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Larry Lohmann

Larry Lohmann from the Corner House is a co-founder of the Durban Group for Climate Justice, together with members of TNI's Carbon Trade Watch.

Recent content by Larry Lohmann

Online debates demonstrate public skepticism about carbon trading (16 Dec 2008)

Michael Wara of Stanford, together with Kevin Smith of Carbon Trade Watch
and Platform and others, have won the Economist magazine's online debate
on carbon offset trading against Henry Derwent of the International
Emissions Trading Association, businessman Mark Trexler and others.

Some 55 per cent of readers voted in favor of the resolution: "This house
believes that carbon offsets undermine the effort to tackle climate
change"

Emma Duncan, the moderator, had this to say:

The politics of climate change (26 Sep 2008)

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.

Climate Crisis: Social Science Crisis (11 Jul 2008)
The emphasis on free market mechanisms to resolve the climate crisis has not only patently failed to deliver carbon reductions but has also restricted funding and support for progressive social scientists to examine and put forward alternatives.

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Carbon Trading (Video lecture) (12 Feb 2008)

Does carbon trading really work? (31 Jan 2008)

Part 1

Part 2

Who are the Climate Leaders? (1 Aug 2007)

Pictures from the Carbon "Offset" Market (1 May 2007)
Carbon offsets not welcome here (27 Feb 2007)
Carbon Trading (25 Jan 2007)

Instead of reducing the extraction of fossil fuels and searching for other solutions, current carbon-trading policies, in practice, favour the further exploitation of these fuels.

A licence to carry on polluting? (5 Dec 2006)
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