Elizabeth Lokey, Renewable Energy Project Development under the Clean Development Mechanism: A Guide for Latin America, Earthscan, London, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-84407-737-3, 348 pages

摘要

Ben Pearson opines that '[t]he question of whether the CDM is promoting sustainable development can be framed primarily in terms of whether it is promoting renewables in developing countries and thus assisting in the transition away from fossil fuels'.1 Despite their major contribution to sustainable development, renewables encounter a lot of barriers during their implementation and registration as CDM projects. This is even more so in developing countries due to a number of factors. Elizabeth Lokey discusses these barriers in this new book. The author seeks to guide CDM renewable energy project developers through the implementation stage of their projects by highlighting the barriers that renewables encounter in Latin America through a case study of 17 Latin American countries.2 The author's thesis is that peculiar conditions in each country, as well as the