This paper examines the effectiveness of additionality and sustainability criteria being applied to hydropower projects applying for carbon crediting under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
This paper examines several issues that arise in awarding emission reduction credits to coal projects in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). It identifies systematic weaknesses in the coal methodology's (ACM0013) design and application.
Global climate talks in South Africa next month will not produce a "big bang" capable of producing a new and binding pact to slash greenhouse gases, but steady progress could be made, a senior Euro
Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Power on Monday said it would earn Rs.2,000 crore by trading carbon credits from its Tilaiya ultra mega power project (UMPP) in Jharkhand in the first ten years of its op
Reliance Power Ltd’s 3,960 MW Tilaiya Ultra Mega Power Project, being developed by its wholly owned subsidiary Jharkhand Integrated Power Ltd (JIPL), has got approval for carbon credits from the Un
The expansion of the world's only national carbon trading scheme outside Europe should be slowed to minimize the costs to business and households, according to a New Zealand government review which
China needs to set absolute restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions if it is to fulfill its aim to set up a carbon market over the next five years, a cabinet office think tank said in a paper publ
This recent Wikileaks cable from US Consulate in Mumbai has evidences to show that despite the risk and uncertainty of qualifying for carbon credits Indian businesses have pumped USD 25 billion into unilaterally developing Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM) projects to generate carbon credits.
