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Climate Justice for a Changing Planet: Beyond Carbon Trading
15 Dec 2009
Oscar Reyes and Tamra Gilbertson

“Billions wasted on UN climate programme.” “Truth about Kyoto: huge profits, little carbon saved.” “UN effort to curtail emissions in turmoil.” The headlines attracted by the carbon trading mechanisms at the heart of the Kyoto Protocol, most notably the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), tell a story of a scheme in trouble. But why has it caused such controversy?...

COMMENTARY: Human Rights Groups Condemn Criminal Repression Of Indigenous Community In Peru
10 Dec 2009
Rebecca Sommer

The government of Peruvian President Alan García Pérez has its hands full of blood, again. The massacre at Bagua on June 5, 2009 that resulted in international outrage was n...

Taking care of business
01 Dec 2009
Oscar Reyes

The world’s biggest corporations have hijacked the UN climate talks. That’s bad news for our future, argues Oscar Reyes. A flower blooms under a floodlight. It is ...

New book uncovers carbon trading flaws ahead of UN climate talks
24 Nov 2009
Carbon Trade Watch

At a time when Copenhagen talks and the Kyoto Protocol seem likely to end in failure, calling for an entirely different framework for addressing the climate crisis may seem like madness. Carbo...

THAILAND: Renewable Energy Not So Clean and Green After All?
23 Oct 2009
Nantiya Tangwisutijit*

A Bua Sommai worker unloads rice husk supply at the company’s biomass power plant in Roi Et. Credit:Nantiya Tangwisutijit/IPS PICHIT, Thailand, Oct 23 (IPS/IFEJ) - The vi...

The Bhilangana Dam on troubled waters
07 Oct 2009
Tamra Gilbertson

Mausam (issues 2-5) Talking Climate in Public Space
07 Oct 2009
NESPON, NFFPFW and Nagarik Mancha

Report Calls for the Rejection of REDD in Climate Treaty
01 Oct 2009
Indigenous Environmental Network

Critical Currents no. 7, November 2009
Carbon Trading - How it works and why it fails

Hoodwinked in
the Hothouse
False Solutions
to Climate Change

Trouble in the
Air: Covering the
impacts of the
carbon market in
South Africa.
Joint publication
of TNI/CCS

Where the Trees
are a Desert
Stories from
the ground

The Carbon
Neutral Myth
Offset Indulgences
for your Climate
Sins

4 December
Cineforum - Climate Change: The Road to Ecotopia
London, UK

Screening of The Carbon Connection

8 and 14 December
Klimaforum
Copenhagen, Denmark

Workshops with CTW and the Durban Group for Climate Justice

carbon tradingSubmission to Environmental Audit Committee Inquiry on the role of carbon markets in preventing dangerous climate change
02 Mar 2009
Carbon Trade Watch, Transnational Institute

Summary The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has so far failed to reduce emissions, while the use of offset credits serves to conceal this lack of progress Emissions trading pre...

agrofuelsAgrofuels key points
21 Oct 2008

Climate change A primary concern is the potential for agrofuels to accelerate climate change, rather than combat it. Production involves considerable emission of greenhouse gases...

Copenhagen Cronology of Actions
23 Dec 2009

9 December Police Search Ragnhildsgade Sleeping Space http://indymedia.dk/ articles/1432 “The police seized many items including work tools, meeting notes and work notes, documen...

Coverage of US Chevron Action
08 Dec 2009
Mobilization for Climate Justice West

www.kcra.com/news/ 21888646/detail.html www.mercurynews.com/ news/ ci_13949158?nclick_check=1 www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/ blogs/green/detail? entry_id=53032 Live links for stories below her...

video
The Story of Cap and Trade

video
Brazil - The Money Tree

video
Action Against the Agrofuels

photo essay
Where the Trees are a Desert

video
Our Land, Our Struggle

audio
La contracumbre del Cambio Climático de Copenhage
09 Dec 2009
Tas-Tas

video
Baix en carboni (catalan)
09 Dec 2009
Sense Ficció - TV3

video
The Story of Cap and Trade
01 Dec 2009
Story of Stuff Project

video
Brasil - The Money Tree
22 Nov 2009
PBS

audio
The Green Majority: Lessons from US greens
20 Mar 2009

Outsourcing commitments - review of carbon trading book
31 Dec 2009
Surya P Sethi - Down to Earth

Book>> Carbon Trading How it Works and Why it Fails • by Tamra Gilbertson and Oscar Reyes • Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Upsala • Can be downloaded The author...

What is cap and trade?
15 Dec 2009
The Nation - Robert S. Eshelman

Cap and trade. Clean Development Mechanism. Carbon offsets. This is the language of solving climate change. What are they, though? How do they work? Do they work? And are there alternatives to marke...

"Protéger les riches" : le plan B de Copenhague
11 Dec 2009
Mouvements - Oscar Reyes

La fuite du texte de la déclaration politique qui pourrait conclure la conférence de Copenhague révèle des arrangements en coulisses entre pays industrialisés qui ...

Kuka hyötyy päästökaupasta?
10 Dec 2009
YLE.fi

Ilmastonsuojelun luoma päästökauppajärjestelmä jakaa ilmastonsuojelun saralla toimivia kansalaisjärjestöjä kahtia. Toiset järjestöt kannattavat l&au...

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