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Carbon Offsets
    Resistance and hope at a time of climate emergency
    January 2012
    Nick Buxton

    The Durban climate conference could act as a turning point. Are we willing to be truly honest about the failure of our political and economic system to tackle climate change and willing to exercise our power in shaping the world we want to live in?

    Conference of Polluters
    December 2011
    TNI

    TNI was present at the Durban UN Climate Conference challenging the role of corporations in undermining and seeking to profit from attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

    The banksters and the climate fund
    April 2011
    Patrick Bond

    The resumé of Trevor Manuel, confirmed co-chair of the Green Climate Fund, gives reason to worry. As South Africa's finance minister, he frequently rewarded transnational corporations at the cost of rising inequality, unemployment and environmental degradation.

    Africa and the climate finance controversy
    October 2010
    Patrick Bond

    Will Africa end up paying for technologies that commodify life, or demand reparations for ecological damage done by the North?

    Roundtable debate on Asia European relations
    October 2010
    Walden Bello
    Praful Bidwai
     Nicola Bullard, Christa Wisterich, Marica Frangakis

    Debate between leading European and Asian analysts on the decline of European power, the economic rise of China and India, the likelihood of global recession, climate change and proposed alternatives to the current global economic model.

    Beyond Carbon Markets
    December 2009
    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
    December 2009
    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
    November 2009
    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.

    Occasional Paper Series
    Holding our fragile planet to ransom
    November 2009
    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
    November 2009
    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.

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