Sentences with phrase «development mechanisms»

New technology developments as well as new policy instruments, such as emissions trading, joint implementation, and clean development mechanisms, can promote a cleaner environment, while simultaneously increasing energy efficiency and enhancing security.

«The resounding message that I will take away from this LACCF is that we must all work together,» said Massamba Thioye, a manager in the Sustainable Development Mechanisms programme at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

At local scales, Clean Development Mechanisms (CDMs) are being developed to help fund climate mitigation actions that may include coastal ecosystem conservation.

The study of these new mouse models means an advance in the knowledge of disease's development mechanisms and an opportunity to implement new therapeutic strategies for patients.

Halldor Thorgeirsson, the director of sustainable development mechanisms at the UNFCCC claims: «The idea of easy money is out of proportion.»

The understanding of how other animals do it, plus the understanding of our own genome and development mechanisms makes this possible within the next 50 years.

With CH4 being 21 times more harmful to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, anaerobic wastewater solutions can qualify for Emission Reduction Certificates for projects in countries listed under the United Nations Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) programs.

Also, should China manage to shape the climate change regime to its favour, it could even gain an advantage vis - à - vis India, which already share with the PRC the highest number of projects under the KP's Clean Development Mechanism.

Certified Emissions Reduction credits (CERs) produced by the UN's Clean Development Mechanism; European Union Allowances (EUAs) produced by the European Union's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), and Emissions Reduction Units (ERUs) produced by the UN's Joint Implementation mechanism.

Whether it's offsets from no - till farming that would have happened anyway from the Chicago Climate Exchange or offsets from hydropower dams in China that would have been built anyway under the terms of the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, it's all a bit of a shell game at present.

That qualifies it for the clean - development mechanism (CDM) specified by the protocol.

Currently, there are five coal - fired power plants registered as emission reduction projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), an international offsetting program run by an arm of the United Nations.

By so doing, they earn generous clean development mechanism credits with prices set at the high European levels — prices that are not connected to the actual cost of the upgrades for HFC - 23.

Rather than trying to monetize all emissions in emerging economies, the clean development mechanism offers a better compromise in theory because it promises to constrain trading to areas where developing countries have made actual cuts.

Clean development mechanism credit purchasers — notably the E.U. and Japan — need to lobby the mechanism's executive board for comprehensive reform.

Our sense is that the most committed governments will work to ensure that the E.U. complies with its Kyoto commitments as a whole, notably by purchasing emission credits overseas from the clean development mechanism and from a similar system that allows governments to obtain credits in Russia and other «transition» countries.

Stanford's Wara and his colleague David Victor recently investigated a group of offsets offered under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which can be purchased for compliance with the E.U. trading scheme.

Gaming the System In reality, however, the concept that underpins the clean development mechanism has a dark side.

For comparison, the entire E.U. effort to meet the Kyoto targets will reduce releases by only about 200 million tons annually and the 100 hundred largest clean development mechanism projects add up to just 100 million tons per annum.

And because the E.U. possesses the biggest market for emission credits, the clean development mechanism's prices have converged on those set there.

A Better Way An improved clean development mechanism alone will not be enough to encourage developing countries to engage, and pushing those countries to cap their emissions will backfire.

The market for clean development mechanism credits has since exploded in size, accounting for about a third of a percent of world's greenhouse emissions and around $ 4.4 billion in annual value.

The E.U. has further exacerbated the clean development mechanism debacle by honoring any credit that is approved under the mechanism's rules, which are set through a cumbersome committee process under the Kyoto Protocol.

This, in turn, will help boost China's renewable energy capacity and lift carbon prices in the international offset market, which is being oversupplied by carbon credits from the U.N. - run Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

The coalition of European and U.S. activists is now pushing for a radical change to the Clean Development Mechanism, the U.N. - run international greenhouse gas offsetting scheme.

Clean development mechanism data points represent individual clean development mechanism projects; all other market data is monthly trading volumes and weighted prices.

About a third of the clean development mechanism credits stem from projects aimed at controlling just one industrial gas, trifluoromethane, or HFC - 23, a byproduct of industrial processes that is 12,000 times as strong as carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.

And the U.N.'s Clean Development Mechanism market itself may come to an end in 2013 — bringing to a close the $ 20.6 billion trade — without a new set of commitments by the global community on how to extend the Kyoto Protocol's provisions, according to the U.N.

This number results largely from the massive EU - ETS (European Union Emissions Trading Scheme), and the similarly large CDM (Clean Development Mechanism), and will only continue grow as more countries add regulated emissions trading to their legislation.

Document suggests processes for approving Clean Development Mechanism projects will be streamlined

EU officials have confirmed they will move to address controversial carbon credits that «game» the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and undermine the effectiveness of the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS)...

They paid for carbon off sets under the World Bank Clean Development Mechanism, to stop climate damaging chemical plants that were never built, or built only to not produce a certain powerful greenhouse gas.

International Emissions Trading Association writes to Brussels warning that failure to clarify proposed emission trading reforms is undermining Clean Development Mechanism

It astounds me that the Sasan coal plant has qualified as a Clean Development Mechanism, or CDM, under the Kyoto Protocol.

Clearly informed by IPCC and other scientific studies, considerable progress has been made on the key issues of adaptation, avoided deforestation, technology transfers and a more geographically and sectorally balanced Clean Development Mechanism.

If I'm a power grid customer in Europe, part of my bill could go to purchase better sources of power, using the Clean Development Mechanism.

In October, the private sector lending arm of the World Bank Group (International Finance Corporation, IFC) confirmed the cancellation of a controversial Santa Rita hydroelectric project in Guatemala, approved under the UN's carbon offsetting scheme Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

Phase out Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) To reach the objectives of the Paris Agreement, it is essential to learn from past experience avoid the mistakes made with...

The study, commissioned by the German government, looked at the scenario where all offset credits from the UN's Clean Development Mechanism...

Project - based carbon market mechanisms — such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)-- no longer provide sufficient incentives for the initiation of greenhouse gas mitigation activities in developing countries.

Project - based carbon market mechanisms - such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)- no longer provide sufficient incentives for the initiation of greenhouse gas mitigation activities in developing countries.

The Clean Development Mechanism is the world's largest greenhouse gas crediting mechanism, issuing 1.8 billion CERs so far.

This discussion paper estimates the potential supply of certified emission reductions (CERs) from projects registered under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for the period 2013 to 2020.

The UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is the world's largest offsetting programme to date.

Thomas has also worked extensively in the analysis of carbon market mechanisms and carbon pricing instruments, with a focus on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

Summarizes GAO's prior work examining (1) the challenges in ensuring the quality of carbon offsets in the voluntary market, (2) the effects of and lessons learned from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), an international offset program, and (3) matters that the Congress may wish to consider when developing regulatory programs.

The index currently includes two carbon - related credit plans: European Union Emission Trading Scheme or EU ETS Phase II and Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism.

Action of emerging economies could take several forms, such as sustainable development policies and measures, an improved and strengthened clean development mechanism, the setting up of plans for the sectors that generate most pollution so as to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions compared with a business as usual scenario.

Consumers are disproportionately aware of tree - based projects, but there are hundreds of different types of projects recognized under the Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism.

One is under the current clean development mechanism, projects, HCFC - 22 plants that were in operation as of January 1, 2001, are allowed to participate under CDM.