Sentences with phrase «sub national levels»

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«We are aware that the national climate change policy has been formulated but its implementation is yet to trickle down to regional, sub regional and local levels,» he said.

Nonetheless, the ministers left many issues unresolved to be concluded by the next COP in Mexico City, such as the global targets and timeframe for halting deforestation and for finance (which in previous versions were suggested to be 50 % by 2020 and to halt gross deforestation by 2030 and targets to provide finance amounting to $ 15 - 25 billion by 2020), the institutional arrangements (such as market versus public finance mechanisms, a forest emissions inventory, reference levels and a national or international registry), sub national reference levels for initial phases, the measuring, monitoring and verifying (MRV) systems and benefit distribution mechanisms.

In other words, countries control the process and ultimately have the authority to allow an interim sub national approach if they so wish — perhaps utilizing a conservative and historically adjusted sub national reference level proxy until a robust national system is in place.

The text goes further on to explain that, depending on national circumstances and capacities and level of support received, developing country parties have the autonomy to decide how these activities will be implemented (such as whether sub national activities will receive tradable credits).