Under the aegis of a clear-sighted and pioneering policy, which considered the environmental protection and the improvement of the citizen living environment as the row of national priorities, Tunisia adopted the implementation of energy and environmental strategies to contribute to the world effort aiming at fighting against the Harmful effects of the climate changes. These strategies rest, among other things, on the environmentally sound management of liquid and solid wastes, the control of pollution, the transfer of cleaner technologies, the energy efficiency, the promotion of renewable energies and the development of the vegetable and forest cover. Showing its determination to take an active part in the world environmental protection, Tunisia signed and ratified all the treaties and international agreements on the matter. Thus, Tunisia signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) since its adoption, in Rio, in 1992 and ratified it in July 1993. Moreover, Tunisia adhered to the Kyoto Protocol in June 2002. Since its ratification of the UNFCCC, Tunisia, continuously, encouraged the efforts aiming at the implementation of this convention and capitalized notable assets, mainly: - The preparation of the first National Communication in November 2001. - The preparation of the national inventory of the GHG emissions for the years 1994 and 1997 for all the concerned sectors and for the year 2000 for the energy sector - The evaluation of the attenuation potentials of the GHG emissions for the following sectors: energy, agriculture, forests, Land-use change and wastes. - The realization of vulnerability and adaptation studies on the adverse effects of climate change, particularly, the effects of the sea level rise on the national economy. In addition, and within the framework of the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, several activities were undertaken aiming at the setting up of favorable conditions to the exploitation of the potential of GHG emissions reductions and the development of projects within the framework of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). For this reason, a national strategy aiming at accelerating the CDM process and at positioning on the international carbon market was elaborated in 2005. The implementation of this strategy is supported by several programs and projects which aim at the reinforcement of the national capacities and the fast development of CDM projects in all concerned sectors, particularly the fields of energy efficiency, the promotion of renewable energies, the management of wastes, the transport, the industrial processes and the afforestation and deforestation.

Sector-based distribution of the objectives of avoided tons CO2 equivalent (tCO2e) and potential generated incomes of CDM projects over the period 2006-2011

To achieve these goals, the national strategy envisages immediate actions on four levels: The set-up of national structures and adequate procedures, The national promotion and communication in CDM field, The reinforcement of the national capacities, the multiplication of CDM projects and their accompanying until their implementation

National structures and adequate procedures
set-up of follow-up structures of the CDM related activities:
The Designated National Authority (DNA)
The Permanent Secretariat of the Designated National Authority

Promotion and communication as regards CDM
The promotion and the communication at the national level
In order to ensure the promotion of CDM, the following actions must be carried out:
An annual national conference on CDM
Periodic publications
A dynamic website
regular follow-up of the international negotiations on CDM

The communication at the international level
In order to ensure a good visibility of Tunisian CDM “product” at the international level, and to assert Tunisian credibility as a privileged “destination” for CDM projects, three forms of communication must be privileged:
The organization of national CDM forums and to take part in CDM international forums
The establishment of regular rounds in CDM captive markets and contacts with backers and potential buyers of carbon appropriations
The promotion of CDM projects and the portfolio of Tunisian CDM projects.

Capacity building

The organization of training cycles for the institutions involved in the CDM, the national consultants, the economic operators, the financial organizations.
The organization of workshops of consultation/dialogue.

Accompagning CDM projects

To provide a technical assistance by national and international experts for operators having launched the preparation and the execution of CDM projects.

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