Carbon Offsets: recommended reading

Further reading:

Reports

• “The Carbon Neutral Myth – Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins”, Carbon Trade Watch, 2007
• Forthcoming (should be out end of Feb) “Hot Air and Snake Oil – The Top Ten Carbon Offset Upsets”, Carbon Trade Watch, 2008
• Carbon Trading, A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power, The Cornerhouse, 2006
• “A funny place to store carbon: UWA-FACE Foundation’s tree planting project in Mount Elgon national park, Uganda.” World Rainforest Movement, 2006

Articles

• “Hot Air and Snake Oil: Carbon Offset Upsets”, Kevin Smith, Celsias, January 2008
• “Carbon Cop Outs”, Kevin Smith, Red Pepper, 2006
• “If you go down to the woods today”, Adam Ma’anit, New Internationalist, 2006
• “Ten things you should know about ‘tree’ offsets”, Jutta Kill, New Internationalist, 2006
• “The inconvenient truth about the carbon offset industry”, N Davies, The Guardian, 2007
• “Abuse and incompetence in fight against global warming”, N Davies, The Guardian 2007
• “Another Inconvenient Truth”, Business Week, March 2007
• “Revealed: the carbon offsetting forest farce”, R Edwards, Sunday Herald, March 2007
• “To cancel out the CO2 of a return flight to India, it will take one poor villager three years of pumping water by foot. So is carbon offsetting the best way to ease your conscience?”, D Kennedy, The Times, 2007
• “BA’s offset goose is cooked”, T Webb, The Independent, 2007
• “Carbon Offsets: Buying Your Way Out of Responsibility”, D Colwell, Alternet, 2007
• “Exposed: The Truth Behind Popular Carbon Offsetting Schemes”, M Hickman, The Independent, 2007
• “Offsetting your carbon footprint takes decades“, J Leake, The Times, 2007
• “Carbon offsetting schemes not so green,” J Copping, Sunday Telegraph, 2007
• “How Coldplay’s green hopes died in the arid soil of India,” A Dhillon, Sunday Telegraph, 2006
• “Carbon neutral cheating“, World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, 2008
• “The Other Side of Carbon Trading“, S Faris, Fortune Magazine, 2007
• “Carbon offsets not welcome here”, L Lohmann, Climate Corp, 2007
• “Climate Campaign Targets Offsets“, R Black, BBC News, 2007
• Cornerhouse.org