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Carbon Trading
September 2009
Carbon Trade Watch

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

Carbon trading from Kyoto to Copenhagen
May 2009
Oscar Reyes

Climate change is a structural problem that came about, largely, through the continued exploitation of fossil fuels as a cheap fuel source since the industrial revolution

Radical new agenda needed to achieve climate justice
December 2008
TNI
We will not be able to stop climate change if we don't change the neo-liberal and corporate-based economy which stops us from achieving sustainable societies, writes Climate Justice Now! alliance in the Poznan statement.

Members of Climate Justice Now! – a worldwide alliance of more...

Clean Development Mechanism: dump it, don´t expand it
December 2008
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
December 2008
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...
The politics of climate change
September 2008
Larry Lohmann

Climate change is a social issue and it will always be connected with concrete, specific struggles over fossil fuel exploitation, pollution, health, agriculture, livelihoods or access to energy.

South Africa government has to make a clean break with past
August 2008
TNI
 Trusha Reddy
If South Africa is to seek a major transition from an energy-intensive to a low-carbon economy, it needs to completely replace fossil fuels by 2050 - so why does its government remain committed to new coal and nuclear power plants?

The South African Environmental Affairs and Tourism...

The World Bank's carbon deals
April 2008
Janet Redman
The Bank's foray into the carbon market paves the way for business-as-usual, while short-changing clean, renewable energy, the poor, and ultimately the climate.

It was the first day in a long week of the consultations, PowerPoint presentations and high-level cocktail parties that...

Locus focus and the Carbon Trade Watch (audio)
February 2008
TNI
 Tamra Gilbertson and Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith and Tamra Gilbertson talk about what's wrong with carbon credits, how they do nothing to fight global warming, and even exacerbate the problem.

Listen to the debate - mp3

REDD: Growing money on trees
February 2008
Oscar Reyes
Deforestation is responsible for one-fifth of annual carbon emissions – more than the entire transport sector. Yet a new global scheme to ‘reduce deforestation’ could end up rewarding the companies and governments that cause it, writes Oscar Reyes.

On the eve of last December’s UN...

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