Open letter to Environment Ministers and delegates of UNFCCC Parties

The document calls for the establishment of clear, equitable mitigation commitments to maintain a 2°C warming limit and requests the rejection of a pilot phase for trading carbon market units under the Framework for Various Approaches (FVA). It advocates for an international accounting framework to prevent double counting, the exclusion of non-additional projects and coal power from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and the implementation of human rights safeguards for mitigation projects under the CDM, Green Climate Fund, and NAMAs.

• The authors call for the adoption of clear, equitable, and ambitious mitigation commitments to ensure global warming remains below 2 degrees.
• The letter requests the rejection of a pilot phase for trading carbon market units under the Framework for Various Approaches (FVA) to protect the post-2020 climate regime.
• The document demands the exclusion of coal power and non-additional project types, such as large power projects, from the Kyoto Protocol's flexible mechanisms, specifically the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI).
• The authors advocate for an international accounting framework to stop double counting and the creation of safeguards for human rights in projects under the CDM, Green Climate Fund, NAMAs, or future carbon markets.

APA

Carbon Market Watch (2013). Open letter to Environment Ministers and delegates of UNFCCC Parties. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Open_letter_COP19_english.pdf

Chicago

Carbon Market Watch. Open letter to Environment Ministers and delegates of UNFCCC Parties. 2013. https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Open_letter_COP19_english.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{carbonmarketwatch2013open, author = {{Carbon Market Watch}}, title = {{Open letter to Environment Ministers and delegates of UNFCCC Parties}}, publisher = {Carbon Market Watch}, year = {2013}, month = nov, url = {https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Open_letter_COP19_english.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }