New Market Mechanisms (NMM) are meant to contribute to net mitigation effects beyond offsetting. Currently, several institutions are supporting the development of pilot projects for new market mechanisms.
The second Kyoto period is here – with few players and low targets. Emission trading schemes are multiplying worldwide – and the flagship EU ETS is in crisis.
Integrating Africa's Least Developed Countries into the Global Carbon Market
This report summarizes key outcomes of a BMU-funded two-year research project on the region's CDM project potential, the obstacles and barriers, and possible solution strategies that go beyond traditional capacity building efforts.
Promoting Sustainable Development in New Market Mechanisms – Options and Limitations
Several Parties (including the EU) as well as NGOs have demanded that new market mechanisms (NMM) should be designed in a way to explicitly support sustainable development (SD).
Focus: New Market Mechanisms – From Theory to Pilot Programmes
JIKO Info informs readers about current trends involving the Kyoto Protocol's CDM and JI mechanisms. It is published by the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy on behalf of the German Environment Ministry. In contrast to other newsletters, it focuses on state-run initiatives and projects, and on the institutional infrastructures which allow CDM/JI activities. The JIKO newsletter appears quarterly in German and English.
City-Wide Programmes of Activities – An Option for Significant Emission Reductions in Cities?
This paper analyses whether city-wide approaches to carbon finance under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) are a viable option for significant emission reductions in cities.
The short study looks at the role of standardised baselines for the CDM in least developed countries (LDCs), which have so far been under-represented in the CDM.
This short study outlines a carbon renewable energy feed-in tariff (carbon REFIT) based on the standardised baseline for the Southern African Power Pool.
