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Offset standard is off target
From the April/May Issue of Red Pepper Magazine

A new government ‘kitemark’ suggests that most carbon offset schemes are flawed, but fails to address the more fundamental problem of paying others to clean up after us, argues Kevin Smith.

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Women and Eucalyptus. Stories of Life and Resistance
By Gilsa Barcellos and Simone Ferreira

A new publication from the World Rainforest Movement about the impacts of eucalyptus monocultures on indigenous and afrobrazilian women in the State of Espírito Santo.

Click here to download the complete text in pdf format.

Also available in Portuguese and Spanish

 

Offsetting Democracy
Kevin Smith Carbon Trade Watch/Transnational Institute

Carbon trading and offsets distract attention from the wider, systemic changes and collective political action that needs to be taken in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Promoting more effective and empowering approaches to climate change involves moving away from the blinkered reductionism of free-market dogma, the false-economy of supposed quick fixes, the short-term self interest of big business.

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Members of Durban Group For Climate Justice on Carbon Trading Speaking Tour in North America this Winter

Members of the Durban Group, including Carbon Trade Watch, are traveling in various cities throughout the US and Canada in January, February, and March 2008 to share experiences of the failures of carbon trading in Europe, India, Brazil, Uganda and elsewhere, and to learn more about U.S. carbon trading plans and climate politics.

More information about the tour, including dates and contacts, can be found here.

Listen to radio interview on KBOO, Portland Community Radio.


From false to real solutions for climate change
Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond makes a post-Bali evaluation of the state of climate politics and the mounting body of criticism against the carbon market.

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Climate Justice Newletter Published At COP in Bali

Alter-Eco is published by a group of NGOs, Indigenous Peoples Organisations and social movements at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change COP-13 who came together to make a unified call in support of real solutions to climate change and against the false market-based solutions to climate change that are being implemented under the Kyoto Protocol.

We join together to produce Alter-Eco as an instrument through which to project our collective voice, which reflects the views and concerns of grassroots constituencies and impacted communities all over the world.

Alter-Eco will be published throughout the COP.

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multimedia


The Carbon Connection
New documentary examines the impact of carbon trading


New Photo Essay
The Offsets in India
Confronting Carbon Colonialism

Where the Trees are a Desert Photo-essay
Where the Trees are a Desert online photo-essay exploring the impacts of monoculture eucalyptus plantations on local people and the environment in Brazil.

publications
NEW: Paving the way for Agrofuels:
EU policy, sustainability criteria, and climate calculations
NEW: Agrofuels Towards a reality check in nine areas
NEW: The Carbon Neutral Myth - Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins
Where the Trees are a Desert NEW: Donde las Árboles son Desierto: Histórias de la tierra,
text only spanish version
Trouble in the Air Trouble in the Air. Covering the impacts of the carbon market in South Africa. Joint publication of TNI/CCS
Hoodwinked in the Hothouse Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: The G8, climate change and free-market environ-
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