Upsetting the Offset

The Political Economy of Carbon Markets

Joanna Cabello

Kevin Smith

Tamra Gilbertson

Walden Bello

December 2009

The book contributes to a growing field of critics of carbon markets by highlighting several up-to-date examples of where the system has failed and often led to negative social, economic and environmental impacts in deprived countries.

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The book is edited by Steffen Böhm and Siddhartha Dabhi, and includes contributions from TNI's Kevin Smith, Walden Bello, Tamra Gilbertson and Joanna Cabello.

Steffen Böhm is Reader in Management at Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK.
Siddhartha Dabhi is a researcher at Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK.

Pages:

384pages

Publisher:

Mayfly

ISBN:

978-1-906948-07-8

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Joanna Cabello

Joanna Cabello is a researcher with Carbon Trade Watch, a former project of the Transnational Institute

Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith has been working with the environmental justice project at TNI since 2005, although he was more informally involved since it started out as Carbon Trade Watch in 2002. He has a degree in Human Sciences. He used to be the editor of the Green Pepper magazine and in 2003 he helped to establish Escanda, a residential project in Northern Spain that combines sustainable living with political engagement at local and international levels. He currently lives in London works part time at Platform. He has been active in climate justice issues since the COP 6 in Den Haag in 2000 and participates in the international Durban Network for Climate Justice.

Tamra Gilbertson

Team member of Carbon Trade Watch

Tamra Gilbertson is one of the founders of Carbon Trade Watch, a former project of the Transnational Institute (TNI), and co-author of Carbon Trading: How it works and why it fails. She has been active in the project since 2001 and was a founding member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice. She is trained in photography and film-making and was a co-director of The Carbon Connection. She has been published in the New Internationalist, Opciones and Diagonal. She received a Teamsters Union Scholarship from 1995 to 1998 and the Samuel Rubin Young Fellowship Award in 2004.

Walden Bello

Senior analyst at Philippine think-tank Focus on the Global South, TNI fellow and Akbayan representative in the Filipino Congress.

Author of more than 14 books, Bello was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize) in 2003 for "... outstanding efforts in educating civil society about the effects of corporate globalisation, and how alternatives to it can be implemented." Bello has been described by the Economist as the man “who popularised a new term: deglobalisation.”

Bello predicted the financial crisis several years prior to the current meltdown and is a globally respected figure within the alternative globalisation movement. Canadian author Naomi Klein called him the "world's leading no-nonsense revolutionary."