Protecting carbon to destroy forests: Land enclosures and REDD+Carbon Trade Watch
The need to halt the alarming rates of deforestation and forest degradation is without hesitation of high importance. Forests destruction displaces forest dependant peoples, often destroying their livelihoods and violating human rights. Moreover, even though the majority of... Read More |
NGO report busts the myths of the Emissions Trading SchemeScrap the EU-ETS
Why it must be replaced with direct action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Brussels, April 15th– The European Parliament votes tomorrow on the European Commission's proposal to backload 900 million emissions permits within the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). This vote... Read More |
Green is the color of Money: The EU ETS faliure as a model for the green economyCarbon Trade Watch
The author of the report, Ricardo Coelho stated: “Carbon trading cannot deliver the necessary phase out of fossil fuels nor can it question the destructive over-production and consumption model that lies at the heart of industrialized countries’ economies. By diverting resources... Read More |
Castles in the Air: The Spanish State, public funds and the EU-ETSCarbon Trade Watch
New research reveals that the windfall profits gained in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) by the top eight polluters in Spain were mostly from the steel and cement industries. The report critiques the inconsistencies in the Spanish State’s climate plan and its continuous... Read More |
Alerta Verde 164: REDDes que atrapan todoAccion Ecologica
Acción Ecológica, Oilwatch Sudamérica y Carbon Trade Watch
Durante décadas los pueblos alrededor del mundo han luchado para proteger y custodiar sus territorios ancestrales, mientras que el sistema económico, dependiente de actividades... Read More |
Ephemera May 2012: The atmosphere businessephemeraweb.org
ephemera: theory & politics in organization
volume 12, number 1/2
The atmosphere business
Issue editors: Steffen Böhm, Anna-Maria Murtola and Sverre Spoelstra
The contributions collected in this special issue of ephemera question the underlying ideologies and... Read More |
Nothing Neutral Here: Large-scale biomass subsidies in the UK and the role of the EU ETSCarbon Trade Watch
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Paying the Polluters: EU emissions trading and the new corporate electricity subsidiesCarbon Trade Watch and Corporate Europe Observatory
A proposed reform to the European Commission’s State Aid rules will allow member states to compensate industry for increases in electricity charges incurred as a result of the Emissions Trading System (ETS). Already, the UK Government has committed to covering these costs... Read More |
Carbon trading in Africa - A critical reviewTrusha Reddy (editor)
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No REDD Papers: Vol. 1No REDD Platform
—Nnimmo Bassey, Alternative Nobel Prize Laureate, Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), Chair of Friends of the Earth International and poet
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Beating Goliath: A resource for corporate campaignersthe democracy center
Published in October 2011, ‘Beating Goliath’ gathers case studies from previous successful campaigns against corporations, looking at how they won and what we can learn from them. It provides links to many useful resources for activists, and highlights current campaigns engaged in... Read More |
Caught in the cross-hairs: how industry lobbyists are gunning for EU climate targetsCarbon Trade Watch and Corporate Europe Observatory
The second initiative is the Roadmap for moving to a competitive low-carbon economy in 2050 (hereafter “Roadmap”), which has been proposed by the European Commission, and which will be discussed on 21 June at the inter-ministerial Environment Council. The Roadmap... Read More |
Key Arguments Against Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+)CTW, GJEP and IEN
No to REDD+!
REDD+ is still being negotiated. There are many who defend REDD+ for
valuing ecosystems services; there are others who see it as the only
way to protect forests and stabilize the climate. But whatever form
REDD+ takes, even if it includes Human Rights safeguards, it... Read More |
Some Key REDD+ PlayersCarbon Trade Watch
REDD+ rewards polluters with carbon credits, allowing them to elude
their responsibility to reduce emissions at source. There are billions
of dollars at stake and no real obligation to respect human or
collective rights – the so-called “safeguards” mentioned in... Read More |
More is less: a case against sectoral carbon marketsOscar Reyes
The global carbon market is in crisis. Proposed emissions trading
schemes in the USA, Japan and Canada have stalled indefinitely; new
markets in Australia and South Korea face significant delays; and
climate justice activists have successfully blocked the start of a
planned scheme in... Read More |
EU Emissions Trading System: failing at the third attemptCarbon Trade Watch and Corporate Europe Observatory
Emissions trading is the European Union’s flagship measure for tackling climate change, and it is failing badly. In theory it provides a cheap and efficient means to limit greenhouse gas reductions within an ever-tightening cap, but in practice it has rewarded major polluters with... Read More |
Africa's pollution and land grab threat from UN carbon marketThe Gaia Foundation, Carbon Trade Watch and Timberwatch
The United Nation’s carbon offset mechanism is rewarding pollution, and could lead to a land grab for industrial biofuels, tree plantations, genetically modified crops and biochar projects in Africa
A new briefing, titled “The CDM in Africa: marketing a new land... Read More |
No REDD, A Reader
No REDD, A Reader aspires to broaden the debate on
the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD)
mechanism. It aims to highlight critical perspectives that are
frequently drowned out by large NGOs, corporative lobbies, governments,
carbon traders, international... Read More |
SPACE FOR MOVEMENT?Building Bridges Collective
REFLECTIONS FROM BOLIVIA ON CLIMATE JUSTICE, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE STATE
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In the wake of the failed COP-15 in Copenhagen last December, Bolivia’s first indigenous president called for a World People’s Conference on... Read More |
HOODWINKED IN THE HOTHOUSE: False Solutions to Climate ChangeRising 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 an... Read More |
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