Difficulties in Verification of a PoA: DOEs Perspective

by Dr. Kaviraj Singh

Workshop on Programme of Activities (PoA) under the CDM:Challenges and Road Ahead

07th - 8th, May 2011, Bonn

Organised by

UNFCCC Secretariat

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Content

Current status of PoAs: validation/verification

Procedures: CDM PA vis-à-vis PoA

Template availability

Complexities in verification

Further guidance from UNFCCC

Questions

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Current status of PoAs:

Total PoAs registered: 08

Under verification: 01 (or more)

Under validation : 164 (Webhosted for ISHC)

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Verification Procedures: CDM PA vis-à-vis PoA

Procedures CDM PA

PoA

Interface for MR uploading Yes Not yet

Interface for RFI Yes Not yet

Notifying and requesting changes from the project design

Yes NA

Revising monitoring plan Yes Yes

Deviation from an approved methodology Yes Yes

Deviation prior to submitting RFI Yes Yes

Requesting post registration change to the start date of the crediting period

Yes Require clarity

Withdrawal of request for issuance Yes Require clarity

Timelines for issuance (after RFI) Yes Require clarity

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Change in project design?

Change in the number of PA equipment installation Given the number in millions Robust monitoring of implementation

Change in the rated capacity Minor & Major

Implementation in different geographical areas than the ones mentioned in the registered PoA Municipalities Region within a country & Across the countries

The impact of these changes: Additionality/Scale/Applicability

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Revision in monitoring plan?

PoA-DD not inline to applied methodology If PoA DD is reivsed, does it require to change in all CPAs?

CPA-DD doesn’t follow the applied methodology Is revision in affected CPA DD is acceptable?

Only implemented CPA-DD doesn’t follow the PoA-DD

EB55 Annex 38, para 19 & 20: Once changes have been approved inline to the

revised/replaced meth, does it require the existing CPAs (as default) to follow the new PoA?

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Deviation from the registered PoA-DD & CPA-DD

PoA-DD

CPA-DD only

Deviation from PoA as well as CPA-DD

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Templates: PoA vis-à-vis CDM

Templates CDM PoA

Monitoring Report Yes (F-CDM-MR ) Not available

Revising monitoring plan (Form) Yes (F-CDM-REVMP)

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Deviation (Form) prior to submitted RFI

Yes (F-CDM-DEV-ISS)

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Withdrawal of request for issuance

Yes (F-CDM-WI ) Require clarity

Form to submit RFI Yes (F-CDM-REQCERS)

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Complexities in verification of PoAs

Data Sampling

Huge sets of data to be verified

Assurance on information provided by third parties (for PP)

Extra time and efforts (on site) required by DOE

More clarity on issues (discussed later)

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Data Sampling for monitored parameters

Appropriateness of the sample size in the registered PoA DD

Identification of the representative sample size for the monitored data

More clarity required, within the PoA section in methodologies, on appropriate sampling plan requirements

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Huge sets of data to deal with

Number of project devices may be thousands/millions

Significant time and efforts required

Need of statistical expert in team

Robust data processing systems for PPs

Technical difficulties (size) in uploading the files

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Assurance on hired third party

No defined criteria (competency/accreditation) about the selection of third party

Protocols to be used by third party for data collection and analysis should be made available in the PoA-DD

Involved parties should have the accreditation from the government bodies or other authorized entities

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Extra efforts of DOEs may require on site

Requires more time and efforts (as compared to CDM projects) on site

Complete assessment team shall visit the site

Geographical and sociological constrains on site

Need to increase the sample size if variations in collected data

Economical constrains, on the required efforts, for DOEs

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Further guidance from UN

Response from UN on some project specific clarifications as exceptional case

More clarity on procedures for change in project design/RMP/deviations cases

Specific guidance for sampling of CPAs and data collection

Availability of PoA specific templates and forms

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Employed 59,000 people and operate a network of more than 1,000 offices and laboratories around the world

Verification of 27.4% of the total projects got CER issued (still stands on top)*

Validation of 10.9% of the total registered projects*

Dr. Kaviraj SinghRegional Operation Manager (ME & SEAP)Phone: +91 1246776360 Mobile: +91 9871712968Email: kaviraj.singh@sgs.comWeb:        www.climatechange.sgs.com

Questions?

Thanks You

*UNEP RISO (http://cdmpipeline.org/) March, 2011