CarbonAided News
Putting the D into CDM
Acquiring Carbon Finance for Development Projects
A workshop in London on 15th June 2009 for those thinking about participating in carbon projects with social benefits to help understand them better.
Offsetting to combat global poverty
When the Clean Development Mechanism was first mooted, people in the development world, including CarbonAided's Dick Jones (former Senior Energy Adviser at the UK Department for International Development), had high hopes that this would provide a rich source of funding to support poverty reduction in developing countries.
However, most of the CDM projects to have been registered to date have done little to make any direct impact on poverty and it has even said that the only development test to be applied is that no actual harm is done!!
Award Winning Rural Indian biogas project
Project to provide green energy and income for 20,000 rural families in India.
Mini hydro project wins sustainability award
One of our sustainability projects has received a prestigious Ashden Award for having an outstanding impact on sustainable development.