CDM method transformation: updating and transforming CDM methods for use in an Article 6 context

Exploring the Way to Harmonize Sustainable Development Assessment Methods in Article 6.2 Cooperative Approaches of the Paris Agreement

“…Agreement's cooperative approaches by (i) promoting and monitoring both positive and negative SD impacts, (ii) promoting and monitoring only negative impact (referred to as safeguards) by avoiding, minimizing, and mitigating negative impacts, and (iii) deferring the interpretation of what constitutes SD to host countries. Hence, Michaelowa et al (2020) consider the link with sustainable development goals (SDGs) and suggest a SD assessment guidance for Article 6 by (i) creating both positive and negative impacts in environmental, social, and economic dimensions, (ii) redefining impacts in relation to SDGs and targets, and (iii) identifying monitoring and verification indicators. For the quality control of mitigation outcomes from divergent crediting schemes from a sustainability standpoint, Broekhoff and Spalding-Fecher (2021) suggest two indicators of (i) whether standards, criteria, and procedures are provided to ensure that mitigation activities do not result in negative social or environmental externalities and (ii) whether standards, criteria, and procedures are provided to ensure mitigation activities' positive contribution to SDGs.…”