CDM Methodology Workshop on Gas Flaring Amsterdam 3 December 2008

What Can We Do such that CDM can Have a Meaningful Impact on Gas Flaring/GHG

Annex 1 (Project Participants, et al) Organize to share information and work together: Improve and Expand Existing Methodologies Develop New Methodologies in Priority Areas Provide impartial technical information Establish a level of organization/framework Broad based (public entities, companies, reseach institutions) Either ad hoc or linked with entities like GGFR/WB

Organize to share information and work together:

Improve and Expand Existing Methodologies

Develop New Methodologies in Priority Areas

Provide impartial technical information

Establish a level of organization/framework

Broad based (public entities, companies, reseach institutions)

Either ad hoc or linked with entities like GGFR/WB

Developing Countries Highlight within the UNFCCC system the role gas flare reduction can play in development More pro-active in incorporating CDM into development planning and strategies Use such stategies to move into overall carbon managment

Highlight within the UNFCCC system the role gas flare reduction can play in development

More pro-active in incorporating CDM into development planning and strategies

Use such stategies to move into overall carbon managment

Meth Panel and Executive Board Consider emission impact as well as CDM technical issues Provide more avenues for technical inputs into methodologies and revisions Recognize the development value and challenges that using of methodolgies entails Don’t overvalue “conservatism”

Consider emission impact as well as CDM technical issues

Provide more avenues for technical inputs into methodologies and revisions

Recognize the development value and challenges that using of methodolgies entails

Don’t overvalue “conservatism”