Crunch time for the Clean Development Mechanism?

Clean Development Mechanism

1. At its sixty-ninth meeting, the Executive Board (hereinafter referred to as the Board) of the clean development mechanism (CDM) considered the draft " Guidelines for determination of baseline and additionality thresholds for standardized baselines using the performance-penetration approach " (the guidelines) prepared by the secretariat. The Board provided comments and requested the secretari...

Clean Development meChanism

INtrODuCtION The Clean Development Mechanism has been recognized as a force for the empowerment of women through its various methodologies. While these methodologies may not have started out to be gender-friendly per se, their application has improved women's lives and by extension the lives of their communities. This publication will highlight some of these gender-friendly methodologies, as we...

Clean Development Mechanism Introduction to the CDM

Crunch time

of the famous one-child policy, which Deng introduced in 1979, may be beginning to backfire. Economic analysts now fear that, if the officially reported fertility rate of 1.2 children per woman is correct, the side-effects of a greying society will kick in earlier than anticipated. Reports suggest that the dependency rate, i.e. the number of children and pensioners per 100 workforce, may reach ...

Is the Clean Development Mechanism Effective for Emission Reductions ?

This research studies whether the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol achieves its objective of emission reductions in the host countries. It empirically investigates the impacts of CDM projects on CO2 emission reductions for 60 CDM host countries over 2005-10. This research makes use of the newly-developed econometric methods for dynamic panel data models associated with X-...