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Carbon offset business - 1 views

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carbon offset trading

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  • Trade Carbon on 01 Apr 09
     
    Carbon offsetting provides an alternative to reducing CO2 emissions, at individual and organizational level.
Arabica Robusta

Pambazuka - Carbon trading: Colonising the atmospheric commons - 0 views

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  • Thanks to ‘offsets’ that grant industrial polluters a ‘get-out-of-jail-free card through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), polluters circumvent caps by bankrolling ‘green-wrapped’ business-as-usual projects in ‘poor countries’.
  • Yet ‘between a third and two-thirds’ of CDM projects do not represent actual reductions, according to the head of Stanford University’s Sustainable Development programme. (Like many other institutions of influence, Stanford was on the receiving end of US$225 million in oil-money from Exxon-Mobil for Global Climate and Energy project.) Instead, offsets facilitate the process of corporate gaming, simultaneously utilising Africa’s ‘underdeveloped’ status as yet another exploitable resource.
  • implementing (‘05) current technology renders it possible to reduce emissions to pre 2000 levels while making a profit on at least 50 per cent of implemented technologies – and this achievable by 2010 with ‘zero net costs’. Says who? The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – almost five years ago. Yet developed nations, specifically the US, emitting 19 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per capita annually, continue subsidising oil giants to the tune of US$300 billion, all the while claiming that significant caps cannot be realised.
  • Arabica Robusta on 07 Nov 09
     
    "Thanks to 'offsets' that grant industrial polluters a 'get-out-of-jail-free card through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), polluters circumvent caps by bankrolling 'green-wrapped' business-as-usual projects in 'poor countries'."
Arabica Robusta

Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) - 0 views

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carbon trading environment

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  • Arabica Robusta on 07 Nov 09
     
    Yet 'between a third and two-thirds' of CDM projects do not represent actual reductions, according to the head of Stanford University's Sustainable Development programme. (Like many other institutions of influence, Stanford was on the receiving end of US$225 million in oil-money from Exxon-Mobil for Global Climate and Energy project.) Instead, offsets facilitate the process of corporate gaming, simultaneously utilising Africa's 'underdeveloped' status as yet another exploitable resource. http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/60017
Arabica Robusta

CDM: CDM-Home - 0 views

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carbon trading environment

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  • Arabica Robusta on 07 Nov 09
     
    Thanks to 'offsets' that grant industrial polluters a 'get-out-of-jail-free card through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), polluters circumvent caps by bankrolling 'green-wrapped' business-as-usual projects in 'poor countries'. http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/60017
Arabica Robusta

AfricaFiles | Responsibly destroying the world's peasantry? - 1 views

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  • It has been several years since private investors and states began buying and leasing millions of hectares of farmland worldwide in order to secure their domestic supply of food, raw commodities, and biofuels, or to get subsidies for carbon storage through plantations.
  • All too often, notions such as "reserve agricultural land," or "idle land," are manipulated out of existence, sometimes being used to designate land on which many livelihoods depend, and that is subject to long-standing customary rights. The requirement that evictions take place only for a valid "public purpose," with fair compensation, and following consultation of those affected, is honoured more in the breach than in the observance.
  • what is required is to insist that governments comply fully with their human rights obligations, including the right to food, the right of all peoples to freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources, and the right not to be deprived of the means of subsistence.
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  • Because the principles ignore human rights, they neglect the essential dimension of accountability. There is also a clear tension between ceding land to investors for the creation of large plantations, and the objective of redistributing land and ensuring more equitable access to it.
  • It should come as no wonder that smallholders and agricultural labourers represent a combined 70% of those who are unable to feed themselves today.
  • Smallholders, by contrast, produce at a higher cost. They are often very productive by hectare, since they maximize the use of the soil, and achieve the best complementary use of plants and animals. But the form of agriculture that they practice, which relies less on external inputs and mechanization, is highly labour-intensive. If smallholders compete in the same markets as the large farms, they lose. Yet they render invaluable services, in terms of preservation of agro- and biodiversity, local communities' resilience to price shocks or weather-related events, and environmental conservation. The arrival of large-scale investment in agriculture will alter the relationship between these worlds of farming. It will exacerbate highly unequal competition. And it could cause massive social disruptions in the world's rural areas.
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