Latest comments posted about China’s carbon market: a trader’s view on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1337-China-s-carbon-market-a-trader-s-view http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1337-China-s-carbon-market-a-trader-s-view chinadialogue readers might like to check out www.cheatneutral.com for a satirical take on the idea of offsetting .. isabel Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:28:31 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1337#comment-4450 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1337#comment-4450 "The infrastructure created by CDM projects will still be in place" after 2012. What I understand from that remark is that CDM is encouraging the development of, for example, clean energy which displaces coal burning. That then avoids some of coal fire capacity being built. If that coal fire capacity was built, it would be burning coal for 50 years. Likewise a small scale hydro or waste burning plant that might have been set up with CDM in mind will also be hopefully working for 50 years...so the switch will long outlast the shorter term life of the current CDM arrangements. At least, that's what I understood by the remark and I think that it is valid. Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:41:15 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1337#comment-4439 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1337#comment-4439 I'm intrigued by your comment that "the infrastructure created by CDM projects will still be in place." What does this mean, if (for instance) there really is a failure to come up with a comprehensive mandatory emissions reductions scheme in 2012? Just that the projects done in the interim period between Kyoto and 2012 will still be running through their life-cycles? -Ross, California Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:33:54 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1337#comment-4432 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1337#comment-4432