Annex I

Intergovernmental agreements, including protocols and amendments, are not legally valid until ratified by a certain number of countries. For the UNFCCC creation, it took 50 countries; as for ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, at least 55 countries were required...

Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol establishes an independent governing body – the Executive Board – to supervise the implementation and administration of the clean development mechanism (CDM). The Executive Board is the last point of contact for CDM participants,...

The baseline of a project is the scenario that represents the level of anthropogenic emissions/removals of CO2 equivalent that would occur in the absence of the proposed project activity. It serves as a basis for both verification of additionality and...