Background
The Conference of the Parties (COP) at its ninth meeting
requested the Executive Secretary to convene an international workshop on the removal and mitigation of perverse, and the promotion of positive, incentive measures. As requested by the decision, the workshop consisted of government-nominated practitioners with balanced regional representation, as well as experts from relevant organizations and stakeholders. The workshop convened with a view to:
- collecting, exchanging and analysing information, including case-studies on, good practices for, and lessons learned from, concrete and practical experiences in identifying and removing or mitigating perverse incentive measures, and in promoting positive incentive measures, and to
- identify a limited number of good practice cases from different regions.
Notifications were sent to Parties, international organizations and stakeholders inviting the nomination of experts and the submission of relevant information, as well as informing them of the selection of experts.
The workshop convened on 6 to 8 October 2009, at the premises of the
United Nations Environment Programme in Paris, France.
The report of the workshop, which is currently under finalization, and the good practice cases identified will be considered by the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice at its fourteenth meeting and reviewed by the COP 10.
These pages also provide background information on the previous work undertaken by the Convention on
perverse incentives and on
positive incentive measures.
Documentation
COP
requested the Executive Secretary to compile and analyse relevant information, including analyses and studies from relevant international organizations, such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, on the impacts of positive and perverse incentive measures, to disseminate this information through the clearing house mechanism of the Convention, and to make it available to the workshop on the removal and mitigation of perverse incentive measures.
The most relevant analyses and studies, including the submissions received from Parties, international organizations and initatives, as well as stakeholders, are listed below. The list also includes the presentations given by a number of experts at the workshop. Access to the complete compilation in the database of incentive measures is also given.
An analysis of the compiled information is provided as part of the
background documentation for the workshop.
