With an attempt to avoid the registration of one of the most controversial CDM projects ever, a group of individuals, organizations, movements and networks representing Brazilian society, together with international supporters from the North and South, vehemently oppose the approval of the project presented
download pdf file CDM for Sustainable Development? Money for Nothing!!! A People’s Perspective by Ajita Tiwari and Nafisa Goga D’Souza, Laya Resource Center This crucial study shares full descriptions and critical on-the-ground insights from seven CDM projects in India that shed light on the
download pdf file From the IMCG Newsletter: New CDM biodiesel methodology may threaten peatlands John Couwenberg and Hans Joosten investigate yet another poor methodology that has been recently approved by the CDM Executive Board, ACM0017, which targets projects in biodiesel made specifically from agrofuel
If approved, this Project could lead to excess issuance of Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) beyond any actual emissions reductions. Our analysis of the PDD indicates that the DOE must not validate the Project under the ACM0013 methodology.
Currently, around 1380 hydro projects are seeking CDM support. 130 projects are already generating CERs and have so far received 15.335 Million CERs, amounting to more than 184 Mill. €. But a large number of hydro power projects are not additional, as highlighted many
The yearly meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol took place for the 5th consecutive time in Copenhagen (CMP.5) in December 2009. One off the aims was to improve the current CDM and
download pdf file Hans Curtius and Tobias Vorlaufer examine the success of CDM projects in the biogas sector of China, where the majority of biogas projects are in the food processing industry. By September 2009, 34 projects were either registered or in validation process
New Delhi, India–16 November 2009 In an effort to discuss reasons for the failure of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), more than 80 activists, citizens and representatives of NGOs from Armenia, Bangladesh, India and Uganda gathered at a workshop in New Delhi. They concluded
NGOs, activists and citizens are very concerned about the development of the CDM over the past years. On 16 November 2009, more than 80 representatives of NGOs, activists and citizens of Armenia, Bangladesh, India and Uganda gathered at a workshop in New Delhi to
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