Stakeholder concerns can only be addressed if clear rules and guidelines are in place to enable stakeholders to comment on projects and to guide project participants and DOEs on how such concerns need to be sought and addressed.
CDM Watch welcomes the opportunity to respond to the CDM Executive Board’s call for public inputs on First‐of-its‐Kind (FOIK) and Common Practice (CP). CP and FOIK have been discussed for several years now. CP is already incorporated in the additionality tool and the combined tool. The guidelines for objective demonstration and assessment of barriers give further guidance …
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CDM Watch welcomes the opportunity to respond to the CDM Executive Board’s important call for public inputs on the validation process. Our response identifies current issues and suggests how improvements to the existing modalities could be made. We make concrete recommendations on how the validation process can be strengthened by providing guidelines and rules to …
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Our response describes how co‐benefits and negative impacts can be included in the documentation of CDM project activities to maximise a project’s sustainability benefits while minimising its potential risks and harmful consequences. We also explain how stakeholder participation can be improved to achieve greater civic participation, transparency and fairness. CDM EXECUTIVE BOARD CALL FOR PUBLIC …
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In its 55th meeting in July 2010, the Board announced to clarify the requirements that stipulate who is allowed to make such submissions (55 EB meeting report, para 26) and requested that the Secretariat to prepare a clarification on this. We were further informed that the discussion on this matter was scheduled to take place at EB58. However, the Board has not yet discussed the issue and the Secretariat informed us that it is of the view that it should wait until the Board provides clear guidance on how to proceed.
download pdf here Briefing: Fresh concerns over the transparency of the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS) NGOs welcome the European Commission’s moves to increase the security of the EU ETS. Bolstering security measures to ensure an effective trading system is of paramount importance. Increased security measures, however, should not come at the detriment of transparency …
CDM Watch Submission on the expansion of the usability of the small scale methodology AMS-III.AV “Low greenhouse gas emitting water purification systems”. The new methodology SSC-III.AV in its current version will lead to a disproportionate generation of CERs that are not based on actual emissions reductions (suppressed demand). Although suppressed demand needs to be addressed, it has to be balanced and cannot be done in a way that seriously undermines the environmental integrity of CDM projects.
The purpose of these recommendations is to outline the critical procedural aspects that must be considered and included in a future CDM appeal procedure, so that it might promote transparency, accountability, and consistency in the CDM project approval process and improve the efficacy of the CDM as a tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, it may allow for more meaningful public input into the EB’s decision-making – something that is woefully lacking under the current procedures.
This submission is a response to the invitation (FCCC/CMP/2010/L.8, paragraph 30 and 31) to Parties, intergovernmental organizations and admitted observer organizations to submit to the secretariat, by 28 March 2011, their views on this matter. CDM Watch is very concerned about the direction the CDM has taken over the past few years related to the issuance of credits that do not represent real emission reductions.
This submission regards the proposal to include forest in exhaustion in the CDM to be little more than an attempt to provide subsidies to industrial tree plantations in circumstances that encourage bad management practices and the establishment of plantations in inappropriate locations. Such a subsidy would insulate the wood growing and processing industries from commercial pressures to improve their efficiency, reduce wastage, increase recycling and select more suitable sites for plantation establishment. The “forests in exhaustion” proposal also risks undermining the recently established REDD+ mechanism by incentivizing the establishment of plantations under the CDM rather than the restoration of natural forest ecosystems under REDD+.
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