Overview

To ensure that Parties fully harness the potential of carbon pricing and market mechanisms under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which allows Parties to collaboratively mitigate GHG emissions through market and non-market mechanisms, the UN Climate Change is currently engaged in a number of regionally focused building activities.

While many Parties have the necessary capacity to engage in the process, lack of understanding on the rules, Article 6 processes, and a lack of clarity on the outcomes of the ongoing negotiations at the multilateral level, hinder the full and effective operationalisation of Article 6. As an outcome of COP 27, the UNFCCC secretariat launched the Article 6 capacity-building work programme, to build the capacity of parties to participate in Article 6, including through its Regional Collaboration Centres (RCCs).

As part of this, the UNFCCC secretariat, together with the UNFCCC Regional Collaboration Centre for East and Southern Africa (RCC EAS Africa), is organising a four-day training workshop on Carbon Pricing and Article 6, aiming to build the capacity of regional stakeholders to contribute towards the operationalization of Article 6 in East and Southern Africa region.

Objectives

The overarching goal of this workshop is to enable a shared understanding of the opportunities presented by the cooperative approaches under the Article 6 mechanism, particularly in the aftermath of the landmark decisions on Article 6 at the COP 29 in Baku.