Monitoring report

The project participants must provide a monitoring report to the DOE engaged to conduct verification and certification of the emission reductions from the project:

The project participants shall provide to the DOE contracted by the project participants to perform the verification, a monitoring report in accordance with the registered monitoring plan set out in paragraph 25 above for the purpose of verification and certification (5/CMP.1, Annex, paragraph 30).

The monitoring report (and the emission reductions claimed within in it) are then verified and certified, and this forms the basis for the issuance of temporary certified emission reductions (tCERs) and long-term certified emission reductions (lCERs).

The Executive Board has clarified that emissions data obtained through monitoring must be contained in the monitoring report that is provided to the DOE, and must then be submitted to the UNFCCC secretariat in a format which facilitates assessment:

DOEs shall ensure that all of the monitoring parameters required by the registered monitoring plan are reported by the project participants at the intervals required by the registered monitoring plan. Project participants are advised that data should be contained in the monitoring report before a request for issuance is made to a DOE, and submitted to the secretariat in a format which allows for assessment by the RIT member appointed to conduct the appraisal (EB 26, paragraph 109(a)).