Simplified project design document for small scale CDM project activities

Project participants shall include, as part of the project design document for a small scale CDM project activity or bundle of small scale CDM project activities, a monitoring plan.

Project design document for small scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism

Simplified modalities and procedures for small scale CDM project activities

A single designated operational entity may perform validation as well as verification and certification for a small scale CDM project activity or bundled small scale CDM project activities.

To use simplified modalities and procedures for small scale CDM project activities, a proposed project activity shall

Project participants shall include, as part of the project design document for a small scale afforestation or reforestation project activity under the CDM or a bundle of small scale afforestation or reforestation project activities under the CDM, a monitoring plan that provides for

A small scale project activity that is part of a large project activity is not eligible to use the simplified modalities and procedures for small scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism (CDM).

Draft simplified modalities and procedures for small scale CDM project activities

Simplified modalities and procedures for small scale clean development mechanism project activities

To use simplified modalities and procedures for small scale afforestation and reforestation CDM project activities, a proposed project activity shall

This list shall not preclude other types of small scale CDM project activities.

Project participants shall select a crediting period for a proposed small scale CDM project activity from one of the following alternatives

For small scale CDM project activities meeting the criteria specified in decision 17 CP.7 and relevant decisions by the COP MOP, project participants may use simplified modalities and procedures for small scale projects.

Several small scale CDM project activities may be bundled for the purpose of validation.

Indicative simplified baseline and monitoring methodologies for selected small scale CDM project activity categories

A simplified baseline for a small scale CDM project activity specified in appendix B shall be deemed to reasonably represent the anthropogenic emissions that would occur in the absence of the proposed small scale project activity.

A single designated operational entity (DOE) may perform validation as well as verification and certification for a small scale afforestation or reforestation project activity under the CDM or for bundled small scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM.

Simplified modalities and procedures for small scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism

Simplified modalities and procedures for small scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism

b Paragraphs 8 to 10 of the simplified modalities and procedures for small scale CDM project activities allow for project participants to submit a new small scale project activity category or revisions to a methodology to the Executive Board for consideration and amendment of appendix B by the Executive Board, as appropriate.

Project participants involved in small scale CDM project activities may propose changes to the simplified baseline and monitoring methodologies specified in appendix B or propose additional project categories for consideration by the Executive Board.

This should also lead to major reductions in time spent by programme partners on small scale project management.

This list shall not preclude other types of small scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM.

The project boundary shall encompass significant anthropogenic emissions by sources of greenhouse gases under the control of the project participants that are reasonably attributable to the small scale CDM project activity, in accordance with provisions of appendix B for the relevant project category.

Several small scale afforestation or reforestation project activities under the CDM may be bundled for the purpose of validation.

In order to reduce transaction costs modalities and procedures are simplified for small scale CDM project activities, as follows

The purpose of this appendix is to outline the information required in the project design document for small scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism (CDM).

The crediting period shall begin at the start of the small scale afforestation or reforestation project activity under the CDM.

The Executive Board shall develop simplified baseline methodologies for the following types of small scale afforestation or reforestation project activities

The CDM modalities and procedures shall apply to small scale CDM project activities except for its paragraphs 37 to 60.

Project participants involved in small scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM may propose changes to the simplified baseline and monitoring methodologies specified in appendix B or propose additional project types for consideration by the Executive Board.

Providing universal Internet access is a project on a scale similar to sequencing the human genome, and, like the human genome project, it will raise new risks and sensitive ethical issues.

The modalities and procedures for afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM shall apply to small scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM except for paragraphs 12 30.

Under an agreement with the Government of Sierra Leone and UNICEF signed in October 2004, IDA grant funding for a teacher training project will help to scale up a UNICEF initiated project.

The Executive Board, in proposing the share of proceeds to cover administrative expenses and registration fees to recover any project related expenses, may consider proposing lower fees for small scale CDM project activities.

If significant changes in the carbon stocks within the project boundary would be expected to occur in the absence of the small scale afforestation or reforestation project activity, project participants shall use simplified baseline methodologies to be developed by the Executive Board.

The United Nations Millennium Project involves a large scale, coordinated big push of investment in human capital, public infrastructure, and agricultural technologies.

The economics of mineral carbonation at scale are now being tested in a world first pilot plant project based in Newcastle, Australia.

The crediting period for a proposed small scale afforestation or reforestation project activity under the CDM shall be either of the following

A small scale afforestation or reforestation project activity under the CDM shall be designed in such a manner as to minimize leakage.

Indicative simplified baseline and monitoring methodologies for selected types of small scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism

In order to reduce transaction costs, these modalities and procedures are simplified for small scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the CDM as follows Project activities may be bundled or portfolio bundled at the following stages in the project cycle the project design document, validation, registration, monitoring, verification and certification.

The cost of this effort would be a fraction of what the US would spend on even a single large scale demonstration project.

The second project, that comprises space based ballistic missile defences, requires a very large scale constellation of assets in space to be effective.