UN considers review of alleged carbon offset abuses - 15 Jun 2010 - BusinessGreen.com

Clean Development Mechanism carbon offset scheme faces fresh criticism over dubious emission reduction projects
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Lambert Schneider, a former member of the UN climate change secretariat's Methodologies Panel and one of the original designers of the CDM system, has joined the ranks of its critics. “The amount of HCFC-22 production and HFC-23 generation appears to be mainly driven by the possibility to generate offset credits rather than other factors," he said.

Speaking to BusinesGreen.com, CDM Watch director Eva Filzmoser said the CDM iniative was creating perverse incentives that ran counter to its original goals of promoting more sustainable activities.

"The essence of our complaint is that we accuse the CDM Project of massively inflating HCFC-22 production," she said. "We would like to see the UN respond to this concern by amending the methodology that is in place at this stage."