Originally published in Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - The U.N. climate change body has suspended one of the largest auditors of clean energy projects under Kyoto Protocol, a move highlighting problems long aired by critics of the climate pact's greenhouse gas trading scheme.

Proposed Executive Board review of Jorethang Loop CDM application needs to include appraisal, stakeholder consultation requirements

RE: A review of proposed CDM project—Jorethang Loop—should include whether it met the stakeholder consultation requirements

Dear CDM Executive Board members,

Jorethang Loop is a 96 MW hydro project in India which the Executive Board will consider reviewing in its 37th meeting.

Comments about the proposed CDM credits for Tala Hydroelectric project in Bhutan and export of hydropower to India

Based on reading of the PDD dated Dec 16, 2007 (as available on the UNFCCC website) for the above project and having monitored India’s power sector over the last few years we reach the conclusion that it will not be appropriate to accept the project for CDM

Official CDM project name is "Substitution of grid power generation through transmission of renewable electricity generated in a hydro power generating station"

Submitted to DNV

Update 17 December, 2007: 3 members of the CDM's Executive Board have requested a review of this project on the basis of concerns over its additionality. The full board will consider the request for review at its 37th meeting 30 Jan-1 Feb 2008.

SANDRP Comments on Project Design Document for the Jorethang Loop Hydroelectric Project, Sikkim, India

Submitted to DNV

Current Status: Validation Terminated (as of Aug 2009)

Campos Novos Dam filled (Chaver83, Flickr)

There are several grounds on which the 880 MW Campos Novos Dam should be rejected: lack of adequate stakeholder consultations (due to suppression of stakeholder voices, including unjustified arrests); illegal practices involved in the development of the project; and blatant non-additionality.