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    Beyond Carbon Markets
    Oscar Reyes
    Tamra Gilbertson

    Although carbon offsets are often presented as emissions reductions,
    they do not actually reduce emissions. At best, they move reductions to
    where it is cheapest to make them, which normally means a shift from
    Northern to Southern countries.

    Sasol & CDM: The Developed World Pays Sasol to Increase its Carbon Emissions
    Tristen Taylor

    South African based multinational, Sasol, is nominated for the Angry
    Mermaid Award     for its national and international lobbying campaign to
    promote Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) as a clean solution to the
    dirty...

    Carbon Trading - How it works and why it fails
    Oscar Reyes
    Tamra Gilbertson

    This accessible, well-researched book provides a devastating critique of both the theory and practice of carbon trading, which lie at the heart of global climate policy.

    Holding our fragile planet to ransom
    Praful Bidwai

    Due to the resistance of the northern governments, it now appears extremely unlikely that the Copenhagen climate conference will produce the strong, comprehensive agreement which the world needs to avert irreversible climate change.

    Unveiling Carbon Trading
    Oscar Reyes
    Tamra Gilbertson

    Carbon trading is a complex system which sets itself a simple goal: to
    make it cheaper for companies and governments to meet emissions
    reduction targets.

    350 Reasons that Carbon Trading won't Work
    Carbon Trade Watch
    Kevin Smith
     Rising Tide North America

    As the UN climate talks in Copenhagen get closer, it is clear that the discourse on climate solutions has been hijacked by corporate interests. Carbon trading is being promoted as the only solution to the climate crisis, pushing aside alternative approaches...and it's proving to be a farce.

    Carbon Trading
    Carbon Trade Watch

    A guide to why carbon trading will not work in justly tackling climate change and what alternatives might.

    Clean Development Mechanism: dump it, don´t expand it
    TNI
    The UN´s Clean Development Mechanism is beyond repair and should be dumped, climate justice campaigners told delegates at the UN Climate Change Conference in Poznan today.

    “The CDM is a ´lose-lose´ proposition that has become a corrupt and cheap way for the rich North to avoid making...

    Offsets Under Kyoto: a dirty deal for the South
    TNI
     Kevin Smith
    Despite driving poor communities off their land and patently failing to deliver carbon emissions reductions, lobbyists for big industries and institutions such as the World Bank were active in Poznan climate negotiations pushing for further deregulation and expansion of the market-based Clean...
    UN ‘clean development’ money sought for dam that threatens World Heritage Site in Panama
    TNI
    A new hydroelectric dam in Panama could receive funding from the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism, environmental justice and conservation groups have warned.

    The Chan-75 dam is being built by a subsidiary of the Virginia-based Allied Energy Systems Corporation (AES), which has now...

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