
The Clean Development Mechanism in the post-2012 Climate Change Regime
Year: 2011 Past Project
- Overview
Installations covered by the European Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) can use credits from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to cover a share of their emissions. The CDM credits are generated by low-carbon projects in developing countries that require the CDM support to become financially viable.
This project produced a series of publications in 2011, exploring the Clean Development Mechanism, and assessing it in reaching the following objectives:
- Additionality
- Efficient use of EU mitigation funds
- Sustainable Development
- Low-carbon development – In developing countries
- Low-carbon development – in Europe
- CDM in the case of a 30% EU emissions reduction target