Traduction de «Développement propre » (Français → Anglais) :

148. Stresses the need to ensure, as a priority, that developed countries cut their own emissions first and fast, and provide the necessary financial flows to developing countries for adaptation and mitigation; warns, however, against using offsetting mechanisms such as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) instead, considering that such mechanisms have not proven to be effective tools for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and that they delay essential structural change in developed-country economies;

14. Reiterates its call for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to be reformed, establishing strict quality rules that guarantee that the associated projects are of a sufficiently high standard to help reduce emissions in a reliable, verifiable, real and supplementary way, contributing to the sustainable development of developing countries and preventing the inappropriate use of the mechanism by infrastructure projects whose carbon emissions are high; considers that in the future the CDM must be limited to Least Developed Countries (LDCs);

The Kyoto Protocol sets out quantified emission targets for developed countries for the period from 2008 to 2012, and provides for the creation of certified emission reductions (CERs) from clean development mechanism (CDM) projects and emission reduction units (ERUs) from joint implementation (JI) projects and their use by developed countries to meet part of these targets.

b) developing countries should also contribute, within their capacities and without slowing their development, to the general mitigation effort; notes that there would be an additional advantage for most developing countries, which are presently highly dependent on oil and therefore face very high energy costs: any reduction of energy consumption and increased use of alternative energy sources would therefore be highly beneficial; points out that the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol has the potential to contribute to this goal, and ways to develop it beyond the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol should ...[+++] be explored, especially by exploring ways of decreasing costs and increasing the efficiency of the process required to get CDM projects approved; notes that its successful launch requires greater financial support from European countries to overcome its current funding problems; however, it is important that the Clean Development Mechanism should be evaluated in such a way that it achieves the desired result and does not merely permit businesses to evade their responsibilities for improving energy efficiency;

Moreover, the EU is also well placed to assist developing countries achieve economic growth using least polluting technologies, for example through the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol, which enables the transfer of these technologies to developing countries.

The Commission considers it important that this conference focuses on a cluster of issues stimulating the active involvement of developing countries, such as technology transfer and the Clean Development Mechanism.