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N2O abatement project at nitric acid plant No. 11 at African Explosives Ltd. (AEL), South Africa

Standard: CDM
Methodology: AM0034 (CDM)
Registry: CDM-1364 ↗ · Registered
Country: South Africa
Credit type: N2O
Developer: AEL Mining Services Limited

CarbonMeld's document-based rating gives N2O abatement project at nitric acid plant No. 11 at African Explosives Ltd. (AEL), South Africa (CDM-1364) no number (No public grade applies yet): CarbonMeld read its documents, but its type of project does not yet have a public grade that applies to it on both additionality and quantification. The absence of a number says nothing about the project's quality.

Assessment

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No public grade applies yet

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Evidence coverage: medium

Methodology v3 · documents read on 8 Nov 2026

Starting point

Additionality: no public grade of this type of project applies
Quantification: no public grade of this type of project applies
Claim safety: no public grade of this type of project applies

Rules that raise a dimension: 1

Rules that lower a dimension or the rating as a whole: 1

Each rule, with the fact and the source it rests on, is in the Premium analysis.

Not counted by the method

The oldest vintage still on sale, the content of the safeguards and the verifier's quality: not among the facts read
Additionality and quantification: CCQI's tool has no type of project for this activity

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How this analysis was made

Standard: CDM (UNFCCC) How our current method reads projects of this standard
Methodology: AM0034 version 02, AM0028 version 04.1 How our current method reads projects of this type
Our method: CarbonMeld methodology v3 · documents read on 8 Nov 2026

Eligibility & market

Under decision 4/CMP.20 of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (FCCC/KP/CMP/2025/7/Add.1, paragraph 5), the submission of requests for issuance of new CERs was discontinued as of 30 June 2026; requests to transfer CERs to the Article 6.4 mechanism registry, cancellations and any other transactions in the CDM registry are discontinued as of 31 December 2026. This page keeps the project's record.

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Airlines (CORSIA)
Not published
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Integrity label (ICVCM CCP)
No ICVCM information
No CCP label and no ICVCM decision found for this project's methodology.
Removal or reduction
Emission reduction or avoidance
Prevents or reduces emissions — fits contribution claims, not SBTi neutralisation.
Source: project sector
Covers: the project type, not a label on individual credits
Paris Agreement (Article 6)
Not published
This registry does not publish Article 6 authorizations.

Information only, from public sources. Claim rules (CORSIA, SBTi, EU rules on green claims) change: check them before making a public claim. Since 27 September 2026, EU consumer rules do not allow “climate neutral” product claims based on offsets.

Credit Vintages

	Issued	Available
2012	1,041,434	1,041,434
2014	298,728	298,728
2015	317,808	317,808
2016	298,109	298,109
2017	148,609	148,609
2018	271,793	271,793
Total	2,376,481	2,376,481

Methodology versions used

The methodology version stated in each monitoring, verification and issuance document, by period, compared with the official methodology pages.

2008–2009AM0034 v2.0since replaced by v5.1.1
monitoring report
official page · verified on 1 Oct 2026
2009–2010AM0034 v2.0since replaced by v5.1.1
monitoring report
official page · verified on 1 Oct 2026
2010–2011AM0034 v2.0since replaced by v5.1.1
monitoring report
official page · verified on 1 Oct 2026
2011AM0034 v2.0since replaced by v5.1.1
monitoring report
official page · verified on 1 Oct 2026
2011–2012AM0034 v2.0since replaced by v5.1.1
monitoring report
official page · verified on 1 Oct 2026
2012–2013AM0034 v2.0since replaced by v5.1.1
monitoring report
official page · verified on 1 Oct 2026
2013–2014AM0034 v2.0since replaced by v5.1.1
monitoring report
official page · verified on 1 Oct 2026
2014–2016AM0034 v2.0since replaced by v5.1.1
monitoring report
official page · verified on 1 Oct 2026
2016AM0034 v2.0since replaced by v5.1.1
monitoring report
official page · verified on 1 Oct 2026
2016–2018AM0034 v2.0since replaced by v5.1.1
monitoring report
official page · verified on 1 Oct 2026

AM0034: Withdrawn (CDM / UNFCCC) · replaced by ACM0019 · official page · verified on 1 Oct 2026

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CarbonMeld (2026). N2O abatement project at nitric acid plant No. 11 at African Explosives Ltd. (AEL), South Africa (CDM-1364): CarbonMeld document-based analysis, methodology v3, documents read on 8 Nov 2026. https://carbonmeld.com/projects/n2o-abatement-project-at-nitric-acid-plant-no-11-at-african-explosives-ltd-ael-s/.

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