CDM Watch was very active at COP 17. We published our own newsletter “Watch This!”, organised several events, collaborated with many other NGOs and lobbied delegates. We mainly focused on issues related to the CDM, particularly on human rights, public participation, appeals procedure, coal power projects and CCS in the CDM. We also covered issues beyond the CDM, such as Joint Implementation, new market mechanisms and the existing loopholes in the rules of the conventions. Our booklet is a compilation of outputs in Durban.

CRCF Draft on Permanent Carbon Removals Lacks Scientific and Environmental Integrity
On behalf of an NGO Carbon Removals Expert Group, CMW’s Wijnand Stoefs took to the floor at an European Commission meeting to explain why proposed