Carbon Trading

Articles

The green goldrush by Oscar Reyes (August 2008)

Offset standard is off target by Kevin Smith (April 2008)

A new government ‘kitemark’ suggests that most carbon offset schemes are flawed, but fails to address the more fundamental problem of paying others to clean up after us, argues Kevin Smith

Growing money on trees by Oscar Reyes (January 2008)

Deforestation is responsible for one-fifth of annual carbon emissions – more than the entire transport sector. Yet a new global scheme to ‘reduce deforestation’ could end up rewarding the companies and governments that cause it, writes Oscar Reyes

Profiting from pollution - The G8 nations and emissions trading by Kevin Smith (June 2007)

Tackling climate change is likely to be at the top of the agenda at this month’s G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany. But the emissions trading schemes promoted by G8 countries are deferring genuine climate action, while generating massive profits for the largest polluters.

Carbon trade bandwagon by Michael Dorsey (February 2007)

With the Democrats rise to power in Washington, climate change has risen up the agenda in the form of carbon trading. Michael Dorsey critically examines emerging US climate policy

Costing the Earth by Derek Wall (December 2006)

The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change has forced even hardened neoliberals to acknowledge that there is a serious problem. But we need to look beyond Stern’s emphasis on the market to provide a solution, writes Derek Wall

Carbon cop-outs by Kevin Smith (December 2006)

They might salve our climate consciences, but carbon offset schemes are no substitute for the kind of collective action and social change that is necessary to combat global warming, writes Kevin Smith

Carbon credits and the green desert by Heidi Bachram (September 2006)

As the struggle for land and water resources in Brazil intensifies, Heidi Bachram discovers that the new carbon market is an added burden for vulnerable communities.

Carbon rational? by Heidi Bachram (August 2006)

With some MPs now considering carbon rations as the cure-all for climate change, Heidi Bachram explores the effect it might have on the fuel-poor

Half-baked and irrelevant by Melanie Jarman (December 2004)

The EU’s much heralded Emissions Trading Scheme will do nothing to tackle the problem of climate change.