Bonn, 26 March 2010

The CDM Executive Board worked through another heavy agenda marked by challenging discussions about if and how policies and subsidies should feature in the assessment of whether CDM was the incentive for a project moving forward – so-called additionality, a requirement for project registration under the mechanism. The Board members achieved some clarify on the issue (annex 32 to the report), but in the end had to agree to resume consideration of the matter at their next meeting.

In accreditation matters, the Board suspended designated operational entity TÜV SÜD Industrie Service GmbH (TÜV SÜD) and partially suspended Korea Energy Management Corporation (KEMCO) from project validation and emission reduction verification work. The CDM Executive Board will be working with TÜV SÜD and KEMCO to ensure timely resolution of the issues that resulted in the suspensions. For full information on the accreditation matters handled at EB53, including details of the suspensions described above, please see the meeting report.

In matters relating to emissions baseline and monitoring methodologies, the Board suspended use of methodologies ACM0013 version 02.1 and ACM0015 version 02. The former methodology is for new grid connected fossil fuel fired power plants using a less GHG intensive technology and the latter is for project activities using alternative raw materials that do not contain carbonates for clinker manufacturing in cement kilns. They were replaced with revised versions, with immediate effect.

The Board did approve two new small-scale methodologies, including one relating to activities for recovery and recycling of materials such as HDPE and LDPE plastics in municipal solid waste. It also approved an afforestation/ reforestation methodology and revised another.

In accordance with requests from Parties to the Kyoto Protocol at their session in Copenhagen in December 2009, the Board agreed to launch a call for public inputs on procedures for appeals brought by stakeholders. The Board also agreed that the call should include views on how procedures for appeals interrelate with revised procedures for registration, issuance and review currently under consideration by the Board, also in accordance with a request from Parties. The Board made some progress in its work in revising and streamlining the procedures, and agreed on some initial steps. <https://cdm. unfccc.int/public_inputs/index.html>

The Board also heard an update on the status of activities relating to classifying and improving access to the decisions of the Board, including a revision to the CDM website reference section, preparations for the launching of the next release of the catalogue of decisions and, in addition, agreed upon a revision to “CDM Executive Board decision framework: Decision hierarchy and document types issued by the Board”.

The Board agreed on appointments to its panels and working groups. For details please see the report.

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For a full report of the meeting see https://cdm.unfccc.int/EB/index.html