Call for inputs on the reasons for no or low application of approved methodologies in CDM project


The Executive Board, at its forty-seventh meeting, considered the reasons for no or low application of approved methodologies in CDM projects. The Board requested the secretariat to provide a detailed analysis of the issue (see paragraph 33 (e) of the EB47 report ) and agreed to open a call for public inputs inviting the views on the following:

1) Reasons for low or no application of the approved methodologies (including methodologies for large-scale, small-scale and aforestation & reforestation CDM project activities). A list of methodologies with five or fewer no. of projects validated/ registered is available as annex 1 to the annotations of EB47 meeting.
2) Barriers or difficulties faced by the stakeholders for the application of methodologies, in general, and not limited to the methodologies with no/low use.
3) Barriers or difficulties faced with the methodologies, in general, for the periods of monitoring and during the crediting period.


The call invites inputs between the period starting on 08 June 2009 and closing on 08 July 2009.

Public comments received can be found in the table below.


Submission Date Submission
14 June 2009 at 10:23 GMT+2 VnCO2 Consulting Group (38 KB)
24 June 2009 at 19:17 GMT+2 Micah Ma (27 KB)
03 July 2009 at 16:24 GMT+2 Shashank Jain (29 KB)
07 July 2009 at 11:38 GMT+2 WBCSD-CSI (76 KB)
08 July 2009 at 11:27 GMT+2 Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co., Ltd. (138 KB)
08 July 2009 at 18:14 GMT+2 Matt Spannagle (76 KB)
08 July 2009 at 18:21 GMT+2 LAYA, Resource Center for Tribals (852 KB)
08 July 2009 at 19:09 GMT+2 Roberto Cavalcante Fabricio (32 KB)
08 July 2009 at 19:50 GMT+2 Kim Carnahan (294 KB)
08 July 2009 at 21:49 GMT+2 World Vision International (105 KB)
08 July 2009 at 22:04 GMT+2 Project Developer Forum - Martin Enderlin (275 KB)
08 July 2009 at 23:00 GMT+2 WBCFU Submission - Neeraj Prasad (231 KB)
08 July 2009 at 23:41 GMT+2 Francisco Sucre Fonseca (8791 KB)
10 July 2009 at 17:30 GMT+2 CAN International (184 KB)
10 July 2009 at 17:30 GMT+2 WECF - Women in Europe for a Common Future (305 KB)
28 July 2009 at 19:17 GMT+2 Sindicatum Carbon Capital (147 KB)