Rising Tide North America's 'The Climate Movement is Dead: Long Live the Climate Movement', Kate Evan's 'Carbon Supermarket' and new from Carbon Trade Watch, 'Carbon Trading - How it works and why it fails'.
Rising Tide North America is pleased to announce the release of our latest publication: The Climate Movement is Dead: Long Live the Climate Movement.
In the aftermath of the COP15 talks in Copenhagen, the inability of the Big Greens, governments, and market approaches to find genuine and sustainable solutions to climate change is undeniable. As author Naomi Klein so aptly observed at the end of COP15 talks, “A particular model of dealing with climate change is dying.”
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Kate Evans, creator of "Funny Weather: Everything You Didn't Want To Know About Climate Change But Probably Should Find Out" (click here to see the online - version) has produced a new comic abaut carbon trading. What's that? Don't know about carbon trading? Don't care? Here, have a copy of Kate's latest comic. You will.
Free to download.
Or if text is more your thing, Carbon Trade Watch have just produced their new report 'Carbon Trading - How it works and why it fails'.
Carbon Trading: how it works and why it fails outlines the limitations of an approach to tackling climate change which redefines the problem to fit the assumptions of neoliberal economics. It demonstrates that the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, the world’s largest carbon market, has consistently failed to ´cap´ emissions, while the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) routinely favours environmentally ineffective and socially unjust projects. This is illustrated with case studies of CDM projects in Brazil, Indonesia, India and Thailand.
Again free to download.
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