Offsets

Clean Development Mechanism: dump it, don´t expand it

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

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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

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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...

Hot Air and Snake Oil: Carbon Offset Upsets

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Kevin Smith

All carbon offset projects are beset by contradictions and inconsistencies, writes Kevin Smith.

There are often reports in the media exposing a particular scandalous aspect of a certain offset project, such as a lack of community consultation, or the fact that the project was going to...

Carbon Offsets: recommended reading

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Kevin Smith

A selection of useful reports and articles on carbon offsets

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Reports

Carbon Offset Companies targeted by Climate Camp Activists

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Another End of the World is Possible (video)

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Kevin Smith

Pictures from the Carbon "Offset" Market