Comments on the CDM Project Design Document (PDD) for the AES Changuinola I (a.k.a. Chan 75) Large Hydroelectric Dam Project: A Case of “Greenwash Additionality”

Submitted by International Rivers to the project validator TÜV SÜD
August 8, 2008

Project Overview:

Proposed Executive Board review of Jorethang Loop CDM application needs to include appraisal, stakeholder consultation requirements

RE: A review of proposed CDM project—Jorethang Loop—should include whether it met the stakeholder consultation requirements

Dear CDM Executive Board members,

Jorethang Loop is a 96 MW hydro project in India which the Executive Board will consider reviewing in its 37th meeting.

Official CDM project name is "Substitution of grid power generation through transmission of renewable electricity generated in a hydro power generating station"

Submitted to DNV

Comments about the proposed CDM credits for Tala Hydroelectric project in Bhutan and export of hydropower to India

Based on reading of the PDD dated Dec 16, 2007 (as available on the UNFCCC website) for the above project and having monitored India’s power sector over the last few years we reach the conclusion that it will not be appropriate to accept the project for CDM cr

(A similar letter has been sent to the following buyers of carbon credits from Chinese hydros: ENEL, EDF Trading Limited, ICECAP, CAMS AB Sweden, RWE Power AG, MGM Carbon Portfolio, Kommunalkredit, EcoSecurities, Energy Systems International, Eco Energia, Endesa Generacion SA, CDCF, Factor Consulting, IXIS, Int System Energy Corporation, Arreon Carbon, Sindicatum Carbon Capital International, KfW, Ecoinvest, ICF, ESI BV, WBCF, CCAN)

There are several grounds on which the 880 MW Campos Novos Dam should be rejected: lack of adequate stakeholder consultations (due to suppression of stakeholder voices, including unjustified arrests); illegal practices involved in the development of the project; and blatant non-additionality. 

Barbara Haya
Consultant, International Rivers
PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
bhaya [at] berkeley [dot] edu

Hans Jürgen Stehr
Chair CDM Executive Board
CDM Secretariat
CDMinfo [at] unfccc [dot] int

October 12, 2007

To: Members of the validation team for the Sondu Miriu Hydro Power Project in Kenya, DNV

From: Bryan Ashe, Earthlife Africa eThekwini, South Africa
Liane Greeff, Environmental Monitoring Group, South Africa
Barbara Haya, University of California, Berkeley and International Rivers
Betty Obbo, African Rivers Network, Uganda

Similar letters to the below were also sent to ECIS (now known as INCIS) members Barclays, Citibank, Fortis, MorganStanley, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Kleinworth and Climate Change Capital.

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