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who are good at the bureaucracy. I have discussed the
CDM with several experts and the consensus is that it has
been a failure.
Additionality has been too easy to get
accepted, and clean up of some of the more powerful,
exotic, and easily removed greenhouse gases has earned
an emitter in a developing country far more money under
the CDM than it would have cost that country to clean up
directly.
From the perspective of reduction in emissions, the
Kyoto Protocol of
has done very little. It has tested
out some mechanisms, good and bad, and has given time
for some critical thinking about what is next. Most
important, the explosive growth of the economies of
China and India, and the emissions that have gone with
it, have convinced most that the developing countries
have to be brought into the system in the successor to
the
Protocol.
.
Kyoto-
What I have been calling Kyoto-
was to take effect in
when what is called the
first commitment period
(
) expired. A second commitment period was
added through a proposed amendment to the original
Protocol for a period from
-
to
, but that was
not rati
ed. A meeting of all the signatories to the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change took place in
Copenhagen in December of
to try to come to
agreement on the next steps but failed. A second meeting
in Warsaw in
also failed, but the failure was papered
An interesting, though somewhat technical analysis is given in [
].
