A decade after Paris Agreement established the mechanism, its first set of credits has been approved - but concerns over legacy projects persist ...

BEIJING, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The Clean Development Mechanism, part of the U.N's Kyoto Protocol, promotes investments in emission-reducing projects in the developing world by companies and governments ...

This document contains the CDM-PDD from the UNFCCC with the extra requirements that have to be fulfilled in order for the project activity to be eligible as a Gold Standard CDM project. Most sections ...

UN Climate Change, 26 February 2026 - A UN Body has approved the first credits to be issued under the UN carbon market established by the Paris Agreement. The approved activity is a clean‑cooking ...

Japan is to buy greenhouse gas emissions quotas from China as part of its efforts to meet its Kyoto Protocol commitments. Tokyo intends to use the clean development mechanism (CDM) with a particular ...

UN Climate Change, 26 February 2026 - A UN Body has approved the first credits to be issued under the UN carbon market established by the Paris ...

Carbon credits serve as a potent market-driven incentive, effectively catalyzing the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These credits operate within the framework of international agreements ...

Barry Kantor has been coordinating communications and capacity-building for the SouthSouthNorth network since 2001. With a background in Law and English, and a teacher of the FM Alexander Technique, ...

Oscar Reyes and Tamra Gilbertson are researchers with Carbon Trade Watch (www.carbontradewatch.org), a project of the Transnational Institute. The headlines generated by the carbon trading mechanisms ...