CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM, CARBON FINANCE AND GEOTHERMAL APPLICATIONS
The Kyoto Protocol, entered into force on 16 February 2005, commits many developed countries, defined as Annex I countries, to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to specific targets. The Protocol defined the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as a mechanism to help these industrialized countries to reduce the costs of meeting their targets by buying certified emission reductions (CERs) generated from projects implemented in developing countries. The quantification of the CERs, generated by different projects, is made using a methodology that provides all the steps to determine the emissions reductions in an accurate and conservative way. Nowadays, geothermal energy can claim CERs when it is used for electricity generation. A new methodology for the use of geothermal sources for heating purposes is required; the methodology for geothermal heat generation has to follow the same guidelines as any other methodology: define the project boundary, guidelines to prove the additionality of the geothermal project, and provide procedures to estimate the baseline, project, and leakage emissions.
Willy Alarcon Salas
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Sustainable Development Mechanisms Martin Luther King Strasse 8 53123 Bonn GERMANY
国际会议
Workshop for Decision Makers on Direct Heating Use of Geothermal Resources in Asia(亚洲地热资源直接利用国际研讨会)
天津
英文
33-41
2008-05-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）