Scroll down for Spanish Three months after starting the CDM Policy Dialogue, the High-Level Panel Members are conducting meetings and trying to get their heads around the problems of the CDM, its future direction and its impact on mitigation and sustainable development. CDM Watch
Brasilia, Brussels – Last week, a federal judge in Brazil ruled the controversial Teles Pires Dam’s installation license invalid due to breaches of domestic legislation and international agreements on consultations with indigenous peoples.
The CDM Executive Board (EB) supervises the CDM under the authority and guidance of the Meetings of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP). The EB’s task is to establish CDM rules and provide guidance on how rules should be implemented. Carbon Market Watch
Brussels, 23 March 2012. The watchdog organisation CDM Watch launched a discussion forum to enable the general public to participate in the CDM reform dialogue.
Brussels / Panama City. The heavily contested hydro power project Barro Blanco, approved under the UN offsetting scheme, continues to impede ongoing peace talks between the Panamanian government and the indigenous Ngöbe-Buglé people over a law banning mining and hydroelectric projects in indigenous territories.
On 21 January, EU Member States endorsed the European Commission’s draft Regulation on the restriction of certain industrial gas credits in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, a milestone in our campaign against the use of HFC-23/N2O AA offsets and a huge victory for the
Guest article by Tomas Wyns, CCAP-Europe Europe’s climate action flagship, the EU Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS) is in troubled waters. Due to the economic crisis, carbon prices have collapsed resulting in a large surplus of allowances. If no action is taken, the EU-ETS could
In December 2011 the European Commission published its long awaited Study on the Integrity of the Clean Development Mechanism. The study summarises the merits of the CDM in five bullet points while allotting five entire pages to its shortcomings. The study also devoted a
Guest Article by Jens Holm, Member of Parliament (Left Party), Sweden Large-scale World Bank hydro power project, non-additional, far-reaching effects on the local environment, local opposition and no compensation for the affected local community. That is in sum the hydro electric power CDM-project Rampur,
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