CMM Working Group

In designing international market-based cooperation as set out in Articles 6.2 and 6.4 of the Paris Agreement, the Parties ought to consider the experience gained to date under the Kyoto Protocol (e.g. under the Clean Development Mechanism), build on successful models and operationalise the new rules in a stringent manner. To this end, the BMWK supports the CMM-WG, established at the I4C in Singapore in June 2019.

The CMM-WG is a platform for dialogue: exchanging experience and coordinating the activities that support programmatic and upscaled mitigation financed through international market-based cooperation or results-based climate finance. It holds regular meetings and workshops where technical experts and stakeholders share experience, challenges and what has worked in their own activities. Background papers on technical aspects of the ongoing operationalisation and implementation of Article 6 are prepared and circulated to consolidate a common understanding.

The working group therefore contributes to operationalising and improving the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism, with a special focus on methodological documents for upscaled activities; to working through technical issues in ongoing Article 6 implementation and coordinating Article 6 capacity-building; to spreading ambitious best-practice approaches and concepts in the implementation of Article 6.2 cooperative approaches; and to aligning the voluntary carbon market (VCM) more closely with the Paris Agreement.