For Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism projects, emissions reductions must be additional to those that would otherwise occur. Additionality is when there is a positive difference between the emissions that occur in the baseline scenario, and the emissions associated with a proposed project.
A way of measuring the benefits of a project's activities which highlight the changes brought about as a result of its work.
A fundamental principal of public funding: a project should achieve things that would not have happened without it. The extent to which an activity is undertaken on a larger scale, takes place at all, or earlier, or within a given geographical area as a result of the programme.
Additionality has been one of the principles of EU Structural Fund interventions. Additionality means that Community support for economic and social development is not substituted for efforts by national governments. In other words, the fact that the beneficiary State's own financing remains, globally, at least equal to that which existed before the Structural Funds' contribution. Verification of the implementation of this principle is carried out at the national level in the context of financial control and not of evaluation as such. This term additionality is also used to describe the net effects of an intervention identified in an evaluation. BACK
This is the principle by which Community financial assistance supplements national spending rather than replacing it.
Applicants have to prove that payment of grant will make a significant difference to the project. Something 'additional' has to happen that would not happen if grant were not available. The strongest argument is that, without grant, there would be no project. This may be because there is a shortage of financial resources, or that a project needs assistance to achieve a necessary rate-of-return on a proposed investment, or will be cheaper to implement in an alternative location outside the UK. Other arguments might focus on delaying the project for a significant period of time or decreasing the scale or scope of the project.
Emission reductions over and above the general trend or "Business as usual" scenario.
A way of measuring the benefits of a project which highlights the changes brought about which wouldn't have occurred if the project had not taken place. Aims and objectives: the result a project is intended to achieve e.g. to create additional jobs for local people.
(environmental additionality): emission reductions which would not have been achieved without undertaking specific project investments (generally used in the context of joint implementation and clean development mechanism). (financial additionality): financing of activities implemented jointly (JI or CDM) should be in addition to current official development assistance and commitments to the UNFCCC financial mechanism.
A requirement of the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol that the emission reductions associated with a greenhouse gas mitigation project exceed those that would have occurred in the absence of the project.
The principle whereby funding from the Structural Funds and the cohesion fund is additional to that provided by national and local authorities.
It refers to the issue of whether greenhouse gas emissions reduction or sequestration in a Joint Implementation or Clean Development Mechanism project occurs over and above the baseline and constitutes a new reduction that would not have otherwise occurred in absence of the project.
Reduction in emissions by sources or enhancement of removals by sinks that is additional to any that would occur in the absence of a Joint Implementation or a Clean Development Mechanism project activity as defined in the Kyoto Protocol Articles on Joint Implementation and the Clean Development Mechanism. This definition may be further broadened to include financial, investment, and technology additionality. Under financial additionality, the project activity funding shall be additional to existing Global Environmental Facility, other financial commitments of Parties included in Annex I, Official Development Assistance, and other systems of co-operation. Under investment additionality, the value of the Emissions Reduction Unit /Certified Emission Reduction Unit shall significantly improve the financial and/or commercial viability of the project activity. Under technology additionality, the technology used for the project activity shall be the best available for the circumstances of the host Party.
The principle that funding from a particular source is additional to that provided by national and local authorities. The additionality principle requires that funds awarded for a project should not be used merely to substitute or replace existing funds, but for additional projects and activities.
