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Renewable energy technologies and Kyoto Protocol mechanisms

EUR 20871, ISBN 92-894-6169-1, 2003, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.

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Subtitled Joint Implementation in Central and Eastern Europe - Clean Development Mechanism in the Mediterranean Area , this study focuses on co-operative projects between partners from the EU and its neighbouring countries. It highlights the various steps, advantages and practical information needed to build such projects oriented towards renewable energy technologies. The objective of this publication is not to present prescriptive methods for project developers, but to increase capacity building in the countries of these regions and to help various stakeholders (government, businesses, and NGOs) to prepare and evaluate Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism projects. This is achieved by illustrating different assessment tools developed by two European research projects known as BASE and CDMEDI. The work was funded by the European Union under the Fifth Framework Programme for RTD (DG Research, Energy programme, socio-economic activities).

It notes that CEE countries offer rich renewable resources, biomass is particularly abundant and the countries have the potential to further develop biomass energy through agriculture. In conjunction with agricultural production, biomass provides more than 50% of the region's renewable energy resource. Most of these countries have more than 40% forest cover, and some have as much as 80%. The potential to develop bioenergy crops is considerably higher in the CEE region than in the EU, with former agricultural land available for energy crops such as rape and short-rotation coppice.

Contents

Foreword
Introduction and acknowledgements
List of acronyms

• Kyoto Protocol and project-based mechanisms
• EU research projects: from theory to practice
  BASE
  CDMEDI
  
• Prospects for renewables and energy efficiency in Central and Eastern Europe
  Context
  Renewable resources
  Joint Implementation opportunities
  
• Prospects for renewables in South and East Mediterranean Area
  Context
  Renewable resources
  Clean Development Mechanism opportunities
  
• Joint Implementation
  Project cycle
  JI design
  Baseline development
  
• Clean Development Mechanism
  Project cycle
  CDM design
  Tentative sustainable development appraisal of CDM
  
• European Emissions Trading, JI and CDM
  Relationship with the Community Emissions Trading Scheme
  Linkages with JI and CDM

Annex I: JI - Portfolio of potential projects
Annex II: CDM - Portfolio of potential projects
Annex III: Contacts for JI and CDM projects

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