China contains a lot of controversies. Chinese government has already announced at Johannesbury's WSSD that they will ratify the Kyoto Protocol. However, a lot of controversial large dam projects were, are being or will be implemented, including the notorious Three Gorges dam and the eight-dam cascade in upper Mekong river. Although they are not counted as CDM projects, we believe there will be some in future.

Greenpeace did not say anything about hydropower, because it was once regarded "renewable". However, the violation of human rights and the resulting environmental catastrophe are among the strong arguments. Recently, a Canadian survey revealed that large dams also release much greenhouse gases, esp. methane. This is much more serious in tropical countries like Brazil.

I am quite disappointed that large dams or hydropower are not excluded from CDM, even though the activists in EU countries have strongly lobbied. The large dams are ruining the CDM! The output of hydropower has already taken a substantial portion in CDM projects, which is even much more than other renewables like solar and wind. This will only benefit the hydropower companies, but not the companies that are really dedicated to true renewables. I strongly demand that all large hydropower projects will be phased out from the CDM so as to make the CDM really benefit the true renewables.