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 innova[...]

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 pu[...]

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

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

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 [...]

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

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

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

This briefing questions the view that tree plantations are a viable way of mitigating the climatic effects of industrial carbon-dioxide emissions. This “solution” to global warming is based on bad science, enlarges society’s ecological footprint, and reinforces neo-colonialist structures of po[...]