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Human rights abuses, land conflicts, broken promises
A new report by WRM of carbon offset projects in Uganda shows a string of human rights abuses linked with carbon trading and that carbon projects undermine development.
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Bad for the South, bad for the North, and bad for the climate
New Book Exposes Flaws of Carbon Trading. The book is published by Sweden’s Dag Hammarskjold
Foundation together with the international Durban Group for Climate Justice and
the UK-based NGO The Corner House.
‘This is the most absurd and impossible market human civilization has ever seen,’ said Indian activist and researcher Soumitra Ghosh, a contributing author on carbon projects in the South. ‘Carbon trading is bad for the South, bad for the North, and bad for the climate.’ ‘ Claims that carbon credits mitigate climate change have not been verified’, added Jutta Kill of FERN, another contributor to the book. Carbon trading impedes positive investment in the South while thwarting popular movements against subsidies for fossil fuel extraction, she said.
In detailed case studies from nine Third World countries, the book shows how carbon offset projects such as those promoted under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have had a detrimental impact on local communities. At the same time, they prolong industrialized countries’ excessive pollution of the atmosphere.
Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power is available for download at http://www.dhf.uu.se A paper edition will be published by the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation in November 2006.
‘This is the most absurd and impossible market human civilization has ever seen,’ said Indian activist and researcher Soumitra Ghosh, a contributing author on carbon projects in the South. ‘Carbon trading is bad for the South, bad for the North, and bad for the climate.’ ‘ Claims that carbon credits mitigate climate change have not been verified’, added Jutta Kill of FERN, another contributor to the book. Carbon trading impedes positive investment in the South while thwarting popular movements against subsidies for fossil fuel extraction, she said.
In detailed case studies from nine Third World countries, the book shows how carbon offset projects such as those promoted under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have had a detrimental impact on local communities. At the same time, they prolong industrialized countries’ excessive pollution of the atmosphere.
Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power is available for download at http://www.dhf.uu.se A paper edition will be published by the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation in November 2006.
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Kyoto: What's to celebrate?
A coalition of NGOs,
social and environmental activists, communities, scientists and economists
from around the world concerned about the climate crisis, the Durban
Group, charged that the 1997 climate treaty not only fails to cut greenhouse
gas emissions enough to avert climate catastrophe, but also steals from
the poor to give to the rich.
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