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DOI	10.1007/s10584-019-02621-4
	The Clean Development Mechanism and large dam development: contradictions associated with climate financing in Cambodia
	Baird I.G.; Green W.N.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0165-0009
起始页码	365
结束页码	383
卷号	161 期号:2
英文摘要	Since 2000, the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has been facilitating climate change financing in support of large hydropower dam development. Although the CDM was designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote sustainable development, it has financed hydropower dams that have caused serious environmental and social impacts. We consider the case of the Lower Sesan 2 dam in northeastern Cambodia, the largest and most environmentally and socially damaging hydropower dam ever built in Cambodia. LS2 has not received climate change financing through the CDM, as four other large dams in Cambodia have, because the market price for carbon credits is too low to justify the expense required to apply for them. However, it could be registered to receive climate financing post-construction. We highlight the apparent lack of improvements in critical areas of the CDM despite years of criticisms and suggest that there are framing and structural issues that will make reforming the CDM difficult. This topic is particularly timely because the CDM is scheduled to end in 2020, after which time it will be replaced by a new but yet unspecified climate change financing mechanism. © 2019, Springer Nature B.V.
英文关键词	Cambodia; Clean Development Mechanism; Climate change mitigation; Hydropower dam; Lower Sesan 2
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Dams; Emission control; Finance; Gas emissions; Greenhouse gases; Hydroelectric power; Hydroelectric power plants; Sustainable development; Cambodia; Clean Development Mechanism; Climate change mitigation; Financing mechanisms; Hydropower dams; Lower Sesan 2; Post construction; Structural issues; Climate change; carbon emission; climate change; dam construction; emissions trading; environmental economics; environmental impact; greenhouse gas; market system; social impact; sustainable development; Cambodia
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147155
作者单位	Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Baird I.G.,Green W.N.. The Clean Development Mechanism and large dam development: contradictions associated with climate financing in Cambodia[J],2020,161(2).
APA	Baird I.G.,&Green W.N..(2020).The Clean Development Mechanism and large dam development: contradictions associated with climate financing in Cambodia.Climatic Change,161(2).
MLA	Baird I.G.,et al."The Clean Development Mechanism and large dam development: contradictions associated with climate financing in Cambodia".Climatic Change 161.2(2020).