Currently, any plantation established on land that was forested after 1 January 1990 is excluded from the CDM. But the CDM EB is now considering a new possibility to include lands with “forests in exhaustion” as A/R CDM project activities. The results will be presented in December 2009 at COP-15 in Copenhagen. The term forests …
Read more “Subsidies for monoculture tree plantations (Newsletter #4)”
Having followed climate politics and in particular the clean development mechanism (CDM) for the first half of this year in the northern hemisphere, I will spend the rest of this “climate” year in a CDM host country to closely look at some CDM projects on the ground. Five years on to the registration of the …
At the next EB meeting, the Board will consider approving the new methodology NM0278 for the “Use of Charcoal from Renewable Biomass Plantations as Reducing Agent in Pig Iron Mill in Brazil”. This methodology would allow the establishment of new biomass plantations on the following land areas: (i) Grasslands (ii) Forest plantation after its last …
On the basis of a recommendation by the Methodologies Panel, the Board may approve Methodologies NM0278. This Methodologies would allow the establishment of new biomass plantations on the following land areas: (i) grasslands, (ii) forest plantation after its last rotation, (iii) degraded areas. However, CDM Watch encourages the Board to reject this Methodologies or to …
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