Fig. 1: Projects entering the CDM pipeline.For this second quarter update, I've introduced some new analyses (see below), along with those similar to the first quarter blog update. You can also get weekly email updates of CDM hydro projects and see our monthly spreadsheet, always available for your research and gleaning pleasure. Data based on the UNEP Risoe spreadsheet (June 1, 2009). Feel free to contact me about my calculations.
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Our Rivers Our Rights
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 10:40
DNV and BV Cert both received an Fhttp://www.isletsofhope.com/pic/grade%20f.jpgMisbehaving school children aren't the only ones in need of remedial classes this summer.
Auditors (or DOEs) of CDM projects have been given abysmal scores in a new report by WWF and the Öko Institute for Applied Ecology.
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 17:41
Xiaoxi Dam, Hunan Province, ChinaIn addition to supporting AB1404, International Rivers is submitting comments to the California Air Resources Board during their stakeholder offsets workshops--all in a very polite and civilized manner. (CARB afterall has some very civilized and admirable people working on AB32.) The most recent one is posted here.
Date: Monday, April 27, 2009 - 15:58
A two-year study by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), “Climate 2030: A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy,” has found that the United States can dramatically cut global warming emissions and reduce consumer and business energy bills at the same time, all with a minimum amount of (rip-)offsets.
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 13:27
CA leading the way for air quality, environmental justice, and real emissions reductions.International Rivers has endorsed a bill currently under consideration by Californian legislators that would seriously limit the use of offsets within the state's planned carbon trading system, and totally ban the use of credits from the UN's Clean Development Mechanism. Assembly Bill 1404, or the Global Warming, Compliance Offsets and Air Quality in California bill, was introduced by Assembly Members Kevin De León and Manuel Pérez, both Southern California Democrats
Date: Monday, April 6, 2009 - 17:14
The world through the eyes of the CDM nerd.
Dovetailing my last blog on the decline of the CDM, I'm introducing a quarterly hydro CDM blog, which updates any CDM-nerds out there interested in the status of hydropower projects in the CDM. I also send out weekly email updates of CDM hydro projects and produce a monthly spreadsheet for your research and gleaning pleasure.
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 11:56
Rescue efforts near Jakarta are difficult in the thick mudBBC News On Friday, March 27th at around 2 AM local time, an old, poorly maintained 16-meter high dam burst, sending a flash flood through a densely populated neighborhood southwest of Jakarta (see photos and video footage). Since most people were still asleep, many became trapped amidst the mud and debris. The death toll had risen to 100 people, with hundreds more missing, according to the latest news reports. Scientists on Tuesday said the absence of early detection and warning systems for the Situ Gintung dam was to blame for the dam's failure during heavy rain. Residents say they had been worried about the aging structure for years and had alerted authorities to cracks in the dam a year ago. The Jakarta Post is calling for a national program of infrastructure assessment and repair, and restoration of floodplains.
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 14:09
"Carbon trading is fundamentally derivatives trading."
So stated a recent Friends of the Earth report, "Subprime Carbon? Re-thinking the World's Largest New Derivatives Market." The report, written by Michelle Chan, explains that most carbon allowances and offsets/credits are sold as futures or forward contracts and are therefore a type of derivative. FoE warns that the carbon derivatives market is at risk from "subprime carbon" - contracts to deliver carbon that carry a relatively high risk of not being fulfilled and may collapse in value. They are comparable to subprime loans or junk bonds, which are debts that carry a high risk of not being paid.
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 - 14:53
Date: Monday, March 2, 2009 - 15:43
While US federal climate activities were full of hope last week, the mood on the west coast turned sour.
A report released by the Western Business Roundtable (WBR) in late February, for all intents and purposes, attempted to thwart efforts by several Western Climate Intiative (WCI) states. These include New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington, which were in the midst of heated debates over climate bills in their state houses. Among other dire warnings and false assumptions, the WBR report claimed that the cap-and-trade program would prolong the recession, drive away investment, and do nothing to combat climate change.
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 - 15:32
Microseismicity in an exploited reservoir for an oil fieldNORSARAmid the recent hubbub surrounding whether Zipingpu Dam may have triggered the disastrous Sichuan earthquake in May 2008, it's important to clear up a few misconceptions about Reservoir-Induced Seismicity (RIS):
Date: Monday, February 2, 2009 - 12:18
Bob CorkerOn January 28th, Tennessee
Republican Sen. Bob Corker asked Al Gore a question on offsets as he gave testimony on climate to the US Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. Corker is an offsets skeptic and we (and Friends of the Earth)
have been working with his staff to educate him about the CDM, or Clean Development Mechanism. His
question to Gore referenced International Rivers and cited our consultant Barbara Haya's work showing
that most approved CDM projects were already completed by the time of
approval. Slight glitch when he flubbed the stat and said that the projects were
"well under construction" (instead of fully completed, which they actually are) by the time of approval.
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 11:01
A message in a bottle arrives for you in your local water body. It asks you, What connects us all? Where would you go for the answers? What wise hermit on a mountaintop would you seek for deep insight?
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 17:12
That and sanitation (water supply's poor cousin for infrastructure and aid).
Clearly climate change will continue to dominate the news. But my prediction for the new year (and those to follow) is that we'll be seeing a lot more water issues on the (web)page. International Rivers has covered water supply in the Himalayas, followed the water politics between nations like India and Pakistan, and tracked emergent water storage solutions (such as rainwater harvesting). News agencies worldwide are also picking up the stories as well, especially on how water relates to climate change, health, and international politics.
Date: Monday, December 8, 2008 - 16:15
Lots of hot air
Reuters has compiled a helpful cheatsheet on country-by-country climate targets (see below). Reminding ourselves (and our leaders) of these targets now would be a good idea, considering that the attitude in Poznan has apparently turned pessimistic - see Ambitions for 2009 UN climate pact fade in Poznan (Reuters). (Oh, by the way, Venice just experienced its highest flood levels in 22 years.)
Date: Monday, November 24, 2008 - 17:16
Is the financial crisis the disaster that the climate change movement has been waiting for?
After the release of each IPCC report and the occurrence of every natural disaster that suspiciously smelled of global warming, I would wonder: Will the world finally wake up to its common peril? Will those in government (and those at home) finally realize the sooner or later, climate change will hit us in our comfy western seats (and hit hard)?
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 12:44
Leonardo DiCaprio. The Rolling Stones.
Now add seven western state governors and four Canadian premiers. These are the most recent riders of the carbon offsets bandwagon. Carbon offsets play a central role in the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), a carbon Cap-and-Trade scheme first introduced in July, that includes seven U.S. states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec).
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