Role of Domain Expert in the Knowledge Discovery Process

Pages:316-317
T. Praveen Kumar and K P Yadav (Research Scholar, Monad University, Hapur and MIET, Greater Noida)

Energy efficiency projects in the industrial sector provide a source for reducing greenhouse gas emissions under a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) scheme as laid out in Article 12 of the Kyoto Protocol. The CDM offers a mechanism for developed countries to meet greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction requirements by gaining offsets from projects they fund in developing countries. To receive these offsets – known as Carbon Emission Reduction Units (CERs) – the project should demonstrate “real, measurable, and long-term benefits” and the reductions should be “additional to any that would occur in the absence of the project.”(UNFCCC, 1997) In other words, energy-efficiency CDM projects must be compared against some baseline to quantify the carbon reduction, and this baseline should reflect, as closely as possible, what would have happened in the absence of the CDM project.