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AM0016 — Greenhouse gas mitigation from improved animal waste management systems in confined animal feeding operations

About this methodology

Projects capture gas from animal waste and destroy it by flaring or using it for energy. The method measures greenhouse gas reductions from manure treatment without crediting displaced energy supplies.

Issued by
CDM (UNFCCC) · issuer's site
Last published version
3.0 · source ·
Status
Withdrawn at CDM / UNFCCC · source ·
Climate outcome
Emission reductions
Activity
Livestock and waste
Official page
cdm.unfccc.int ·
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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

    Leakage: the methodology sets rules for it (AM0016 v03 leakage calculations, p. 13). Our current method does not assess it. CM-F-AM0016-LEAKAGE

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  • 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-AM0016-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 ACM0010

withdrawn at CDM Executive Board meeting 26 · ACM0010 version 01 of 29 Sept 2006

AM0016 | Greenhouse gas mitigation from improved animal waste management systems in confined animal feeding operations --- Version 3.0 | ACM0010 | EB 26

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Projects using AM0016

Browse 43 published projects using AM0016, 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 AM0016?

In CarbonMeld's data, AM0016 projects are on 2 registries: CDM (40) and Verra (3). 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)4040See the list
Verra (VCS)33See 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 (12 November 2026); projects in a later status, such as awaiting verification approval, late to verify or completed, are not in that column.

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