Brussels, Aug 2, 2012. Countries have less than six months left to close the gigantic loophole that threatens the viability of new climate regimes. The Kyoto Protocol surplus allowance issue needs to be resolved otherwise climate commitments until 2020 could be nullified, a new
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
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 CDM Executive Board members get a big thumbs up for rejecting a Chinese coal project due to its questionable additionality calculations. Whether the Board can keep up this spirit at its upcoming meeting remains to be seen when they are due to discuss
An encouraging decision by the CDM Executive Board at its last meeting might substantially limit the amount of questionable CERs to be issued from HFC-23 plants.
Worth 3.3 billion USD at the end of 2011,[1] the CDM – a long-term output-based financing mechanism – represents a much needed funding opportunity for the widespread dissemination of appropriate low-carbon technologies.
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
Guest article by Oscar Sogandares, Asociacion Ambientalista de Chiriqui (ASAMCHI) My t-shirt still smells from the firewood of the protest camp, where I spent several nights accompanying their cause. The beginning of the day would start with group prayers in Ngobe and in Spanish
Scroll down for French and Spanish The very poor have such small carbon footprints that it is difficult to implement CDM projects that target them, since there are practically no emissions to reduce. The concept of ‘suppressed demand’ tries to take into account the
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