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Clean Development Mechanism

About the Clean Development Mechanism ... three major reports from Adelphi

Burgess COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

The Clean Development Mechanism and Emerging Offset Schemes: Options for Reconciliation?

Kachi, Aki; Dennis Tänzler and Wolfgang Sterk 2014: The Clean Development Mechanism and Emerging Offset Schemes: Options for Reconciliation? Climate Change | 06/2014. Berlin: Umweltbundesamt

Can the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and other emerging offset policies be reconciled? This question is at the core of a new study carried out on behalf of the German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt) at the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Aki Kachi and Dennis Tänzler (adelphi), together with Wolfgang Sterk (Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy) investigate current developments with the CDM and other alternative offset systems to identify critical issues to consider with regard to future CDM reform efforts in order to preserve the main benefits and accomplishments of CDM’s heyday.

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The CDM as Glue for the International Carbon Market?

Sterk, Wolfgang; Aki Kachi und Dennis Tänzler 2013: The CDM as Glue for the International Carbon Market? Discussion Paper prepared on behalf of the German Ministry for the Environment, the German Environment Agency, the German Emissions Trading Authority. Berlin: German Emissions Trading Authority

For some time, the Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) served as an international standard for offsets in the international carbon market. This market is now splintering. New emissions trading systems see the CDM only tepidly, are developing their own offset systems and the standard setting function of the CDM is in danger of being lost. On behalf of the German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt) at the Federal Environment Agency, adelphi researchers Aki Kachi and Dennis Tänzler, together with Wolfgang Sterk from the Wuppertal Institute, have examined these developments and the emerging alternative offset systems and suggest issues to be addressed if the CDM is to be reformed to continue to play its “glue” function in the international carbon market.

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Prospects for CDM in Post 2012 Carbon Markets. Discussion Paper

Kachi, Aki; Tänzler, Dennis; Sterk, Wolfgang 2012: Prospects for CDM in Post 2012 Carbon Markets. Discussion Paper. Berlin: German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt)/ Federal Environment Agency (UBA)

New emissions trading systems have been and still are emerging around the world. Without implementing international structures, trading certificates generated from project-based mechanisms as the CDM will become more and more difficult. In this discussion paper on behalf of the German Emissions Trading Authority within the Federal Environment Agency, adelphi's experts on emissions trading, Aki Kachi and Dennis Taenzler, together with Wolfgang Sterk of the Wuppertal Institute, analyse options for a further development and the future potentioal of the CDM.

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