Carbon 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...
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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...
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Carbon 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...
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Oscar 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...
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Carbon 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...
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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...
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Building Bridges Collective
REFLECTIONS FROM BOLIVIA ON CLIMATE JUSTICE, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE STATE    en castellano     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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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