9. Fun UNFCCC-winning animation: landfill methane to electricity

This entertaining short video by Olivier Diamant won first-place in a 2010 UNFCCC competition.  It's about a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in Colombia.  The UNFCCC website states: "Under the Clean Development Mechanism, emission-reduction (or emission removal) projects in developing countries can earn certified emission reduction credits. These saleable credits can be used by industrialized countries to meet a part of their emission reduction targets under the Kyoto Protocol."

Trash-to-energy should not be thought of as "renewable energy" but these projects are a good use of the greenhouse gases (GHGs) that landfills produce. 


For more information, visit the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC.

Notes: 
"CDM: About CDM." CDM: CDM-Home. Web. 04 Feb. 2011. 
<http://cdm.unfccc.int/about/index.html>.
Video link: <http://cdm.unfccc.int/contest/10/winvc10.html>