Carbon Market Watch recommendations COP23 email negotiators

Carbon Market Watch urges COP23 negotiators to phase out the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to prevent the use of credits that lack environmental integrity and could increase overall emissions. The organization advocates for strong rules for Article 6 to ensure net mitigation and protect human rights, and calls for the integration of aviation and shipping sectors into the Paris Agreement's transparency and accounting frameworks to avoid double counting and emissions increases from schemes like CORSIA.

• The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) should be phased out at the end of the second Kyoto Commitment period because most of its credits lack environmental integrity and are double counted, which could undermine post-2020 ambition and increase total emissions.
• Article 6 of the Paris Agreement requires robust international rules and oversight to prevent a 'race to the bottom' in global markets. Recommendations include limiting market participation to countries with economy-wide quantified targets, ensuring a common accounting system, and requiring certification that mitigation actions have not caused environmental harm or violated human rights.
• Aviation and shipping sectors, which may account for 40% of the carbon budget by 2050, must be integrated into the Paris Agreement's Transparency Framework and Global Stocktake. The Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) is viewed as an insufficient long-term solution that could increase overall emissions by an amount equivalent to 817 coal-fired power plants per year without transparent rules.

APA

Kachi, A., Perlman, K., & Brasier, P.-J. (2017). Carbon Market Watch recommendations COP23 email negotiators. Carbon Market Watch. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/carbon-market-watch-recommendations-cop23-email-negotiators/

Chicago

Kachi, Aki, Kelsey Perlman, and Pierre-Jean Brasier. Carbon Market Watch recommendations COP23 email negotiators. Carbon Market Watch, 2017. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/carbon-market-watch-recommendations-cop23-email-negotiators/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{kachi2017carbon, author = {Kachi, Aki and Perlman, Kelsey and Brasier, Pierre-Jean}, title = {{Carbon Market Watch recommendations COP23 email negotiators}}, publisher = {Carbon Market Watch}, year = {2017}, month = nov, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/carbon-market-watch-recommendations-cop23-email-negotiators/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }