The document discusses options for making information exchanges under the UNFCCC's Mitigation Work Programme more impactful in urgently scaling up climate change mitigation. It suggests sharing details on successful policies that have driven rapid emissions reductions, like Canada's methane flaring policies or Norway's electric vehicle uptake. Linking these policy discussions to investment events and tools could help match mitigation projects with financing and inspire similar actions in other contexts. The goal is to reduce the time lag for implementing ambitious climate policies by learning from others' experiences under the Work Programme.

1. Climate Change
Expert Group
The Mitigation Work Programme:
Potential outputs and outcomes
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Sofie Errendal (CCXG/OECD)
Global Forum on the Environment and Climate Change | 21.03.2023
Based on “Making the MWP fit for purpose: options for forms, focus and information that would lead to
successful implementation” J. Ellis, L. Lo Re, S. Errendal (2023, draft)

2. Outline
• Brief context on the MWP
• Exchanging information on successful mitigation policies in the global
dialogues
• Making information exchanges impactful
• Conclusion
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3. Brief context on the Mitigation Work Programme (MWP)
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2023 - 2026
Modalities
• Global dialogues
• Other dialogues
• Investment-focused
events
• Reports on dialogues
• Annual report
• Draft decision
recommendations
• Annual report
presentation
Outputs Outcome
“urgently scale up
mitigation ambition
and implementation”
COP27 – MWP details agreed:

4. Exchanging information on successful mitigation policies in the
global dialogues
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• Increased deployment of existing low-GHG technologies and systems is needed
• An information exchange on factors related to successful policies that have rapidly mitigated
emissions could be useful
Policies used
(e.g. overcoming
barriers)
Finance structure
(e.g. project
finance)
Institutional
frameworks
(e.g. regulations)
Stakeholder
involvement
(e.g. stakeholder
identification)

5. Exchanging information on successful mitigation policies in the
global dialogues
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Methane abatement
(flaring) in Canada
Electric vehicle uptake in
Norway
Reduced deforestation in
Brazil
• Improved data availability
& quality
• Policy package
• Economic incentives &
penalties
• Mixing economic & non-
economic incentives
• Charging infrastructure
facilitated by co-operation
among gov. levels
• Powered by low-carbon
energy source
• A whole-of-gov. approach
• Policy enforcement is key
• Technology to help fight
deforestation
Collaboration and
communication
Deployment and enforcement of
policy packages
Technological
advancements
Not prescriptive examples

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Exchanging information on successful mitigation policies in the
global dialogues
A successful MWP requires
urgent mitigation actions
Around 20 years
Stakeholders could usefully
learn from other’s
experiences
Reduce time lag that can
occur when implementing
mitigation actions

7. Making information exchanges impactful
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Increasing mitigation action on the ground by linking information
exchanged under the global dialogues with:
Institutional
structure
Mitigation
project
lifecycle
tools
Identify
financing
gaps
Match
mitigation
projects &
finance
Potential contribution to MWP outcome
Investment-focused events Other events
Factors for
replication
and
scalability
Sustainable
develop-
ment
impacts

8. Conclusion
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• Sharing information of rapidly scaled-up mitigation actions could inspire similar actions in other
contexts and provide valuable lessons to MWP outputs
• It is key that stakeholders learn from each other’s experiences to reduce time lags associated
with implementing mitigation actions
• Linking the information exchanged under the global dialogues with other events could help
increase mitigation action and potentially contribute to the MWP outcome

9. THANK YOU!
Climate Change
Expert Group
http://oe.cd/ccxg
Luca.LORE@iea.org
Jane.ELLIS@oecd.org
Sofie.Errendal@oecd.org