Climate Change, Carbon Markets and the CDM

Author:
CDM Policy Dialogue
Publisher:
CDM Policy Dialogue
Publication Date:
17 September 2012
Tags:
Africa, Climate, Sustainable Development, Economy, Business and Finance

Global carbon markets – an important policy instrument that the international community has developed over the past decade to facilitate real-world emissions mitigation - are collapsing with potentially devastating consequences. This is particularly true of the world’s largest carbon market designed specifically to link developed and developing countries, an instrument operated by the United Nations known as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

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