Workshop for

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Workshop for Promoting Access to Carbon
Equity May 2005
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Objectives of Workshop

• Awareness of PACE
• Focus
• Positioning
• Stakeholder benefit

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PACE OVERVIEW Dean Cooper, Managing Director,
Parallax
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Framework for PACE

• PACE - Promoting Access to Carbon Equity
• Timing - Kyoto enters into force, UK influence
• Scope - international network, UKFCO support
• Duration - pilot project in first year
• Focus - small scale projects

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Key Features of PACE

• Neutral independent public benefit
• Not CDM specialists or carbon traders
• Conduit for SA services
• Key contact information point for small scale
• Linking local and international

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Role of the PACE Centre
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Objectives of PACE

• Raise awareness amongst stakeholders
• Lobby for enabling environment
• Identify overcome key barriers
• Find appropriate support mechanisms
• Link to Local Economic Development
• Adapt to meet stakeholder needs

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Partners for PACE

• Public sector - local national Government
• - utilities
• - regulators
• Private sector - project implementers
• - project developers
• Civil society - NGOs
• - community organisations
• International - northern investors
• - south-south co-operation

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Scope of PACE Operations

• Need to focus but adapt to opportunities
• Geographic focus KZN, Gauteng, W Cape
• Technology focus SWH, bio-fuels, cookstoves,
• household
  energy efficiency
• Stakeholder focus entrepreneurs, developers,
• investors,
  DNA, DME, local Govt

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PROMOTING ACCESS TO CARBON EQUITY
The South African PACE Centre
Matching Implementers with Developers and
Investors