carbon trade watch

Avoiding a green bad deal
05 Jun 2009
Oscar Reyes

Investing our hopes in green growth or new technological fixes will not avert the climate crisis. So what will? To inaugurate our new series on transitions to a world after fossil fuels, Oscar Reyes looks at the democratic deficit in the power sector

The worst-case scientific scenarios for climate change are being realised – or exceeded. The climate system is ‘already moving beyond the patterns of natural variability within which our society and economy have developed and thrive...

Business as usual on the climate
01 Jun 2009
Oscar Reyes

When a former British diplomat had the temerity to suggest that "the business community needs to re-examine the fundamentals of economics" at the recent World Business Summit on Climate Ch...

Carbon Trading: flaw at the heart of Democrats’ climate bill
29 May 2009
Oscar Reyes

The oil, gas and coal industry lobbyists who have spent almost $45 million on President Obama´s clean energy plan in recent months need not worry: it is so full of holes that US industry could...

UN Climate Negotiations: analysis of latest positions
08 May 2009
Oscar Reyes

A new global climate treaty is shaping up to have carbon trading at its centre, creating new loopholes to avoid cleaning up the climate, writes Oscar Reyes The US has played its han...

UK carbon budget: offshoring emissions reductions
23 Apr 2009
Oscar Reyes

The UK government has set the world´s first carbon budget, but it contains so many offset loopholes that most emission reduction commitments could be met without any action to clean up pow...

Launch of the Indigenous Peoples' Guide: 'False Solutions to Climate Change'
22 Apr 2009
Huntingtonnews.net

NEW: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' GUIDE "False Solutions To Climate Change"
21 Apr 2009
Earth Peoples

Ad Hoc Working Group on Kyoto Protocol update, aka how to expand carbon ...
17 Apr 2009
Oscar Reyes

Deal or No Deal? - CPH mobilisation newspaper
14 Apr 2009

Agrofuels
Towards a
reality check
in nine areas

The Carbon
Neutral Myth
Offset Indulgences
for your Climate
Sins

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

Paving the Way
for Agrofuels
EU policy,
sustainability criteria,
and climate
calculations

22 June
Carbon Trading Workshop, London, UK

With Kevin Smith
DATE: Monday June 22nd, 7-9pm,
VENUE: BASH, 65-71 Scrutton Street, London EC2

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...

Our Climate is Not Your Business - Call to action
26 Apr 2009

Our future is at stake. Climate change is happening, and NOW is the time to take action against the forces driving it! While the preparations and mobilisations for the COP15 are underway all over...

Climate Change: Indigenous Peoples Outraged
25 Apr 2009
Indigenous Environmental Network

Indigenous Peoples from around the World Outraged at the Rapid Escalation of Climate Change and Denounced False Solutions Anchorage, Alaska--At the first global gathering of Indigenous ...

video
Action Against the Agrofuels

photo essay
Where the Trees are a Desert

video
Quilombola Action

video
Gender and Environment

video
Our Land, Our Struggle

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

video
Civil Society against World Bank in Poznan
17 Dec 2008

video
Climate Justice Now: progress for justice at COP 14
12 Dec 2008
Climate Justice Now!

video
Virtual Poznan: Kevin Smith interview
07 Dec 2008
One World TV

video
Short clips critiquing carbon trading, offsetting and the Clean Development Mechanism
30 Oct 2008
WhatProductionsUK

The great carbon credit con: Why are we paying the Third World to poison its environment?
01 Jun 2009
Nadene Ghouri

In the fields around this giant chemicals factory in Gujarat, the barren soil smells of paint stripper and the water from the well makes you gag. So why has it been given tens of millions of pounds ...

Polluter Shell paid for CO2 storage in Dutch town of Barendrecht
02 May 2009
Adelei van der Velden

by Adelei van der Velden, freelance journalist “If they will really follow through on this ridiculous plan, I will definitely move,” says Anne[1]. She is one of the many angry inh...

Britain's big polluters accused of abusing EU's carbon trading scheme
27 Jan 2009
Terry Macalister

Britain's biggest polluting companies are abusing a European emissions trading scheme (ETS) designed to tackle global warming by cashing in their carbon credits in order to bolster ailing balance sh...

The Impacts of Climate Change in Africa
24 Jul 2008
Real World Radio

Climate change is a global phenomenon that affects different populations around the world in different ways. In South Africa, for example, there are situations caused by global warming, as in the re...

2009 Carbon Trade Watch