DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1393-3
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84937501538
论文题名: Tropical hydropower in the clean development mechanism: Brazil’s Santo Antônio Dam as an example of the need for change
作者: Fearnside P.M.
刊名: Climatic Change
ISSN: 0165-0009
EISSN: 1573-1480
出版年: 2015
卷: 131, 期: 4 起始页码: 575
结束页码: 589
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Carbon
; Climate change
; Dams
; Emission control
; Environmental regulations
; Global warming
; Greenhouse gases
; International cooperation
; Ionization of gases
; Tropics
; Accounting procedures
; Carbon credits
; CDM Regulations
; Clean Development Mechanism
; Emission limits
; Hydroelectric dams
; KYOTO protocol
; United nations framework convention on climate changes
; Hydroelectric power plants
; clean development mechanism
; emission inventory
; global warming
; greenhouse gas
; hydroelectric power
; Kyoto Protocol
; subsidy system
; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
; Brazil
; Goias
; Madeira River
; Santo Antonio de Goias
英文摘要: When carbon credit is granted for projects that would occur irrespective of any subsidy based on mitigation of global warming, the projects generate “hot air,” or credit without a real climate benefit. This is the case for tropical hydroelectric dams, which are now a major destination for funds under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The countries that purchase the credit generated by dams can emit more greenhouse gases without their being offset by genuine mitigation. The limited funds available for mitigation are also wasted on subsidizing dams that would be built anyway. Tropical dams also emit substantially more greenhouse gases than are recognized in CDM accounting procedures. Tropical hydroelectric emissions are also undercounted in national inventories of greenhouse gases under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, giving them a role in undermining the effectiveness of as-yet undecided emission limits. Brazil’s Santo Antônio Dam, now under construction on the Madeira River, provides a concrete example indicating the need for reform of CDM regulations by eliminating credit for hydroelectric dams. © 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/84557
Appears in Collections: 气候减缓与适应 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: National Institute Research in Amazonia (INPA), Av. André Araújo, 2936, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Recommended Citation:
Fearnside P.M.. Tropical hydropower in the clean development mechanism: Brazil’s Santo Antônio Dam as an example of the need for change[J]. Climatic Change,2015-01-01,131(4)