Transnational Institute: Pre-Copenhagen resource guide

FACT SHEETS

1. Cap and Trade [7]
What is wrong with cap and trade? Who profits from these schemes? What is EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)? Can cap and trade markets be reformed?  This fact sheet answers all your questions about cap and trade.

2. Carbon Offsets [8]
What are carbon offsets? Why do they negatively impact environment? Isn’t carbon trading better than nothing?  This fact sheet answers all your questions about carbon offsets.

3. What’s at stake in Copenhagen [9]
Why are some countries intent on killing Kyoto? Do the reductions targets tell the whole story? Who is paying for it all? This fact sheet answers all your questions about the UN climate talks in Copenhagen.

INTERVIEWS

Copenhagen talks: “Lies, damn lies and emissions reductions pledges” [10]
Interview with Oscar Reyes
A dazzling array of delegates from all over the world is in Copenhagen to hammer out a deal on tackling climate change. Oscar Reyes makes sense of the complex negotiations process.

How the myth of unlimited growth is destroying the planet [11]
Interview with Edgardo Lander
Economic growth and continued expansion are a vital requirement for the current pattern of civilisation. We need to change this if we are to solve the climate crisis.

Carbon Con [12]
Interview with Tamra Gilbertson
How the US forced carbon trading onto the global climate agenda, and why popular movements worldwide have vowed to end this ‘false solution” to climate change.

BLOGS

La estrategia del avestruz [13] - Apuntes desde la cumbre del clima en Copenhague (only in Spanish)

REPORTS

Carbon Trading: How it works and why it fails? [14]
Oscar Reyes and Tamra Gilbertson
This accessible, well-researched book provides a devastating critique of both the theory and practice of carbon trading, which lie at the heart of global climate policy.

Contours of Climate Justice [15]
Ulrich Brand, Nicola Bullard, Edgardo Lander, Tadzio Mueller (eds.)
This publication aims to contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of the emerging climate justice movement and to create resonances between different perspectives and spheres of engagement. The activities around the COP 15 in Copenhagen are a starting point in the creation of such a broad movement.

The World at the Climate Crossroads [16]
Praful Bidwai
It is depressingly clear that Copenhagen will at best produce a ‘political’ agreement—just as the Bali conference did two years ago—but not a global climate compact with time-bound, quantifiable, legally binding and enforceable goals or measures.

Change Trade, Not Our Climate (PDF) [17]
Ronnie Hall on behalf of Our World is Not for Sale – Trade and Climate Change Working Group

Taking care of business [18]
Oscar Reyes
The world’s biggest corporations have hijacked the UN climate talks. That’s bad news for our future.

VIDEO: The Story of Cap and Trade [19]

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