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When Markets Are Poison – Learning about Climate Policy from the Financial Crisis

Corner House Briefing 40 When Markets Are Poison Learning about Climate Policy from the Financial Crisis by Larry Lohmann FIRST PUBLISHED 18TH SEPTEMBER 2009 | PDF Close parallels can be drawn between the financial innovations behind the current economic crisis and the marketing innovations associated with carbon trading — the dominant official response to climate change. Both the new financial markets [ READ MORE ]

Banking on Climate Change: How Public Finance is Short Changing Clean Development

Kate Hampton SEEN/IPS/TNI, 17 November 2000 This report is available in PDF Key Findings While hopes for carbon emissions reductions and clean technology transfer are pinned on the Clean Development Mechanism, these anticipated benefits are vastly outweighed by the continued transfer of public moneys from industrialized countries to developing and transition economies in support of fossil fuels. Between 2008 and 2012, [ READ MORE ]

Wrong Turn From Rio: The World Bank’s Road to Climate Catastrophe

Researchers from the Institute for Policy Studies released a report challenging the World Bank’s climate changing investments at the tenth Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention. ENGLISH [PDF 1461KB] | CASTELLANO [html] Published by Sustainable Energy & Economy Network [ READ MORE ]

Market failure: Why the CDM won’t promote clean development

ENGLISH [html] | CASTELLANO [html] Published by CDMWatch [ READ MORE ]

Where the Trees are a Desert – stories from the ground

This collaorative brieing gives an insight into the history of monoculture eucalyptus plantations inBrazil and their impacts on local people and the environment. It also explores the new finances made available by the World Bank that allows the expansion of these destructive plantations through the carbon market. ENGLISH [PDF 1MB] | PORTUGUES [PDF 1MB] [ READ MORE ]

The Sky is Not the Limit

Introductory briefing to the issues around carbon trading in the Kyoto Protocol. ENGLISH [PDF 520KB] | CASTELLANO [PDF 520KB] | Published by Carbon Trade Watch [ READ MORE ]

Carbon Trading Avoiding Market Collapse

Most current ‘carbon trading’ systems, in addition to being useless in slowing climate change, have no viable commodity to trade. Today’s fledgling ‘carbon market’ is headed for collapse. ENGLISH [html] published Larry Lohmann of The Corner House October 2002 [ READ MORE ]

Democracy or Carbocracy? Intellectual Corruption and the Future of the Climate Debate

ENGLISH [html] published Larry Lohmann of The Corner House October 2001 [ READ MORE ]

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