Sustainable development benefits of clean development mechanism projects. A new methodology for sustainability assessment based on text analysis of the project design documents submitted for validation

Energy Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2819-2830

  Olsen, Karen Holm ^a   Fenhann, Jørgen ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clean development mechanism (CDM); Methodology; Sustainable development benefits

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COST REDUCTION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY POLICY; GLOBAL WARMING; PLANNING; PUBLIC POLICY; TAXONOMIES;

CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; EMISSION REDUCTION TARGETS; EXISTING SYSTEMS; INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS; METHODOLOGY; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT; VERIFICATION PROTOCOL;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY MARKET; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GLOBAL WARMING; MODEL VALIDATION; PROJECT DESIGN; STANDARD (REGULATION); SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84994799859     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2008.02.044     Document Type: Article

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