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Gareth Phillips joins African Development Bank
04 August 2015Gareth Phillips has joined the African Development Bank in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, as chief climate and green growth officer.
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Letters from Lima
The UN climate conference in Lima was billed as a key event in the build-up to a global agreement in Paris in 2015. This series of articles looks at some of the major topics covered.
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SGS pulls out of carbon certification in 'drastic development' for CDM
13 June 2014Certification firm SGS is to stop offering Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) services, in a move that the Project Developer Forum (PDF) described as a major blow to the market.
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CDM must stop verifier exodus, warns new Executive Board member
26 February 2014The Clean Development Mechanism will struggle to recover if verifiers continue to leave the market, a new member of its oversight board has warned.
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DNV pulls out of CDM verification, in 'sign of market collapse'
13 February 2014DNV GL is to stop providing validation and verification services for the Clean Development Mechanism and other international climate change mitigation projects, in a stark sign of the "steady collapse" of the world's only global carbon market.
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The European Commission is taking a big gamble with the CDM
05 February 2014Gareth Phillips says the European Commission is wrong to exclude international emission reduction credits from the EU carbon market after 2021.