Carbon Offsets

Carbon Offsets

Forget Backloading and Scrap the ETS!

July 2013

Organisations and people's movements are opposing the EU attempt to reform the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) as a measure that will merely further entrench fossil fuel use.

Protecting carbon to destroy forests

April 2013
TNI, FDCL, Carbon Trade Watch and IGO

This paper provides historical background and reports of experiences on the ground to show how land and nature enclosures are central to REDD+, and why it therefore cannot be fixed.

Myth Busting: EU's Emissions Trading System

April 2013

Since the adoption of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), emissions have risen and the price of consumer energy went up along with the profits of many industrial actors.

Time the EU scraps its failed carbon Emissions Trading System

February 2013

TNI has joined over 90 organisations and movements in calling on the EU to scrap its failed Emissions Trading System (ETS) and implement urgent effective measures to reduce greenhouse gas emisions.

Accounting for carbon, depoliticising plunder

November 2012
Les Levidow

The EU aspires to global leadership in developing ‘sustainable biofuels’, arguing they can substitute for fossil fuels, but the result has been dispossession of rural communities throughout the South.

Solutions to the EU Crisis: Learning from Latin America

June 2012
Interview with Pablo Solon

Former Bolivian ambassador Pablo Solon speaks of his successes and frustrations in government, what the EU can learn from Latin America in confronting a debt crisis, and warns of the dangers of marketising nature under the guise of a 'green economy.'

Resistance and Hope at a time of Climate Emergency

January 2012

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?

Carbon Trading - How it works and why it fails

November 2009
Oscar Reyes

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.