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.

Areas of expertise:

All aspects of carbon trading, environmental justice, community resistance, women and climate change, the CDM and field research.

Languages spoken:

English, Castellano

Selected publications:

Paving the way for Agrofuels

The Carbon Connection

Hoodwinked in the Hothouse

Where the Trees are a Desert

Agrofuels

Recent content by Tamra Gilbertson

Upsetting the Offset (16 Dec 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.

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.

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.

Carbon Con (8 Dec 2009)

How the US forced carbon trading onto the global climate agenda, and why popular movements worldwide have vowed to end this 'false solution" to climate change.

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.

Carbon Trading - How it works and why it fails (23 Nov 2009)

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.

Unveiling Carbon Trading (5 Nov 2009)

Carbon trading is a complex system which sets itself a simple goal: to make it cheaper for companies and governments to meet emissions reduction targets.

Agrofuels (6 Jun 2007)

This document focuses on particular types of ‘biofuel’ which we prefer to call agrofuel because of the intensive, industrial way it is produced, generally as monocultures, often covering thousands of hectares, most often in the global South.