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Upsetting the Offset
4 The CDM project of GFL has also been brilliantly investigated by the Centre for Science and
Environment (CSE) (http://downtoearth.org.in/cover.asp?foldername= 20051115&filename
=anal&sid=1&page=2&sec_id=7&p=2) as well as by Nandene Ghouri (http://www.carbon
tradewatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=294&Itemid=36) and
Mahesh Pandya and Hiral Mehta of Paryavaran Mitra, which is an NGO based in Gujarat,
India.
5 http://www.gfl.co.in/carbon_trading_pro.htm.
6 The quote has been taken from the Project Design Document prepared by PwC (Mumbai
Office).
7 Schwank, O. (2004) ‘Concerns about CDM Projects Based on decomposition of HFC-23
Emissions From 22HCFC Production Sites’, October, 2004.
http://cdm.unfccc.int/public_inputs/inputam0001/Comment_AM0001_Schwank_081004.p
df.
8 Sutter, C. (2003) ‘Sustainability Check-Up for CDM Projects’, http://ecollection.ethbib.ethz.ch/eserv/eth:27027/eth-27027-02.pdf.
9 http://downtoearth.org.in/cover.asp?foldername=20051115&filename=anal&sid=1&
page=3&sec_id=7&p=3.
10 Ghouri, N. (2009) ‘The great carbon credit con: Why are we paying the Third World to
poison its environment?’, http://www.carbontradewatch.org/index.php?option=com_
content&task=view&id=294&Itemid=36.
11 Centre for Science and Environment has also come up with similar findings. Please see
http://downtoearth.org.in/cover.asp?foldername=20051115&filename=anal&sid=1&page=2
&sec_id=7&p=2; Also please see Ghouri, N. (2009) ‘The great carbon credit con: Why are we
paying the Third World to poison its environment?’, http://www.carbontradewatch.org/
index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=294&Itemid=36 .
12 The paragraph has been quoted from the Gujarat High Court judgement.
13 Schwank. O (2004) ‘Concerns about CDM projects based on decomposition of HFC-23
emissions from 22 HCFC production sites’, http://cdm.unfccc.int/
public_inputs/inputam0001/Comment_AM0001_Schwank_081004.pdf.
14 Ghouri, N. (2009) ‘The great carbon credit con: Why are we paying the Third World to
poison its environment?’.
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