9 November 1998

ENGLISH ONLY

UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES⁽¹⁾

Fourth session

Buenos Aires, 2-13 November 1998

Agenda item 5 (a) (v)

1. In addition to the submission included in document FCCC/CP/1998/MISC.11, one further submission has been received from a Party in connection with item 5 (a) (v) of the agenda of the Conference of the Parties.

2. In accordance with the procedure for miscellaneous documents, the submission received is attached and reproduced in the language in which it was received and without formal editing.

The Conference of the Parties,

Recalling its decision 1/CP.3, paragraph 5 (d), requesting the Conference of the Parties to consider and, as appropriate, take action on suitable methodologies to address the situation of Parties listed in Annex B to the Protocol for which single projects would have a significant proportional impact on emissions in the commitment period,

Recognising the importance of renewable energy in meeting the objectives of the Convention,

Decides that for the first commitment period industrial process emissions from a single project⁽²⁾ which comes into operation after 1990 and adds in that period more than five per cent to the total greenhouse gas emissions in 1990 of a Party listed in Annex B to the Protocol, shall be reported separately and not included in national totals to the extent that they would cause the Party to exceed its assigned amount, provided that the total emissions of the Party were less than 0.05% of total Annex I emissions in 1990; renewable energy is used resulting in a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions per unit of production; and best environmental practice is used to minimize process emissions,

Requests Parties with projects which meet the requirements specified above to report this in a timely manner to the Secretariat in their national communications. Such information will be reviewed by the expert review teams according to decisions made by the Conference of the Parties relevant to reviews,

Requests the Secretariat to report to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Protocol on the process emissions from any projects meeting the requirements specified above as well as an estimate of the emission savings resulting from the use of renewable energy in these projects.

COP decision on single projects COP4

Methodological work on the estimation of emission

savings and global benefit SBSTA 12

Implications for guidelines for reporting by Parties

to be developed under Article 7, paragraph 4,

of the Protocol COP/MOP1

Implications for guidelines for expert review teams

to be developed under Article 8, paragraph 4, of the

Protocol COP/MOP1

Implications for procedures and mechanisms to determine

and address cases of non-compliance COP/MOP1

FCCC/CP/1998/MISC.11/Add.1

EZE.98-

2. A project at a single site operating in accordance with a single environmental operating licence.