Annual report of the Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol.
This report covers the work carried out by the Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (JISC) from 18 September 2014 to 30 September 2015. The report describes the urgent challenge faced by the joint implementation (JI) mechanism, essentially blocked from operating until the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol has been ratified and assigned amount units for the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol have been distributed. The JISC reiterates its recommendation that JI in the future operate under a single track with international oversight to better ensure environmental integrity, and makes the case for a continuing role for JI in the evolving international response to climate
change. Furthermore, the JISC points to a way forward with a recommendation that Parties allow for the immediate ‘restart’ of JI under revised JI guidelines, now under consideration by Parties, once those revised guidelines have been adopted.