Switzerland

“‘Switzer­land will real­ize its NDC mainly domest­ic­ally and will partly use inter­na­tion­ally trans­ferred mit­ig­a­tion out­comes (ITMOs) from cooper­a­tion under Art­icle 6. Switzer­land will imple­ment the guid­ance on cooper­at­ive approaches referred to in Art­icle 6, para­graph 2 of the Par­is Agree­ment, adop­ted at COP26, and the San José prin­ciples for high ambi­tion and integ­rity in inter­na­tion­al car­bon mar­kets, to apply robust rules that avoid any form of double count­ing, ensure envir­on­ment­al integ­rity and pro­mote sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, includ­ing the pro­tec­tion of human rights, and not to use pre-2020 units towards the achieve­ment of its NDC.

As of Decem­ber 2021, Switzer­land signed bilat­er­al agree­ments with Peru, Ghana, Seneg­al, Geor­gia, Vanuatu, and Domin­ica … The ITMOs may be used for oth­er mit­ig­a­tion pur­poses, such as e.g. vol­un­tary cli­mate neut­ral­ity tar­gets by private or sub-state act­ors, which would not be coun­ted towards Switzerland’s emis­sions reduc­tions object­ives. Fur­ther­more, the agree­ments ensure envir­on­ment­al integ­rity, pre­vents double count­ing, and fore­sees con­crete require­ments regard­ing the pro­mo­tion of sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, includ­ing the pro­tec­tion of human rights.’ “

Switzer­land will partly use inter­na­tion­ally trans­ferred mit­ig­a­tion out­comes (ITMOs) from cooper­a­tion under Art­icle 6. The share of emis­sion reduc­tions real­ized abroad will decrease for the 2031 – 2035 peri­od com­pared to the pre-2030 peri­od, con­sist­ent with the prin­ciple of pro­gres­sion. The per­cent­age of domest­ic emis­sion reduc­tions will be determ­ined in the con­text of par­lia­ment­ary delib­er­a­tions on the CO2 Law for the post-2030 peri­od. Switzer­land will imple­ment all rel­ev­ant Art­icle 6 guid­ance adop­ted by the con­fer­ence of the Parties serving as the meet­ing of the Parties to the Par­is Agree­ment (CMA), to apply robust rules that avoid any form of double count­ing, ensure envir­on­ment­al and social integ­rity and pro­mote sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, includ­ing the pro­tec­tion of human rights. As of Feb­ru­ary 2025, Switzer­land signed bilat­er­al agree­ments with Peru, Ghana, Seneg­al, Geor­gia, Vanuatu, Domin­ica, Thai­l­and, Ukraine, Morocco, Malawi, Uruguay, Chile, and Tunisia, cre­at­ing the neces­sary frame­works for cooper­at­ive approaches under Art­icle 6.2 of the Par­is Agree­ment. The agree­ments gov­ern the trans­fers of miti- gation out­comes and their use. The ITMOs may be used for oth­er inter­na­tion­al mit­ig­a­tion pur­poses, such as e.g. vol­un­tary cli­mate tar­gets by private act­ors, which would not be coun­ted towards Switzerland’s NDC.