Carbon Market Watch was at COP18 in Doha to advocate for fair and ambitious climate solutions. Our main message for the climate negotiators was simple and clear: countries must dramatically increase their pledges now to reduce emissions.
Negotiations at COP18 on the future of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) started off with some good options in the negotiating text prepared by the Chair. However, throughout the sessions on the CDM, the draft negotiation text was remarkably weakened and the final version
See Watch This! #4, December 2012 By Khadija Sharife, researcher with the Center for Civil Society (CCS- UKZN), South Africa When UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christina Figueres described Durban’s Bisasar methane-to-gas electricity project as one of the world’s top ten green energy projects, the Durban
See Watch This! #4, December 2012 By the Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA) and the Mexican Environmental Law Center (CEMDA) The Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA) is a nonprofit environmental law organization that works across international borders to defend threatened ecosystems and
See Watch This! #4, December 2012 Agricultural carbon markets – selling out food security? By Teresa Anderson, International Advocacy Co-ordinator for the Gaia Foundation At COP18 in Doha, carbon markets continued their inexorable spread into every arena of climate work, including agriculture. With heavily
See Watch This! #4, December 2012 By Anika Schroeder, policy officer for climate change and development, Misereor MISEREOR is the German Catholic Bishops´ Organisation for Development Cooperation. Ever since its foundation in 1958 MISEREOR has strengthened the self-help capacity of farming communities consisting of
See Watch This! #4, December 2012 By Eva Filzmoser, Director Carbon Market Watch Much to our regret, countries who met at COP18 in Doha did little to address the billion tonne gap we need to close in order to keep
This article was written in part by Carbon Market Watch and originally published for the Climate Negotiations 2012 NGO Newsletter: ECO – Issue 2. Here in Doha Parties will decide on an appeals procedure against decisions of the CDM Executive Board. It is crucial that civil
See Newsletter #1, November 2012 At its last meeting in September, CDM Executive Board made a series of unfortunate decisions. At their upcoming meeting in Doha they will again discuss a number of important issues. At a time when carbon markets are collapsing due
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