Japan moving on emissions trading scheme 1 Sep 2010 Japan would begin mandatory emissions trading in 2013 under a draft government proposal released this week. The proposal broadly outlines a scheme which would see...
More firms in carbon trade setting up shop in Singapore 1 Sep 2010 More companies trading in carbon offsets and those financing emissions reduction projects are setting up shop in Singapore. More than 30 such carbon-related firms -...
Africa May Become Next Big Market for Carbon Projects, says IETA 31 Aug 2010 Africa may be the next major market for carbon-reduction ventures amid investigations into Chinese certification and as the European Union imposes new regulations, the International...
Japan plans to bind large firms to CO2 caps: draft 30 Aug 2010 Japan's compulsory emissions trading scheme is set to start in April 2013 and cover large CO2 emitting companies, a draft of the government's proposals showed...
Climate finance reaches $30 bln goal, but is it new? 29 Aug 2010 Climate finance promises from rich nations to help poor countries slow global warming are reaching the $30 billion goal agreed in Copenhagen but analysts say...
Carbon market “growth” is mainly fraudulent, World Bank report showsTuesday, 20 July 2010 | Oscar Reyes The global carbon market grew in 2009. Far from signalling a success, this reflects a massive increase in fraud, the dumping of surplus emissions permits by industry, and a rise in financial speculation.
“Global Carbon Market Grows to $144 billion Despite Financial and Economic... Read More
Creating new from the old: how the REDD+ Partnership plans to create a REDD market, plus!Tuesday, 20 July 2010 | Oscar Reyes The REDD+ Partnership intends to facilitate controversial forest payment schemes in advance of any UN climate agreement on an international framework to tackling deforestation.
Forget about the complex realities of forest protection: a “new” grouping of 58 countries keen to... Read More
Industrial gases in CDM: fixing a hole?Tuesday, 20 July 2010 | Oscar Reyes The majority of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) offset credits issued to date are bogus, according to new research on industrial gas destruction projects.
Since its inception, the CDM has enabled power companies in industrialised countries (mainly in the European Union) to avoid... Read More
The UN Boys Club tasked with redefining climate financeTuesday, 20 July 2010 | Oscar Reyes Climate finance is a central element to any future international framework for tackling climate change, but a closed-door UN panel could redefine the terms of the debate away from the responsibilities of industrialised countries and encourage the further expansion of carbon markets.
The... Read More
More on Plantar as the struggle continuesTuesday, 20 July 2010 | Tamra Gilbertson The Plantar project was one of the first to be supported by the World Bank Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF). Some aspects of the project have since entered the Clean Development Mechanism, but the battle continues to keep more of this plantation scheme out of the CDM.
Despite numerous recent... Read More
New Zealand's new carbon market: a taxpayer subsidy for plantations and energy companiesTuesday, 20 July 2010 | Tamra Gilbertson and Oscar Reyes New Zealand has a new carbon market, the first national scheme to be launched outside Europe. It looks set to award profits to forest plantation owners, help power companies avoid emissions reductions, and pass the costs of tackling climate change from big business to individual... Read More
Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: False Solutions to Climate Change – Available now!Tuesday, 06 July 2010 | Rising Tide North America and Carbon Trade Watch
This 28-page booklet provides a close-to-comprehensive overview of
false solutions to climate change. Fifteen concise articles—complete
with photos and illustrations—cover more than 20 false solutions to
climate change, from Clean Coal to Biomass incineration, providing... Read More
New book exposes dangers of carbon market ahead of Bolivia climate summitMonday, 19 April 2010 | Tamra Gilbertson and Oscar Reyes
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As up to 15,000 people gather in Bolivia to advance grassroots responses to the climate crisis, a new book exposes the failings of global climate policy and lays out numerous ways forward without the carbon market system that lies at its heart.
Carbon Trading:... Read More
Where is carbon trading heading?Monday, 19 April 2010 | Tamra Gilbertson and Oscar Reyes
With UN climate talks in question, serious questions are being asked about the future of carbon trading, while a more detailed survey of new projects and policies shows that carbon markets continue to beat their destructive path. Read More
Megaproyectos en la Amazonía: desarrollo, exclusión, capitalismo y militarizaciónMonday, 05 April 2010 | Joanna Cabello La construcción de hidroeléctricas a gran escala en la amazonía, junto con un proyecto que intenta modificar la Ley sobre Desplazamientos Internos en el Perú, amenaza a comunidades y territorios campesinos e indígenas así como la biodiversidad de la... Read More
After CopenhagenThursday, 04 February 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... Read More
Statement of Climate Justice Now! on the outcomes of COP15Tuesday, 05 January 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” unites global movement
Corrupt Copenhagen ‘accord’ exposes gulf between peoples... Read More
Climate Justice for a Changing Planet: Beyond Carbon TradingTuesday, 15 December 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... Read More
COMMENTARY: Human Rights Groups Condemn Criminal Repression Of Indigenous Community In Peru Thursday, 10 December 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 not an isolated case, but part of an ongoing, systematic campaign to criminalize social and... Read More
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