Mexico City, Mexico
19 February 2011
Santa Cruz Michapa, Cuscatlán, El Salvador
26-27 February 2011
In response to the growing number of CDM projects in Central America, in early 2011 CDM Watch organised a Workshop in Mexico City and a second two-day regional workshop in Santa Cruz Michapa, Cuscatlán, El Salvador. The events brought together more than 100 participants from all seven Mesoamerican countries: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and El Salvador. Representatives of environmental NGOs, social and gender movements, activists, leaders of peasant and indigenous communities, representatives of international networks, journalists and citizens came together to exchange experiences with the CDM.
Participants of both workshops clearly rejected the CDM as effective means to combat climate change. They did not agree that the CDM has achieved substantial emission reductions in developing countries but argued that many of the projects would be implemented anyway. Moreover, workshop participants heavily complained about enormous negative environmental and social impacts of large CDM megaprojects that are being implemented despite local resistance. They argued that when validating a project on the ground, local opinion was strategically avoided and ignored in the validation process. The workshop conclusions call for a total reform of the CDM especially with regards to eligibility of project types, public participation rules, accessibility of information and transparency of procedures. They demanded the automatic ‘disqualification’ of CDM projects proven to violate human rights or other international conventions, as well as the exclusion of projects with inherent harmful social and environmental impacts such as large hydro and monoculture projects. Equally the exclusion of projects extending the use of fossil fuels, such as supercritical coal and cement plant projects was demanded by civil society representatives.
You can access the Workshop Summary for both events here: 19 February Mexico City, Regional Workshop 26 & 27 February El Salvador
Documentos del taller del 19 Febrero 2011 – Centro Prodh, Ciudad de Mexico
- Invitación taller Ciudad de México: descarga aqui
- Programa del taller: descarga aqui
- Memoria del taller: descarga aqui
Ponencias:
- CDM Watch – El MDL: Origines y funcionamiento
- CEMDA – MDL en México: mitos y realidades
- GAIA – Resumen sobre criticas del MDL
- Otros Mundos – Casos de MDL en Mexico
- CDM Watch – La importancia de participar en el MDL
Documentos del taller del 26 & 27 Febrero 2011 – Eco Centro Animas, El Salvador
- Invitación taller El Salvador: descargar
- Memoria taller regional El Salvador: descarga aqui
- Memoria photografia: descarga aqui
Ponencias:
- CESTA – El cambio climatico. La lucha por la sobrevivencia
- CDM Watch – El MDL: Origines y funcionamiento, mitos y realidades
- Costa Rica – El MDL en Costa Rica
- El Salvador – El MDL en El Salvador
- Guatemala – Logica de Percepcion del MDL en Guatemala
- Honduras – Vulnerabilidad de Honduras en Relacion al Cambio Climatico y el MDL
- Panama – Proyectos MDL en Panama: Hidroelectrica Barro Blanco
- GAIA – Las fallas del MDL
- CDM Watch – Estrategias y rol de la sociedad civil
Mas informacion y enlaces:
- Kit de Herramientas para ONG’s activistas y ciudadanos: descarga aqui
- La gran estafa de las compensaciones de carbono – porque no funcionan las compensaciones de carbono: descarga aqui
- Datos de contacto de la autoridad nacional designada (AND) de su pais:
http://cdm.unfccc.int/DNA/index.html
ponga el nombre de su pais y haga clic sobre ‘search’
- Listado de los datos de contacto de los validatores de proyecto (DOE):
http://cdm.unfccc.int/DOE/list/index.html
