One out of five emission reductions credits sold under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) lack environmental integrity, according to a WWF report. One out of five emission ...

This document contains the CDM-PDD from the UNFCCC with the extra requirements that have to be fulfilled in order for the project activity to be eligible as a Gold Standard CDM project. Most sections ...

BEIJING, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The Clean Development Mechanism, part of the U.N's Kyoto Protocol, promotes investments in emission-reducing projects in the developing world by companies and governments ...

Japan is to buy greenhouse gas emissions quotas from China as part of its efforts to meet its Kyoto Protocol commitments. Tokyo intends to use the clean development mechanism (CDM) with a particular ...

Carbon credits serve as a potent market-driven incentive, effectively catalyzing the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These credits operate within the framework of international agreements ...

More CDM transition requests lodged as five countries signal intent to approve PACM activities -UNEP; Eritrea’s NDC aims to cut emissions from energy, land use by ...

Oscar Reyes and Tamra Gilbertson are researchers with Carbon Trade Watch (www.carbontradewatch.org), a project of the Transnational Institute. The headlines generated by the carbon trading mechanisms ...