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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CDM and Sustainable DevelopmentA New Partnership Model In Action

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