'Six Soundbites on Climate Markets'

http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/document/Soundbites.pdf

Will current plans to expand carbon trading in the US and elsewhere work?
No. Because carbon trading:
- is aimed at the wrong objective;
- squanders resources on the wrong things;
- requires knowledge and institutions that do not exist;
- is antidemocratic;
- interferes with positive solutions; and
- puts ideology above experience.


'Climate Crisis: Social Science Crisis'

by Larry Lohmann

http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/document/SocSci.pdf

It's sometimes said that governments are failing to address climate change because they aren't taking the warnings of natural scientists seriously enough. In fact, this draft chapter suggests, the failures may have more to do with lack of social science understanding -- in particular, of how the kind of social change required actually takes place.