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Using the Gold Standard Manual A guided tour

Explore the Gold Standard Manual for CDM projects, from pre-assessment to issuing CERs/VERs, learn about sustainable development assessment frameworks, additionality, and verification processes.

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Using the Gold Standard Manual A guided tour

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  1. Using the Gold Standard ManualA guided tour Jasmine Hyman Marketing Director 7 December 2006 São Paulo, Brasil

  2. Using the Manual • Using the Pre-assessment Framework • Using the Assessment Framework • The Credits: Validating, registering, verifying and issuing your CERs/VERs!

  3. Intro: How GS fits into CDM Project Design (PDD) Gold Standard Screens DOE Validation DOE Validation for GS GS-TAC Registration CDM EB Registration DOE Verification DOE Verification for GS CER Issuance credit-linked label issuance

  4. Pre-Assessment: • Make sure you’re eligible!! • Real additionality is Crucial • Consider Sustainable Development

  5. Assessment Framework • Project type Eligibility Screen • Additionality Screens • Sustainable Development Screens

  6. Assessment Framework: Eligibility Screen Renewable Energy: PV • Solar thermal • Ecological sound biomass, biogas, and liquid biofuels • Wind • Geothermal • Small low-impact hydro End Use Energy Efficiency Improvement: • Industrial and Domestic EE • EE in transport, agriculture, commercial

  7. Additionality Screens • Previously announced projects screen • Additionality Tool • ODA additionality test

  8. 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

  9. 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%

  10. 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%

  11. Sustainable Development Assessment • Sustainable Development Matrix • Public Consultation Procedures • EIA Requirements

  12. 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

  13. 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)

  14. Pré-avaliação/PIN Somente projetos de energias renováveis, eficiência energética e metano-para-energia Adicionalidade? Aplicar a ferramenta de adicionalidade Sustantabilidade e meio ambiente? Aplicar a matriz Certifição GS Créditos GS VER serão concedidos pelo GS Créditos GS MDL serão concedidos pelo Conselho Executivo e certificados pelo GS Pré-avaliação/PIN Somente projetos de energias renováveis, eficiência energética e metano-para-energia Verificação GS Pela Entidade Operacional Designada (Validadora) aplicando os critérios GS Consulta inicial com os atores locais e/ou interessados Draft 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) Registro GS Projetos GS VER diretamente com o GS-TAC Projetos GS MDL precisam anteriormente de aprovação da Autoridade Nacional Designada e do Conselho Executivo GS PDD – aplicando os critérios GS Baseado em metodologia aprovada pelo Conselho Executivo do MDL. Projetos VER podem, além disso, usar metodologias da UNDP MDG Carbon Facility Validação pelo GS Pelas Entidades Operacionais Designadas (Validadoras) nacionais aplicando os critérios GS Consulta principal Divulgação 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

  15. In Summary • Project type eligibility screen • Additionality screens: ODA, Previous announcment, and UNFCCC additionality tool • Sustainable Development screens: matrix, public consultations, possible EIA

  16. 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

  17. 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).

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. Thank you! http://www.cdmgoldstandard.org Jasmine Hyman jasmine@cdmgoldstandard.org +41 (0)61 283 09 16 The Gold Standard; 22, Bäumleingasse; 4051 Basel; SWITZERLAND

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