Proposal for an enhanced barrier test for project activities that have a potentially high profitability without CER revenues

The Board, at its forty-first meeting considered a draft proposal prepared by the Methodologies Panel on the enhanced barrier test for project activities that have a potential for high profitability without CER revenues and only use a barrier analysis to demonstrate additionality. The Board agreed to invite public comments on the draft for the period from 6 August to 3 September 2008. The Board requested the secretariat to compile these comments and prepare a revised draft document for consideration by the Board at its forty-third meeting. The Board also agreed to have a detailed discussion on the document at its forty-third meeting.

The draft proposal is available at http://cdm.unfccc.int/Panels/meth/meeting/08/033/mp_033_an11.pdf

The public is invited to provide comments in particular on the following:

(a) What are the criteria for a highly profitable project activity?
(b) What project activity types can potentially be highly profitable without CER revenues and as such should be subject to an enhanced barrier test?
(c) How project participants can demonstrate that their project activity with a potential for high profitability without CER revenues still faces barriers?

The public call for inputs is open from 06 August to 03 September 2008, 24:00 GMT.

Public comments received can be found in the table below.

Submission Date	Submission
06 August 2008 at 12:23 GMT+2	Gian Claudio Faussone (22 KB)
08 August 2008 at 10:14 GMT+2	G C Datta Roy (34 KB)
21 August 2008 at 07:26 GMT+2	Dr Kusum Lata (20 KB)
22 August 2008 at 09:39 GMT+2	J V Murthy (38 KB)
27 August 2008 at 17:42 GMT+2	Nitin Tanwar (26 KB)
27 August 2008 at 19:33 GMT+2	Anne Arquit Niederberger (125 KB)
28 August 2008 at 08:16 GMT+2	kalidas choudhury (24 KB)
01 September 2008 at 10:24 GMT+2	Kanwal Jit Singh (51 KB)
02 September 2008 at 13:51 GMT+2	sanjay agarwal (3447 bytes)
02 September 2008 at 17:06 GMT+2	A. Ricardo J. Esparta (39 KB)
02 September 2008 at 17:43 GMT+2	Camilo Rojas (28 KB)
02 September 2008 at 18:56 GMT+2	Adrian Loening (29 KB)
02 September 2008 at 21:13 GMT+2	Mischa Classen, First Climate (65 KB)
03 September 2008 at 02:01 GMT+2	Sergio Jauregui (46 KB)
03 September 2008 at 09:18 GMT+2	Abhijit Parashar (516 KB)
03 September 2008 at 11:07 GMT+2	Francesco Nicola Tubiello (30 KB)
03 September 2008 at 13:54 GMT+2	ECOFYS (333 KB)
03 September 2008 at 14:05 GMT+2	p.ananthanarayanan (40 KB)
03 September 2008 at 15:47 GMT+2	Axel Michaelowa (58 KB)
03 September 2008 at 16:02 GMT+2	edwin aalders (80 KB)
03 September 2008 at 17:31 GMT+2	Mr. Filippo Berardi / EcoSecurities (83 KB)
03 September 2008 at 20:17 GMT+2	Robbie Louw (40 KB)
03 September 2008 at 21:24 GMT+2	Adam Nathan (88 KB)
03 September 2008 at 21:43 GMT+2	perumal (34 KB)
03 September 2008 at 22:12 GMT+2	Barbara Haya (23 KB)
03 September 2008 at 23:48 GMT+2	Christian Patrickson (50 KB)
04 September 2008 at 00:44 GMT+2	Johannes Heister (submitted after the deadline) (113 KB)
04 September 2008 at 01:30 GMT+2	CER Partners - Gertjan Schut (submitted after the deadline) (41 KB)
04 September 2008 at 01:54 GMT+2	Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co.,Ltd. (submitted after the deadline) (25 KB)