How to make the clean development mechanism sustainable—The potential of rent extraction

How to Make the Clean Development Mechanism Sustainable - The Potential of Rent Extraction

The clean development mechanism (CDM) should foster sustainable development and greenhouse gas emission reductions. The design of the CDM and first experience suggest that it may not achieve these goals. Developing countries hosting CDM projects may lose cheap emission reduction possibilities for their own future use, and sustainable development and technology transfer may not take place. On th...

Clean Development Mechanism Introduction to the CDM

Implementing the Clean Development Mechanism in Vietnam: potential and limitations

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in Vietnam is used way below its full potential. In spite of efforts to further CDM projects in the recent years, Vietnam still lags behind the comparable neighboring countries in term of registered CDM projects. Especially, though 2008 and 2009 have seen a fast growth in the pipeline in the country but only 14 projects were registered as at 2 December 2009...

How can the clean development mechanism better contribute to sustainable development?

HISTORY OF EMPLOYMENT University of Maryland Associate Professor, School of Public Policy (2012–)* Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy (2008–12) White House Council on Env. Quality Dep. Assoc. Director for Energy & Climate Change (2014-16) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Associate Director, Joint Global Change Rsch. Inst (2008–)* Georgetown University Assistant Professor, School ...

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...