Kevin Smith

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.

Areas of expertise:

Emissions trading, biofuels, environmental racism, carbon offsetting, climate negotiations, climate protest movements

Media experience:

A frequent commentator on carbon trading and climate protest movements (especially in the UK), Kevin Smith has appeared in a wide range of media from The Economist to the BBC.

Contact

Email: kevin dot smith AT gmx dot net

English, Spanish

Selected publications

Hoodwinked in the Hothouse
Paving the way for Agrofuels

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Recent content by Kevin Smith

Upsetting the Offset

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.

Edging out fossil fuels and false solutions in the UK

December 2009
The Climate Camp movement in the UK diversified its actions this year, taking on carbon trading whilst continuing to target carbon-intensive infrastructure.

Carbon trading isn’t working

November 2009
Last week, Graciela Chichilnisky wrote that carbon trading can save a climate-change agreement. However, such markets haven’t worked – and won’t in future.

Direct action against climate change

November 2009
As politicians meet for more climate talks in Barcelona, they continue to be fixated on measures like carbon trading that will only exacerbate the climate crisis. Fortunately the last year in the UK and worldwide has shown that direct action against carbon-intensive projects can deliver results.

350 Reasons that Carbon Trading won't Work

November 2009
As the UN climate talks in Copenhagen get closer, it is clear that the discourse on climate solutions has been hijacked by corporate interests. Carbon trading is being promoted as the only solution to the climate crisis, pushing aside alternative approaches...and it's proving to be a farce.

Carbon Trading: the limits of free-market logic

September 2007
Putting a price on carbon and making the polluter pay makes sense, doesn't it? Kevin Smith shows how carbon trading has merely created big profits for transnational companies and had no impact on climate change.
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The Carbon Neutral Myth

February 2007
Carbon offsets are the modern day indulgences, sold to an increasingly carbon conscious public to absolve their climate sins