A project to generate electricity in Thailand using biomass (in this case, scrap wood from rubber trees) was recently approved by Japan's Coordinating Committee for the Use of the Kyoto Mechanisms. Japan's Electric Power Development Co. had made the application to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry for it to be counted by the Japanese government as an official Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project.

The CDM is one of implementation schemes of the Kyoto Mechanisms, an international framework for nations to achieve their targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. When both industrialized and developing countries cooperate in projects that reduce these emissions, a part of the achieved reductions, or certified emissions reductions, can be credited to the industrialized country through this scheme.

In Japan, an applicant seeking Japanese governmental approval of a proposed CDM project submits an application to any one of the designated ministries. The project will be certified as an official project of the Japanese government after being approved by the Coordinating Committee for the Use of the Kyoto Mechanisms, consisting of six members: the Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the Cabinet Secretariat.

The emissions reductions credits, or certified emissions reductions, expected from this project amount to approximately 60,000 tonnes annually.



Posted: 2003/08/03 09:23:41 AM
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TAG Energy , Global warming , Government , Material reduction , Non-manufacturing industry , System/Law