Dear friends,
CDM Watch is pleased to bring you the pre-summer edition of our Newsletter. The issues covered in this edition are definitely hotter than Brussel’s July temperatures.
Worth 3.3 billion USD at the end of 2011,[1] the CDM – a long-term output-based financing mechanism – represents a much needed funding opportunity for the widespread dissemination of appropriate low-carbon technologies.
Guest article by Sara Eyckmans – Coordinator, Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) A wind farm project of a company owned by the Moroccan King is requesting approval under the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism. The wind farm is situated in a territory illegally occupied by
The CDM Watch Network has helped empower civil society throughout the world to hold the CDM to account. This is important due to the increasing impact that CDM projects have in host countries. Effective public participation in the CDM is essential to strengthen its
The high-level panel on the CDM Policy Dialogue is preparing its final report which is expected to be published in September 2012. CDM Watch has closely followed the consultation process and is worried that the final report will be heavily influenced by business lobbyists.
The last intercessional UN climate negotiations took place in May in Bonn, Germany. The main theme of the two-week conference seemed to be “diverging views” on about every agenda item. There were diverging views about the length of the second commitment period of the
Guest article by Oscar Sogandares, Asociacion Ambientalista de Chiriqui (ASAMCHI) My t-shirt still smells from the firewood of the protest camp, where I spent several nights accompanying their cause. The beginning of the day would start with group prayers in Ngobe and in Spanish
Scroll down for French and Spanish The very poor have such small carbon footprints that it is difficult to implement CDM projects that target them, since there are practically no emissions to reduce. The concept of ‘suppressed demand’ tries to take into account the
Scroll down for French and Spanish In Cancun in 2010 and in Durban in 2011, Parties asked for increased standardisation of CDM crediting rules (called methodologies) that are used for CDM projects, in an effort to simplify and streamline the CDM. Such simplifications reduce
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