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Oscar Reyes

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Environmental Justice
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52° 22' 25.6836" N, 4° 53' 27.366" E
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Oscar Reyes

Team member of Carbon Trade Watch

Oscar
Reyes (London, 1977) works on TNI´s Environmental Justice project, is environment editor of Red Pepper magazine, and is co-author of Carbon Trading: how it works and why it fails. From 2005-2008, he was TNI Communications Officer and co-editor of Red Pepper magazine.

He has a BA from Somerville College, Oxford University and an MA in Politics (Ideology and Discourse Analysis) from the University of Essex. Before joining TNI he was a lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of East London; a lecturer in European Politics at Goldsmiths College, University of London; and co-presenter and producer of a weekly radio show on London’s Resonance FM.

He was also writer and presenter of World Week Watch, a round-up of global news on Press TV. He was a TNI Young Fellow in 2005.

Carbon trading, UN climate negotiations, carbon capture and storage, European Union, British politics, globalisation and social movements

English

Oscar Reyes has written for various publications, including The Guardian, Carta, Il Manifesto, El Viejo Topo, EU Observer and The Face.

Recent content by Oscar Reyes

What is cap and trade? (17 Dec 2009)

Cap and trade interprets climate change into the language of neo-liberal economics. Instead we need to rethink our trade system and rethink how we produce and consume goods.

Climate Justice protesters reclaim power as UN talks dither (17 Dec 2009)

With ministers and heads of states arriving in Copenhagen, protests surrounded the climate change conference venue, while negotiations remained blocked.

Copenhagen talks: “Lies, damn lies and emissions reductions pledges” (15 Dec 2009)

A dazzling array of delegates from all over the world is in Copenhagen to hammer out a deal on tackling climate change. Oscar Reyes makes sense of the complex negotiations process.

Climate Justice for a Changing Planet: Beyond Carbon Trading (15 Dec 2009)

Instead of stimulating new commodity markets, the targets and obligations placed on industrialised countries should be met domestically.

Divide and rule: paving the way to an unjust deal (14 Dec 2009)

As climate talks enter their final phase, Oscar Reyes outlines the hardball negotiating tactics being used to force a weak deal that favours industrialised nations.

Climate technologies: a leap into the unknown (11 Dec 2009)

A new “technology mechanism” could reward untested techniques that damage the climate.

Beyond Carbon Markets (10 Dec 2009)

Although carbon offsets are often presented as emissions reductions,
they do not actually reduce emissions. At best, they move reductions to
where it is cheapest to make them, which normally means a shift from
Northern to Southern countries.

Copenhagen Plan B: “protect the rich” (9 Dec 2009)

A leaked text of the political declaration that could conclude the Copenhagen conference reveals back-room dealings that offer little to the Majority World.

FACT SHEET: What's at stake in Copenhagen (7 Dec 2009)

Why are some countries intent on killing Kyoto? Do the reductions targets tell the whole story? Who is paying for it all? This fact sheet answers all your questions about the UN climate talks in Copenhagen.

Taking care of business (24 Nov 2009)

The world’s biggest corporations have hijacked the UN climate talks. That’s bad news for our future.

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