THE MONITORING, EVALUATION, REPORTING, VERIFICATION, AND CERTIFICATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION PROJECTS
These reports provide initial methodologies to support the measurement of greenhouse gas removals from project-level activities. These methodologies can assist project developers in preparing and implementing monitoring, evaluation, and verification plans that can lead to better estimates of energy savings as well as improve the projects themselves, making them more attractive to investors, the private sector, and local communities.
The guidelines have been reviewed by project developers (working on projects in Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America) as well as experts in the monitoring and evaluation of energy-efficiency projects. The practitioners reviewed the report for accuracy and assessed whether data were available for completing the forms presented at the end of the reports. Based on their feedback, we believe these guidelines and related forms can be used by project developers, evaluators, and verifiers.
The guidelines also can be used by anyone involved with the design and development of joint implementation and Clean Development Mechanism projects, such as: facility energy managers, energy service companies, development banks, finance firms, consultants, government agency employees and contractors, utility executives, city and municipal managers, researchers, and nonprofit organizations. National and international entities can also use these guidelines and forms as a model for developing official MERVC-type guidelines.
Reports
Guidelines for the Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Verification, and Certification of Energy-efficiency Projects for Climate Change Mitigation (LBNL-41543, March 1999) by Edward Vine and Jayant Sathaye.
Guidelines for the Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Verification, and Certification of Forestry Projects for Climate Change Mitigation (LBNL-41877, March 1999) by Edward Vine, Jayant Sathaye, and Willy Makundi.
The Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, and Verification of Climate Change Mitigation Projects: Discussion of Issues and Methodologies and Review of Existing Protocols and Guidelines (LBNL -40316, December 1997) by Edward Vine and Jayant Sathaye.
The MERVC reports were produced at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098.