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.
Since early 2000 almost 7000 projects have sprouted on the UNFCCC registry, claiming reduction of more than 1.3 billion tonnes C02. All these projects except for a handful are corporately initiated, owned and controlled. The carbon being traded is an icing on the profit
Agricultural emissions have been a source of intense debates in the UNFCCC since Copenhagen COP 15. Developed countries see it as huge potential for mitigation and some aim at using agricultural emission reductions as offsets. It is also alleged that 90% of the mitigation
Picture: cc @Doug88888 By Hannah Mowat, Carbon and Ecosystems Trading campaigner, FERN As a reader of Watch This! you will be well aware of the numerous problems the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme faces in terms of windfall profits for polluting companies,
Photo: Eva Filzmoser By Falguni Joshi, Gujarat Forum on CDM We are almost at the middle of the year 2013 – the first year after finishing the first commitment period under the Kyoto protocol. As you know, India is one of the world’s largest
Today, a new NGO “Nature Code – Centre of Environment & Development” was launched to host Carbon Market Watch and future initiatives beyond carbon markets. The new organisation has the mission of ensuring that the protection and welfare of all living beings becomes the
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