Monitoring plan

The Executive Board has clarified that a monitoring plan, based on statistically sound sampling methods, must be included in the CDM-POA-DD:

The CDM-POA-DD shall include the following information:

9. Description of a monitoring plan for a CPA, developed in accordance with the approved monitoring methodology, and identification of the monitoring provisions and data parameters a CPA has to apply/monitor.
10. Description of the proposed statistically sound sampling method/procedure to be used by DOEs for verification of the amount of reductions of anthropogenic emissions by sources or removals by sinks of greenhouse gases achieved by CPAs under the PoA. In case the coordinating/managing entity opts for a verification method that does not use sampling but verifies each CPA (whether in groups or not, with different or identical verification periods) a transparent system is to be defined and described that ensures that no double accounting occurs and that the status of verification can be determined anytime for each CPA (EB 32, Annex 39, paragraph 2(i) and (j)).