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Charlotte Streck and Robert O’Sullivan,

The 9th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (December 2003) adopted the modalities and procedures for the inclusion of afforestation and reforestation (A/R) projects in the CDM. In the light of the application of these modalities, the Commission is to give due consideration to whether and, if so, how credits from land use, land-use change, and forestry (LULUCF) activities could be used in entity-level emissions trading in the EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS). This briefing note does not anticipate any political decision on the topic, but rather looks at how an amendment to Directive 2003/87/EC (as amended by Directive 2004/101/EC) could be drafted in case the EU law maker decides to allow the use of CERs from A/R project activities and ERUs from LULUCF project activities for compliance under the EU ETS.

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Release Date	March 1, 2006
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