{"id":28379,"date":"2009-12-14T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:39:35","slug":"3379-how-the-cdm-changes-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/3379-how-the-cdm-changes-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How the CDM changes lives&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is the title of an international <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cdm.unfccc.int\/contest\/09\/winvc09.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video contest<\/a>&nbsp; organised by the Clean Development Mechanism &#8212; the international emissions trading scheme under the Kyoto Protocol. The first and third prizes, awarded at the Copenhagen conference, have been won by Chinese filmmakers, which should come as no great surprise: over 40% of all CDM projects are registered in China.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/greenleapforward.com\/2009\/12\/13\/greening-china-one-video-clip-at-a-time\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Green Leap Forward<\/em><\/a> blog, here are three bilingual China-related videos, all of which &#8212; again, no surprises &#8212; extoll the virtues of the CDM. If you want to read the other side of the carbon-trading debate (and there are some important points to be made about the CDM&#8217;s weaknesses and failures &#8212; particularly around the issue of &quot;additionality&quot;), then have a look back at <em>chinadialogue<\/em>&#8216;s archive: you may want to start with &quot;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/1326-Briefing-carbon-trading\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Briefing: carbon trading<\/a>&quot; by Maryann Bird; or skip straight to a stronger point-of-view from Kevin Smith, &quot;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/3311-Carbon-trading-isn-t-working\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carbon trading isn&#8217;t working<\/a>&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ivq-Fpmj0BE&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" name=\"movie\" \/><param value=\"true\" name=\"allowFullScreen\" \/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ivq-Fpmj0BE&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Natural Gas Power Plant in Inner Mongolia Changes Nasong&rsquo;s Lives&quot; by Li Yang Li and Zhang Xiaochen<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p><param value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Qbmr2RV5-8s&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" name=\"movie\" \/><param value=\"true\" name=\"allowFullScreen\" \/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"295\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Qbmr2RV5-8s&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&quot;Changing Lives in China&quot; by Van Yang<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param value=\"true\" name=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\" \/><param value=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8018074&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" name=\"movie\" \/><embed width=\"400\" height=\"225\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8018074&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/8018074\">China takes the lead in wind energy development<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2754265\">ClimateWorks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is the title of an international video contest&nbsp; organised by the Clean Development Mechanism &#8212; the international emissions trading scheme under the Kyoto Protocol. 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