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Realizing the Development Dividend: Community Capacity Building and CDM. Can they co-exist?

Explore the coexistence of community capacity building and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in sustainable development. Discuss the potential benefits and challenges of integrating community empowerment with market mechanisms.

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Realizing the Development Dividend: Community Capacity Building and CDM. Can they co-exist?

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  1. Realizing the Development Dividend: Community Capacity Building and CDM. Can they co-exist? Gay Harley Clean Development Alliance COP 11 – MOP 1 December 5, 2005

  2. Overview • CDM a “market” mechanism: genius and pitfalls • Market values and international commodity trading • Sustainable Development and capital structures : Ownership Matters • A private/NGO model for turning the CDM tide • Can community capacity building drive CDM? www.cleandevelopmentalliance.org

  3. CDM: Full of Promise! • Revolutionary disruption of traditional economics • Carbon as a commodity • Puts environmental value into commercial marketplace www.cleandevelopmentalliance.org

  4. CDM: Is the Inequity Endemic? • sustainable development components are sacrificed • competition among host countries encourages lower standards of SD • wealth flows to the developed nations • market mechanisms reinforce traditional economic patterns • using market value to determine development priorities (pushing a string?) www.cleandevelopmentalliance.org

  5. Even in SD: Ownership Matters • Governance issues rooted in ownership • Profit driven development can lead to detachment • Market determined development blind to social and political needs • Not necessarily value added for community (no engagement, not necessarily local jobs) www.cleandevelopmentalliance.org

  6. Even in SD: Ownership Matters • Local investment decisions • Local control of energy and other resources • Siting decisions • Empowerment/Professional Development • Community economic development strengthened • Community Capacity Building becomes embedded www.cleandevelopmentalliance.org

  7. Turning the Tide? A New Partnership Model • The Clean Development Alliance: a private/NGO Partnership for development • Empower and build capacity of proponents/communities to participate and manage energy and carbon resources • Ensure that returns from CERs are directed to high impact sustainable development programming www.cleandevelopmentalliance.org

  8. Partnership in Action: Strategies for Strengthening Capacity • Technology transfer in renewable energy, energy efficiency, community participation and capacity building • Community-based solutions for emissions reduction strategies • Alliances with local organizations and development practitioners that support the development and implementation of CDM projects www.cleandevelopmentalliance.org

  9. CDM and Sustainable DevelopmentA New Partnership Model In Action www.cleandevelopmentalliance.org

  10. Thank You 49 Water Street, PO Box 3610 Windsor, Nova Scotia, CANADA B0N 2TO Tel: 1.902.798.5085 Email: harley@fourthgeneration.ca www.cleandevelopmentalliance.org

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