During this meeting, the Board will decide on applicability conditions of methodology AM0001 for HFC-23 destruction that will ultimately decide whether the Mexican Quimobásicos HFC Recovery and Destruction Project can be registered as a CDM project activity. Some HCFC-22 production plants can produce both CFCs and HCFC-22, like the Quimobásicos HFC Recovery and Destruction Project. …

Read more “Definition of swing plants to decide over the fate of a HFC recovery and destruction project (Newsletter #5)”

Out of the 170 rice husk projects currently in the pipeline, 12 are being implemented in Thailand of which only the 22-megawatt rice husk-fueled power plant owned by A.T. Biopower has been registered so far and has become Thailand’s most celebrated renewable energy plant. The purpose of the project activity is to set up a …

Read more “Mitsubishi’s rice husk projects in Thailand (Newsletter #5)”

On September 17, 2007, the CDM Executive Board adopted ACM0013, “Consolidated baseline and monitoring methodology for new grid connected fossil fuel fired power plants using a less GHG intensive technology.”  The methodology contemplates the award of saleable CDM credits for the construction of new, coal-fired power plants that use “super-critical” technology, which is more efficient …

Read more “The Folly of CDM Credits for Supercritical Coal (Newsletter #5)”

While eyes are set on the design of a flexible mechanism post-2012 during the upcoming COP-15, the Board could already give a spin to the upcoming discussions by eliminating technologies where additionality is highly unlikely from the CDM. In addition to Chinese wind power projects, this would be the case for Chinese and Indian large …

Read more “National appropriate mitigation actions to tackle additionality concerns of wind power in China (Newsletter #5)”

Again on CDM Watch’s agenda for the fourth consecutive Newsletter is the issue of HFC-23 methodology AM0001. The Swiss non-governmental organization Noe21 submitted a request for revision of the methodology AM0001 for HFC-23 destruction to the Board in December 2007. The revision request aims to address perverse incentives in this methodology. Although the request was …

Read more “Revision of HFC-23 methodology (Newsletter #4)”

One fundamental flaw with the CDM is the need to prove the additionality of each project. A project is additional if it was built only because of the extra income from selling CERs – meaning that the project would not have happened if there was not extra CER income. If a project would happen anyway …

Read more “Non-additional projects under consideration at this meeting (Newsletter #4)”