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

Request for Expression of Interest
Consultant to provide support for Monitoring and Verification of A/R Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM) Projects
Selection # 1037588


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 # 1037588).
The deadline is June 10th, 2011.