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

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dc.contributor.authorPurdon, M.
dc.contributor.authorLokina, Razack B.
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-24T13:33:11Z
dc.date.available2016-03-24T13:33:11Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPurdon, 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1362
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEx-post Evaluation of the Additionality of Clean Development Mechanism Afforestation Projects in Tanzaniaen_US
dc.subjectClean Development Mechanismen_US
dc.subjectAdditionalityen_US
dc.subjectBaselinesen_US
dc.subjectAfforestation/Reforestationen_US
dc.subjectSub-Saharan Africaen_US
dc.subjectformer Soviet Unionen_US
dc.titleEx-post Evaluation of the Additionality of Clean Development Mechanism Afforestation Projects in Tanzania, Uganda and Meldovaen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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