The project follows the international trends of measurable, reportable and verifiable (MRV) greenhouse gas management to upgrade our national GHG accreditation and verification management mechanism so as to connect with international track. International GHG verification management mechanism has been thoroughly studied in this project for the analysis and comparison to our current status of management in the national and industrial level to bring suggestion for domestic MRV of NAMAs as well as national inventories and early actions. The project also collected information on the progress of international GHG MLA to assist domestic accreditation management in connection with international track. Current status of accreditation and verification system in China was also surveyed in this project through cross-strait information sharing with suggestion for future direction of information exchange. In order to consolidate the management and supervision for domestic accreditation and verification bodies, the project has studied the trends of accreditation and verification management mechanism in international organizations and various countries for analysis and comparison to domestic management system. Through the implementation of supervision auditing of accreditation bodies and verification bodies, the project brought suggestion for our future management strategies, as well as made revision and new edition to training materials for verifiers. Courses for re-education of verifiers were held to upgrade domestic verification capacity. The project also studied international guidance related to the verification of carbon footprint to establish technical guidelines for domestic products and services carbon footprint verification. Service type carbon footprint verification was implemented to further establish draft guidelines for carbon neutral verification to satisfy both industrial and domestic needs and to assure that appropriate GHG accreditation and verification management models are adopted by our country.

greenhouse gas, accreditation, verification, validation, emission trading, carbon footprint, carbon neutral