not assessed
Leakage: the methodology sets rules for it (AM0003 v04 Leakage, p. 4). Our current method does not assess it. CM-F-AM0003-LEAKAGE
AM0003 — Simplified financial analysis for landfill gas capture projects
About this methodology
Projects collect landfill gas and burn it in a flare or for electricity generation. The method measures methane destruction rather than crediting the electricity it replaces.
- Issued by
- CDM (UNFCCC) · issuer's site
- Last published version
- 4.0 · source ·
- Status
- Withdrawn at CDM / UNFCCC · source ·
- Climate outcome
- Emission reductions
- Activity
- Waste
- Official page
- cdm.unfccc.int ·
How methodology v3 reads projects of this type
What CarbonMeld reads
A confirmed investment analysis A-INVEST
The documents show a project-level additionality test, the validation confirmed it, and it is an investment analysis (a numeric test of the project's finances with and without carbon revenue).
A methane activity the law requires A-LEGAL
The rule applies to projects that capture or avoid methane. These are landfill gas, manure, wastewater, composting and coal-mine methane. They also include orphan wells, oil and gas leaks, rice, enteric methane and household biogas. The documents state that the law requires the activity. Or the documents state that a law requires the capture of the gas. An activity that the law already requires is not additional. If the documents show that the baseline already deducts the amount that the law requires, CarbonMeld takes no point.
Set by the methodology or the programme, not assessed by our current method
- not assessed
Social safeguards and consent of communities (FPIC): any such rules come from the programme, not the methodology. Our current method does not assess it. CM-F-AM0003-SAFEGUARDS-FPIC
Not applicable to this type — never a gap in our current method
The criterion does not apply to this methodology. Our current method never counts it as a gap.
- CM-N-GRID-EFGrid emission factor
- CM-N-BUFFERBuffer pool
- CM-N-PERMANENCE-REVERSALPermanence and reversals
- CM-N-FNRBFraction of non-renewable biomass (fNRB)
- CM-N-USAGEUsage rate of the devices
- CM-N-DURABILITY-MEASUREMENTDurability of the storage
- CM-N-FEEDSTOCK-SUSTAINABILITYSustainability of the feedstock
- CM-N-END-USE-TRACKINGTracking of the end use
The general rules apply as well. Read the general rules.
The rules of methodology v2.2, as they were: the archived v2.2 page.
History and transitions
Merged into ACM0001
withdrawn at CDM Executive Board meeting 35 · ACM0001 version 07 of 19 Oct 2007
AM0003 | Simplified financial analysis for landfill gas capture projects --- Version 4.0 | ACM0001 | EB 35
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v4.0last publishedsource
Projects using AM0003
Browse 5 published projects using AM0003, listed alphabetically. There is no ranking for this methodology yet: it appears here automatically once 5 of its projects not in the pipeline or under validation are rated. Open a project to view its registry details and the analysis available for that project.
Which registries list projects under AM0003?
In CarbonMeld's data, AM0003 projects are on one registry: CDM (5 projects, 5 registered).
| Registry | Projects | Registered | Projects list |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDM (UNFCCC) | 5 | 5 | See the list |
Counts of project records in CarbonMeld's data, with or without a CarbonMeld analysis. «Registered» counts the records whose current registry status is «registered», as last read (15 November 2026); projects in a later status, such as awaiting verification approval, late to verify or completed, are not in that column.
One of these projects has no number: additionality, quantification or both have no public grade of its type of project that applies to it yet. Its page shows the analysis.
- Analysis: Re-assessment pending
- Analysis: Re-assessment pending
- Analysis: Re-assessment pending
- Analysis: Re-assessment pending
- Analysis: No public grade applies yet