AnnaIn 1996 peace was signed in Guatemala after 36 years of civil war (around 200,000 deaths, mostly Mayan people) and a new electricity law was ratified as a strategy of privatization and liberalization to attract foreign investment based on the exploitation of natural resources, laying basis of what is turning out to be nowadays an ecological and economical genocide.
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The Barro Blanco Hydroelectric Power Plant Project was approved for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) despite the concerns of local and international NGOs.
The CDM Board published a tool to report about the contribution of Clean Development Mechanism projects to sustainable development. The tool is far from being perfect but it is a step in the right direction
India is one of the top countries in implementation of CDM projects. The Indian CDM authority has stipulated a sustainable criterion for such CDM projects.
In response to a request from the CMP in its decision 8/CMP.7, the CDM Executive Board approved the voluntary tool for describing sustainable development co benefits of CDM project activities and PoAs at its 70th Board meeting in November 2012.
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