Analysis by Stanford Environmental Law Clinic. Dowload pdf file: Download here

After careful consideration of the PDD in the given time, we conclude that if approved, this project would lead to the excess issuance of about 1,108,404 Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) annually beyond any actual emissions reductions and therefore must not be validated for a number of significant concerns.

From the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, California, Mark Schapiro recounts his inside stories  with validators, DOEs, a Brazilian Executive Board member, and NGOs about non-additionality of the CDM in a February 2010 edition of Harper’s Magazine.  His findings epitomize regressive climate change policy where emissions tend to increase instead. Trading on the carbon market …

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NICK MEYNEN, a Belgian journalist, discovers the dubious claims of Indian CDM projects. Excerpts from his research here download pdf file.

dowload pdf file Fionnuala Walravens from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) explains that HFC-23 emissions from developing countries are higher today than before the CDM began. She argues that this growing problem is not being adequately dealt with via carbon markets and suggests an alternative model that should be given further consideration.