MRV Manual for CDM Programme of Activities
This manual is designed to help readers navigate the pitfalls of preparing a Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) system for Programme of Activities (PoAs) under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). Although the focus of this guidebook is the CDM, the reader will find that many of the recommendations and findings can also be transferred to other offset programmes.
Programme of Activities have been seen as one of the ways to scale up climate change mitigation activities as well as the generation of carbon credits. Since its launch there has consequently been a steady growth of registered PoAs. Nonetheless, there have only been a few that have made it to issuance as yet, whilst at the same time the overall number of CDM Component Project Activity (CPA) inclusions by PoAs has been variable. This manual looks in detail at the lessons learned with CDM PoAs so far and examines the different pitfalls. The manual also takes into account experiences from other schemes with programmatic approaches.