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 351 CDM/JI: Navigating Kyoto Project Mechanisms

This course will provide a thorough overview of the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation procedures and requirements.

The central feature of the Kyoto Protocol is its requirement that countries limit or reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. To help countries meet their emission targets, and to encourage the private sector and developing countries to contribute to emission reduction efforts, the Protocol introduced three market-based mechanisms:

  1. International Emissions Trading
  2. The Clean Development Mechanism, and
  3. Joint Implementation

International Emissions Trading allows industrialized countries to trade emission allowances (i.e., credits), while the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation allow a country, firm, or individual to implement an emission-reduction project  in another country and  earn saleable emission reduction credits, which can be bought and sold or used by countries towards meeting their Kyoto targets.   The Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation are often referred to as the Project based mechanisms.

This course will take a comprehensive look at the project based mechanisms, how they work, what is involved in implementing a project, and include some real life examples and interviews with project developers.

Upon completion of this course you will be well prepared to implement, review, or contribute to a CDM or JI project.  In addition to teaching you both the fundamentals of these two project-based mechanisms and some of the lessons learned, this course will also provide you a wealth of reference material to begin working in the field.

Course Lessons

This course can be taken separately as a CDM only track or a combined CDM and JI track.

0. Primer on Kyoto mechanisms
1. Overview of the Clean Development Mechanism
2. Eligibility Conditions for the CDM, the Project Cycle, and Types of Projects
3. The Clean Development Mechanism Project Design Document (CDM-PDD)
4. Overview of Joint Implementation
5. Eligibility Conditions for JI, the Project Cycle, and Types of Projects
6. The Joint Implementation Project Design Document (PDD)
7. Practical Tips for Successful Implementation of Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation Projects
8. CDM Project Case Studies
9. JI Project Case Study

This course was jointly developed by the GHG Management Institute and the World Bank.

Approximate number of working hours to complete: 16 to 20

Course Developer: Stephen Seres and the World Bank Institute

Course Instructor: Stephen Seres

Availability: Runs quarterly – March, June, September, December (classes begin on the first of the month)

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