Currently, around 1380 hydro projects are seeking CDM support. 130 projects are already generating CERs and have so far received 15.335 Million CERs, amounting to more than 184 Mill. €. But a large number of hydro power projects are not additional, as highlighted many times by several civil society organisations. The estimated number from experts …
In total, four projects that reduce N2O from adipic acid production are currently registered in China, South Korea and Brazil. CDM revenues of Millions of Euros for these plants have caused a production shift from industrialized countries to these four projects which have caused a plant in Singapore to stop production and production in industrialized …
In 2009, 660 projects requested registration. Due to non-compliance with registration requirements, 367 reviews were requested and 163 projects were finally reviewed. During this 52th EB meeting, the number hits records: 117 projects will be discussed. Review is requested of 82 projects and 35 projects are already under review and might be rejected. Also the …
Read more “Record of project and issuance reviews based on DOE non-compliance (Newsletter #6)”
This first EB meeting in 2010 should start off with a new set of 10 members and 10 alternates that were elected by Parties in Copenhagen. However, in practice there are only 4 new individuals on Board (marked with * in the table below/on the left), the remaining members and alternates either serve in their …
Read more “Newly elected Board to take office without Chinese member (Newsletter #6)”
The yearly meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol took place for the 5th consecutive time in Copenhagen (CMP.5) in December 2009. One off the aims was to improve the current CDM and to establish a yearly work programme for the CDM Executive Board. …
Read more “Wrap up of CDM Reform in Copenhagen (Newsletter #6)”
download pdf file Dutch CDM projects in the palm oil sector by Jan Willem van Gelder and Petra Spaargaren, Profundo The Netherlands, through the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM), authorized the Bermuda-based company AES AgriVerde as a project proponent in 23 projects in the palm oil sector in Malaysia and Indonesia …
Read more “Additional reductions from palm oil projects? Not so much for the Dutch”
download pdf file Hans Curtius and Tobias Vorlaufer examine the success of CDM projects in the biogas sector of China, where the majority of biogas projects are in the food processing industry. By September 2009, 34 projects were either registered or in validation process at the UNFCCC, which account for 2% of all projects. They …
Read more “No sustainable development from China’s biogas projects”
New Delhi, India–16 November 2009 In an effort to discuss reasons for the failure of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), more than 80 activists, citizens and representatives of NGOs from Armenia, Bangladesh, India and Uganda gathered at a workshop in New Delhi. They concluded that any post-2012 mechanism must enforce the principle of sustainable development. …
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Paving the way for the climax of climate talks at the COP-15 in Copenhagen, the CDM Executive Board will meet from 30 November – 4 December 2009.
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