FAB CDM Project – Phase II
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Host party(ies) India
Methodology(ies) AMS-III.Z. ver. 4
Standardised Baselines N/A
Estimated annual reductions* 58,743
Start date of first crediting period. 30 Dec 12
Length of first crediting period. 10 years
DOE/AE TUEV-RHEIN
Period for comments 28 Sep 12 - 27 Oct 12
PP(s) for which DOE have a contractual obligation M/s G K Energy Marketers Pvt Ltd
The operational/applicant entity working on this project has decided to make the Project Design Document (PDD) publicly available directly on the UNFCCC CDM website.
PDD PDD (1219 KB)
Local stakeholder consultation report: N/A
Impact assessment summary: N/A
Submission of comments to the DOE/AE Compilation of submitted inputs:
This is a project deploying  patented FaL-G technology based on which already there are three registered projects [Ref Nos 0707 (Regd under II.D), 4585 and 4831(Regd under III.Z)].

The manufacturing process in this project also do come under this IP. But, as the IP holders are liberal in not invoking the patent in order to facilitate the proliferation of their technology in the interest of its massive contribution to sustainable development, there is no contest on this count.

However, the referred baseline emissions and leakage on account of using biomass at 2% are not fair figures. In this aspect, the conservativeness adopted in the registered projects by taking 5% on account of biomass towards reduction in baseline emission may be taken as bench mark.

Already there is strict internal inspection plan invoked by PP (Eco Carbon Pvt. Ltd - ECPL) of above referred Registered projects. Though III.Z talks about monitoring project emissions based on production, in order to enhance due diligence, the PP (ECPL) monitors the power/diesel consumption and fly ash consumption to justify the production claim. If there is any mismatch, the least tallied data are taken as production. Further, in order to justify the production claim, sales records are also monitored under internal inspection plan. In the process, large amount of counter factual claims were filtered over the last six years. (Prior to Registration, these projects have been verified for VERs under agreement with the World Bank).

Moreover, ECPL apportioned about 12.6% of ER revenue towards community welfare programs, taking the workers of FaL-G brick units as the community, which is strictly monitored by the World Bank. No such program is envisaged in this project.
Submitted by: Bhanumathidas Kalidas


The comment period is over.
* Emission reductions in metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent per annum that are based on the estimates provided by the project participants in unvalidated PDDs