Picture: Greenpeace By Ashish Fernandes, Senior Campaigner, Greenpeace Greenpeace is a global campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. www.greenpeace.org Forests, wildlife and indigenous communities in India are being sacrificed in the …
Picture: cc @Doug88888 By Hannah Mowat, Carbon and Ecosystems Trading campaigner, FERN As a reader of Watch This! you will be well aware of the numerous problems the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme faces in terms of windfall profits for polluting companies, increased emissions, and delaying the move towards a low-carbon infrastructure. You …
Photo: Eva Filzmoser By Falguni Joshi, Gujarat Forum on CDM We are almost at the middle of the year 2013 – the first year after finishing the first commitment period under the Kyoto protocol. As you know, India is one of the world’s largest hosts of CDM projects. India stands 2nd only to China, in …
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Today, a new NGO “Nature Code – Centre of Environment & Development” was launched to host Carbon Market Watch and future initiatives beyond carbon markets. The new organisation has the mission of ensuring that the protection and welfare of all living beings becomes the guiding principle of policy making.
European NGOs are deeply concerned at the continuing lack of progress at ICAO towards an agreement to implement a global market-based measure addressing international aviation emissions. The next weeks leading up to the 38th Assembly are critical and we ask the EU to take account of NGO concerns set out in the attachment and to …
Today, the EU Climate Change Committee approved a draft regulation by the European Commission that allows operators under the EU ETS to continue the use of more than 600 million offset credits for compliance with emission limits from 2013 to 2020. Carbon Market Watch calls on the European Parliament to review the quantity entitlements and to introduce quality restrictions that ensure that credits from business as usual projects that pose an immediate threat to the EU ETS will not be allowed.
It is our pleasure to invite you to a celebratory evening where we will officially launch our new non-profit association: Nature Code – Centre of Environment & Development
Today, the European Parliament voted in favor of the back-loading proposal to temporarily curb the oversupply of emission allowances in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). Carbon Market Watch welcomes the outcome as a first step towards structural reform of the EU ETS but urges to restrict international offsets.
Here you will find an archive of our previous emails on CDM: Project Updates, Programme of Activities (PoAs) Updates, and Projects requesting crediting period renewal. 2015 January Week 1: Week 2: Week 3: Week 4: Week 5: Global Update Global Update 2014 December Week 1: Week 2: Week 3: Week 4: Week 5: Global Update Global Update …
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