Background
With the new 13th Five Year Plan (13th FYP) announced in March 2016, China was at the crossroads of shifting from its current resource and energy intensive economic growth pattern to a new efficient and clean pattern driven by technology innovation. Low carbon and climate action are expected to have an important role in the new five year plan. Pursuing a low carbon development path is a consensus at the top political level and also a centerpiece of its new development goal of building an “eco-civilization”. Meanwhile, the international community aspires to reach the goal of limiting temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial level. In this context, China is laying out a massive transformational national low carbon development plan, which is incorporated into its overall socioeconomic development plan. China aims to peak its CO2 emissions by 2030, and is going to cut its CO2 emissions per unit of GDP (carbon intensity) by 40-45% by 2020 and 60-65% by 2030 compared to the 2005 level. To achieve these targets, China has formulated and is planning to formulate a series of policies and measures both at the central and local level.
Establishing a national carbon market (also called national ETS) is the central policy instrument for China. Since 2011, China has started to create and test carbon emissions trading scheme in 7 pilots (in provinces of Guangdong and Hubei, and the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, and Shenzhen). Since the launch of the first pilot on June 18, 2013, trading is taking place in the Chinese pilot markets. 42.09 million emissions’ allowances have been traded on the secondary market across the seven ETS pilots, accounting for a total value of US$200.48 million, with an average price of US$4.76/ton. The early operations of the ETS pilots give the opportunity for China to get hands-on experiences on the process, designing and implementation of ETS. Key experiences accumulated from the pilots reveal the “learning by doing” nature of the work, and also prove that the establishment of a functioning and robust ETS requires continuous and dedicated efforts.
In 2015, a total 24.5 million allowances worth 656 million yuan ($100 million) changed hands via exchanges in China’s seven pilot carbon markets[1]. With the completion of compliance checks in 7 pilots, overall performance in 2015 has been improved compared with the previous year. . The ETS-II is part of the overall work needed, and there is much more to do after the launch of national ETS.
Work on policy designing and infrastructure building for the national ETS is under good progress, and moving towards a timely launch of the national ETS in 2017. Table 1 captures major progress of the national ETS designing. A lot of achievements have been made, in particular the domestic project based offsetting scheme similar to Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol. The scheme is called China Certified Emission Reduction (CCER) trading and is managed and regulated by NDRC. More than 478 CCER projects have been approved by NDRC. CCERs were surrendered by covered enterprises for compliance in all seven pilot carbon markets during2016.
1.2 Project Summary
In 2016 China announced that the national Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) will be launched in 2017, while pilots have already started preparation in 7 provinces and cities since 2011 and are in operation since 2013-2014. Amidst existing international projects to support the design of national ETS, this project is a comprehensive package focused on complementing on-going efforts and filling the needs-gaps to create enabling conditions for a successful national ETS. The overall goal of the project is to assist Chinese government and enable it to build and launch a robust national ETS on time and also to ensure the smooth implementation.
Duties and Responsibilities
The objectives of this Terminal Evaluation (TE) seek to fulfill the following overarching objectives of the monitoring and evaluation:
The objective of the TE is to provide an independent and outside view of the progress of the project The TE will identify potential project design problems, assess progress towards the achievement of the project objective, identify and document lessons learned (including lessons that might improve projects design and implementation), The project performance will be measured based on the indicators of the project’s logical framework.
The TE must provide credible, reliable and useful information. The review team is expected to follow a participatory and consultative approach ensuring close engagement with government counterparts, in particular UNDP Country Office, project team, and key stakeholders. Interviews will be held with the following organizations and individuals at a minimum:
- UNDP staff who have project responsibilities;
- Executing agencies (including but not limited to senior officials and task team/ component leaders: key experts and consultants in the demonstration areas, PSC members;
- The Chair of Project Steering Committee
- Project stakeholders, including academia, local government and CBOs
Responsibilities
- Define the evaluation methodology and schedule, and report to the PMO
- Documentation review and data gathering
- Contributing to the development of the evaluation plan and methodology
- Conducting those elements of the evaluation determined by the International Lead Consultant
- Contributing to presentation of the evaluation findings and recommendations at the evaluation wrap-up meeting
- Contributing to the drafting and finalization of the evaluation report.
Competencies
- Findings on the project implementation achievements, challenges, and difficulties to date;
- Assessments of the progress made towards the attainment of outcomes;
- Recommendations for modifications and the future course of action;
- Lessons learned from the project structure, coordination between different agencies, experience of the implementation, and output/outcome and,
• TE report, including an executive summary, fulfilling the evaluation requirements set out in this Terms of Reference (TOR). The final report (including executive summary, but excluding annexes) should not exceed 50 pages.
• A power-point presentation of the findings of the evaluation
Required Skills and Experience
- Post-graduate in climate/finance and experience with at least ten years experience of project development and implementation, and solid knowledge of ETS is a plus .
- A minimum of five years of project management experience in EE/RE or related climate change projects
- EE/RE and climate change training and technical experience
- Knowledge of EE/RE projects
- Multilateral and bilateral funded project development and implementation
- Familiarity with Energy Conservation national development policies, programs and projects
Selection criteria
- Technical evaluation (including written test, interview, desk review of technical proposal, if any): 70%(includes 20% of Job Related Technical Expertise; 25% of Relevant working experience; 25% of Methodology & Approach to Assignment)
- Financial Evaluation: 30%
UNDP applies a fair and transparent selection process that will take into account the competencies/skills of the applicants as well as their financial proposals. Qualified women and members of social minorities are encouraged to apply.
Offeror’s Letter and proposal: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1mjF4ouhoajW6bNhvmIltDuTHSdjYhjRT2M51IdQLxwc