Failed Mechanism: How the CDM is subsidizing hydro developers and harming the Kyoto Protocol

Published by: Open Development Mekong

FIVE YEARS AGO International Rivers started monitoring the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism, concerned that funds marked for climate change mitigation would be used to encourage construction of otherwise uneconomic large hydropower projects, taking limited funds away from renewable energy projects in real need of support, and subsidizing the social and environmental impacts that large hydropower often produces. What has actually happened is worse than we expected. The CDM is blindly subsidizing the destruction of rivers, while the dams it supports are helping destroy the environmental integrity of the CDM.

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Field	Value
Document type	Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Language of document	English
Short title (alternative/varying form of title)	Failed Mechanism
Topics	Mitigation
Geographic area (spatial range)	Cambodia China Lao People's Democratic Republic Myanmar Thailand Viet Nam
Copyright	Unclear copyright
Version / Edition	1.0
License	unspecified
Contact	1847 Berkeley Way Berkeley CA 94703, USA Tel: + 1 510 848 1155 Fax: + 1 510 848 1008 info@internationalrivers.org www.internationalrivers.org
Author (individual)	Barbara Haya
Publication place	Berkeley
Publisher	International Rivers
Publication date	2007
Pagination	12
Keywords	CDM,Kyoto Protocol,Certified Emissions Reductions
Date uploaded	December 3, 2017, 23:00 (UTC)
Date modified	December 3, 2017, 23:03 (UTC)