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- Title
Challenges of Integrating SDGs in Market-Based Climate Mitigation Projects Under the Paris Agreement.
- Authors
Ugochukwu, Basil
- Abstract
The first objective of this paper is to identify ways by which to integrate Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in climate mitigation projects within the framework of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement (PA) to further the objective of promoting sustainable development and environmental integrity under Article 6. The second is to apply lessons learned from the implementation of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to better articulate the PA's proposed Sustainable Development Mechanism (SDM) such that the shortcomings of the CDM are averted or at least ameliorated. The various social criticisms of the CDM warrants a re-think of the design of sustainable development parameters under the SDM. One very important concern in this regard will be how to disperse sustainable development principles across the SDM agenda. The paper suggests that in drawing up the SDM rules, it would matter to clarify the concept of sustainable development as applicable in the climate context and as a rule of thumb for mitigation and adaptation projects. The paper also recommends the assurance of equity in the distribution of sustainable development projects around the world. However, for this to happen it should be clarified whether there is a need to integrate additional equity objectives within the SDM rules beyond simply curbing greenhouse gas emissions and ensuring sustainable development.
- Subjects
PARIS (France); CLIMATE change mitigation; PARIS Agreement (2016); GREENHOUSE gases; CLEAN development mechanism (Emission control); UNITED Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992). Protocols, etc., 1997 December 11; SUSTAINABLE design
- Publication
McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law, 2020, Vol 16, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
2561-0589
- Publication type
Article