Dominican Republic

“The coun­try vol­un­tar­ily par­ti­cip­ates in cooper­at­ive approaches to mit­ig­a­tion out­comes through inter­na­tion­al trans­fer in sec­tors espe­cially energy and indus­tri­al, without hav­ing com­mit­ments with the NDC-RD, and will ensure the absence of double count­ing. The use of mit­ig­a­tion res­ults in pro­jects registered with­in the Clean Devel­op­ment Mech­an­ism with inter­na­tion­al trans­fer will not be accoun­ted for in com­pli­ance with the NDC-RD at the nation­al level, if anoth­er com­mit­ment must be author­ized by the coun­tries par­ti­cip­at­ing in the pro­ject. The emis­sion reduc­tions gen­er­ated by a mar­ket mech­an­ism will not be used by the coun­try to demon­strate com­pli­ance with the NDC-DR, unless the coun­try that trans­fers tech­no­logy with mar­ket mech­an­isms it does not use them to demon­strate com­pli­ance with its own NDC. The coun­try is in the pro­cess of pre­par­ing to cre­ate a Domest­ic Emis­sions Trad­ing Sys­tem and which would even­tu­ally con­sider integ­ra­tion with oth­er exist­ing trad­ing systems.”

[machine trans­lated] Sim­il­arly, the Domin­ic­an Repub­lic par­ti­cip­ates vol­un­tar­ily in the mech­an­isms of Art­icle 6 of the Par­is Agree­ment, which include the cooper­at­ive approaches of Art­icle 6.2 and the Par­is Agree­ment Cred­it­ing Mech­an­ism (PACM) of Art­icle 6.4. With­in this frame­work, the coun­try pri­or­it­izes the applic­a­tion of the addi­tion­al­ity cri­terion, high stand­ards of envir­on­ment­al integ­rity, and trans­par­ency in trans­ac­tions. Con­sequently, mit­ig­a­tion res­ults inten­ded for inter­na­tion­al trans­fer, both under the Art­icle 6 mech­an­isms and the vol­un­tary mar­ket, will come from activ­it­ies not included in the tar­get com­mit­ted to in this NDC. Both pro­jects developed under the SCE and those imple­men­ted under Art­icle 6 will use a uni­fied nation­al registry and mon­it­or­ing mech­an­ism to ensure con­sist­ency among instru­ments, avoid double count­ing, guar­an­tee envir­on­ment­al integ­rity, and pro­mote trans­par­ency in transactions.

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The Domin­ic­an Repub­lic does not con­tem­plate par­ti­cip­a­tion in inter­na­tion­al car­bon mar­kets under Art­icle 6 of the Par­is Agree­ment for the ful­fill­ment of its NDC 3.0. The coun­try expli­citly states that it does not con­tem­plate the use of car­bon mar­kets to achieve its nation­al goals. Not­with­stand­ing the fore­go­ing, the Domin­ic­an Repub­lic par­ti­cip­ates vol­un­tar­ily in the mech­an­isms of Art­icle 6 of the Par­is Agree­ment, which include the cooper­at­ive approaches of Art­icle 6.2 and the Par­is Agree­ment Cred­it­ing Mech­an­ism (PACM) of Art­icle 6.4 for pur­poses oth­er than this NDC. With­in this frame­work, the coun­try pri­or­it­izes the applic­a­tion of the addi­tion­al­ity cri­terion, high stand­ards of envir­on­ment­al integ­rity, trans­par­ency in trans­ac­tions, and pre­vent­ing double count­ing. The mit­ig­a­tion res­ults inten­ded for inter­na­tion­al trans­fers, both under Art­icle 6 mech­an­isms (IT MOs) and under the CDM, will come from activ­it­ies and GHGs not included in the NDC and will use a nation­al registry (cur­rently being pre­pared under the coordin­a­tion of the CNC­CMC) and a uni­fied mon­it­or­ing mech­an­ism, in order to ensure con­sist­ency between instruments.