Standardised Baselines (SBs) shall improve the opportunities for least developed countries and other underrepresented regions to participate in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). SBs allow for shifting the effort of developing baseline scenarios and additionality testing from the individual project to the sectoral level. This research project followed two separate approaches in order to gather experiences with the development of SBs and to contribute to the advancement of the SB regulatory framework. Under the first approach, an SB for rural electrification in Ethiopia was developed in cooperation with the Ethiopian Designated National Authority, which submitted the SB to the UNFCCC Secretariat. In the second part of the project, a scoping study assesses how SBs can be developed to cover complex integrated production processes. The Indonesian cement sector was chosen as case for this study. <BR>Quelle: www.umweltbundesamt.de<BR>
To support the development of CDM Standardized Baselines, the German Environmental Agency commissioned the Wuppertal Institute and GFA Consulting Group in 2012 to investigate implications of Standardised Baselines on least developed countries and their utilization in national MRV systems. A case study was conducted to make the case for the utilization of standardised baselines to promote rural electrification in least developed countries. This study is based on the approved Small Scale Methodology (AMS) I.L ´Electrification of rural communities using renewable energy. It sketches a possible standardized emission factor for a rural electrification program in Ethiopia. The study is accessible under:<BR>Furthermore, the project team conducted a series of qualitative expert interviews focussing on the Guidelines for the development of sector-specific Standardized CDM Baselines.<BR>Quelle: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/