Legal Expert in Carbon Markets for Argentina’s
hace 23 horas
Result of Service
CBIT’s most important contribution will be to strengthen Argentina’s reporting capacities so as to adequately comply with the requirements of the Enhanced Transparency Framework through the new reporting format under the Paris Agreement: the Biennial Transparency Reports (BTR). In order to carry out the activities of Argentina’s CBIT project it requires the hiring of a Legal Expert in Carbon Markets.
Ultimate Result of the Service:
- The national legal framework linked to carbon markets in the NDC and the LTS is analyzed and improved.
- The mapping of private stakeholders to work with and obtain input on the legal nature of carbon in Argentina is developed.
- The working process and its instances of exchange with the different stakeholders to develop the national strategy for the use of carbon markets is formalized.
- The training and awareness of public sector stakeholders, within the framework of the National Climate Change Cabinet and the External Advisory Council, was carried out.
The consultant will carry out the following activities:
- Generate inputs to develop a roadmap for the proposal of the National Carbon Market Strategy to meet the NDC target. The proposal of the National Carbon Market Strategy will be provided by the NCCD.
- Develop a report including a proposal for the implementation of the national carbon legal framework.
- Promote technical exchanges with public sector stakeholders about the national legal framework for carbon markets.
- Collaborate in the development of the national position on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
- Develop and periodically update a stakeholder’s map of possible private stakeholders related to carbon markets in Argentina.
- Analyze the progress made at the international level regarding cooperative approaches of Articles 6.2 and 6.4 of the Paris Agreement.
- Identify and provide technical advice on bilateral initiatives to achieve national mitigation goals on the countries´ NDC and LTS and objectives for potential 6.2 agreements.
- Provide legal advice to the experts related to carbon markets.
Work Location
Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Expected duration
6 MONTHS
**Responsibilities**:
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
The UNEP Latin America and the Caribbean (LACO), located in Panama City, works closely with the 33 countries of the region and its activities are integrated into the Medium-term Strategy and the Programme of Work approved by the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA).
The Argentine Republic ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1994 (Law No. 24,295), the Kyoto Protocol in September 2001 (Law No. 25,438) and the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol in May 2015 (Law No. 27,137). As a signatory of the UNFCCC, Argentina undertook obligations including the report of the national greenhouse gases inventories, national programs with mitigation and adaptation actions against climate change and any other relevant information regarding the fulfilment of the objective of the UNFCCC. As part of the country’s undertaken obligations, Argentina submitted its First National Communication in July 1997, and a revised communication in October 1999. The Second National Communication was submitted in December 2007 and the Third National Communication, and the First Biennial Updated Report (BUR) were both submitted in December 2015. The Second BUR was submitted in August of 2017, the Third BUR was presented to the UNFCCC in November 2019, and the Fourth BUR was presented in December 2021.
In December 2015 during the 21st Conference of Parties (COP 21), the Paris Agreement (PA) was adopted; its article No. 2 established the objective of “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels''. In September 2016, Argentina ratified the Paris Agreement (Law No. 27,270), then in December 2019, the National Congress approved the National Law No. 27,520 on Global Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation.
In terms of mitigation, in accordance with decisions 1/CP.19, 1/CP.20, 1/CP.21, 1/CP.24, 4/CMA.1, 9/ CMA.1 and 18/CMA, the Argentine Republic submitted in 2015, its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), which was reviewed and updated in 2016, and showed a much higher level of ambition and transparency, than the previous document. Subsequently, in December 2020, Argentina presented its second NDC to the UNFCCC, with an updated version in November 2021, also increasing its ambition in the mitigat
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