The Designated National Authority (DNA), at its fifth meeting, has approved Spain’s voluntary participation in two new Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects provided for by the Kyoto Protocol.

These are the Bii Nee Stipa III wind farm in Mexico, presented by Gamesa Energía, and the BioCarbon Fund project for the Pearl River Basin Management in Guangxi Province, China, to which the DNA has granted a letter of approval.

The approval letter is the mandatory report issued by the Designated National Authority after analyzing each project. Without compliance with this requirement, it would not be possible to validate and register a CDM project.

With these two new positive voluntary participation reports, there are now seventeen letters of approval issued by the National Authority. Both represent a total of 2,884,342 potential RCEs (Certified Emission Reduction Units), bringing the total number of them to 15,529,303.