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Using the Gold Standard Manual A guided tour. Jasmine Hyman Marketing Director 7 December 2006 São Paulo, Brasil. Using the Manual. Using the Pre-assessment Framework Using the Assessment Framework The Credits: Validating, registering, verifying and issuing your CERs/VERs!. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Using the Gold Standard Manual A guided tour
Jasmine HymanMarketing Director7 December 2006
São Paulo, Brasil
Using the Manual
• Using the Pre-assessment Framework• Using the Assessment Framework• The Credits: Validating, registering, verifying and
issuing your CERs/VERs!
Project Design (PDD)
DOE Validation
CDM EB Registration
DOE Verification
CER Issuance
Gold Standard Screens
DOE Validation for GS
GS-TAC Registration
DOE Verification for GS
credit-linked label issuance
Intro: How GS fits into CDM
Pre-Assessment:
• Make sure you’re eligible!!
• Real additionality is Crucial
• Consider Sustainable Development
Assessment Framework
• Project type Eligibility Screen• Additionality Screens• Sustainable Development Screens
Assessment Framework: Eligibility Screen
Renewable Energy:PV• Solar thermal• Ecological sound biomass, biogas, and liquid biofuels• Wind• Geothermal• Small low-impact hydroEnd Use Energy Efficiency Improvement:• Industrial and Domestic EE• EE in transport, agriculture, commercial
Additionality Screens
• Previously announced projects screen• Additionality Tool• ODA additionality test
Step O: Preliminary Screening based on start date
Step 1: Identification of Alternatives
Step 2: Investment Analysis Step 3: Barrier Analysis
Step 4: Common Practice
Step 5: Impact of CDM registration
Project Activity is Additional
Additionality Screens: ODA
• ODA definition• ODA may be used for PDD development and
new methodologies• ODA can be used for implementation of wider
project• ODA-discounted loans can be used, up to 25%
So, to pass the ODA test
Submit a clear financing plan that shows no ODA funding was used for the project, not counting:
•PDD development•Wider project activity•Discounted loan with a grant value less than 25%
Sustainable Development Assessment
• Sustainable Development Matrix• Public Consultation Procedures• EIA Requirements
ComponentIndicators (example)
Score –2 to +2
Local/regional/global environmentWater quality and quantityAir quality (emissions other than GHGs)Other pollutants: (including, where relevant, toxicity, radioactivity,POPs, stratospheric ozone layer depleting gases)Soil condition (quality and quantity)Biodiversity (species and habitat conservation)
Sub total
Social sustainability and developmentEmployment (including job quality, fulfilment of labour standards)Livelihood of the poor (including poverty alleviation, distributional equity,and access to essential services)Access to energy servicesHuman and institutional capacity (including empowerment, education,involvement, gender)
Sub total
Economic and technological developmentEmployment (numbers)Balance of payments (sustainability)Technological self reliance (including project replicability, hard currencyliability, skills development, institutional capacity, technology transfer)
Sub total
TOTAL
Stakeholder Consultation
• Invitation list (policy makers, local community, local NGOs, GS NGOs)
• Non technical project summary• Local language• comments on projects must be actively invited, fully
documented, and disseminated
Environmental Impact Assessment: Do I have to do it?
Yes, if:
• DNA or Executive Board requests• Public consultation requests (coming up!)• Pre-screen checklist indicates significant
negative impacts (Appendix B in your manual)
Pré-avaliação/PINSomente projetos de energias renováveis, eficiência energética e metano-para-energia
GS PDD – aplicando os critérios GSBaseado em metodologia aprovada pelo Conselho Executivo do MDL.Projetos VER podem, além disso, usar metodologias da UNDP MDG Carbon Facility
Certifição GSCréditos GS VER serão concedidos pelo GSCréditos GS MDL serão concedidos pelo Conselho Executivo e certificados pelo GS
Adicionalidade?Aplicar a ferramenta de adicionalidadeSustantabilidade e meio ambiente? Aplicar a matriz
Pré-avaliação/PINSomente projetos de energias renováveis, eficiência energética e metano-para-energia
Consulta principalDivulgação do PDD e do PDD não-técnico – ambos na língua local – para garantir que todas as preocupações dos atores locais e/ou interessados foram consideradas
Validação pelo GSPelas Entidades Operacionais Designadas (Validadoras) nacionais aplicando os critérios GS
Registro GSProjetos GS VER diretamente com o GS-TACProjetos GS MDL precisam anteriormente de aprovação da Autoridade Nacional Designada e do Conselho Executivo
Verificação GSPela Entidade Operacional Designada (Validadora) aplicando os critérios GS
Consulta inicial com os atores locais e/ou interessadosDraft do PDD – em linguagem não-técnica – para identificar possíveis preocupações dos atores locais e/ou interessados com o projeto (Não é necessário para projetos GS VER de micro-escala)
In Summary
• Project type eligibility screen• Additionality screens: ODA, Previous
announcment, and UNFCCC additionality tool• Sustainable Development screens: matrix,
public consultations, possible EIA
Life after the PDD
• Ask DOE for Gold Standard validation• Register as Gold Standard (send us DOE report)• Verify your project with a DOE, send docs to us
Gold Standard credits!
• Send Executive Board for UNFCCC credits to us (volume, serial numbers)
• Issuance Fee (ten percent of EB’s request, from one to two cents per CER).
Retroactive registration
• Why? - GS often not reason, priority for starting project development
• Demonstrate full compliance with GS criteria• DOE needs to validate your claim• Be conservative• Verification process basically identical
Gold Standard Checklist
• Use additionality tool in the regular PDD• Submit finance plan for DOE• Sustainable Development Matrix• Write up the stakeholder consultations• Maybe, an EIA
Thank you!
http://www.cdmgoldstandard.org
Jasmine [email protected]
+41 (0)61 283 09 16
The Gold Standard; 22, Bäumleingasse; 4051 Basel; SWITZERLAND