Consultant to provide support for Monitoring and Verification of A/R Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Projects

Expression of Interest
Consultant to provide support for Monitoring and Verification of A/R Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Projects
Selection # 1043043

BACKGROUND

The World Bank Carbon Finance Unit's (CFU) initiatives are part of the larger global effort to combat climate change, and go hand in hand with the World Bank and its Environment Department's mission to reduce poverty and improve living standards in the developing world. The CFU uses money contributed by governments and companies in OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries to purchase project-based greenhouse gas emission reductions in developing countries and countries with economies in transition. The emission reductions are purchased through one of the CFU's carbon funds on behalf of the contributor, and within the framework of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) or Joint Implementation (JI).

One of these carbon funds is the BioCarbon Fund, which aims to open the carbon market to climate change mitigation activities in the forestry and agricultural sector (see www.carbonfinance.org/biocarbon). As of today the BioCarbon Fund manages an active portfolio of more than 20 projects at different stages in the registration and verification process with the UNFCCC.

In an effort to ensure that all projects can move quickly through the verification processes, the CFU has identified a number of them that will require additional support for monitoring and verification at some point between July 2011 and June 2013.

SCOPE OF WORK

The CFU is seeking one Short Term Consultant (STC) to support the BioCarbon Fund Project Managers and the Project Entities, during the entire monitoring and verification process of carbon finance projects, providing the requested deliverables.

The scope of work ranges from the initial stages of preparation of the Monitoring Reports, to the successful completeness check done by the UNFCCC Secretariat for the request of issuance.

Interested individuals are hereby invited to submit expressions of interest through the World Bank Group online platform eConsultant2: https://wbgeconsult2.worldbank.org/wbgec/index.html (selection # 1043043). The deadline is July 25th, 2011.