New methodologies submitted / CDM Meth Panel report / Other methodological issues

(1) The following proposals on new baseline and monitoring methodologies have been submitted to the CDM Executive Board for its review and are available for public input from 30 July - 17 August 2007: NM0224: Manufacturing of Bio-diesel from Crude Palm oil and Jatropha Oil NM0225: Replacement of OPC with Supplemental Cementitious Material for production of Concrete at L&T Ready Mix Concrete plants NM0226: Fuel switching from naphtha to natural gas at grid-connected power generation facility of GIPCL, in Vadodara, Gujarat NM0227: Recovery of vented gas at the «Guneshli» oil field in Azerbaijan NM0228: AGRENCO Biodiesel Project in Alta Araguaia NM0229: Metrobus Insurgentes, Mexico City NM0230: Recovery and Utilization of CO2 from Refinery Tail Gas NM0231: Waste heat utilization for charge pre-heating in sponge iron manufacturing process at HKMPL, India The above submitted documentation is available under the following link: <http://cdm.unfccc.int/goto/MPpropmeth> (2) Please be informed that the report of the twenty-eighth meeting of the Panel on baseline and monitoring methodologies (Meth Panel) is available in the Meth Panel page of the UNFCCC CDM website: <http://cdm.unfccc.int/Panels/meth> (3) The following proposed new A/R methodologies were sent from the Afforestation/Reforestation Working Group (AR WG) through the DOE to the project participants to invite clarifications to the preliminary recommendations and technical clarifications to the following proposed new A/R methodologies were provided: ARNM0033: Reforestation of grasslands using fast-growing species in Brazil The submitted documentation is available under the following link: <http://cdm.unfccc.int/goto/ARpropmeth>