Sustainable development criteria used in the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

To reach the goals of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), one of three "flexibility mechanisms" within the Kyoto Protocol, and the only control mechanism applicable within developing countries. Its two specific goals:

I) reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; and II) furthering sustainable development within the "host" developing country.

Students interview a cross section of developing country governments, prepare sample case studies, and, to the extent possible, prepare an evaluation of some of the existing criteria and offer practical recommendations for countries currently developing them.

This resulted in a report to survey and document the current status of the sustainable development criteria employed in developing countries for DM.