Small-scale CDM Programme Activities

In previous guidance, small-scale methodologies were permitted for certain small-scale CPAs:

In the case of CPAs which individually do not exceed the SSC threshold, SSC methodologies may be used once they have first been reviewed and, as needed, revised to account for leakage in the context of a CPA (EB 32, Annex 38, page 1).

Nothing in the new guidance, contained within EB 47, Annex 29 (which has since replaced EB 32, Annex 38), indicates anything to the contrary.

Amended versions of existing small-scale methodologies have been adopted by the Executive Board. The amended methodologies can be found in Annexes 17-20 and Annexes 22-44 of EB 33. The amendments made address potential leakages in small-scale Programmes of Activities by taking the leakage sections from similar large-scale methodologies and inserting them into the small-versions. The Executive Board noted that the leakage sections added to these amended methodologies apply to a Programme of Activities "where the limit of the entire [Programme of Activities] exceeds the limit for small-scale CDM project activities"(EB 33, paragraph 57).

These methodologies are to be used when submitting a small-scale project for registration. There is no need to develop a new methodology so long as one of these existing methodologies can be applied.