The UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Here’s a list of links and resources focusing aroud the UN FCCC’s (Climate Change Commission’s) Clean Development Mechanism, which allows Developed Countries, and the companies in them, to help finance clean energy and emissions reduction projects in the developing world in exchange for Carbon Emissions Reduction credits.
This mechanism, although it has its flaws, has the potential to do a great deal of good in the world, as well as drive innovation on many frontiers. Unfortunately, until we ratify Kyoto (or Copenhagen), there’s not much US firms can do with this market. So my next posting in this section will be on US carbon trading. But since we do live in a global community, feel free to share your opinions about the CDM and its imports. But it is important to say that this is one of the foremost means of making a global carbon market strong, and capable of increasing equality.
German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanism Section
CDM-Cooperation.de – an industry portal cooperating with the above ministry, designed for use by German businesses, with a tremendous amount of information available regarding host country info, CDM businesses focused on Latin America and news regarding the Latin market.
Point Carbon – one of the premier industry websites for carbon and energy trading info; a good site for trading news, political info and data and statistics regarding the global carbon market. This is a really powerful tool. It has a number of free services available; however the best stuff unfortunately requires an incredibly expensive subscription (1295 Euros!), but has a 28 day free trial.
However, at no cost comes a similarly useful (if less shiny) feed from the Energy Business Review – good carbon news and links, no fees. The left sidebar also has a lot of other, useful sites. These guys unfortunately seem to be down with “clean coal”, but hey, it’s worth it to know about what you’re fighting, like it or not.
UNFCCC CDM Homepage – UNFCCC’s main web resource regarding CDM projects, along with news, development guides, project walkthrough
And one of the most useful… The International Emissions Trading Agency, a clearinghouse, industry group, and overall great source of information and updates. The link posted above is for their GHG (GreenHouseGas) trading section, but their home page is a good spot for updates on a variety of things.
