Welcome to the summer edition of our NGO newsletter “Watch This! NGO Voices on Carbon Markets”! It is no secret that the compliance carbon market is not doing well. The current carbon price is not even enough for projects to cover their administration costs,
Photo: Euobserver By Adela Putinelu, Policy Assistant, Carbon Market Watch EU policymakers want to take stock of the 2020 climate legislation so as to choose its 2030 targets and feed this into the EU’s pledge for a post Kyoto pact to be decided in 2015
By Andrew Coiley, South Asia Project Coordinator, Carbon Market Watch New figures released by the European Union for its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the world largest emissions trading platform show that quality standards are needed for airlines to stop investments in cheap offset credits
View of the city of Hangzhou Photo: Diego Martinez-Schuett By Diego Martinez-Schütt, Policy Officer, Carbon Market Watch On 18 June, the city of Shenzhen launched the first pilot emissions trading system (ETS) in China. Although Shenzhen’s ETS will only cover about 30 million tonnes
Photo: cc Ron,Ron,Ron By Eva Filzmoser, Director, Carbon Market Watch COP-19 in Warsaw is expected to secure important deliverables in relation to market-based mechanisms. These could take the form of pilot schemes on the NMM and the FVA. Given the considerable disagreement
Photo: David Blackwell By Eva Filzmoser, Director, Carbon Market Watch This year the underlying rules of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) will undergo reform. The negotiations in Bonn did nothing to advance this reform. However, a UNFCCC workshop that also took
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) uses the power of law to protect the environment, promote human rights, and ensure a just and sustainable society. CIEL is a non-profit organization dedicated to advocacy in the global public interest, including through legal counsel, policy research, analysis,
Picture: Greenpeace By Ashish Fernandes, Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace Greenpeace is a global campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. www.greenpeace.org Forests,
In the coming weeks the CDM Executive Board will decide upon the registration of the infamous Nallakonda wind farm project. The decision will show whether the CDM is ready to take the rights of local communities into account, or not.
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