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Information on Carbon "Offsets"
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 FACTSHEET: Carbon "Offsets"--A lose-lose-lose scenario to address climate change
Articles of Interest
- cheatneutral.com
- "Oilwatch: Position on voluntary carbon market",
www.oilwatch.org, Sept. 2008
- "Conference splits over deforestation emission cut",
AFP, Aug. 24, 2008
- "Clash over plan to save tropical forests",
The Guardian UK, Aug. 21, 2008
- "Pines on the Páramo: The Disastrous Local Effects of the Carbon Market",
NACLA, Jul. 14, 2008
- "Uganda: Thousands of Indigenous People evicted from FSC-certified Mount Elgon National Park",
Chris Lang, World Rainforest Movement, Jun. 2008
- "Turning Carbon Into Gold",
Mother Jones, Jun. 4, 2008
- "Billions wasted on UN climate programme:
Energy firms routinely abusing carbon offset fund, US studies claim", The Guardian, May 26, 2008
- "Carbon Credits Were a Great Idea, But the Benefits Are Illusory", Wired, May 19, 2008
- "The Great Carbon Bazaar", BBC News, Jun. 5, 2008
- "U.N. Effort to Curtail Emissions In Turmoil", Wall Street Journal, Apr. 12, 2008
- "Prometheus: 6 Days in 2012: Effect of the CDM on Carbon Emissions", CIRES, Roger Pielke Jr., Mar. 19, 2008
- "Value of U.S. House's Carbon Offsets Is Murky
Some Question Effectiveness of $89,000 Purchase to Balance Out Greenhouse Gas Emissions", Washingtong Post, Jan. 28, 2008
- "Clean Development Mechanism: The $75 million fraud", Deccan Herald, May 15, 2008
- "Study raises concerns over Chicago Climate Exchange offsets", BusinessGreen, Apr. 9, 2008
- "World Bank invests in defence off-set fund", Times Online, Apr. 3, 2008
- Press Release of the Week: Battin proposes to open HOV Lanes to "Carbon Neutral" drivers, Sacramento Bee, Feb. 22, 2008
- “The Carbon Neutral Myth – Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins", Carbon Trade Watch, 2007
- “A funny place to store carbon: UWA-FACE Foundation’s tree planting project in Mount Elgon national park, Uganda,” World Rainforest Movement, 2006
- “Carbon Offsetting – No Magical Solution to ‘neutralise’ fossil fuel emissions”, FERN Briefing Note, 2005
- “Carbon Cop Outs”, Kevin Smith, Red Pepper, 2006
- “If you go down to the woods today”, Adam Ma’anit, New Internationalist, 2006
- “Ten things you should know about ‘tree’ offsets”, Jutta Kill, New Internationalist, 2006
- “The inconvenient truth about the carbon offset industry”, N Davies, The Guardian, 2007
- “Abuse and incompetence in fight against global warming”, N Davies, The Guardian 2007
- “Another Inconvenient Truth”, Business Week, March 2007
- “Revealed: the carbon offsetting forest farce”, R Edwards, Sunday Herald, March 2007
- “To cancel out the CO2 of a return flight to India, it will take one poor villager three years of pumping water by foot. So is carbon offsetting the best way to ease your conscience?”, D Kennedy, The Times, 2007
- “BA's offset goose is cooked”, T Webb, The Independent, 2007
- “Carbon Offsets: Buying Your Way Out of Responsibility”, D Colwell, Alternet, 2007
- “Exposed: The Truth Behind Popular Carbon Offsetting Schemes”, M Hickman, The Independent, 2007
- "Offsetting your carbon footprint takes decades", J Leake, The Times, 2007
- "Carbon offsetting schemes not so green", J Copping, Sunday Telegraph, 2007
- "How Coldplay's green hopes died in the arid soil of India", A Dhillon, Sunday Telegraph, 2006
- "Carbon neutral cheating", World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, 2008
- "The Other Side of Carbon Trading", S Faris, Fortune Magazine, 2007
- “Carbon offsets not welcome here”, L Lohmann, Climate Corp, 2007
- "Climate Campaign Targets Offsets", R Black, BBC News, 2007
Videos
The Great Green Smokescreen, Part I
Channel 4 Dispatches documentary on the Voluntary Offsets Market
The Great Green Smokescreen, Part II
The Great Green Smokescreen, Part III
The Great Green Smokescreen, Part IV
The Great Green Smokescreen, Part V
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