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CAMPAIGN
AGAINST CARBON TRADING
In its Political Statement,
Rising Tide says that it opposes emissions trading, carbon sinks,
Clean Development Mechanism, Joint Implementation and other false
solutions being used as a way to escape responsibility for reductions.
The main argument against carbon
trading is that it requires the privatisation of the atmosphere.
Property rights in this vast new speculative market will then be
aallocated by those who trade fastest and those who already pollute
the most.
But there are many more concerns
and criticisms:
- The specific mechanisms
involved in Carbon Trading are deeply flawed.
The Clean Development Mechanism represents the worst kind of top-down
repressive development. Tree planting does not work and threatens
forest dependent people in the tropics. Selling "hot air"
credits from the former Soviet Union are an accounting fraud.
- Carbon Trading will not
work. The proposals are based on models of small scale emissions
trading that cannot be replicated. A global carbon market cannot
be monitored or controlled, and the legal framework is unlikely
to ever be strong enough to counter the huge incentives for cheating.
- Carbon Trading is a false
solution. It has undermined the tiny reductions proposed in the
Kyoto Protocol. It does nothing to reduce the supply of fossil
fuels, it is an inherently elitist, corporatist, technocratic
solution.
PROTESTS
19th February 2002. Activists Close Amsterdam carbon Trading Conference
for Two Hours
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5th March 2002. A group called
"Pie in the Sky" made an "unscheduled presentation"
at a London carbon trading conference
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RESOURCES
The Case Against Carbon
Trading.
A three page Rising Tide briefing summarising the main criticisms
and areas of concern.
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Corner House Briefing: Democracy
or Carbocracy
This very well written 50 page report by Larry Lohmann is a key
text for anyone wanting to understand carbon trading and the bogus
science of sequestration.
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Greenhouse Market Mania.
This 30 page report is an excellent summary of the case against
carbon trading and the role of corporations in turning the Kyoto
Protocol into a carbon trading agreement.
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The problems with sinks.
Workshop given by Jutta Kill of FERN at the October 2001 Risingtide
Gathering.
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