Clean Development Mechanism Potential and Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa

Timilsina, Govinda R.; Gouvello, Christophe De; Thioye, Massamba; Dayo, Felix B.

doi:10.1007/s11027-009-9206-5

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“…They also prevent host country stakeholders (e.g., national NGOs, private organisations, sub-national governments, and local communities) from participating in the CDM by developing projects or mean they are highly reliant on external assistance to do so [116]. Indigenous mitigation approaches are not well recognised by CDM modalities, which favour Westernised, technocratic approaches [117].…”

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Socially Just Triple-Wins? A Framework for Evaluating the Social Justice Implications of Climate Compatible Development

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Climate compatible development (CCD) aims to help people improve their lives in the face of climate threats without exacerbating these threats for current and future generations. It is proving an attractive concept to both academics and practitioners. However, the social justice implications of CCD have not yet been comprehensively explored and an absence of adequate evaluation frameworks has led to multiple, legitimate cross-scalar social justice claims being marginalised. This article develops a framework to guide holistic social justice evaluation of CCD initiatives across levels and scales. Underpinning this framework is a social justice approach that embraces particularism, pluralism and procedural justice. Drawing on existing research, the framework is used to explore the implications of the Clean Development Mechanism for recognition, participation and distribution in the Least Developed Countries. Findings show that achieving social justice through CCD is not a given; rather, the social justice implications of CCD differ within and between levels and scales. We conclude by suggesting ways in which our framework can be applied to augment knowledge on CCD. Understanding the processes through which social justices and injustices are created is integral to considerations of whether and how CCD should be used to underpin a new development landscape.

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Section: Participation and Recognitionmentioning

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Socially Just Triple-Wins? A Framework for Evaluating the Social Justice Implications of Climate Compatible Development

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“…Besides, Biomass electricity through using 30% of agricultural remains and 10% of wood residues from wood processing plants in SSA has potential to generate an additional 1500MW of power supply (Dasappa, 2011). Therefore, as documented in the Kyoto Protocol (Clean Development Mechanisms), SSA's renewable energy structures can be legally certified to acquire carbon credits on global carbon markets (World Bank, 2008;Timilsina et al, 2010). For instance, in year 2008, Uganda installed 550MW of renewable energy and 315MW of this total was hydro-based, and in 2010 an additional 300MW of renewable energy was also installed for Clean Development Mechanisms initiatives (UNEP, 2012).…”

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Problems of Sustainable Energy in sub-Saharan Africa and Possible Solutions

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Ngwakwe

2014

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“…Consequently, only South Africa and a number of northern African countries have been successful as host countries so far. Other countries, in particular in sub-Saharan Africa, have struggled to attract CDM activities despite having large potential for project development (Timilsina, de Gouvello, Thioye and Dayo, 2010;Arens, Burian, Sterk, Schnurr and Beuermann, 2011). With many of these countries suffering from extraordinarily low levels of development and given the fact that the CDM is not only intended to support Annex-I countries in meeting their emission reduction commitments but also to support the projects' host countries in achieving sustainable development, this development is particularly distressing.…”

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An update on the Clean Development Mechanism in Africa in times of market crisis

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Hermwille

Warnecke

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Climate and Development

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Africa and in particular African Least Developed Countries (LDCs) have in the past been neglected by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to a large extent. This article reviews the mechanism's performance in the region and highlights current developments. The analysis is based on a quantitative breakdown of data provided by the UNEP DTU CDM Pipeline and was complemented by interviews with selected investors. The findings indicate that despite the various support measures for underrepresented regions, the overall share of African CDM activities continues to be low. The significant rise in the share of Programmes of Activities (PoAs) of recent years cannot make up for the continuing low numbers of African stand-alone projects. Further, the collapse of the compliance market has proved fatal in terms of timing: Ongoing efforts to support the development of a genuine African carbon market were suffocated by the lack of demand for CERs at a moment when capacity building had started to bear fruit. Consequently, instead of being a mitigation tool with significant scale the future role of the CDM in Africa might be limited to the voluntary market while at the same time serving as a tool to foster sustainable development, with mitigation benefits.

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Clean Development Mechanism Potential and Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract: GHG mitigation potential, Sub-Saharan Africa, Clean development mechanism,

Cited by 26 publications

References 13 publications

Socially Just Triple-Wins? A Framework for Evaluating the Social Justice Implications of Climate Compatible Development

Socially Just Triple-Wins? A Framework for Evaluating the Social Justice Implications of Climate Compatible Development

Problems of Sustainable Energy in sub-Saharan Africa and Possible Solutions

An update on the Clean Development Mechanism in Africa in times of market crisis

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