Carbon Trade Watch at the Bali Climate Talks |
UNFCCC, Bali : 3 side events CONVENIENT LIES: BIOFUELS AND CARBON TRADE
Clashing Strategies: Promoting Agrofuels and Reducing Deforestation Promoting agrofuels and carbon trade is fundamentally incompatible with the goal of protecting forests and indigenous people’s rights. These are false solutions to climate change.
Global Forest Coalition with speakers from:
Explore the impacts which large scale agrofuel production from crops and trees has on the climate, on local communities and food security, and on the environment.
Corner House with speakers from:
Presenting fresh case studies of the social and environmental impacts of CDM projects in India, the case against using carbon trade schemes to reduce emissions from deforestation, and possible alternatives, such as the Ecuadorean proposal to keep the oil in the ground. Durban Group for Climate Justice with speakers from Indonesian Civil Society Forum on Climate Justice, Fern, Cornerhouse, World Rainforest Movement and Oilwatch/Accion Ecologica.
"Agrofuels and Climate Justice"
"Carbon Trading Bad for the North, bad for the South and Bad for climate change"
"The World Bank and Climate Change" |