supports
   for Vietnam at present

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