Assigned amount unit

An assigned amount unit was a tradable "Kyoto unit" or "carbon credit" representing an allowance to emit greenhouse gases comprising "one metric tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent, calculated using global warming potentials".[1][2] Assigned amount units were issued up to the level of initial "assigned amount" of an Annex 1 Party to the Kyoto Protocol.[3][4]

The "assigned amounts" were the Kyoto Protocol Annex B emission targets (or "quantified emission limitation and reduction objectives") expressed as levels of allowed emissions over the 2008–2012 commitment period.[5]

  1. ^ "Assigned Amount Unit (AAU)". CDM Rulebook A-Z. Baker & McKenzie. Archived from the original on 8 September 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-27.
  2. ^ IPCC (2001). "Appendix II Glossary". IPCC Third Assessment Report - Climate Change 2001. Working Group III: Mitigation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. Archived from the original on 2012-01-11. Retrieved 2010-09-12.
  3. ^ "Kyoto Protocol Reference Manual On Accounting of Emissions and Assigned Amount" (PDF). United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. November 2008. Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-07.
  4. ^ "Glossary of climate change acronyms". United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Archived from the original on 29 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-07.
  5. ^ "Kyoto Protocol Targets". United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Archived from the original on 17 April 2010. Retrieved 2010-04-07.