Flexible mechanisms, also sometimes known as Flexibility Mechanisms or Kyoto Mechanisms, refers to emissions trading, the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation. These are mechanisms defined under the Kyoto Protocol intended to lower the overall costs of achieving its emissions targets. These mechanisms enable Parties to achieve emission reductions or to remove carbon from the atmosphere cost-effectively in other countries. While the cost of limiting emissions varies considerably from region to region, the benefit for the atmosphere is in principle the same, wherever the action is taken.[1]
Much of the negotiations on the mechanisms has been concerned with ensuring their integrity. There was concern that the mechanisms do not confer a "right to emit" on Annex 1 Parties or lead to exchanges of fictitious credits which would undermine the Protocol's environmental goals. The negotiators of the Protocol and the Marrakesh Accords therefore sought to design a system that fulfilled the cost-effectiveness promise of the mechanisms, while addressing concerns about environmental integrity and equity.
To participate in the mechanisms, Annex 1 Parties must meet the following eligibility requirements:
They must have ratified the Kyoto Protocol.
They must have calculated their assigned amount, as referred to in Articles 3.7 and 3.8 and Annex B of the Protocol in terms of tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions.
They must have in place a national system for estimating emissions and removals of greenhouse gases within their territory.
They must have in place a national registry to record and track the creation and movement of Emission Reduction Units, Certified Emission Reductions, Assigned amount units and Removal Units (RMU)s and must annually report such information to the secretariat.
They must annually report information on emissions and removals to the secretariat.
Compliant mechanisms do not suffer from some issues that affect multi-bodied mechanisms, such as backlash or surface wear. Due to the usage of flexible elements...
(GDP) could be reduced by the use of the flexibilitymechanisms. The CDM and JI are called "project-based mechanisms", in that they generate emission reductions...
Joint Implementation (JI) is one of three flexibilitymechanisms set out in the Kyoto Protocol to help countries with binding greenhouse gas emissions...
meeting.[citation needed] The agreements included: Flexiblemechanisms: The "flexibilitymechanisms" which the United States had strongly favored when...
Deforestation can also cause forests to become more fire prone through mechanisms such as logging. Operations in war can also cause deforestation. For example...
before external participation in flexiblemechanisms. These mechanisms include emissions trading, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and Joint Implementation...
amount of Kyoto certificates from flexiblemechanism projects to cover their emissions. The Kyoto flexiblemechanisms are: Joint Implementation projects...
where the arm might not be flexible enough to handle a certain speed. Creating a graphical layout for a quick return mechanism involves all inversions and...
"mechanisms." Mechanisms are generally classified as gears and gear trains, which includes belt drives and chain drives, cam and follower mechanisms,...
A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) is a manufacturing system in which there is some amount of flexibility that allows the system to react in case of...
2008; Copenhagen, December 2009. Co-chair of the Contact Group on flexibilitymechanisms for the post 2012 regime, Bonn in June 2008, Accra, Ghana in August...
greening Ecoforestry Ecological engineering Farmer-managed regeneration FlexibleMechanisms Great Green Wall (Africa) Great Green Wall (China) Managed intensive...
Development Mechanism Cooperative Mechanisms under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement European Union Emissions Trading System FlexibleMechanisms Greenhouse...
A pluggable authentication module (PAM) is a mechanism to integrate multiple low-level authentication schemes into a high-level application programming...
procedures and theories Joint Implementation (JI), one of the flexibilitymechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol There are two different kana (Japanese script)...
synthesis of flexible systems. Flexible systems are devices, mechanisms, or structures that deform to achieve desired motion such as compliant mechanisms, flexures...
conflicting color word printed. Understanding of the mechanisms underlying cognitive flexibility is a subject of current research. It remains an elusive...
schemes and more flexiblemechanisms including taxes and subsidies to manage environmental crisis. The implementation of cap-and-trade mechanisms was a contributing...
Lamina Emergent Mechanisms (also known as LEMs) are more commonly referred to as "Pop-up Mechanisms" as seen in "pop-up-books". LEM is the technical term...
protocols to send/receive messages and about system operation. […] More flexiblemechanism is desired where freely built and autonomously running systems can...
situations by stating a clear-cut national policy and providing a flexiblemechanism to meet the rapidly shifting developments of today's world policy...
Experimental Biology. 209: 2535-2553. Roberts, T. J. and Azizi, E. (2011) Flexiblemechanisms: the diverse roles of biological springs in vertebrate movement....
of the market mechanism (for instance, by influencing bargaining behavior)." The most well-known concept of labour market flexibility is given by Atkinson...
Emission Reduction Unit Removal Units Voluntary Emissions Reduction Flexiblemechanisms List of Kyoto Protocol signatories "Assigned Amount Unit (AAU)"....
abatement via power generation fuel switching and less reliance on flexiblemechanisms. This is important due to concerns regarding supplementarity. Climate...
Global Information