Recently, Ralph O. HARTHA and NitinARORA, experts from the accreditation assessment team of the Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board (CDM-EB) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), conducted a surveillance assessment of CTC as a CDM-DOE by remote means. Zhu Lianbin, General Manager of CTC, attended the assessment meeting and was interviewed by the assessment team; Yan Haochun, General Manager of the Certification and Evaluation Center, introduced the development of CTC and the operation of the CDM management system.

CTC first obtained the CDM-DOE qualification in 2014 and passed re-accreditation in 2019. Through long-term business expansion and capability improvement, its CDM accreditation sectoral scopes now cover energy industries, energy distribution, energy demand, manufacturing industries, chemical industry, construction, metal production, fugitive emissions from fuels, waste handling and disposal, fugitive emissions from the production and consumption of halocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride, agriculture, afforestation and reforestation, and carbon capture, totaling 13 categories, and it can provide international and domestic certification services for enterprise emission reduction projects.

Through thematic presentations, senior management interviews, technical personnel interviews, and reviews of system documents and records, the assessment experts comprehensively and deeply evaluated the operation of CTC's system as a CDM-DOE and its service capability for providing CDM project validation and verification. They fully affirmed CTC and put forward improvement suggestions in areas such as internal audit and optimization of personnel responsibilities. This assessment greatly promoted the capability improvement of CTC's CDM business and related VCS and CCER business. In the future, CTC will, as always, fulfill its responsibilities as a central government-owned enterprise, spare no effort to improve its service capacity for addressing climate change, and work hand in hand with governments at all levels, enterprises across industries, and consumers to jointly safeguard our beautiful Earth home!

Introduction to the CDM Mechanism

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project is a market-based international carbon emission reduction project mechanism established by the Kyoto Protocol adopted at the third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It aims to have developed countries provide funding/technology to help developing countries and least developed countries implement emission reduction projects, so as to fulfill the prescribed emission reduction targets of developed countries and ultimately achieve the goal of stabilizing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at an appropriate level. The Chinese government formally ratified the Kyoto Protocol on February 16, 2005. Since then, Chinese enterprises and relevant organizations have deeply participated in the CDM mechanism. As of November 30, 2021, a total of 3,764 Chinese projects had been successfully registered, providing strong technical support and financial guarantee for China's carbon emission reduction projects. The CDM mechanism is the most widely applied international carbon emission reduction mechanism, and the system design of China's Chinese Certified Emission Reduction (CCER) projects also drew on the operational experience of the CDM system.