Publication of six joint implementation project design documents

Publication of six joint implementation project design documents

Paragraph 32 of the annex to decision 9/CMP.1 (JI guidelines) stipulates that, under the verification procedure under the Joint Implementation Supervisory Committee (Track 2 procedure), accredited independent entities (AIEs) shall make joint implementation (JI) project design documents (PDDs) publicly available through the secretariat, subject to confidentiality provisions, and receive comments from Parties, stakeholders and UNFCCC accredited observers for 30 days from the date the PDD is made publicly available.

This message is to notify that the JI PDDs for the following projects have been submitted by AIEs to the secretariat and will be open for comments as of tomorrow, 18 March 2008, until 16 April 2008 (17:00 GMT):

0121. Reduction of methane emissions in the gas distribution network of the Smolensk Oblast
0122. Reduction of methane emissions in the gas distribution network of the Orenburg Oblast
0123. Reduction of methane emissions in the gas distribution network of the Republic of Bashkortostan
0124. “Catalytic N2O destruction project in the tail gas of eight nitric acid plants at Nevinnomyssky Azot”
0125. “Catalytic N2O destruction project in the tail gas of two nitric acid plants at Novomoskovsky Azot”
0126. Utilisation of CMM on coal mines of OAO “SUEK-Kuzbass”

The abovementioned PDDs will be available on the UNFCCC JI website under <http://ji.unfccc.int/JI_Projects/Verification/PDD/index.html>, where also detailed information on the submission of comments will be provided.