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After Copenhagen
04 Feb 2010
Oscar Reyes

What came out of Copenhagen? Oscar Reyes assesses the outcomes of the UN climate conference, and suggests much of the process was flawed from the beginning.

They came. They saw. They took (yet another) 'first step'. Then the 110 world leaders who attended the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen flew home again, leaving a trail of recriminations about divide and conquer tactics, and a blame game over why 'Hopenhagen' ...

Statement of Climate Justice Now! on the outcomes of COP15
05 Jan 2010
Climate Justice Now!

for sign-on by 5 January 2010 Organisations and individuals are invited to endorse the statement visit www.climate-justice-now.org Call for “system change not climate change” unite...

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 attr...

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

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

The Bhilangana Dam on troubled waters
07 Oct 2009
Tamra Gilbertson

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

Upsetting the Offset:
The Political Economy of Carbon Markets

Fact Sheet: Carbon Offsets

Climate Chronicle

Newspaper from Copenhagen/COP15 climate conference

Hoodwinked in
the Hothouse
False Solutions
to Climate Change

19-22 April
World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
Cochabamba, Bolivia

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...

A Call to drop all charges of those arrested during the COP15
14 Mar 2010

Defend those who defended your interests! (to find out how, see the green-coloured part of this email) This Tuesday 16th and Friday 19th they will appear before the Danish courts. Dear friends...

Invitation to a Post-Copenhagen/COP15 Gathering
22 Feb 2010
Climate Justice Action

Climate Justice Action and others in direct action radical climate movements are bringing together a meeting to evaluate recent resistance to climate colonialism and to consider what’s next....

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The Story of Cap and Trade

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Brazil - The Money Tree

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Action Against the Agrofuels

photo essay
Where the Trees are a Desert

video
Our Land, Our Struggle

video
Climate Justice, Ethics and the Copenhagen Agenda
15 Dec 2009
FORA.tv

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

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

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

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Brazil - The Money Tree
22 Nov 2009
PBS

Cyber-scam artists disrupt emissions trading across EU
03 Feb 2010
Leigh Phillips

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Emissions trading registries in a number of EU countries were shut down on Tuesday (2 February) as a result of a phishing scam tricking traders into giving away their emissio...

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...

EU carbon-trading scheme puts a price on pollution
23 Dec 2009
Deutsche Welle

With climate experts still reeling from the disappointment of the Copenhagen climate summit, negotiations to develop a strong carbon market continue. The European Union's system could set an example...

Copenhagen talks: “Lies, damn lies and emissions reductions pledges”
15 Dec 2009
ESSF - Oscar Reyes

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. What’s a...

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