presentations




The Kyoto Protocol Neocolonialism and Fraud
by Larry Lohmann

transcript [html] | April 2002
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Introduction to 'sinks'
by Jutta Kill

powerpoint [418KB]

The reality of 'sinks'
by Jutta Kill

powerpoint [651KB]

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articles

A Carbon Rush at the World Bank
by Daphne Wysham

Durban's perfume rods,
plastic covers and
sweet-smelling toxic dump
by Trusha Reddy

Carbon Colonialism and Climate Fraud
by Heidi Bachram

Environmental Emergency Looms as Governments Fail to Address Global Warming
A Report from the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil
by Clare Davidson

briefings


The Sky is Not the Limit; introductory briefing to the issues around carbon trading in the Kyoto Protocol.

ENGLISH [PDF 520KB] | CASTELLANO [PDF 520KB] |

Published by Carbon Trade Watch January 2003

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Carbon Trading Avoiding Market Collapse; Most current 'carbon trading' systems, in addition to being useless in slowing climate change, have no viable commodity to trade. Today's fledgling 'carbon market' is headed for collapse.

ENGLISH [html]

published Larry Lohmann of The Corner House October 2002
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Democracy or Carbocracy? Intellectual Corruption and the Future of the Climate Debate.

ENGLISH [html]

published Larry Lohmann of The Corner House October 2001
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Where the Trees are a Desert - stories from the ground; This collaorative brieing gives an insight into the history of monoculture eucalyptus plantations inBrazil and their impacts on local people and the environment. It also explores the new finances made available by the World Bank that allows the expansion of these destructive plantations through the carbon market.

ENGLISH [PDF 1MB] | PORTUGUES [PDF 1MB] |

Published by FASE-ES, Alert Against the Green Desert Movement & Carbon Trade Watch November 2003
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The Dyson Effect Carbon ‘Offset’ Forestry and The Privatization of the Atmosphere; This briefing questions the view that tree plantations are a viable way of mitigating the climatic effects of industrial carbon-dioxide emissions. This “solution” to global warming is based on bad science, enlarges society’s ecological footprint, and reinforces neo-colonialist structures of power.

ENGLISH [html]

published Larry Lohmann of The Corner House July 1999
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Market failure: Why the CDM won't promote clean development.

ENGLISH [html] | CASTELLANO [html]

Published by CDMWatch November 2004

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Wrong Turn From Rio: The World Bank's Road to Climate Catastrophe

Researchers from the Institute for Policy Studies released a report challenging the World Bank's climate changing investments at the tenth Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention.


ENGLISH [PDF 1461KB] | CASTELLANO [html]

Published by Sustainable Energy & Economy Network December 2004

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"Banking on Climate Change: How Public Finance is Short Changing Clean Development."


ENGLISH [html]

By Kate Hampton, published by Sustainable Energy & Economy Network