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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 potential]]s".<ref>{{cite web| url= http://cdmrulebook.org/695| title= Assigned Amount Unit (AAU)| work= CDM Rulebook A-Z| publisher= Baker & McKenzie| accessdate= 2010-07-27| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100908001935/http://cdmrulebook.org/695| archivedate= 8 September 2010| url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc%5Ftar/?src=/climate/ipcc_tar/wg3/454.htm |contribution=Appendix II Glossary |title=IPCC Third Assessment Report - Climate Change 2001 |series=Working Group III: Mitigation |author=IPCC |year=2001 |publisher=Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA |accessdate=2010-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111160644/http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/?src=%2Fclimate%2Fipcc_tar%2Fwg3%2F454.htm |archive-date=2012-01-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Assigned amount units were issued up to the level of initial "assigned amount" of an [[United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change#Annex_I_countries|Annex 1]] Party to the [[Kyoto Protocol]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/publications/08_unfccc_kp_ref_manual.pdf |title=Kyoto Protocol Reference Manual On Accounting of Emissions and Assigned Amount |publisher=United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |accessdate=2010-04-07 |date=November 2008 | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100429230813/http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/publications/08_unfccc_kp_ref_manual.pdf| archivedate= 29 April 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://unfccc.int/essential_background/glossary/items/3666.php#A |title=Glossary of climate change acronyms |publisher=United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |accessdate=2010-04-07 | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100429220912/http://unfccc.int/essential_background/glossary/items/3666.php| archivedate= 29 April 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>

The "assigned amounts" were the [[Kyoto Protocol]] Annex B emission targets (or [[Kyoto_Protocol#2012_emission_targets_and_.22flexible_mechanisms.22|"quantified emission limitation and reduction objectives"]]) expressed as levels of allowed emissions over the 2008–2012 commitment period.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/3145.php |title=Kyoto Protocol Targets|publisher=United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |accessdate=2010-04-07 | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100417172443/http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/3145.php| archivedate= 17 April 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>

==Application==

Article 17 of the [[Kyoto Protocol]] allowed [[emissions trading]] between Annex B Parties (countries). Parties that had "assigned amount units" to spare because of reductions in emissions below their Kyoto commitment set out in Article 3 and Annex B could sell those units to countries that had emissions exceeding their targets.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/mechanisms/emissions_trading/items/2731.php |title=Emissions Trading |publisher=United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |accessdate=2010-04-07 | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20100429214119/http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/mechanisms/emissions_trading/items/2731.php| archivedate= 29 April 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref> Article 17 also required that any such emissions trading must be supplemental to domestic action for the purpose of meeting quantified emission limitation and reduction commitments.

==See also==
*[[Certified Emission Reduction]]
*[[Emission Reduction Unit]]
*[[Removal Units]]
*[[Voluntary Emissions Reduction]]
*[[Flexible mechanisms]]
*[[List of Kyoto Protocol signatories]]

==References==
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