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    1) As of December 10, 2008 there were 4,362 CDM projects total, with 1,243 registered and 229 million CERs issued across 888 projects. 2) On average, it takes 1100 days from when a project's PDD is published online until the first CERs are issued. 3) About 1/3 of projects see lower than expected emission reductions during verification compared to what was projected in the PDD.

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    1) As of December 10, 2008 there were 4,362 CDM projects total, with 1,243 registered and 229 million CERs issued across 888 projects. 2) On average, it takes 1100 days from when a project's PDD is published online until the first CERs are issued. 3) About 1/3 of projects see lower than expected emission reductions during verification compared to what was projected in the PDD.

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    1) As of December 10, 2008 there were 4,362 CDM projects total, with 1,243 registered and 229 million CERs issued across 888 projects. 2) On average, it takes 1100 days from when a project's PDD is published online until the first CERs are issued. 3) About 1/3 of projects see lower than expected emission reductions during verification compared to what was projected in the PDD.

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    CDM 2008

    Statistics using UNFCCC, IGES and UNEP/Risoe data


    Present rate of issuance would lead to 1.3 Gt CERs issued by 31.12.12.
    Horizontal distance between curves gives average time to issuance: 1100 days.
    Situation 10.12.08, UNFCCC data.
    As per 10 December 2008:
    Registered: 1164

    1258 projects registered, 1387 Mt emission reductions. Situation 10.12.08; UNFCCC data.
    229 Mt issued, 888 issuances. Situation 10.12.08, UNFCCC data.
    3000
    2697

    2500

    2000

    1500
    1243

    1000

    500
    84 101 136
    23 70 8
    0
    At validation Rejected Registered Correction Withdrawn Request Request Under review
    request review registration

    4362 CDM projects, 1243 registered, 888 issuances.


    Situation per December 2008, UNEP/Risoe and IGES data.
    Registration & Issuance Team [RIT]
    carries out completeness check and
    Project developer Validator checks PDD and may call for a review.
    writes PDD and additionality, puts PDD on 179 projects in review process
    submits to validator. website. Eventually a request for [request review, review, request
    Duration: about 6 registration is submitted. 2767 corrections]
    months. projects in this phase.

    Once project is Verifier checks


    registered, the project monitoring report and
    developer carries out uploads it to UNFCCC
    monitoring plan, makes website.
    monitoring report and 888 issuances.
    submits to verifier.
    Executive Board [EB] approves
    1243 projects
    registration of project &
    registered.
    issuance of CERs. Time
    between publication of PDD
    and first issuance: 1100 days.
    Issuance success 1: emission reduction in the PDD matched with the
    emission reductions during the first verification.
    About 2/3 of projects perform lower than expected.
    Situation per December 2008, UNEP/Risoe data.
    1,200
    public comments to registration
    registration to issuance
    1,000
    public comments to issuance

    800
    days

    600

    400

    200

    0
    Oct-Dec 2004

    Jan-Mar 2005

    Oct-Dec 2006
    Apr-Jun 2005

    Oct-Dec 2005

    Jan-Mar 2006

    Jan-Mar 2007

    Oct-Dec 2007

    Jan-Mar 2008

    Apr-Jun 2008

    Oct-Dec 2008
    Jul-Sep 2005

    Apr-Jun 2006

    Jul-Sep 2006

    Apr-Jun 2007

    Jul-Sep 2007

    Jul-Sep 2008
    1100 days from publication on website to issuance.
    Situation 10.12.08, IGES data. Note that this period includes monitoring.
    600
    reviews requested - registration
    reviews undertaken - registration
    500
    reviews requested - issuance
    reviews undertaken - issuance
    400

    300

    200

    100

    0
    Oct-Dec 2004

    Jan-Mar 2005

    Oct-Dec 2007
    Apr-Jun 2005

    Oct-Dec 2005

    Jan-Mar 2006

    Jan-Mar 2008

    Apr-Jun 2008

    Oct-Dec 2008
    Jul-Sep 2005

    Apr-Jun 2006

    Oct-Dec 2006

    Jan-Mar 2007
    Jul-Sep 2006

    Apr-Jun 2007

    Jul-Sep 2007

    Jul-Sep 2008
    Registration process: review rate 26%. Issuance process: review rate 24%.
    Combined: 43% chance that project is registered & issued without review.
    Situation 10.12.08, IGES data.
    Henk Harmsen
    henk@carbonmetrics.com
    www.carbonmetrics.com

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