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Offsetting, trading and the global carbon market: A strategy without science or equity?

Side-event within the UN Climate Change Talks
November 2009

5 November 2009

Speaker(s)

Oscar Reyes
Sarah-Jane Clifton, Miguel Lovera, Marcial Arias García

Proposals to expand offsetting and carbon trading risk creating new loopholes, delays to urgent action in developed countries, and inequity by shifting of burden to developing countries usurping development space. Can this approach achieve science or equity objectives in the climate regime?

Location

FIRA

Speakers

Sarah-Jane Clifton, Author ‘A Dangerous Obsession’

Miguel Lovera, Government of Paraguay

Marcial Arias García, International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of Tropical Forests

Oscar Reyes, Transnational Institute

Chair: Andy Atkins, Director, Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland

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Event location

FIRA Barcelona
Spain