Climate Toolbox.

This page aims to provide you with some basic tools to better understand, analyze, and develop strategies to help you cost-effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

• CMW Publications

• Other Climate Mitigation Resources

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CMW Publications:

CMW staff have authored a number of useful reports which you may download free of charge. Many are published in Adobe Acrobat. If you need the free Adobe Acrobat reader then please click on the icon.

Flaring Coal Mine Methane: When Does It Contribute to Sustainable Development?

Financing Climate Adaptation Measures Using a Credit Trading Mechanism: Initial Considerations

Extrabudgetary project to facilitate financing of CMM projects in Central & Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
(4th Session of the Ad Hoc Group of Experts on Coal Mine Methane, Geneva, 16 October 2008)

The CMM Market and Project Options: The Prelude to Project Finance
Workshop on New Trends in Coal Mine Methane Recovery and Utilisation, 28 February (2008, Szczyrk, Poland)

CMM project design and project integration:Critical aspects in project finance
(Coal Mine Methane: Recovery, Utilization, Investment Opportunities, June 19-21, 2006, Kemerovo, Russia)

Carbon Exposure: Impact on Project Financing, Options to Mitigate Carbon Risk, and Opportunities to Leverage Financing through Carbon Market
(2nd Annual PFI Energy Finance Forum, London, 18 January 2006)

Making CMM a Reality Through the Flexible Mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol: The Global Expansion Outlook
(Keynote Address: Conference on the Successful Commercialisation of Global Coalbed and Coalmine Methane Projects, London, 11 November 2004)

An Analysis of Emissions and Market Potential to Optimize Ventilation Air Methane Mitigation
(From Proceedings of 3rd International Methane and Nitrous Oxide Mitigation Conference, Beijing, China, November 2003.  Prepared jointly by Climate Mitigation Works and International Resources Group).

Potential for Economies in Transition to Leverage Kyoto Flexible Mechanisms: General Considerations for Coal Mine Methane
(2003, Written for United Nations Economic Commissions for Europe).

Coal Mine Ventilation Air Methane Mitigation: Technologies to Harness an Energy and Environmental Resource
(2003, Volume 14, No. 5 of Energeia, University of Kentucky, Center for Applied Energy Research).

INTRODUCTION TO THE GLOBAL COAL MINE METHANE INDUSTRY
(Prepared jointly by the US Environmental Protection Agency and Climate Mitigation Works*).

Other Climate Mitigation Resources

The following resources  are available to help you understand and assess emissions reduction potential from different projects.  Contact CMW for further assistance.

Estimating CO2 Reductions from Renewable Electricity Sources in the United Kingdom

Useful Climate Mitigation Links