CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Qiu, Jing |
|---|---|
| Title | Towards Improving Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Wind Power Projects in China |
| Summary | As one type of renewable energy resources, wind power would be an optimal alternative energy as for mitigating climate change and solving energy security. Currently, wind power should be deemed as a mature technology that would be viable and competitive with conventional energy technologies, especially at windy sites. Considering the large landmass and long coastline, China is a big country with abundant exploitable wind resources. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) plays an important role in promoting wind power in China in the context of financial and technology transfer via carbon-offset projects. Following hydro power projects, CDM wind power projects take up the second largest market in China. However, in 2009 a controversy of wind power projects happened between the Chinese government and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The controversy was ascribed to a wind power benchmark feed-in-tariff issued by the Chinese government in July 2009. As a result, UNFCCC suspended the registration of several Chinese CDM wind power projects based on suspicion that wind power subsidies in China were deliberately cut to make them eligible for the CDM’s additionality requirement. This thesis focuses on identifying detailed institutional and structural barriers of CDM additionality assessment that resulted in the wind power controversy in 2009, as well as analyzing interactions between the global carbon-offset policy and feed-in-tariff for wind sector. Afterwards, this thesis will address institutional strengths and reform opportunities for improving CDM wind power projects in China. For instance, increasing work efficiency of Executive Board (EB), establishing appeal procedures for CDM project activities and sectoral crediting etc. Besides, long-term structural amendments of additionality assessment and feed-in-tariff policy guidance recommendations will be included as well. |
| Supervisor | Tamara Steger |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/qiu_jing.pdf |
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