Prospects for CDM in Post 2012 Carbon Markets

New emissions trading systems have been and still are emerging around the world. Without implementing international structures, trading certificates generated from project-based mechanisms as the CDM will become more and more difficult. In this discussion paper on behalf of the German Emissions Trading Authority within the Federal Environment Agency, adelphi's experts on emissions trading, Aki Kachi and Dennis Tänzler, together with Wolfgang Sterk of the Wuppertal Institute, analyse options for a further development and the future potentioal of the CDM.

More publications:

Kachi, Aki; Dennis Tänzler and Wolfgang Sterk 2014: The Clean Development Mechanism and Emerging Offset Schemes: Options for Reconciliation? 

Sterk, Wolfgang; Aki Kachi und Dennis Tänzler 2013: The CDM as Glue for the International Carbon Market?