Business guides
To guide you through the key issues involved in developing a climate change project, we have recently updated our simple business guides.
The first of our Business Guides gives an overview of the Kyoto mechanisms with particular emphasis on emission reduction projects that are eligible under the Kyoto protocol. The following two guides provide high level advice to introduce companies to the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation respectively. The final guide focuses on how to develop baselines and assess whether a project is additional, two of the most fundamental requirements project developers need to fulfill in order to generate carbon credits.
The guides were all updated in April 2008 and a Spanish (Latin American), French and Mandarin translation of an abridged version of the 'Beginners Guide to the Clean Development Mechanism' and a Ukrainian version of the 'Beginners Guide to Joint Implementation' are also included below.
Hard copies of all the guides published are available on request. If you require hard copies, please contact the CCPO on ccpo.enquiries@bis.gsi.gov.uk
A business guide to the Kyoto mechanisms: a Climate Change Projects Office guide (1886KB)
A beginner's guide to the clean development mechanism: a Climate Change Projects Office guide (4246KB)
A beginners guide to joint implementation: a Climate Change Projects Office guide (1889KB)
A beginners guide to joint implementation: a Climate Change Projects Office guide [Ukrainian] (205KB)
A beginners guide to baselines and additionality: a Climate Change Projects Office guide (2920KB)
Guía para principiantes sobre el mecanismo de desarrollo limpio: una guía de la climate change projects office (oficina de proyectos sobre cambio climático) (347KB)
A beginner's guide to the clean development mechanism: a climate change projects office guide [Mandarin] (651KB)
Mécanisme pour un développement propre : guide des debutants. Guide proposé par le climate change projects office (office des projets lies au changement climatique) (348KB)
