CDM Meth Panel report / CDM AR WG report / CDM SSC WG report / Other methodological issues

CDM Meth Panel report / CDM AR WG report / CDM SSC WG report / Other methodological issues

(1) Please be informed that the below list of documents is now available on the UNFCCC CDM website:

(a) The report of the twenty-fourth meeting of the Panel on baseline and monitoring methodologies (Meth Panel) is now available in the Meth Panel page of the UNFCCC CDM website: <http://cdm.unfccc.int/Panels/meth>.

(b) The report of the eleventh meeting of the CDM Afforestation and Reforestation Working Group (AR WG) is now available in the AR WG section of UNFCCC CDM website: <http://cdm.unfccc.int/Panels/ar>.

(c) The report of the eighth meeting of the Small Scale Working Group (SSC WG) is now available in the SSC WG page of UNFCCC CDM website: <http://cdm.unfccc.int/Panels/ssc_wg>.

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(2) Methodologies

(a) The following proposed new methodologies were sent from the Meth Panel through the DOE to the project participants to invite clarifications to the preliminary recommendations:

NM0185: Khon Kaen fuel ethanol project
NM0188: East Coast Power Plant (S) Sdn. Bhd. 13MW biomass power generation project
NM0187: Permata Hijau Group Cogeneration Biomass Project
NM0191: Vitale SA Biomass Co-Generation Project

Please be informed that the final recommendation of NM0185: "Khon Kaen fuel ethanol project" by the Meth Panel was made available on the CDM website as no clarifications have been received as a response to the preliminary recommendation of the Meth Panel. This recommendation will be under consideration at the next meeting of the CDM Executive Board.

Regarding the cases NM0187, NM0188 and NM0191, the secretariat was provided with official letters from the project participants in which they inform that they wish to withdraw these proposed new methdologies.

(b) In addition, please be informed that requests for revision of approved methodologies have been received. Further information on these submissions is available on the UNFCCC CDM web site at http://cdm.unfccc.int/methodologies/PAmethodologies/Revisions.

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(2) Afforestation and Reforestation methodologies

The following proposed new baseline and monitoring methodologies have been re-submitted (B cases) for consideration by the Working Group on Afforestation and Reforestation (AR WG) and are available in the UNFCCC CDM web site:

ARNM0021-rev: Chocó-Manabí Corridor Reforestation and Conservation Carbon Project

The submitted documentation is available under the following link:
http://cdm.unfccc.int/methodologies/ARmethodologies/process