Open letter to Ministers and delegates of UNFCCC Parties

The letter urges UNFCCC delegates to establish clear requirements for mitigation to stay below 2 degrees warming and to implement strict safeguards for carbon markets. Specifically, it calls for the rejection of a pilot phase for trading units under the Framework for Various Approaches (FVA), the creation of an international accounting framework to prevent double counting, and the exclusion of non-additional projects and coal power from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

• The authors advocate for several specific reforms to carbon market mechanisms to ensure they do not undermine climate commitments, including rejecting a pilot phase for trading units under the Framework for Various Approaches (FVA) and excluding coal power and non-additional project types, such as large power projects, from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI).
• The letter calls for the establishment of an international accounting framework to prevent double counting and the implementation of safeguards to protect human rights during the execution of climate mitigation projects under the Green Climate Fund, NAMAs, the CDM, or future carbon markets.

APA

Carbon Market Watch (2013). Open letter to Ministers and delegates of UNFCCC Parties. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/open-letter-to-ministers-and-delegates-of-unfccc-parties-november-2013/

Chicago

Carbon Market Watch. Open letter to Ministers and delegates of UNFCCC Parties. 2013. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/open-letter-to-ministers-and-delegates-of-unfccc-parties-november-2013/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |author=Carbon Market Watch |title=Open letter to Ministers and delegates of UNFCCC Parties |date=19 November 2013 |url=https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/open-letter-to-ministers-and-delegates-of-unfccc-parties-november-2013/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{carbonmarketwatch2013open, author = {{Carbon Market Watch}}, title = {{Open letter to Ministers and delegates of UNFCCC Parties}}, publisher = {Carbon Market Watch}, year = {2013}, month = nov, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/publications/open-letter-to-ministers-and-delegates-of-unfccc-parties-november-2013/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }