Potential Impacts of Tree Plantation Projects under the CDM An African Case Study Our newest project, which is supported by the Siemenpuu Foundation in Finland, involves a study that will focus mainly on tree plantation carbon sinks in Tanzania, and in particular the planned tree plantation projec[...]

Available FREE on The Corner House website Several new publications have been posted in the climate section on The Corner House website: www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/subject/climate Commodity Fetishism in Climate Science and Policy On the lighter side, an illustrated Corner House powerpoint [...]

Climate Chronicle is a climate justice newspaper produced every two days of the Copenhagen climate talks. The newspaper aims to report and decode what is going on inside the climate negotiations, to report on actions and outside events in Copenhagen, and to reflect climate justice struggles [...]

At a time when Copenhagen talks and the Kyoto Protocol seem likely to end in failure, calling for an entirely different framework for addressing the climate crisis may seem like madness. Carbon Trading: How it works and why it fails, produced by the Transnational Institute’s Carbon Trade Watch Pro[...]

Negative Returns on South African Investments edited by Patrick Bond, Rehana Dada and Graham Erion ISBN 13: 978 1 86914 141 7 Price: R 195.00 Format: 245 x 165 mm. 208 pp. Softcover Interest: Politics; Economics; Environment studies Rights: Africa and N[...]

By Janet Redman The World Bank irresponsibly and recklessly continues to perpetuate the world’s dependence on climate-altering fossil fuels while profiting from carbon trading, a dubious remedy to climate change. After years of waning global influence, the World Bank has attached itself to the [...]

“Bad for the South, bad for the North, and bad for the climate” The climate change debate will heat up further this week with the publication of an exhaustively-documented new book which claims that the dominant “carbon trading” approach, adopted by the Kyoto Protocol and the EU Emissions T[...]

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