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The Bhilangana Dam on troubled waters
07 Oct 2009
Tamra Gilbertson

‘It’s a lie, we don’t want this dam! No, no!’
— a community resident near the Bhilangana Dam in Uttarakhand

Run-of-the-river dams have been promoted as renewable energy projects with promised social and ecological benefits under the CDM regime; but a closer examination of the real impacts of some of these projects gives little evidence for this being the case....

Mausam (issues 2-5) Talking Climate in Public Space
07 Oct 2009
NESPON, NFFPFW and Nagarik Mancha

Mausam magazine is designed to "challenge the 'intellectual fiefdom' established by governments, profiteers, and 'experts' of various shades and hues on issues of global warming and its solutio...

Report Calls for the Rejection of REDD in Climate Treaty
01 Oct 2009
Indigenous Environmental Network

Indigenous Environmental Network calls for solutions that reduce emissions, protect forests and respect rights Bangkok – Carbon markets should be eliminated from any future plans to tackle ...

C Words: carbon, climate, capital, culture, How did you get here and where are we going?
29 Sep 2009
Platform

Exhibitions Sat 3 Oct - Sun 29 Nov, 10am - 6pm (Closed Mondays) Free "The energy and climate-change crisis stands as a unique social and ecological challenge... Those least responsible...

Marketing the Climate
17 Sep 2009
Tamra Gilbertson

Brazil: Plantar’s ‘new’ eucalyptus projects advance towards CDM validation In mid-July the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board accepted a new methodology proposed ...

Carbon Trading : a brief introduction
07 Sep 2009
Oscar Reyes

Indonesia: Sinar Resmi Declaration on climate change and REDD
31 Aug 2009
Chris Lang

Declaration of the Africa People's Movement on Climate Change
30 Aug 2009
Africa Peoples Movement on Climate Change

Trouble in the
Air: Covering the
impacts of the
carbon market in
South Africa.
Joint publication
of TNI/CCS

Agrofuels
Towards a
reality check
in nine areas

The Carbon
Neutral Myth
Offset Indulgences
for your Climate
Sins

Paving the Way
for Agrofuels
EU policy,
sustainability criteria,
and climate
calculations

Hoodwinked in
the Hothouse
False Soulutions
to Climate Change

30-31 October
Conference: Climate change and agriculture
Barcelona, Spain

What we face in Copenhagen: actors and interests in the climate debate with Oscar Reyes

1 November
Carbon Connection and Crude - screenings and discussion
Bristol, UK

Screening of The Carbon Connection

carbon tradingSubmission to Environmental Audit Committee Inquiry on the role of carbon markets in preventing dangerous climate change
02 Mar 2009
Carbon Trade Watch, Transnational Institute

Summary The EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has so far failed to reduce emissions, while the use of offset credits serves to conceal this lack of progress Emissions trading pre...

agrofuelsAgrofuels key points
21 Oct 2008

Climate change A primary concern is the potential for agrofuels to accelerate climate change, rather than combat it. Production involves considerable emission of greenhouse gases...

350 Reasons Why Carbon Trading Won't Work!
24 Oct 2009
Rising Tide North America

Rising Tide North America and Carbon Trade Watch would like you to join us on the October 24th day of global climate action to spread the word about the biggest financial scam in history – C...

IMF/WB mobilizations
17 Sep 2009
Resistanbul

Istanbul, Turkey 01-08th October resistanbul. wordpress.com Spokesmen and bureaucrats of multinational capitalist corporations will be in Istanbul, Turkey on 6 – 7 October ...

video
Our Land, Our Struggle

photo essay
Where the Trees are a Desert

video
Action Against the Agrofuels

video
Quilombola Action

video
Gender and Environment

audio
The Green Majority: Lessons from US greens
20 Mar 2009

video
Civil Society against World Bank in Poznan
17 Dec 2008

video
Climate Justice Now: progress for justice at COP 14
12 Dec 2008
Climate Justice Now!

video
Virtual Poznan: Kevin Smith interview
07 Dec 2008
One World TV

video
Short clips critiquing carbon trading, offsetting and the Clean Development Mechanism
30 Oct 2008
WhatProductionsUK

The great carbon credit con: Why are we paying the Third World to poison its environment?
01 Jun 2009
Nadene Ghouri

In the fields around this giant chemicals factory in Gujarat, the barren soil smells of paint stripper and the water from the well makes you gag. So why has it been given tens of millions of pounds ...

Polluter Shell paid for CO2 storage in Dutch town of Barendrecht
02 May 2009
Adelei van der Velden

by Adelei van der Velden, freelance journalist “If they will really follow through on this ridiculous plan, I will definitely move,” says Anne[1]. She is one of the many angry inh...

Britain's big polluters accused of abusing EU's carbon trading scheme
27 Jan 2009
Terry Macalister

Britain's biggest polluting companies are abusing a European emissions trading scheme (ETS) designed to tackle global warming by cashing in their carbon credits in order to bolster ailing balance sh...

The Impacts of Climate Change in Africa
24 Jul 2008
Real World Radio

Climate change is a global phenomenon that affects different populations around the world in different ways. In South Africa, for example, there are situations caused by global warming, as in the re...

2009 Carbon Trade Watch