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Submissions to the UNFCCC

Australia regularly provides submissions to the UNFCCC outlining the Australian Government's views on key issues relevant to international climate change negotiations. Submissions are called for at various times throughout the year - further Australian submissions will be added as they are provided to the UNFCCC. Australian submissions, along with those of other countries, are also available through the UNFCCC website.

December 2011

• Australia-Indonesia joint submission on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries SBSTA

September 2011

• Australia-Norway joint submission on: Enhanced action on mitigation
• Enhanced action on Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV)
• Work program for the development of modalities and guidelines for facilitation of support to NAMAs through a registry
• Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+)
• Impacts of implementation of response measures
• Views on the research dialogue, including ongoing activities, associated modalities and ways to enhance the dialogue
• Support provided to developing country parties and activities undertaken to strengthen existing and, where needed, establish national and regional systematic observation and monitoring networks.

August 2011

• Approaches to address loss and damage associated with adverse climate change in vulnerable developing countries
• National Adaptation Plans

March 2011

• Enhanced action on Mitigation and Measurement, Reporting and Verification
• Impacts of implementation of response measures
• Procedures, mechanisms, and institutional arrangements for a CDM appeals procedure
• The Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change

February 2011

• Forest Management Reference Level
• Work programme to consider approaches to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in vulnerable developing countries
• Composition of and modalities and procedures for the Adaptation Committee
• Establishment of market-based mechanisms
• Matters relating to Articles 2.3 and 3.14 of the Kyoto Protocol: impacts of implementation of response measures
• Modalities and procedures for carbon dioxide capture and storage in geological formations as Clean Development Mechanism project activities

September 2010

• Submission on standardised baselines in the Clean Development Mechanism (PDF 155 kB) (RTF 1. 37 MB)

March 2010

• Views on issues relevant to the consideration of CCS as CDM project activities (PDF 521 kB)

  January 2010

• Australia's Submission to the Copenhagen Accord (155 kB)

November 2009

• Views on issues relevant to the consideration of CCS as CDM project activities (PDF 653 kB)

August 2009

• Joint Submission on Quantified Emissions Limitation and Reduction Objectives (42 kB)
• Joint Indonesia and Australia REDD Submission (167 kB)

May 2009

• Strengthening Australia's national ambition for 2020 - Submission to the AWG-LCA and AWG-KP (131 kB)
• Legal Architecture for a Post-2012 outcome (73 kB)

April 2009

• Schedules in a Post-2012 treaty (30 kB)
• Legal matters arising from the mandate of the AWG-KP (94 kB)

  Land use - land use change and forestry - Submission to the AWG-KP (29 kB)

• Enhanced action on adaptation - Submission to the AWG-LCA (51 kB)

March 2009

• Economic cost as an indicator for comparable effort - Submission to the AWG-KP and AWG-LCA (144 kB)
• Australia's national ambition - Submission to the AWG-LCA and AWG-KP (114 kB)
• Australia's proposal for a forest carbon market mechanism (170 kB)
• Post-2012 model treaty outline (164 kB)
• Land use, land-use change and forestry - Submission to the AWG-KP and AWG-LCA (195 kB)
• Emissions trading and the project-based mechanisms (96 kB)

February 2009

• Submission to SBSTA on guidelines for inventories and reporting (102 kB)

November 2008

• Mitigation - Submission to the AWG-LCA and the KWG-KP (57 kB)
• Second review of the Kyoto Protocol - Submission to the CMP (63 kB)
• Technology Cooperation - Submission to the AWG-LCA (36 kB)
• Impact of response measures - Submission to the AWG-LCA (96 kB)
• Work programs for 2009 - Submission to the AWG-LCA and the AWG-KP
• Enhanced action on adaptation - Submission to the AWG-LCA (36 kB)
• Joint Indonesia and Australia REDD Submission (116 kB)
• Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (80 kB)
• View on the coverage of greenhouse gases - Submission to the AWG-LCA and AWG-KP (53 kB)
• Legal options for the post-2012 outcome (26 kB)
• Land use, land-use change and forestry - Submission to the AWG-KP and AWG-LCA (125 kB)
• Enhanced action on financial resources and investment - Submission to the AWG-KP and AWG-LCA (33 kB)
• Emisssions trading and the project-based mechanisms - Submission to the AWG-KP and AWG-LCA (49 kB)
• Views on issues relevant to the consideration of CCS as CDM project activities (54 kB)

August 2008

• Cooperative sectoral approaches - Submission to the AWG-LCA and the AWG-KP (33 kB)
• Enhanced action on adaptation - Submission to the AWG-LCA (48 kB)
• Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (43 kB)
• Views on the coverage of greenhouse gases - Submission to the AWG-LCA and the AWG-KP (53 kB)
• Estimation of greenhouse gases and global warming potentials - Submission to the AWG-KP and AWG-LCA (32 kB)
• Technology Cooperation - Submission to the AWG-LCA (113 kB)
• Emisssions trading and the project-based mechanisms - Submission to the AWG-KP and AWG-LCA (40 kB)
• Enhanced action on financial resources and investment - Submission to the AWG-LCA (40 kB)

June 2008

• Views on the fourth review of the financial mechanism (33 kB)
• Views on further activities, based on the experience with the implementation of the Nairobi Work Programme (78 kB)
• Views on the Second Review of the Kyoto Protocol under Article 9 (63 kB)

May 2008

• Aviation and maritime emissions and the AWG-KP (57 kB)

March 2008

• Views on how to address outstanding methodological issues on REDD (170 kB)
• Scientific and methodological aspects of the proposal by Brazil (32 kB)
• Views on means to achieve mitigation objectives of Annex I Parties (69 kB)
• Initial views on a long-term global goal for emissions reductions (71 kB)
• Views on possible future work under the SBSTA agenda item ‘scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of mitigation of climate change’ (46 kB)
• Implementation of Article 4 of the UNFCCC (technology development and transfer) (73 kB)
• Facilitating the exchange of information and the sharing of experiences on policies and measures of Parties included in Annex I to the Convention (40 kB)
• Views on the work programme for the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action (53 kB)