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
By Adela Putinelu, Carbon Market Watch The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the largest emissions trading market internationally and the pillar of EU climate policy. But the scheme struggles with an over-supply of 2 billion tonnes of CO2, very low
By Eva Filzmoser, Carbon Market Watch After the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol has ended, countries have decided to review the modalities and procedures of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) this year. Changes to these underlying rules of the functioning
International organizations welcome the World Bank Ombudsman´s initiative to scrutinize an investment project of the International Finance Corporation due to allegations of human rights violations of peasant communities in the Lower Aguán valley, Honduras, and demand immediate halt to the project. See the international
Dear Friends, Carbon Market Watch is happy to introduce you to the new online version of our newsletter. In this issue, we look at a real hot issue in Doha at COP-18 regarding how countries would deal with the 13 billion left over emission
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