Can CDM monitoring requirements be reduced while maintaining environmental integrity?

The research paper examines the MRV requirements of the CDM, finding them to be overly complex and stricter than those of the EU ETS, which hinders project issuance and creates avoidable barriers without adding to environmental integrity.

• The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has high-quality but complex and stringent monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) requirements, which act as barriers to project success. Only one-third of registered projects have successfully managed initial verification to receive carbon credits, and the time to first issuance remains high.
• A comparison between the CDM and the EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS) reveals that CDM-MRV provisions are frequently stricter and less flexible. While some differences are justified by the disparate objectives and structural differences of the two systems, some CDM provisions create avoidable barriers that do not enhance environmental integrity.

APA

NewClimate Institute (2014). Can CDM monitoring requirements be reduced while maintaining environmental integrity? http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/can-cdm-monitoring-requirements-be-reduced-while-maintaining-environmental

Chicago

NewClimate Institute. Can CDM monitoring requirements be reduced while maintaining environmental integrity? 2014. http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/can-cdm-monitoring-requirements-be-reduced-while-maintaining-environmental.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{newclimateinstitute2014can, author = {{NewClimate Institute}}, title = {{Can CDM monitoring requirements be reduced while maintaining environmental integrity?}}, institution = {NewClimate Institute}, year = {2014}, month = jan, url = {http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/can-cdm-monitoring-requirements-be-reduced-while-maintaining-environmental}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }