During this meeting, the Board will also discuss a draft procedure for the submission and consideration of requests for revision of approved baseline and monitoring methodologies and tools for large scale CDM project activities. As part of this discussion, CDM Watch strongly urges the Board to address a serious related flaw in the CDM procedures: …
Read more “No grace periods for flawed methodologies (Newsletter #8)”
During this week’s Board meeting, members will decide upon revision requests of 21 projects[1]. According to Point Carbon, these projects are earmarked to reduce about 16 million CERs by 2013, worth around €47 million. Almost half of these emissions are claimed by the 4000-MW super-critical coal plant owned by Costal Gujarat Power (Project Ref Number …
Read more “Supercritical: Third largest non-HFC-23 CDM project up for review (Newsletter #8)”
According to para15 of the latest CMP decision[1], Board members must publish their curricula vitae, statements on conflicts of interest, and details of any past and current professional affiliations on the UNFCCC CDM website. CDM Watch commends the Board members that have published their CVs online as well as made public statements on conflicts of …
Read more “Few CVs of Board members outstanding (Newsletter #8)”
The vacant seat for the 10th member of the CDM Executive Board will finally be filled during this 54th Board meeting. The Board will welcome the new member Mr Duan Maosheng from China who assumes the seat for a Non-Annex I member. Mr Maosheng’s curricula vitae that is uploaded on the UNFCCC website is rather …
Read more “New Executive Board member savvy on HFC-23 (Newsletter #8)”
Dear friends,
This 3rd meeting in 2010 will finally be held with a full Board that now includes a nominee from the Asian Group. The tenth member, Mr Duan Maosheng from China, will assume his seat at the Board this week. He has extensive experience in CDM related matters including in HFC-23 destruction baseline methodologies.
Analysis by Stanford Environmental Law Clinic. Dowload pdf file: Download here
After careful consideration of the PDD in the given time, we conclude that if approved, this project would lead to the excess issuance of about 1,108,404 Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) annually beyond any actual emissions reductions and therefore must not be validated for a number of significant concerns.
From the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, California, Mark Schapiro recounts his inside stories with validators, DOEs, a Brazilian Executive Board member, and NGOs about non-additionality of the CDM in a February 2010 edition of Harper’s Magazine. His findings epitomize regressive climate change policy where emissions tend to increase instead. Trading on the carbon market …
NICK MEYNEN, a Belgian journalist, discovers the dubious claims of Indian CDM projects. Excerpts from his research here download pdf file.
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