Examples of using Clean development in English and their translations into Czech
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We also have to achieve a level of 5% clean development mechanisms CDMs.
Nor does the Clean Development Mechanism(CDM) work; that is, the financing of projects in developing countries in order to be able to emit more CO2 ourselves.
What is the Commission's view on the flexible mechanisms andCDM projects, the Clean Development Mechanism?
We have introduced an upper limit for the CDM or Clean Development Mechanism projects as well as quality criteria for them.
It supports the targets of the international monopolies for generous funding through the'Clean Development Mechanism' CDM.
The things that happen in connection with the Clean Development Mechanism- 60% of the money goes to China- should not be permitted.
Another drawback with the EU's policy is the outsourcing of emission reductions to developing countries by means of the Clean Development Mechanism.
The Clean Development Mechanism(CDM) has so far been poorly suited to meeting the needs of the poorest countries in terms of investments in clean technology.
Once again, necessary discussion about the so-called flexible mechanisms such as the Clean Development Mechanism goes by the wayside.
This action plan should be accompanied by a work programme on energy, clean development and climate change and should envisage cooperation in the areas of energy efficiency, clean coal and renewable energy use.
They basically allow European companies to reduce their emissionsnot at home but in developing countries, with the Clean Development Mechanism CDM.
The'Energy and Climate Change' package also envisages the introduction of the Clean Development Mechanism, which allows Member States to make energy-efficient investments and use the carbon credits in developing countries.
Other amendments are unacceptable,as they leave it up to the market to regulate by means of emission permits, clean development mechanisms, and so on.
If we take these clean development mechanisms, in other words, these joint implementation measures, and the other measures out of the equation and consider only our own measures for reducing CO2 emissions, then we can see that our balance sheet is not as good as we maintain.
There is wide support for the idea that EU-Canada cooperation should focus on financing mechanisms as well as on support to third countries' clean development.
The reductions in emissions need to be global,which means accepting the contribution of Clean Development Mechanisms, which are instruments that are recognised by the Kyoto Protocol.
I should like toreemphasise my delegation's support for all elements of this report, including the exclusion of nuclear power projects from the Clean Development Mechanism.
The debate, in my opinion, will remain open in each country, andmy feeling is that it is the general debate on Clean Development Mechanisms and the capacity to absorb them and direct them under good conditions, independently of this text.
Unfortunately, this has met with only partial success,since the Council and the Socialist Group in the European Parliament insisted on the excessive- ultimately 80%- use of Clean Development Mechanisms CDM.
Secondly, the use of the Clean Development Mechanism shifted marginally, only for some States and only in some cases, particularly with regard to a number of territories that are really in the process of development: the least advanced territories or small islands.
It is a good thing that, in its resolution, Parliament has voted in favour of the solutions based on market mechanisms andsupports a review of the clean development mechanism in a future agreement.
As regards Clean Development Mechanisms, the fact that these allow the Member States to offset most of the reductions they are called on to apply via credit works in third countries means that there is a risk of sending the wrong message in the run-up to Copenhagen.
We are asking for the insertion of environmental clauses in all the trade agreements of the EU and the World Trade Organisation(WTO),a review of the clean development mechanisms, a real transfer of technology and the combating of biopiracy.
It is economically absurd to invest many millions of euros abroad via the Clean Development Mechanism if your own country still needs to make considerable efforts to insulate buildings properly or design a transport policy that focuses on low-carbon mobility.
Similarly, the European Environment Agency report shows that the Member States of the European Union will have to pay EUR 2.9 billion to use the clean development mechanism- the instrument of the Kyoto Protocol- starting this year.
It is illogical to restrict Member States in the use of clean development mechanisms(CDMs), albeit provided for by Kyoto, and, at the same time, ask for EUR 30 billion a year in aid for developing countries, without conditions or proper judgment, to mention only one incongruity in the resolution.
She has proposed to this Parliament sensible solutions to the problems of carbon leakage in industry, she has introduced quality criteria anda 50% limit on the use of off-setting and clean development mechanisms, and she has tried to keep to around 50% the freedom of Member States to use the revenues generated from auctioning allowances.
The European Union is the region in the world investing most in the developing countries, in clean development projects, which are useful not only because we get credit for the investments made in those countries, but also because we reduce global greenhouse emissions and because we help in transferring technology in those developing countries, investing there and creating jobs.
If there is a failure to reach a global agreement, Europe should still remain open to considering a second commitment periodof the Kyoto Protocol, but should impose conditions, especially with regard to the environmental integrity of the protocol, the redesigning of the clean development mechanism and the undertaking of commitments by the major emitters worldwide, such as China and the US.
Climate change and energy are also summit priorities for us, andwe hope to sign a joint work programme on energy, clean development and climate change focused on renewable and clean energies, together with two climate-change-related European Investment Bank loans.