To recover from Corona governments should invest in public transport, cycling, walking plans, and green energy, focusing on new jobs in green sectors rather than propping up fossil fuels.
Decreases in pollution witnessed over the pandemic should inform economic recovery: personal, local, and global changes should be implemented.
Changes are needed enabling safe access to necessary, hygienic food and resources if further outbreaks of zoonotic diseases are to be stopped. Conservation is also key.
This is a system in which meeting targets and using the mechanisms involved gave you tradable carbon allowances; notoriously oversupplying credits in practice.
The second of the Kyoto protocol’s reduction incentives. It issues tradable carbon allowances for Article I countries to trade, additionally encouraging Annex I countries to host projects in one another.
The CDM rewards developed countries who aid developing countries in their sustainable development, by issuing sustainable development projects with Certified Emissions Reductions (CER).
Adopted in 1997, it came into effect in 2005: the first to give GHG emissions reductions targets per country to most Annex I countries.