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TARGETING THE FALSE SOLUTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE

With the increasing awareness and hype about climate chaos in the past 2 years, people are trying to cash in. Rising Tide North America has initiated a new campaign against some of the “False Solutions” to climate change currently on the market.

The false solutions we are working to expose include carbon trading, offsets, and sequestration schemes and “alternative” fuels like nuclear power, “clean” coal, agrofuels (like ethanol), and liquefied natural gas that aren’t really any better than our current energy sources. (more…)

Members of Durban Group For Climate Justice on Carbon Trading Speaking Tour this Winter

Posted Jan 4th, 2008

In 2004, the Durban Group for Climate Justice convened in Durban, South Africa to question the central role of carbon trading and carbon offsets in governments’ responses to the climate crisis. Members of the Durban Group are traveling in various cities throughout the US and Canada in January, February, and March 2008 to share experiences of the failures of carbon trading in Europe, India, Brazil, Uganda and elsewhere, and to learn more about U.S. carbon trading plans and climate politics.

Four internationally recognized experts, fresh from the UN climate meetings in Bali, Indonesia, will be visiting Canada, the Midwestern and Western US, Vermont and New York City. With over fifty groups in over forty cities, they’ll speak on carbon trading, carbon offsets, the effects of climate change and current international campaigns to keep the fossil fuels in the ground and affect meaningful change.

For a complete list of tour dates, and to contact local host organizers, please click here.

Read on for more information, or check out this interview with two of the touring speakers in Celcias magazine. Continue Reading »

Posted in False Solutions Campaign, Front Page

Planktos: False Solutions to Colonize our Oceans

Posted Dec 30th, 2007

PLANKTOS: The Solution to Climate Change?

By Maya Face
A for-profit company named Planktos Inc. claims to “erase carbon footprints” by offsetting carbon emissions. Their promotional materials say, “Global Warming: Solved!” –offering a quick fix to the largest challenge of our times. While they are primarily concerned with “restoring” plankton in the oceans, they have a subsidiary that plants trees in the European Union. The carbon dioxide taken up by the plankton is sold as carbon credits to consumers, businesses and governments. Ocean fertilization is a quickly emerging threat to the oceans and better ways of dealing with climate change; the estimated future value of the market for ocean fertilization is $100 billion. Planktos is likely to make huge profits from the Kyoto Protocol, the market for carbon offsets, the huge carbon footprints of Western consumers, and industrial greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, the world’s oceans and climate are paying the price, with widespread scientific uncertainty as to how they will be affected by iron fertilization. Continue Reading »

Posted in False Solutions Campaign, Newswire, geoengineering

Climate Change’s “False Solutions” Reading Room

Posted Dec 22nd, 2007

Rising Tide has just finished work on its new “false solutions” reading room, a collection of factsheets and reports examining solutions to climate change that are often popular with businesses and politicians, but which do little to help the climate and often have devastating impacts on communities and the environment. This is the 2nd installment of the new “publications and multimedia” section on our website.

First have a look at the reading room, and contact our false solutions campaign to get more involved!