Carbon Offsets Daily

Daily carbon offset news, insight, community.

  • Author:
  • Published: Jul 8th, 2010
  • Category: India
  • Comments: 5

UN panel recommendation may make India lose half carbon credits


| Sourced From |

A United Nations panel recommendation this week to change carbon credits calculating methodology for hydroflourocarbons (HFCs) can result in India losing half of its credits valid till 2012. Certified Emissions Reduction Units (CERs), also called carbon credits, for the destruction of hydroflourocarbons (HFC) represent over 80 percent of the total credits issued till date under UNs Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to India. HFC has highest credit value, as a tonne of HFC emission saved means 11,700 carbon credits earned.

A coalition of green groups working under the banner CDM Watch had tabled a formal request calling on the UN’s climate change secretariat to overhaul the CDM and crack down on alleged

Related posts:

  1. UN panel recommendation may make India lose half carbon credits
  2. India Gets Fewer Carbon Credits as UN Scrutinizes Projects
  3. Cos dump green projects as carbon credits lose value
  4. China, India and Brazil ahead in carbon credits
  5. I-T dept mulls tax on carbon credits

Tags: , , ,

Leave a Reply

© 2009 Carbon Offsets Daily. All Rights Reserved.

This blog is powered by .