Where the Trees are a Desertexplores
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
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
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 (2.4MB)
Download Chapter 18: 'The Politics of the Clean Development Mechanism: Hiding Capitalism Under the Green Rug' by Joanna Cabello (180KB)
Upsetting the Offset engages critically with the political economy of carbon markets. It presents a range of case studies and critiques from around the world, showing how the scam of carbon markets affects the lives of communities. But the book doesn’t stop there. It also presents a number of alternatives to carbon markets which enable communities to live in real low-carbon futures. Read the press release dated 1 December 2009.
‘This book is a very constructive and rigorous critique of CDM offset approaches to deal with carbon footprints. I recommend this book to any student, policy maker or administrator of climate change complexities in developed or developing countries.’ Professor Anil Gupta, Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad, India
‘If you wondered whether capitalism could ever produce the perfect weapon of its own destruction, try this heady mix of carbon fuels, the trade in financial derivatives, and more than a dash of neo-colonialism, and boom! But this book is far from resigned to that fate. After examining the case against carbon trading… the book turns to alternatives, to hope, to sanity, and to the future.’ Professor Stefano Harney, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
‘The politics of carbon trading is a subject far too important to be left to politicians, industrialists and technocrats. This is an issue that is affecting everyone on the planet. In this important book, a series of well known commentators explain the perverse economics that lies behind the impossible idea of trading our future for profit.’ Professor Martin Parker, University of Leicester, UK
‘Anyone concerned about the future of the planet (is anyone not?) should read this book. The contributors give powerful evidence and argument to show that the carbon trading regimes favoured by the world’s elites will not work – and are, indeed, set to make things worse. But the message is not negative. There are alternatives, both effective and desirable.’ Professor Ted Benton, University of Essex, UK
Steffen Böhm is Reader in Management at Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK. Siddhartha Dabhi is a researcher at Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK.
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
CARBON TRADING – HOW IT WORKS AND WHY IT FAILSTamra Gilbertson and Oscar Reyes
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Critical Currents no. 7, November 2009
Carbon trading lies at the centre of global climate policy and is projected... Read More
UPSETTING THE OFFSETSteffen 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... Read More
PAVING THE WAY FOR AGROFUELSGRR / 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... Read More
AGROFUELS
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... Read More
THE CARBON NEUTRAL MYTHKevin 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... Read More
CARBON 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... Read More
TROUBLE IN THE AIRCentre 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... Read More
HOODWINKED 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... Read More
CAPITALISM NATURE SOCIALISMHeidi 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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2011 Carbon Trade Watch
