Following the precedent of the Kyoto Flexible Mechanisms – the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) – the Paris Agreement established a new ‘mechanism to contribute to the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and support sustainable development’. The new mechanism bears some similarity to the CDM and JI, but will function in a…
Carbon Market Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the CDM Executive Board on issues included in the annotated agenda of the 90th meeting, particularly on the following agenda items: Agenda item 2.3. Performance management Action 11: key messages for the annual report Action 15: guidance to improving the user-friendliness of the sustainable development…
The petition sponsored by Salva la Selva, Urgewald and Carbon Market Watch has been signed by 105 000+ worldwide. It was formally sent to the recipients on June 22. PLS SIGN+RT: Stop Barro Blanco dam before it floods the home of Panama’s indigenous Ngäbe! https://t.co/Kuzps4phas pic.twitter.com/fbRdmMfWdy — Rainforest Rescue (@RainforestResq) 10 mai 2016 Below and…
Not only man-made climate change, but also certain actions to address climate change can directly result in adverse impacts on human rights. While well intentioned, certain climate mitigation actions implemented under the UNFCCC have caused harm to the environment and people—even infringing on rights to life, health, food, water and sanitation, housing, and culture, among others.
Only very few countries have outlined in their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) that they will use international trading as a means to help achieve their climate goals. However, despite the limited role of markets expressed by most industrialised countries in their INDCs, such as the EU and the US, the political reality regarding domestic carbon pricing schemes looks different: jurisdictions responsible for 40% of the global economy have already implemented carbon pricing mechanisms.
Climate change is a global injustice to present and future generations, and one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time. For one, climate change has a significant effect on several human rights, such as the right to safe and adequate water and food, the right to health and adequate housing, and the right to life. On the other hand, certain actions to address climate change can directly result in adverse impacts on human rights.
ENGLISH The Santa Rita Hydroelectric Plant in the Dolores River in the Alta Verapaz region in Guatemala was registered as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in June 2014. The communities living in the Alta Verapaz region are completely dependent on the water of the river for their livelihoods. The Guatemalan Agreement on Identity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples…
We, the undersigned, note that climate change-related impacts have a range of implications, both direct and indirect, for the effective enjoyment of human rights, and recognize that while these implications affect individuals and communities around the world, the effects of climate change will be felt most acutely by those segments of the population who are already in vulnerable situations owing to factors such as geography, poverty, gender, age, indigenous or minority status and disability.
Content Sasan coal power project, India Adani’s Mundra coal power project, India The Barro Blanco Hydroelectric Power Plant Project, Panama The Chengdu Luodai MSW Incinerator, China The small scale Kukke Hydro Project, India Small hydroelectric dam Aurora I, Honduras The Palo Viejo Hydroelectric Project, Guatemala
Human Rights: How lessons learnt from the CDM can inform the design of New Market Mechanisms On 15 November 2013, as part of the COP19 in Warsaw, Carbon Market Watch organised a side event jointly with Gujarat Forum on CDM, Centro de Incidencia Ambiental (CIAM), Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (CEMDA), the Center for International…
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