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  1. Carbon trading — privatising the world’s forests
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The World Bank sponsored carbon offset program has faced widespread criticism for, in effect, privatising forests and allowing rich nations to evade responsibility for cutting emissions themselves.
  2. The Dead End of Climate Justice
    How NGO Bureaucrats and Greenwashed Corporations are Turning Nature Into Investment Capital
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The notion of climate debt, highlighted as the principle avenue of struggle for the climate justice movement, poses some large problems. Contemporary demands for reparations justified by the notion of climate debt open a dangerous door to increased green capitalist investment in the Global South. Everything from energy to agriculture, from cleaning products to electronics, and especially everything within the biosphere, is being incorporated into this regime of climate markets. One can only imagine the immense possibilities for speculation and financialization in these markets as the green bubble continues to grow.
  3. Double Jeopardy: Carbon Offsets and Human Rights Abuses
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Whether you’re a climate change denier or doomsayer, an avid recycler or rabid consumer of plastic bottles, there is one very good but little-known reason to oppose carbon offsets: their immediate and dire human costs.
  4. The great ‘success’ of a carbon trading failure
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The “right to pollute” has never been more affordable. Energy companies and market speculators can buy a tonne of carbon for less than the cost of a cup of coffee. The low cost gives an incentive for companies to pollute more in the short-term and prices renewable energy alternatives out of the market.
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