This is from our friends in the UK Corner House:

From: "notification-l@thecornerhouse.org.uk"
To: notification-l@thecornerhouse.org.uk
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 10:43:49 AM
Subject: What's wrong with carbon 'offsets' and 'carbon trading'?

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These days, everyone professes concern about climate change. And with the advent of the Kyoto Protocol, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, and carbon 'offsets', it looks like governments and corporations are at last starting to do something about the problem.

But are they? Or are these 'market approaches' merely delaying action and diverting resources away from positive solutions? This year, more and more front-page news stories and investigative TV documentaries have told us that the neoliberal 'carbon trading' approach to climate change just isn't working.

What's the problem? The Durban Group for Climate Justice's book, 'Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power' (http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/summary.shtml?x=544225), provides some answers.

For those who want something shorter, we've just posted on The Corner House website a series of articles, interviews and slide shows exploring the background:


Carbon Offsets Not Welcome Here
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/summary.shtml?x=556331

Carry on Polluting
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/item.shtml?x=546606

Kyoto: A False Consensus?
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/summary.shtml?x=556343

Pictures from the Emissions Market
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/summary.shtml?x=556339

Pictures from the Carbon 'Offset' Market
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/summary.shtml?x=556341

Aid, the Clean Development Mechanism, and Some Open Questions
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/summary.shtml?x=556330

Who are the Climate Leaders?
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/summary.shtml?x=556338

Interview in 'Com Ciencia' magazine
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/summary.shtml?x=556364

Relearning Humility in a Time of Climate Change
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/summary.shtml?x=556342

Trading Our Way into Trouble?
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/summary.shtml?x=556367

Carbon Trading and the World Rainforest Movement
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/summary.shtml?x=556365