In September, the High-Level Panel on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Policy Dialogue presented its final report with recommendations on how to improve the CDM. Overall, the report fails to address fundamental flaws of the CDM, is strongly based on political opinions and ignores
El régimen comunitario de comercio de emisiones (EU-ETS) es un sistema de topes y comercio, que entró en vigor en 2005. El EU-ETS es el mayor sistema obligatorio de topes y comercio hasta la fecha e incluye 30 países europeos. Hasta un 50% de
Study commissioned by the European Parliament DG for external policies (Directorate B – Policy Department) on Human Rights and Climate Change. Section 10.1.3 reports about human rights concerns regarding the acceptance of JI and CDM credits in the EU ETS with CDM project cases
Scroll down for Spanish By Mariel Vilella, Climate Policy Campaigner, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Members of the European Parliament from a wide political spectrum, civil society organizations from 23 countries and international networks have signed a letter to the European Commission and
Washington D.C., Brussels, 23 July 2012. The United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board has taken a significant step towards a major victory against propping up the dirty, carbon intensive coal industry. In a meeting last week, the CDM Executive Board requested yet
The CDM Executive Board is currently developing a tool to highlight sustainable co-benefits of CDM projects and PoAs. An initially promising opportunity was unfortunately wasted when it was decided that this tool shall be voluntary, with no monitoring in place. Or in other words,
A gigantic 13 Gigatonne ‘hot air’ loophole is threatening to undermine the viability of the second commitment period of the Kyoto protocol. If Parties do not properly address the AAUs surplus this year this huge bubble of stale air may stifle the success for
The last intercessional UN climate negotiations took place in May in Bonn, Germany. The main theme of the two-week conference seemed to be “diverging views” on about every agenda item. There were diverging views about the length of the second commitment period of the
Scroll down for French and Spanish The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) is a cap-and-trade system which came into force in 2005. The EU-ETS is the largest mandatory cap-and-trade scheme to date and includes 30 European countries. Up to 50% of the EU-wide reductions
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