carbon trading
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Global warming: planning not pricing
Carbon pricing and carbon taxes are now proposed by international institutions and mainstream economics as the main solutions to ending global warming and destructive climate change. For some time, the IMF has been pushing for carbon pricing as ‘a necessary if not sufficient’ part of a climate policy package that also includes investment in ‘green… Continue reading
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WATCH: The Ethics of Voluntary Carbon Offsets – Professor Clive Spash
The following clip is an excerpt from the lecture The Brave New World of Carbon Trading by Professor and ecological economist Clive Spash, who discusses the limitations of emissions trading schemes. Video published March 11, 2010. Continue reading
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Carbon Market ‘Growth’ Mainly Fraudulent, World Bank Report Shows By Oscar Reyes
The global carbon market grew in 2009. Far from signalling a success, this reflects a massive increase in fraud, the dumping of surplus emissions permits by industry, and a rise in financial speculation. Continue reading
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Hoodwinked in the Hothouse – 2nd edition available now
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 easy-to-read introduction to the ever expanding market place of climate crisis technofixes. Continue reading
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Treasury face judicial review over RBS emissions By Julian Oram
Here’s a puzzler: what is the UK’s biggest contributor to climate change? Did you answer coal? Good guess, but no. Transport? It’s a biggy for sure, but not the largest. Farming? A distant fourth. Continue reading
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10 Lessons for the Climate Movement By Damien Lawson
Last year we got comprehensively rolled. While it was important and correct that we opposed the polluter-friendly carbon trading scheme (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme – CPRS), we failed to successfully communicate why we opposed something that most people didn’t understand in the first place. Continue reading
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Study exposes massive outsourcing of emissions by rich countries By Bryan Walsh
A new study published in the March 8 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that the carbon equation isn’t as straightforward as we might think. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution of Washington at Stanford University synthesized carbon emissions and trade patterns and found that more than one-third of CO2 emissions… Continue reading
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Climategate and Climate Change: Blowing hot and cold By William Bowles
2 December, 2009 The leaked emails from the University of East Anglia seem to have put the proverbial cat in with the climatic pigeons. So what to make of it? Firstly, there’s an awful lot of information to wade through, some of which I find extremely confusing eg, Climate Change: This is the Worst Scientific Continue reading
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Cartoon: The Carbon Supermarket By Kate Evans
Don’t know about carbon trading? Don’t care? Here, have a copy of my latest comic. You will. Continue reading
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When the Climate Change Center Cannot Hold By Patrick Bond
The recent Bangkok negotiations of Kyoto Protocol Conference of Parties functionaries confirmed that Northern states and their corporations won’t make an honest effort to get to 350 CO2 parts per million. On the right, Barack Obama’s negotiators seem to feel that the 1997 Kyoto Protocol is excessively binding to the North, and leaves out several… Continue reading
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