Clean Development Mechanism

The separate U.N. scheme under the Kyoto Protocol called the Clean Development Mechanism is worth about $6.5 billion.

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The globalization cabal, through programs like the so-called Clean Development Mechanism, claims to be seeking mitigation but is actually funding further carbon-intensive development, like the largest coal-fired plants on earth in India.

Grist - the Latest from Grist 2009

The secretariat of the Clean Development Mechanism estimates that a ton of HFC-23 in the atmosphere has the same effect as 11,700 tons of CO2.

Khadija Sharife: REDD: Seeing the Forest for the Trees 2010

The Clean Development Mechanism is rife with problems -- it funds too many projects that aren't useful while missing big opportunities.

Michael Levi: How to Make a Climate Deal 2009

John Stephenson of the GAO cautioned that the 'challenges in the voluntary offset market and the use of offsets for compliance—even in a rigorous, standardized process like the Clean Development Mechanism—may compromise the environmental integrity of mandatory programs to limit emissions and should be carefully evaluated.'

Literary Warrant [41] 2009

And it buys carbon credits in projects that comply with the Clean Development Mechanism.

Is This Style's Sustainable Frontier? Valeria Criscione 2009

John Stephenson of the GAO cautioned that the 'challenges in the voluntary offset market and the use of offsets for compliance—even in a rigorous, standardized process like the Clean Development Mechanism—may compromise the environmental integrity of mandatory programs to limit emissions and should be carefully evaluated.'

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

John Stephenson of the GAO cautioned that the 'challenges in the voluntary offset market and the use of offsets for compliance—even in a rigorous, standardized process like the Clean Development Mechanism—may compromise the environmental integrity of mandatory programs to limit emissions and should be carefully evaluated.'

The rhetorical orgin of Sarah Palin's "death panel" 2009

While cooperation on renewable energy, as well as projects under the Clean Development Mechanism, can contribute to a sustainable economy, energy security and environmental protection, only cooperation efforts focused on energy efficiency are analyzed here.

Cooperative Climate~ Chapter 3 2008

Even possible Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) contributions have raised serious concerns amongst environmentalists that the CDM could be used to “avoid Kyoto action” while contributing to projects in the southern hemisphere with dubious ecological (i.e., in terms of forest carbon sinks) and human rights implications, such as the Plantar eucalyptus tree plantation in Brazil.

Canada, Kyoto, and the conservatives 2008