The UN’s carbon trading system in numbers

The United Nations’ Clean Development Mechanism was intended to offer rich countries an efficient market mechanism to achieve some of of their emission-cutting obligations at lower cost by installing green technology in developing countries. Since the Kyoto Protocol came into force in 2005, more than 1,800 projects have been registered.

Explore our interactive graphic to see which technologies have been adopted by which countries and how actively various developing nations have participated in the scheme.

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How to use the interactive graphic:

• Use the dropdown menu above the bar charts to choose which measures to display – ranging from how many projects have been registered by a particular country to how many thousands of tonnes, or kilotonnes, of carbon dioxide or equivalent (ktCO2e) have been avoided and as a result how many carbon credits (CERs) have been generated
• Use the tickboxes on the right to filter the data by country; status of project(s); type of project(s); and the year an application was first lodged with the CDM.
• Press the reset button to remove all filters.