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Joint Implementation Quarterly

• Evaluating CDM distribution using an international trade framework

  The fast growth of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)and its positive and negative attributes have been well documented. Recent years have witnessed explosive growth of the CDM. The number of CDM projects for validation and registration has grown exponentially and developing countries (so called non-Annex I countries) becoming involved in the CDM grew from 8 in 2000 to more than 50 in 2008.

  • 01/12/2009

  • Joint Implementation Quarterly
  • • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Trade
    • Kyoto Protocol
    • Emissions Trading
    • Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
    • Certified Emission Reduction
    • Developing Countries

• The Green Investment Scheme in the Czech Republic

  As a result of the process of economic transition since the early 1990s,the Czech Republic has been able to stay below its Kyoto Protocol assigned amount of GHGs.This surplus can be traded with other industrialised countries.The revenues of such trades are spent domestically on energy saving programmes. This article describes how this has been organised.

  • 01/12/2009

  • Joint Implementation Quarterly
  • • Climate Change
    • Kyoto Protocol
    • Emission Targets
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Energy Efficiency
    • Emissions Trading
    • Subsidies
    • Japan
    • Austria
    • Czech Republic