Photo: cc Ron,Ron,Ron By Eva Filzmoser, Director, Carbon Market Watch COP-19 in Warsaw is expected to secure important deliverables in relation to market-based mechanisms. These could take the form of pilot schemes on the NMM and the FVA. Given the considerable disagreement
Photo: David Blackwell By Eva Filzmoser, Director, Carbon Market Watch This year the underlying rules of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) will undergo reform. The negotiations in Bonn did nothing to advance this reform. However, a UNFCCC workshop that also took
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) uses the power of law to protect the environment, promote human rights, and ensure a just and sustainable society. CIEL is a non-profit organization dedicated to advocacy in the global public interest, including through legal counsel, policy research, analysis,
Picture: Greenpeace By Ashish Fernandes, Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace Greenpeace is a global campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. www.greenpeace.org Forests,
In the coming weeks the CDM Executive Board will decide upon the registration of the infamous Nallakonda wind farm project. The decision will show whether the CDM is ready to take the rights of local communities into account, or not.
Agricultural emissions have been a source of intense debates in the UNFCCC since Copenhagen COP 15. Developed countries see it as huge potential for mitigation and some aim at using agricultural emission reductions as offsets. It is also alleged that 90% of the mitigation
On June 29 we will be celebrating the End the Age of Coal Global Day of Action, to coincide with 350.org‘s Global Power Shift Conference in Istanbul. Greenpeace International has put together an awesome website for the day of action: check it out at
Press Release from the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), Environmental Advocacy Center, Panama (El Centro de Incidencia Ambiental – CIAM) and Earthjustice which highlights the work that has been done over the past weeks on the Barro Blanco CDM project.
Last week, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) called on the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Assembly to agree on a global carbon offsetting scheme to take effect in 2020. Recent data by the European Commission reveals for the first time the choice of
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