Clarifications

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Accreditation
Current Version
Non-linking of payments to the final outcome of validation or verification/certification activities
Ver01.0
CDM-EB86-A08-CLAR
Access to technical experts and demonstration of competence
Ver01.0
CDM-EB86-A09-CLAR
On-the-job performance evaluation of DOE personnel Ver01.0
CDM-EB86-A10-CLAR

** Important Announcement **

The Executive Board of the CDM (the Board), at its 108th meeting (EB 108), agreed on temporary measures pending guidance from the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) at its sixteenth session, for the following submissions:

  • Requests for registration of project activities and programmes of activities (PoAs), renewal of crediting periods and PoA periods, and inclusion and renewal of crediting periods of component project activities that have a crediting period or PoA period starting on or after 1 January 2021;
  • Requests for issuance of certified emission reductions for emission reductions achieved on or after 1 January 2021.

The Board, at EB 109, adopted a clarification on the application of these temporary measures at the regulatory and operational levels. The CMP, at its sixteenth session, clarified the nature and implications of the temporary measures (Decisison 2/CMP.16, paras. 13-15). The Board at EB 113, revised the clarification to reflect the CMP decision.

Methodology
       Large Scale
Current Version
Clarification: Final response AM_CLA_0296: Recovery of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) under AM0009 Ver01.0
CDM-EB113-A18-CLAR
Clarification to ACM0012 (version 04.0.0): Consolidated baseline methodology for GHG emission reduction from waste energy recovery projects Ver01.0
CDM-EB70-A24-CLAR
Clarification on the approved consolidated methodology ACM0012 version 03.2 regarding CDM project activities that recover waste energy in greenfield facilities Ver01.0
EB61 Annex05
Clarification to AM0034 (version 02): Catalytic reduction of N2O inside the ammonia burner of nitric acid plants Ver01.0
EB51 Annex12
Definition of biomass and consideration of changes in carbon pools due to a CDM project activity Ver01.0
EB20 Annex08
Eligibility of activities under the CDM EB33 Para30
Further clarifications on methodological issues
  • A. Clarifications on how, through the methodology, it may be demonstrated that a project is additional and therefore not the baseline scenario
  • B. Clarifications for describing a proposed new methodology and justifying the selection of the most appropriate approach from those contained in paragraph 48 of the CDM modalities and procedures
  • C. Clarifications on the ex post calculation of baselines
  • D. Link between baseline monitoring methodologies
 Ver01.0
EB10 Annex01
Further clarifications on methodological issues
  • A. Clarification for project participants for drafting a proposal for a new methodology
  • B. Clarification on baseline methodologies for electricity generation CDM projects
  • C. Guidance to the Methodologies Panel on formulating recommendations to the Board
 Ver01.0
EB09 Annex03
Issues relating to baseline and monitoring methodologies
  • A. Guidance on elements to be included in a baseline methodology
  • B. Guidance on the approach contained in para. 48 c. of the CDM modalities and procedures for selecting baseline methodologies
  • C. Proposed project activities applying more than one methodology
  • D. Circumstances and modalities for operationalizing para. 47 of the CDM modalities and procedures
  • E. Guidance regarding the treatment of "existing"and "newly built" facilities
 Ver01.0
EB08 Annex01
Negative emission reductions EB21 Para18
Reference to the Tool for the demonstration and assessment of additionality EB21 Para17
Type of GHGs to be considered in accounting for project and leakage emissions EB34 Para17
Use of regression analysis in methodologies Ver01.0
EB21 Annex07
       Small Scale
Current Version
Clarification on the applicability of small-scale CDM project activity thresholds at the renewal of the crediting period of a small-scale project activity or a CPA Ver01.0
CDM-EB75-A16-CLAR
Clarification on the approved methodology AMS-III.C version 13 regarding the requirements for demonstrating comparability of project and baseline vehicles Ver01.0
EB62 Annex12
Clarification on the approved methodology AMS-III.Q version 04 regarding the requirement for recovery of waste gas/heat/pressure to be a new initiative Ver01.0
EB61 Annex20
Clarification related to fuel switch project activities in transport sector EB36 Para47
       Afforestation and Reforestation
Current Version
Afforestation/Reforestation (A/R) in the baseline scenario Ver01.0
EB24 Annex19
Clarifications regarding ex-ante estimations of actual net GHG removals by sinks and identification and justification of most likely baseline scenario Ver01.0
EB21 Annex20
Clarifications regarding methodologies for A/R CDM project activities Ver01.0
EB22 Annex15
Definition of biomass and consideration of changes in carbon pools due to a CDM project activity Ver01.0
EB20 Annex08
Definition of renewable biomass Ver01.0
EB23 Annex18
Provisions of paragraph 11 of the annex to Dec. 6/CMP.1 may be applied to bundles of SSC A/R project activities created for the purpose of validation that possibly exceed the limit for net GHG removals by sinks as defined in paragraph 1 (i) of Dec. 5/CMP.1 EB32/33 Paras41/39
When to request revision, clarification to an approved methodology or a deviation for project participants EB31 Para43
       Project Cycle
Current Version
Regulatory requirements under temporary measures for post-2020 cases Ver02.0
CDM-EB109-A01-CLAR
Post-registration change to the start date of the crediting period Ver01.0
CDM-EB114-A01-CLAR

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