Focali Brief: Expanding Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry activities under the Clean Development Mechanism - Discussions within the United Nations Climate Negotiations
Focali Brief 2011:05 by Madelene Ostwald.
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is one of the flexible mechanisms within the Kyoto Protocol and one of the few arenas where developing countries have an active part as hosts of the CDM projects. Land use and forestry-based CDMs have so far been limited to only afforestation and reforestation projects but there are discussions within the negotiations to expand the portfolio.
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