Mauritania

[machine trans­lated, excerpt]: Maur­it­ania intends to resort to vol­un­tary cooper­a­tion under Art­icle 6 of the Par­is Agree­ment to achieve part of its mit­ig­a­tion object­ive by using car­bon mar­ket mech­an­isms (trans­form­at­ive car­bon asset facil­ity, etc.). In this con­text, the coun­try plans to use these tools in the devel­op­ment and man­age­ment of NAMA pro­jects under the CDM mechanism.

[machine trans­lated] Cooper­a­tion under Art­icle 6 The Islam­ic Repub­lic of Maur­it­ania recog­nizes the import­ance of the cooper­a­tion mech­an­isms provided for in Art­icle 6 of the Par­is Agree­ment as a key lever for mobil­iz­ing addi­tion­al fin­an­cing for its cli­mate actions. These mech­an­isms rep­res­ent a stra­tegic oppor­tun­ity to strengthen the imple­ment­a­tion of mit­ig­a­tion and adapt­a­tion pro­jects, par­tic­u­larly by rein­for­cing the nation­al car­bon mar­ket eco­sys­tem. In this con­text, Maur­it­ania has under­taken a series of actions aimed at struc­tur­ing and devel­op­ing this mar­ket, par­tic­u­larly through the Min­istry of Energy, with­in the frame­work of its green hydro­gen pro­gram. This pro­gram is sup­por­ted by the devel­op­ment of a long-term low-car­bon devel­op­ment strategy, aware­ness-rais­ing and train­ing cam­paigns for stake­hold­ers on the cooper­at­ive approaches provided for in Art­icle 6 of the Par­is Agree­ment, and the estab­lish­ment of a ded­ic­ated insti­tu­tion­al frame­work for the gov­ernance of Art­icle 6 activ­it­ies (eli­gib­il­ity cri­ter­ia, author­iz­a­tion pro­ced­ures, and trans­fer mod­al­it­ies for ITMOs/​carbon cred­its). Maur­it­ania also seeks to boost the par­ti­cip­a­tion of pub­lic and private act­ors in this mar­ket through capa­city build­ing, thereby con­sol­id­at­ing their com­mit­ment to ambi­tious pro­jects focused on the devel­op­ment of renew­able ener­gies (wind, sol­ar, hydro­power), green hydro­gen, energy effi­ciency, integ­rated waste man­age­ment, sus­tain­able trans­port, agro­forestry, eco­sys­tem res­tor­a­tion (man­groves, wet­lands, seagrass beds), and oth­er green infra­struc­ture. These steps are part of a trans­par­ent and respons­ible approach, respect­ful of inter­na­tion­al require­ments, guar­an­tee­ing the trace­ab­il­ity of trans­fers and avoid­ing any double count­ing, in order to max­im­ize the envir­on­ment­al and socio-eco­nom­ic impact of pro­jects com­pat­ible with nation­al sus­tain­able devel­op­ment ambitions.