In June of last year, at its 32nd meeting, the Executive Board (EB) of the UN Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) adopted procedures regarding the registration of a programme of activities as a single CDM project activity and issuance of certified emission reductions for a programme of activities. Since then, the Board has published guidance documents and project design documents to facilitate better understanding of PoA and enable registrations of CDM projects as PoA. And from this month onwards, the CDM pipeline shall be including PoAs in its monthly analysis of CDM projects.
Up till now, only four PoAs have been sent to the UNFCCC. None of these have been approved; all are at validation stage. The PoAs are:
- Installation of Solar Home Systems in Bangladesh
- Methane capture and combustion from Animal Waste Management System (AWMS) in Mexico
- New Energies Commercial Solar Water Heating Programme in South Africa
- Smart Use of Energy in Mexico (CUIDEMOS Mexico: Campana De Uso Intelegente De Energia Mexico)
Beginning this week, the CDM Board launched a call for public inputs on Programme of Activities (PoA) to seek comments on issues associated with the development of the Programme of Activities as a CDM Project Activity and difficulties in the validation and submission for registration of a PoA. These comments will be considered by the Board at its next meeting.
The PoA has been a very innovative programme launched by the CDM Board. It is expected to solve the important bottlenecks of registration backlog at the UNFCC and expensive fees for CDM projects. It will be interesting to see how this programme futher develops especially in relation to CDM projects.
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