Welcome to the spring edition of our NGO newsletter “Watch This! NGO Voices on Carbon Markets and Climate Finance”. As you may have already noticed, we decided to go for a new layout. And spring has made the tree of “climate finance” blossom. So we decided to include this new issue within the scope of our evergreen Watch This! newsletter.
Scroll down for French and Spanish Carbon Market Watch brings you a list of suggested reading material to learn more about various topics. Enjoy the reading! The Need for a Rights-Based Approach to the Clean Development Mechanism Filzmoser et al., CISDL 2015, Public Participation and Climate Governance Working Paper Series http://cisdl.org/public/docs/FILZMOSER.pdf Local Stakeholder Participation in CDM and …
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Scroll down for French and Spanish The 9th meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board took place between 24-26 March in Songdo, Korea, where the Board accredited first 7 implementing entities. Read the report here Carbon Market Watch together with Human Rights Watch, CIDSE and Council of Peoples of Tezulutlan organized a lunch debate …
On February 9th, 2015, the National Environmental Authority (ANAM) temporarily interrupted the construction of the hydroelectric dam project in Barro Blanco. The communities accepted the Government proposal to open a tripartite dialogue (Government, company and affected communities), then chose the committees to represent them. Five meetings have since taken place to discuss cultural and religious topics, as well as the current state of conservation of the petroglyphs (threatened by the flood generated by the dam) and others archaeological discoveries brought to light in the dam area.
Sharing experiences with existing climate mitigation mechanisms, such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and highlighting the severe impacts on basic human rights these UN mechanisms can have, activists from Africa, Asia and Central America met with financial institutions and policy makers involved in financing these projects. The accountability of climate finance was thereby discussed from a European perspective.
The NAMA project in Georgia is a good example of strengthening civil society involvement and embracing a gender sensitive approach to tackle the challenges of rural energy poverty, unsustainable logging and CO2 emissions.
The numerous complaints against this project of one of the biggest private corporate groups of India – Reliance ADAG, include serious human rights violations, forcible displacements, highly inadequate compensations, intimidation by the police to affected communities, disappearance of demonstrating people, shifting injured workers out of the project site, violating contractual obligations to provide jobs and facilities to the displaced, unethical and inhuman labour practices, heavy pollution generated by the project activity, to only name the most severe impacts.
At COP 16, held in Cancún in 2010, it was emphasised that ’Parties should, in all climate change related actions, fully respect human rights‘. However, so far no further guidance has been specified. Our research published in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs shows that the lack of safeguards in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) can lead to registration of projects that have severe impacts on human rights and suggests possible ways forward.
At the 9th Board meeting of the GCF (Green Climate Fund) in South Korea, the Board completed the final step in opening the door to the Fund. First seven implementing entities were accredited – a process led by political rush to approve first funding proposals by October and marked by criticism from civil society on the lack of transparency in the process.
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