This document provides an overview of the CDM’s background, structure, and project cycle, and examines the potential value and benefits for participating developing countries. The …

This chapter provides background information about the Clean Development Mechanism’s evolution and objectives, as well as about UNDP’s role in building the kinds of human and …

The CDM helps host countries achieve sustainable development and reduce emissions, while giving industrialized countries some flexibility in how they meet their emission targets.

It updates a previous publication, "Layperson's Guide to the Clean Development Mechanism", launched in mid-2002, and is part of a series aimed at enabling developing countries to …

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) promotes greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation projects, such as clean energy, energy eficiency, and waste utilization projects whereby additional …

The agreement set up the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) – one of three flexible mechanisms, alongside Joint Implementation and Emissions Trading – as a key part of this …

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based flexible offset mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol that allows the crediting of emission reductions from greenhouse gas …