UNFCCC COP22 official side event “Promoting Low Carbon Asia for the Paris Agreement: Cases of National and Local Experience on NDC activities and market mechanisms”

After the adoption of the Paris Agreement, while development of national level plans such as NDCs have been making progress, development of city level plans for the realization of low-carbon cities are also becoming active. With understanding this background and focusing on city-level activities, some actual examples of activities including city-to-city collaboration through the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) and utilization of the Asia-Pacific Integrated Model (AIM) will be introduced. In the discussion session, panelists will discuss how national-level and city-level activities can create synergistic effects to accelerate the movement to further achieve low-carbon or decarbonized societies in the future.