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!

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Jasmine Hymanjasmine@cdmgoldstandard.org

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