Japan and Indonesia have agreed on registration of an energy savings project at an Indonesian textile factory under their joint crediting scheme (JCM). This marks the first project registry almost two years after Tokyo launched the bilateral programme to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Japan's environmental ministry said today the joint committee set up between the Japanese and Indonesian governments has approved registration of the project by Japan's Ebara Refrigeration Equipment & Systems and engineering consultant Nippon Koei to replace old chillers at Primatexco's textile factory in Batang, central Java with efficient centrifugal chillers to save energy. The seven-year project was commissioned in March this year and is targeted to reduce a total of 799t of CO2 equivalent by 2020.
Japan and Indonesia signed a bilateral carbon offset agreement in August last year and has since launched the joint committee to work on a process to register JCM projects and issue credits. The project by Ebara, Nippon Koei and Primatexco was placed by the committee for public comments in September this year for a one-month period.
Japan has signed bilateral carbon-offset deals with 12 countries, with the first agreement struck with Mongolia in January 2013. The deals call for Japanese firms to invest in developing low-carbon technology, systems, services, systems and infrastructure in other countries. Carbon reductions and removals under their JCMs will be verified and counted as part of their GHG mitigation efforts. The agreements will remain effective until a new international framework is in place after 2020.
The JCM scheme with Indonesia has made the most progress, with another project pending JCM registration after its methodologies were approved. Another five projects are also waiting for their methodologies to be approved after public consultation. Japan and Mongolia are also expected to register under the JCM a project to install energy-saving transmission lines in Mongolia's national grid.
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