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

Scroll down for French and Spanish In Cancun in 2010 and in Durban in 2011, Parties asked for increased standardisation of CDM crediting rules (called methodologies) that are used for CDM projects, in an effort to simplify and streamline the CDM. Such simplifications reduce

Scroll down for French and Spanish In Durban at the COP-17 in December 2011, Parties decided that a new international market mechanism (NMM) should be established under the UNFCCC that will complement the CDM and JI. The details of how a NMM will work

Scroll down for French and Spanish Materiality standards define which errors have to be corrected and which can be ignored because they are too insignificant when calculating the amount of offset credits a project receives. In principle CDM Watch agrees with having rules on

Scroll down for French and Spanish Designated Operational Entities (DOEs) validate CDM projects and verify the offsets that are issued to a project. The CDM is an offsetting mechanism. This means that the emission reductions credited under the CDM entitle the buyers of the

Scroll down for French and Spanish CDM municipal waste management projects can be problematic for three main reasons: They help perpetuate waste management strategies that prevent the use of other, more sustainable options They may threaten the livelihoods of waste pickers – some of

Scroll down for French and Spanish The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established a cap-and-trade system that imposes national caps on the greenhouse gas emissions of developed countries that have ratified the Protocol (called Annex B countries).

Scroll down for French and Spanish The CDM was designed to bring clean and sustainable development to poor countries while enabling rich countries to achieve their emissions reductions cost efficiently. Because the CDM was designed to be technology-neutral (meaning that any technology that removes