UNFCCC presents photo contest on "CDM - Changing Lives"

Wednesday, 16 September 2009 13:37

Do you enjoy photographing, making web videos – and care for the climate? Now you have an opportunity to showcase it. The secretariat of the UNFCCC, the United Nations Framework Convention on climate Change, has launched its first ever photo and video competition aimed at informing the world about the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), on the theme “CDM Changing Lives.

 
The contest is intended to raise awareness about the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism. The secretariat will be looking for photos and videos that tell an interesting CDM story, whether it is about the creation of new jobs, the greening of industry, or the development of rural services and infrastructure.
 
Whether you are a professional or an amateur photographer, send in your best videos and photos on the theme “CDM Changing Lives” before 31 October 2009. The winning works will be displayed at the UNFCCC Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009.
 
Visit the photo and video contest page on the CDM website for full instructions.
 

What is CDM?
- CDM stands for Clean Development Mechanism. It is part of the Kyoto Protocol’s requirements that countries should limit or reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. To help countries and to encourage them to meet their emission targets, three marked-based mechanisms were set up: CDM, Emissions Trading and Joint Implementation.
 
- CDM stimulates sustainable development and emission reduction, while giving industrialized countries some flexibility in how they meet their emission reduction limitation targets.
 
- The CDM allows emission-reduction (or emission removal) projects in developing countries to earn certified emission reduction (CER) credits, each equivalent to one tonne of CO2. These CERs can be traded and sold, and used by industrialized countries to a meet a part of their emission reduction targets under the Kyoto Protocol.
 
- Since 2006, the mechanism has already registered more than 1,000 projects and is anticipated to produce CERs amounting to more than 2.7 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, 2008–2012.

Source: UNFCCC