Brussels, 09 November 2010 In the context of the European Commission’s upcoming proposal on quality restrictions on the use of industrial gas offsets in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, CDM Watch and EIA have produced a Q&A setting out our main concerns regarding two specific types of waste gas abatement project under the CDM , …
November 08, 2010 Anja Kollmuss, Michael Lazarus. Stockholm Environment Institute N2O Nitric Acid summary (download pdf) To download the full study go to: http://sei-us.org/publications/id/354 Summary: Industrial gas projects implemented under the CDM have come under increased scrutiny due to concerns related to high profit margins, potential perverse incentives, and implications for environmental integrity. Given such …
Read more “New Study: Industrial N2O Projects Under the CDM: The Case of Nitric Acid Production”
Brussels. The European Commission is working on a proposal to introduce quality restrictions on industrial gas offsets in the EU ETS. On 25 of October, CDM Watch made a submission to the Commission comprising the following documents: CDM Watch Submission to the European Commission – October 2010 AM0001 Revision Request: Revision to AM0001 to address methodological …
Brussels. Incentives created by the UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have caused a significant shift of adipic acid production from plants in industrialized countries to CDM plants in China and South Korea, a new study shows. This has led to “carbon leakage” – a shift in production that leads to an overall increase in emissions – and the issuance of 13.5 million offsets that represent phantom emissions reductions.
CDM Watch’s submission on DOE Liability – download pdf
Brussels, Tianjin. In a surprising move, the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has refused to forward a formal request by CDM Watch to the CDM Executive Board and its Methodologies Panel. The submission shows that current crediting rules for new coal projects are using outdated data and do not account for the higher efficiency of recently constructed coal-fired power plants.
CDM Watch found that the crediting rules for new grid connected fossil fuel fired power plants using a less GHG intensive technology (ACM0013) use outdated data to determine baseline emissions and ignore that the efficiency of new fossil fuel-fired power plants increases over time. In an attempt to address this flaw, CDM Watch made an official submission to the UNFCCC to introduce an adjustment of the efficiency that accounts for technical improvement on 30 August 2010. However, in a surprising move, the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat has refused to forward a formal request by CDM Watch to the CDM Executive Board and its Methodologies Panel.
On 13 September 2010, CDM Watch submitted a Clarification Request to provide clarity on current crediting rules for HFC-23 abatement projects. In addition to the evidence that was filed in March 2010 related to the gaming of the CDM by unscrupulous plant operators, this new submission seeks to clarify how the waste generation rate should …
Read more “Request for Clarification of HFC-23 Crediting Methodology”
The Board might again tackle the impossible task of improving project-by-project additionality testing during this week’s meeting. Numerous discussions in the past about the stringency of the additionality criteria in the so-called “first-of-its-kind” and “common practice” tests have not yet resulted in an agreement. This week could see a further instalment in this ongoing struggle …
Read more “Additionality criteria back on the Board’s agenda (Newsletter #10)”
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