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“>I wrote last week, we learned from Gustaf Klarin from Swedish Radio that the German company Tüv Süd (which was hired to assess whether Xiaoxi was eligible for the CDM, and separately whether it was compliant with the WCD) travelled with the police when doing their assessment of Xiaoxi.
All this information has not yet led to the suspension of the German approval of carbon credits from Xiaoxi. But I am guessing that the amount of bad press the Xiaoxi project is earning might be reason enough for RWE to rethink their strategy of buying carbon credits from large hydro in China. We will keep you posted…