The inclusion of international flights into the EU’s carbon market was one factor that created momentum for a global, rather than regional, measure to address aviation emissions. Recognizing Europe’s potential importance in the ongoing negotiations towards a global market based measure, open letters from
During the Geneva session of climate negotiations held in February 2015, 18 countries made a joint pledge to extend the integration of human rights in the climate change regime by including human rights expertise in their climate delegations. This initiative offers an opportunity to
Welcome to the spring edition of our NGO newsletter “Watch This! NGO Voices on Carbon Markets and Climate Finance”. As you may have already noticed, we decided to go for a new layout. And spring has made the tree of “climate finance” blossom. So
Scroll down for French and Spanish Carbon Market Watch brings you a list of suggested reading material to learn more about various topics. Enjoy the reading! The Need for a Rights-Based Approach to the Clean Development Mechanism Filzmoser et al., CISDL 2015, Public Participation and Climate
Scroll down for French and Spanish The 9th meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board took place between 24-26 March in Songdo, Korea, where the Board accredited first 7 implementing entities. Read the report here Carbon Market Watch together with Human Rights Watch,
On February 9th, 2015, the National Environmental Authority (ANAM) temporarily interrupted the construction of the hydroelectric dam project in Barro Blanco. The communities accepted the Government proposal to open a tripartite dialogue (Government, company and affected communities), then chose the committees to represent them.
Sharing experiences with existing climate mitigation mechanisms, such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and highlighting the severe impacts on basic human rights these UN mechanisms can have, activists from Africa, Asia and Central America met with financial institutions and policy makers involved in
The NAMA project in Georgia is a good example of strengthening civil society involvement and embracing a gender sensitive approach to tackle the challenges of rural energy poverty, unsustainable logging and CO2 emissions.
The numerous complaints against this project of one of the biggest private corporate groups of India – Reliance ADAG, include serious human rights violations, forcible displacements, highly inadequate compensations, intimidation by the police to affected communities, disappearance of demonstrating people, shifting injured workers out
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