Research on assessment of CDM projects' influence on China's sustainable development

摘要

This paper firstly introduces the CDM's flexibility mechanisms and the issues of sustainable development. Then it further studies methodologies on the assessment of the influence of CDM projects on sustainable development and a set of indicators to evaluate non-carbon benefits of CDM projects on the environment, development, and equity, and demonstrate show how these indicators can be used in practice by looking at case studies of CDM project candidates in the energy sector from china. Finally, it makes some suggestions such as promoting sustainable development and indicators can be a necessary tool to assure that sustainability impacts of CDM projects are taken into consideration.