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Introduced in international negotiations through the Bali Action Plan (2007), the concept of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) has been reinforced by the Copenhagen Accord (2009) and the Cancun Agreements (2010) as the means for the definition, measurement and funding of mitigation measures in developing countries.

As of January 2011, 43 countries had submitted a list of NAMAs to the UNFCCC Secretariat. The submissions are very diverse and many country proposals lack detail. It seems difficult at this stage to extract any common rules for design options or metrics  for measuring, reporting and verification (MRV).

The Nordic Ad Hoc Group on Climate Change (NOAK) and the Nordic Environmental Finance Corporation (NEFCO) have commissioned Climate Focus and its partner GreenStream with a feasibility study to explore and analyze, jointly with the government departments in Peru and Vietnam, a comprehensive climate mitigation strategy that could translate into one or more NAMAs accessible for international MRV and funding. It is envisaged that the exercise helps formulate principles and general building blocks for NAMAs worldwide.