Ex-post Evaluation of the Additionality of Clean Development Mechanism Afforestation Projects in Tanzania, Uganda and Meldova

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dc.creatorPurdon, M.
dc.creatorLokina, Razack B.
dc.date2016-03-24T13:33:11Z
dc.date2016-03-24T13:33:11Z
dc.date2014
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-27T09:04:50Z
dc.date.available2018-03-27T09:04:50Z
dc.descriptionThis study presents findings from a systematic comparative research effort to investigate the additionality claims of CDM afforestation projects in Tanzania, Uganda and Moldova. Using what we refer to as an ex-post comparative baseline approach that accounts for how project financing and background economic conditions evolve over a CDM project’s implementation and crediting periods, we demonstrate that the projects in Uganda and Moldova are very likely to be fully additional while only approximately one-quarter of carbon credits resulting from the Tanzania project are genuine. The conditions of additionality can change significantly over the course of a CDM project in a way that undermines project environmental integrity because the CDM rules do not accommodate changing baseline conditions. Rather, current CDM rules allow initial baseline conditions to be frozen over a project’s crediting period. We recommend that a reformed CDM, REDD, NAMA or other new market mechanism adopt some of the elements of our approach including use of comparative performance benchmarks, an additionality risk management tool and engaging donors in the development of “ODAbaselines” for climate mitigation projects which combine carbon finance and development assistance.
dc.identifierPurdon, M. and Lokina, R., 2014. Ex-post evaluation of the additionality of Clean Development Mechanism afforestation projects in Tanzania, Uganda and Moldova (No. 149). Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1362
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4554
dc.languageen
dc.publisherEx-post Evaluation of the Additionality of Clean Development Mechanism Afforestation Projects in Tanzania
dc.subjectClean Development Mechanism
dc.subjectAdditionality
dc.subjectBaselines
dc.subjectAfforestation/Reforestation
dc.subjectSub-Saharan Africa
dc.subjectformer Soviet Union
dc.titleEx-post Evaluation of the Additionality of Clean Development Mechanism Afforestation Projects in Tanzania, Uganda and Meldova
dc.typeJournal Article

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