The Clean Development Mechanism

Nuclear technology is not the answer to the reduction of carbon emissions

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In November this year, the Parties to the United Nations' Climate Change Convention will meet in The Hague, The Netherlands, to continue negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol. Among the most controversial issues to be discussed is whether nuclear power should be an eligible technology for the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a part of the Protocol designed to promote sustainable, projects that reduce carbon emissions in developing countries. Greenpeace has published the following papers on the issue:

Nuclear proliferation - the solution to climate change? why US attempts to include nuclear power in the CDM will fuel nuclear proliferation - October 2000

Nuclear power in developing countries: radioactive waste, proliferation and debt

The Clean Development Mechanism; an instrument for sustainable development or a new nuclear subsidy?