What is the CDM Executive Board?
The Executive Board supervises the operation of CDM. It meets four or five times a year. The Board has final say on whether a project is approved or not and lays out procedures and guidlines for CDM. It is made of 10 members from countries part of the Kyoto protocol. Two from Annex I, Two from non annex I countries, one from small island developing states, and 1 from each of the 5 UN groupings. Director Climate Change Union ministry of environment and forests is currently concurrently a member of the CDM Executive Board.