The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement that provides financial incentives for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from eligible investment projects in the years 2000 until 2012 in countries that have ratified the Protocol under the so-called (Clean Development Mechanism  - CDM).  See below figure with list of Kyoto Countries:

A follow-up Protocol, covering the time post 2012, is currently being negotiated.
Subsequent to the Kyoto Protocol, projects which qualify for Emission Reductions are awarded yearly certificates for each ton of CO2 removed from the atmosphere. As developed countries struggle to meet their emission reduction quotas by 2012, they in turn purchase these certificates (Carbon Credits) from qualifying projects in developing countries, as it makes no difference to the planet where the emission reduction has taken place. This hugely enhances the financial rewards for each project and creates a tradable market in these securities.

GWE’s unmatched biogas production and COD removal guarantees (of course against the corresponding organic waste input to our plant, which depends on the production schedules of the factories) are directly correlated to the maximization of expected validated carbon credits for each project.
Financial benefits from the CDM only materialize if emission reductions are in fact delivered as result of project operation and ex-post verification of the monitored and documented performance (no emission reductions are issued against planning data).

The extraction of CDM related value from the generation of CER depends directly on:
a) the actual performance of the project’s equipment, removal of COD, biogas generation and power production according to or exceeding design specifications, and
b) proper application of and compliance with all relevant CDM rules and regulations in the approval and operational phase, and
c) working with an experienced CER market intermediary with broad access to high quality buyers around the world.
For this purpose GWE has entered into a collaboration agreement with South Pole Carbon Asset Management AG, Technoparkstr. 1, CH 8005 Zürich, Switzerland, a team of experienced Carbon Asset Managers.

Together GWE and South Pole can provide the following services:
• Facilitate the arrangement of carbon finance
• Provide regulatory compliance services to secure approval
• Provide CDM-related, performance-based services during project operation
• Provide monitoring and maintenance-related services (this includes corrective and preventive services during operations from GWE’s experienced process team, to maximize emission reductions from each project)
• Provide financial and trading services to help clients understand and manage Carbon Asset Risk

For further information, please contact:
Stefano Breschi (stef.breschi@globalwe.com) or Ingo Puhl (i.puhl@southpolecarbon.com).