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AM0013 — Avoided methane emissions from organic waste-water treatment

About this methodology

Projects change the treatment of organic wastewater that would otherwise remain in anaerobic lagoons. The method measures the methane emissions avoided by the new treatment.

Issued by
CDM (UNFCCC) · issuer's site
Last published version
4.0 · source ·
Status
Withdrawn at CDM / UNFCCC · source ·
Climate outcome
Emission reductions
Activity
Wastewater
Official page
cdm.unfccc.int ·
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How methodology v3 reads projects of this type

What CarbonMeld reads

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    Grid emission factor: the methodology sets rules for it in some cases (AM0013 v04 baseline electricity, p. 10). CarbonMeld reads it in the project's documents. CM-F-AM0013-GRID-EF

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  • 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-AM0013-SAFEGUARDS-FPIC

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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.

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

Replaced by ACM0014

withdrawn at CDM Executive Board meeting 36 · ACM0014 version 01.0 of 30 Nov 2007

AM0013 | Avoided methane emissions from organic waste-water treatment --- Version 4.0 | ACM0014 | EB 36

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Projects using AM0013

Browse 15 published projects using AM0013, 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 AM0013?

In CarbonMeld's data, AM0013 projects are on 2 registries: CDM (14) and Gold Standard (1). Being listed on a registry is not the same as being registered: the «Registered» column counts the projects each registry shows as registered, and credits are issued only after each verification.

RegistryProjectsRegisteredProjects list
CDM (UNFCCC)147See the list
Gold Standard (GS)11See 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 (14 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.

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