As the Paris Agreement is set to replace the Kyoto Protocol as the new and universal global agreement in driving down greenhouse gas emissions and addressing the adverse impacts of climate change, the fate of the pipeline of CDM activities is unclear. The same is true for the methodologies they use and, more generally, the standards, procedures and institutional architecture developed over the history of the CDM.

Authors:  Sandra Greiner, Stephan Hoch, Andrew Howard, Mandy Rambharos, El Hadji Mbaye Diagne (2016)