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- Title
PROJETOS DE MDL DE ENERGIA EÓLICA NO NORDESTE DO BRASIL: PERFIL E COBENEFÍCIOS DECLARADOS.
- Authors
de Fátima Barbosa Góes, Maria; Silveira Andrade, José Célio; Santana Silva, Marcelo; Coelho Santana, Augusta
- Abstract
CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) projects should have as a secondary objective the promotion of environmental, social and economic co-benefits for sustainable development. Thus, the purpose of this research is to analyze the profile and declared co-benefits in CDM wind energy projects in Northeast of Brazil. Thus, a documentary analysis of 47 Project Design Documents (PDD) of all wind energy projects in the Northeast recorded by the CDM Executive Board until May 2016 was carried out. Results show a predominance of small projects, located in districts or small municipalities, especially in the state of Rio Grande do Norte (43%). More than a third of the projects present an estimate of average annual reduction of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) of up to 50,000 tons of CO2 equivalent. With regard to declared co-benefits, we found that environmental co-benefits are much lower than the social and economic ones. The most cited environmental co-benefit was the improvement in air quality; the social most cited was the generation of new job opportunities; and the stimulus to regional economy. The analysis concludes that little emphasis was placed on declaration of the co-benefits in the PDD and that these could be expanded if there were in the CDM the prediction of measurement and verification of the co-benefits generated after the project implementation, similarly to what already happens with GHG emissions reduction.
- Subjects
WIND power; SUSTAINABLE development; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; ENVIRONMENTAL degradation; ECONOMIC development
- Publication
Environmental & Social Management Journal / Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental, 2018, Vol 12, Issue 2, p37
- ISSN
1981-982X
- Publication type
Article