Effective identification of high-quality project proposals for VER buyers

Whether you are a company and looking for VERs for your voluntary internal climate strategies or an individual thinking about compensating for your emissions by investing in an offset activity, you are showing initiative. Self-imposed compensation commitments should be undertaken with the necessary attention to detail and in consideration of the possible risks.

 

Perspectives has the required expertise to clearly and reliably identify the risks associated with the offset project offered to you, e.g. in terms of the

• probability of meeting the high quality criteria of the voluntary Gold Standard or VER+,
• probability of the estimated VER amounts materialising.

 

In our independent assessment of offset projects, we use the experience we have gained in the CDM/JI market. Due to the numerous similarities between the procedures of high quality VERs and CERs/ERUs, we benefit from our constant in-depth study of the international carbon markets and the latest decisions on project and methodology approvals of the respective UNFCCC authorities.

 

Perspectives has already evaluated more than 30 CDM project proposals in the PIN and PDD stage for a number of clients such as KfW-Klimaschutzfonds, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), and ORBEO.

 

 

Project Name	Client	Project Description	Location	Duration
Hydro Power	confidential	Desk-based due dilligence including official Vietnamese documentation	Vietnam	2010 - 2011
CDM PoA Feasibility Assessment	Though Stuff International	CDM PoA Feasibility Study for demand side energy efficiency project in the residential sector (CFL)	Madagascar	2009-2010
CDM newsletter	EU utility	Monthly CDM newsletter highlighting the relevant regulatory decisions in the CDM Executive Board, international negotiations and the US and the implications for the EU utility	not applicable	2009
Cook stoves PoA	confidential	General risk assessment report for a PoA cook stove project idea	not applicable	2009
Landfill Gas	confidential	Risk assessment report	China	2009
Hydro Power	confidential	Risk assessment report	Latin America	2009
Offset project selection	Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)	Selection of a potential CDM project to be contracted by the GTZ on the basis of a portfolio of 15 projects preliminarily identified by GTZ.	international	2005