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UNFCCC Declined to Forward Fossil Proposal, CDM Watch Says
2010-10-06 17:49:11.996 GMT
By Mathew Carr
Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The secretariat of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change declined to forward a
fossil-power-plant proposal from the environmental group CDM
Watch to regulators of the UN CO2 market.
"In a surprising move, the United Nations Climate Change
Secretariat has refused to forward a formal request by CDM Watch
to the Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board and its
Methodologies Panel," Bonn-based CDM Watch said on its website.
The lobby had requested the panel change a methodology that
allows some fossil plants to receive tradable credits based on
"outdated data," the statement said. The board was drawing up
plans to make it clearer who could make submissions to it, CDM
Watch said. David Abbass, a UNFCCC spokesman in Bonn, didn't
immediately respond to a voicemail seeking comment.
A CDM Watch report earlier this year helped prompt a
executive board investigation into credits from projects that
curb hydrofluorocarbon gases.
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