Realizing the Development Dividend:Community Capacity Building and CDM.
Can they co-exist?
Gay HarleyClean Development Alliance
COP 11 – MOP 1December 5, 2005
Overview
• CDM a “market” mechanism: genius and pitfalls
• Market values and international commodity trading
• Sustainable Development and capital structures : Ownership Matters
• A private/NGO model for turning the CDM tide
• Can community capacity building drive CDM?
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CDM: Full of Promise!
• Revolutionary disruption of traditional economics
• Carbon as a commodity
• Puts environmental value into commercial marketplace
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CDM: Is the Inequity Endemic?
• sustainable development components are sacrificed
• competition among host countries encourages lower standards of SD
• wealth flows to the developed nations• market mechanisms reinforce traditional
economic patterns• using market value to determine
development priorities (pushing a string?)
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Even in SD: Ownership Matters
• Governance issues rooted in ownership
• Profit driven development can lead to detachment
• Market determined development blind to social and political needs
• Not necessarily value added for community (no engagement, not necessarily local jobs)
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Even in SD: Ownership Matters
• Local investment decisions
• Local control of energy and other resources
• Siting decisions
• Empowerment/Professional Development
• Community economic development strengthened
• Community Capacity Building becomes embedded
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Turning the Tide? A New Partnership Model
• The Clean Development Alliance: a private/NGO Partnership for development
• Empower and build capacity of proponents/communities to participate and manage energy and carbon resources
• Ensure that returns from CERs are directed to high impact sustainable development programming
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• Technology transfer in renewable energy, energy efficiency, community participation and capacity building
• Community-based solutions for emissions reduction strategies
• Alliances with local organizations and development practitioners that support the development and implementation of CDM projects
Partnership in Action: Strategies for Strengthening Capacity
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