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General Overview of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

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Forests to Climate Change Mitigation

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The CDM is an important flexible mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol. Understanding general overview of the CDM is critical to dealing with CDM forestry. The CDM regulators, CDM project cycle, sustainable development issues of the CDM are the important common issues of the CDM. This chapter discusses these issues importantly. Present global status of CDM projects also have been described here.

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Notes

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    60 GWh is equivalent to 4,000 h of operation of a 15 MW plant or 60×3.6 TJ = 216 TJ. TJ = terajoules.

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    Kiloton.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Forest Policy Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Shinshu University, 8304 Minamiminowa-Mura, Kami Ina Gun, 399-4598, Nagano-Ken, Japan

    Md. Danesh Miah

  2. Department of Forest Science, Kookmin University, 136-702, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Prof. Dr. Man Yong Shin

  3. Forest Policy Laboratory, Shinshu University, 8304 Minamiminowa-Mura, Kami Ina Gun, 399-4598, Nagano-Ken, Japan

    Prof. Dr. Masao Koike

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Miah, D., Shin, M.Y., Koike, M. (2011). General Overview of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). In: Forests to Climate Change Mitigation. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13253-7_2

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