2030 Climate and Energy Package (Analysis here) HIGHLIGHTS In a nutshell, key highlights of decisions on the 2030 climate and energy framework include: A binding target to reduce domestic greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2030, possibly resulting in only 31% effective
Under the EU Effort Sharing Decision, EU Member States have taken on binding annual targets for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions from the sectors not covered by the EU ETS, such as housing, agriculture, waste and transport (excluding aviation). Around 50% of the EU’s total
Despite severely over-supplied carbon markets and lacking mitigation commitments, countries are currently developing additional carbon market schemes. At the same time, countries are contemplating what changes are needed to the underlying rules of the CDM. They are also negotiating REDD and other approaches to
Native forests threatened by Barro Blanco hydrodam. Photo courtesy of Oscar Sogandares By Oscar G. Sogandares, Spokesperson Asociación Ambientalista de Chiriquí Last month, the Coordination of Indigenous Peoples of Panama (COONAPIP) representing the seven indigenous peoples of Panama withdrew from the UN REDD Programme
Garbage dump in Hoang Cau, Hanoi (showing the contrasts in Hanoi). Source. By Mattijs Smits, PhD candidate at the University of Sydney and M-POWER research fellow The number of hydropower CDM projects has boomed in the last few years in Vietnam, on the back
Picture courtesy of Timbaktu Collective By Dr.Leena Gupta, Senior Scientist, Society for Promotion of Wasteland Development, New Delhi The Nallakonda Windpower project is having negative environmental and socio-economic impacts on the neighboring Kalpavalli area. Over the last months, we raised the issues with this project to the Indian
By Jiten Yumnam, Centre for Research and Advocacy, Manipur In the state of Sikkim, land of rhododendrons, in the Himalayan foothills in India’s North East, rivers have been aggressively dammed over the last decades. Dam developers are pushing these projects as clean energy
By Falguni Joshi, Gujarat Forum on CDM India is one of the biggest CDM host countries in the world. More than 2000 CDM projects are either already registered or under validation. More than 800 from these projects are wind power plants, 396 are biomass
By Adela Putinelu, Carbon Market Watch The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is expected to agree this year on a market based mechanism to address aviation emissions. After the European Commission delayed its plan of including international aviation in its emissions trading scheme
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