By Henrik Rytter Jensen

Danish Energy Management monitored and assisted in the verification and certification of the first emission-reduction credits under the Kyoto Protocol in South-East Asia. These credits, which were issued by the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism on the 5th of October, 2006 are for the Biomass Energy Plant in Lumut, Malaysia.
 
Malaysia was the Host Country for this project, while Denmark was the Annex I partner. This means that Denmark can deduct a total of 20,700 tonnes of CO2 from their reduction commitments, which was the amount of CERs (carbon emission reductions) certified. In Malaysia, the energy generated by this project would otherwise have been generated by fossil fuels.
 
The project was validated by DNV earlier this year and subsequently, a verification exercise led to a request for CER issuance in 18 September 2006. The certification of the emission reductions were also made by DNV as this is a small-scale CDM project.
 
Achieving these emissions-reductions credits is an extremely important event, as it is evidence that CDM projects in this region can also meet the requirements stipulated. This will be encouraging news particularly for CDM project developers in South-East Asia and should spur projects which are currently in the pipeline.
 
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