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Programme of activities (PoA) - Requirements & Challenges in CPA inclusion By Vijayanand TÜV S Ü D South Asia Vijayanand.V@tuv-sud.in. TÜV SÜD: Corporate Overview. Overview. Requirements. Challenges. Corporate Overview.
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Programme of activities (PoA) - Requirements & Challenges in CPA inclusion By Vijayanand TÜV SÜD South Asia Vijayanand.V@tuv-sud.in
TÜV SÜD: Corporate Overview Overview Requirements Challenges
Corporate Overview • Leading one-stop global solution provider for product quality and safety testing & inspections, engineering support, management system certification and training solutions • Sales revenue of €1.60 billion in FY 2010 • Founded over 140 years ago in Mannheim, Germany • Today about 13,000 employees located in over 600 locations worldwide • Global headquarters in Munich, Germany • Regional Headquarters: Asia Pacific - Singapore; America - Danvers (Massachusetts)
TÜV SÜD: Corporate Overview Overview Requirements Challenges
Overview – Acronyms • PoA = Programme of Activities • CPA = CDM Program Activity • CDM PoA DD = CDM Programme of Activities Design Document • CDM CPA DD = CDM Program Activity Design Document • CME = Coordinating Managing Entity
Overview • Unlimited number of CPAs – As a single CDM project • More than one country • Inclusion of CPAs at any point of time • Can be implemented by many entities/owners
Overview • One approved baseline and monitoring methodology for all CPAs • Demonstration of additionality • Unambiguous identification • All CPAs end when PoA ends • All CPAs are monitored as per monitoring plan
TÜV SÜD: Corporate Overview Overview Requirements Challenges
Requirements – registration • Program life for 28 years (60 years for AR programmes) • Each CPA crediting period either 10 or 21 years but limited to remaining life of PoA • CPA is not part of any other approved CDM/ VER project • MUST issues to be checked by DOE • Additionality of the PoA • Eligibility criteria for inclusion of a proposed CPA in the registered PoA, including criteria to be used for demonstration of additionality of a CPA • CER registered/ issued in the name of managing entity and distributed among the participants according to contract • Consistency between CDM-POA-DD and the PoA specific CDM-CPA-DD to be used for inclusion of a CPA in the registered PoA
Requirements – Inclusion of CPAs in Registered PoA • Completed CDM-CPA-DD for one CDM Programme Activity (CPA) • The coordinating/managing entity shall forward the CPAs to DOE for inclusion • CME should ensure all the requirements determined in the PoA and its specific CDM-CPA-DD are met • The CME may forward more than one CDM-CPA-DD at one time • This DOE shall scrutinize the information in the CDM-CPA-DD against registered CDM-PoA-DD and documentation requirements. 30 August 2014
Requirements – Inclusion of CPAs in Registered PoA • CPA should comply eligibility criteria specified in the CDM-POA-DD, including, as appropriate, the demonstration of the additionality of the CPA • Calculations of baseline emissions and estimated emission • Confirmation that the CPA is neither registered as a CDM project activity nor included in another registered PoA • If consistency/integrity is confirmed, DOE shall include the proposed CPA(s) in the registered PoA by uploading the CDM-CPA-DD to the CDM Executive Board. • Such uploads shall be grouped and not occur more frequently than once per month
Requirements – Inclusion of CPAs BLY PoA • CPA should comply eligibility criteria specified BLY-PoA DD
Requirements – Inclusion of CPAs BLY PoA • Justification of applicable methodology • Demonstration of Additionality at CPA level in line with the requirment of BLY PoA • SSC-CPA s have to follow the monitoring plan as described in BLY-PoA section E.7.2 • SSC-CPAs needs to develop project implementation handbook covering all requirements as stated in BLY-PoA section E.7.2
Requirements - request of issuance • The coordinating/managing entity shall: • Maintain all monitoring reports of all CPAs in accordance with the record keeping system identified in the CDM-POA-DD • Make available all monitoring reports requested by a DOE for verification purposes; • The DOE shall: • Identify those CPAs that it shall consider for verification in accordance with the method/procedure to be used for verification under the PoA and determined in the CDM-POA-DD • Make all monitoring reports received immediately publicly available on the UNFCCC CDM website • Systematically verify and certify the correct implementation and operation of the record keeping system.
TÜV SÜD: Corporate Overview Overview Requirements Challenges
Challenges • Determining and verifying baseline • Substantiation of additionality for different regions involved among CPAs. • Accounting for national & state policies/assessing additionality • Single/overlapping crediting periods • Unique identification of location • Uniform monitoring for all CPAs • Uniform record keeping for all CPAs • Monitoring and verification of emissions reductions • Adequate coordination and communication
Thank you Vijayanand Vijayanand.V@tuv-sud.in TÜV SÜD South Asia