CTW Newsletter #1 
Summer 2010
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Where the Trees are a Desert explores the links between pollution trading and monoculture eucalyptus plantations in Brazil. The publication is a collaboration between Carbon Trade Watch and our partners in Brazil, FASE-ES. Where the Trees are a Desert explores the issues from the perspective of people living and struggling with plantations on the ground. Nov 2003

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The Sky is Not the Limit gives an overview of the issues around pollution trading and introduces the main issues such as; environmental justice, NGO co-optation and privatisation of the atmosphere. Also explored is the history of the UN process and who the key players are in the emerging emissions markets. Jan 2003
 

 

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article thumbnailSPACE FOR MOVEMENT?

Building Bridges Collective
REFLECTIONS FROM BOLIVIA ON CLIMATE JUSTICE, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE STATE    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 Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth...
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article thumbnailHOODWINKED IN THE HOTHOUSE: False Solutions to Climate Change

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 an...
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article thumbnailCARBON TRADING – HOW IT WORKS AND WHY IT FAILS

Tamra Gilbertson and Oscar Reyes
  en castellano                       Critical Currents no. 7, November 2009 Carbon trading lies at the centre of global climate policy and is projected...
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article thumbnailUPSETTING THE OFFSET

Steffen Böhm and Siddhartha Dabhi
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CARBON MARKETS Steffen Böhm & Siddhartha Dabhi (eds) Download (4.5MB) Download Chapter 4: 'How Sustainable are Small-Scale Biomass Factories? A Case Study from Thailand' by Tamra Gilbertson...
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article thumbnailPAVING THE WAY FOR AGROFUELS

GRR / CEO/ TNI
EU POLICY, SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA, AND CLIMATE CALCULATIONS As criticism of agrofuels grows, the European Commission, various EU governments and international bodies are now developing ‘sustainability’ criteria and standards for their use, but it is unlikely that any set...
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article thumbnailAGROFUELS


TOWARDS A REALITY CHECK IN NINE KEY AREAS A new paper published by Carbon Trade Watch, in conjunction with nine other organisations from Germany, Indonesia, Spain, Denmark, the UK and Argentina, sets out critical concerns regarding the rapid expansion of the agrofuel...
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article thumbnailTHE CARBON NEUTRAL MYTH

Kevin Smith
OFFSET INDULGENCES FOR YOUR CLIMATE SINS Carbon offsets are the modern day indulgences, sold to an increasingly carbon conscious public to absolve their climate sins. Scratch the surface, however, and a disturbing picture emerges, where creative accountancy and elaborate shell games...
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article thumbnailCARBON TRADING

Larry Lohmann
A CRITICAL CONVERSATION ON CLIMATE CHANGE, PRIVATISATION AND POWER   “Bad for the South, bad for the North, and bad for the climate” The climate change debate will heat up further this week with the publication of an exhaustively-documented new book which...
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article thumbnailTROUBLE IN THE AIR

Centre for Civil Society in Durban / TNI
GLOBAL WARMING AND THE PRIVATISED ATMOSPHERE This joint publication of Centre for Civil Society in Durban and TNI explores the impacts of the carbon market in South Africa. Connecting energy privatisation with issues around the enclosure of the atmosphere, this collections of essays...
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article thumbnailHOODWINKED IN THE HOTHOUSE

Carbon Trade Watch
THE G8, CLIMATE CHANGE AND FREE-MARKET ENVIRONMENTALISM This briefing examines the relationship between free-market economic forces and climate change policy while scrutinising the rhetoric and reality behind promises on climate made by the most powerful politicians in the world...
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article thumbnailCAPITALISM NATURE SOCIALISM

Heidi Bachram
Carbon Trade Watch explores the fraudulent and neo-colonial dimensions of the new trade in greenhouse gases in this essay in the December issue of the red-green journal Capitalism Nature Socialism. Capitalism Nature Socialism website
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