The heat is on as last projects from emerging economies rush to registration before the change of eligibility for the European market at the end of the year will take effect. Dirty coal will not make the race as the methodology remains suspended. This
Brussels, Aug 2, 2012. Countries have less than six months left to close the gigantic loophole that threatens the viability of new climate regimes. The Kyoto Protocol surplus allowance issue needs to be resolved otherwise climate commitments until 2020 could be nullified, a new
Scroll down for French and Spanish Although the stakeholder consultation process is a key requirement in the CDM process cycle, it has so far been treated as a mere formality. Often communities impacted by CDM projects are not informed about CDM projects or not given an
Washington D.C., Brussels, 23 July 2012. The United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board has taken a significant step towards a major victory against propping up the dirty, carbon intensive coal industry. In a meeting last week, the CDM Executive Board requested yet
The CDM Executive Board is currently developing a tool to highlight sustainable co-benefits of CDM projects and PoAs. An initially promising opportunity was unfortunately wasted when it was decided that this tool shall be voluntary, with no monitoring in place. Or in other words,
A gigantic 13 Gigatonne ‘hot air’ loophole is threatening to undermine the viability of the second commitment period of the Kyoto protocol. If Parties do not properly address the AAUs surplus this year this huge bubble of stale air may stifle the success for
The CDM Executive Board members get a big thumbs up for rejecting a Chinese coal project due to its questionable additionality calculations. Whether the Board can keep up this spirit at its upcoming meeting remains to be seen when they are due to discuss
An encouraging decision by the CDM Executive Board at its last meeting might substantially limit the amount of questionable CERs to be issued from HFC-23 plants.
CDM Watch Publications Press Release: New rules for coal offsetting projects still severely flawed (07.05.2012) Press Release: Phantom emissions reductions keep being issued as UN Board refuses to act Spanish: Comunicado de Prensa (18.05.2012) Final report of CDM Watch UNFCCC side event to Policy
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