See Newsletter #1, November 2012 After an eventful three years, it is time to say farewell to CDM Watch and welcome Carbon Market Watch! From November 2012 Carbon Market Watch will continue the activities of CDM Watch and expand further to other carbon market
See Newsletter #1, November 2012 Forestry projects typically involve local communities and are challenging to implement. When farmers get involved with personal financial liabilities, the question of who bears the financial risk arises especially in cases where revenues from carbon credits do not materialise.
Campagnes contre projets problématiques Malgré leur objectif de contribution au développement durable, les projets MDP ont souvent des impacts négatifs graves sur les communautés locales. Une majorité des projets sont des projets à l’échelle industrielle tels que des centrales à combustibles fossiles, en particulier
Visiting Dinabandhu Gand of Kauguda village in the Kalahandi district of Odisha shows that CDM projects in afforestation and reforestation can do the opposite to what they are designed to. In a place where climate change is already inducing ever more annual droughts, this
We have some good news to share! After intense campaigning during the last two years by (GAIA) and the Global Alliance of Waste Pickers, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has finally pulled back support to projects that could decrease recycling rates in the Global
Wind power can be a great source of renewable energy, but if put in the wrong place it can have considerable negative impacts on local livelihoods and resources. This article tells how local eco-restoration efforts were annihilated by the installation of a wind park
Land grabbing in India takes many forms including expansion of plantation monoculture for carbon sequestration. Often, private companies are contracting farmers to grow eucalyptus trees, purportedly as raw materials for paper, promising higher income. Hoping it could be a ticket out of poverty, many
When the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board held its meeting in September in Bangkok more than 4,500 CDM projects had been registered and more than 1 billion CDM offset credits or Certified Emission Reduction (CER) units issued. At the same time, CER prices
A pesar del objetivo del MDL para contribuir al desarrollo sostenible, los proyectos MDL a menudo tienen graves impactos sobre las comunidades locales. La mayoría de los proyectos son proyectos industriales a gran escala, tales como centrales de combustibles fósiles, en particular las centrales
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