Verra has published VMR0015 Revision to AMS-III.AV.: Low greenhouse gas emitting safe drinking water production systems. This constitutes a minor revision to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) methodology AMS-III.AV. (external), which supports the distribution of low greenhouse gas-emitting water purification systems to provide safe drinking water and displace water boiling using non-renewable biomass or fossil fuels.
VMR0015 includes the following updates/additions:
Introduction of an updated approach to determine the fraction of non-renewable biomass
The requirement to set at validation the leakage adjustment factor to account for leakage related to the use of non-renewable woody biomass saved by the project activity
Updated emission factor for non-renewable woody biomass (for both CO2 and non-CO2 components) and fossil fuels
Added requirement related to the assessment of double counting of emission reductions with REDD+ project(s) and jurisdictional REDD+ program(s)
Added requirements related to adjusting the baseline level of the residence/institution included in the project to account for effects of interacting technologies
Added requirements related to the compilation and presentation of relevant data for each distributed device
VMR0015 must be used with the most recent version of AMS-III.AV. The procedures and requirements of AMS-III.AV. must be applied unless indicated otherwise.