Calibrated bags to measure gas leakage (Newsletter #4)

The Board will decide upon revised methodology AM0023 concerning leak reduction from natural gas pipeline compressor or gate stations. The revision would expand the permitted techniques to measure the flow of gas leaks in natural gas transmission and distribution systems to two more techniques: (i)             the calibrated bags technique (ii)            the ultrasonic flow meters technique. …

CDM Watch Newsletter #3, September 2009

Dear friends,

The CDM Executive Board will meet from 8 – 11 September 2009 in Bonn for their 5th meeting this year to discuss a number of important issues. CDM Watch takes again the opportunity to read between the lines of the annotated draft agenda in order to bring some transparency to the decisions of the Executive Board (the Board), the market regulator of the clean development mechanism (CDM).

Code of Conduct – improvement indispensable (Newsletter #2)

Annex to decision 3/CMP.1 paragraph 8 (f) requests “members, including alternate members, of the Executive Board shall have no pecuniary or financial interest in any aspect of a CDM project activity or any designated operational entity.” However, Board members often play multiple roles at the same time, including UNFCCC negotiators, representing their countries’ DNA or …

CDM Watch Newsletter #1, May 2009

Dear friends,

Ahead of the next CDM EB meeting to take place from 26 – 28 May, Board members are now getting prepared for a busy agenda, including inter alia approving and revising baseline and monitoring methodologies and matters relating to the registration of CDM project activities.