Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power (Development Dialogue 48 September 2006)

LOHMANN, Larry (ed)

ISBN 10: 9185214485 / ISBN 13: 9789185214488

Published by Development Dialogue, Uppsala, Sweden, 2006, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power (Development Dialogue 48 September 2006)
• Publisher: Development Dialogue, Uppsala, Sweden, 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9185214485
• ISBN 13: 9789185214488
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: near fine

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Synopsis

The main cause of global warming is rapidly increasing carbon dioxide emissions primarily the result of burning fossil fuels despite international agreements to reduce such emissions. The trouble is that despite being aware of the serious situation, very few decision-makers are ready to tackle the problem at its roots. Instead of reducing the extraction of fossil fuels and searching for other solutions, current carbon-trading policies, in practice, favour the further exploitation of these fuels. Furthermore, new tree plantations, which are claimed as a means of mitigating the consequences of increased carbon dioxide pollution, often drive people out of their traditional living grounds and destroy biological diversity. This special report forms part of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation s What Next project. It focuses on carbon trading and is intended to influence current climate politics. In the debate on the Kyoto Protocol few actors have expressed a critical view. It is high time, for the purposes of debate and policy-making, to put the spotlight on the core problem fossil fuel extraction and consumption. This publication, therefore, takes a broad look at several dimensions of carbon trading. It analyses the problems arising from the emerging global carbon market pertaining to the environment, social justice and human rights, and investigates climate mitigation alternatives. It provides a short history of carbon trading and discusses a number of lessons unlearned . Nine case studies from diff erent parts of the world provide examples of the outcomes on the ground of various carbon off set schemes.

About the Author

Larry Lohmann works with the Corner House, a small research and solidarity organisation in the UK. He is the co-author of Pulping the South: Industrial Tree Plantations and the World Paper Economy (with Ricardo Carrere, 1996) and Whose Common Future? Reclaiming the Commons (with Simon Fairlie, Nicholas Hildyard and Sarah Sexton, 1993), and co-editor of The Struggle for Land and the fate of the Forests (with Marcus Colchester, 1993). Since then, he has published articles and book chapters on climate change, land rights, globalisation, racism, forest confl icts, development, environmental change in Southeast Asia and the politics of cost-benefi t analysis. During the 1980s he lived and worked in Thailand, most of the time with non-governmental organisations.