Clean Dev. Mechanisms

January 27, 2010 Advocates of Climate Bill Scale Down Their Goals

Copenhagen, Denmark, 12th December -- More than five thousand people from around the world have joined Friends of the Earth International’s “Flood for climate justice” this morning in Copenhagen to demand climate justice and an end to offsetting carbon emissions.

Watch it at http://storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/



The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the

leading climate solution - emissions trading - on the negotiating

table at Copenhagen and in other capitals. Host Annie Leonard

introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart

of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap

and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and

distraction from what's really required to tackle the climate crisis.

If you've heard about Cap & Trade, but aren't sure how it works (or

who benefits), this is the film is for you.

Resistance is Ripe! Local production for local consumption

Call to the Climate Agriculture Action Day December 15th, 2009

As scientific predictions of climate catastrophe continue to grow, world leaders gather in Copenhagen on 7-18 December 2009 at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - and the world waits for action. The people are ready to change the world in order to save it - but so far government solutions have revolved around setting up market mechanisms to avoid making real changes – and the climate crisis continues to grow.

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[ From Mother Jones ]
Could Cap and Trade Cause Another Market Meltdown?
By Rachel Morris | Mon June 8, 2009 4:00 AM PST

You've heard of credit default swaps and subprime mortgages. Are carbon default swaps and subprime offsets next? If the Waxman-Markey climate bill is signed into law, it will generate, almost as an afterthought, a new market for carbon derivatives. That market will be vast, complicated, and dauntingly difficult to monitor. And if Washington doesn't get the rules right, it will be vulnerable to speculation and manipulation by the very same players who brought us the financial meltdown.

One Leap Backwards for Biodiversity, One Giant Step Forward for Industry
Biodiversity loses at UN convention on biodiversity

By Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle; photos by Langelle

[Note: IPOs stand for Indigenous Peoples Organizations]

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) emerged, along with its cousin
the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), out of the Rio Earth
Summit in 1992. Its mission is ostensibly to recommend solutions to the
escalating biodiversity crisis, which is manifesting in the extinctions of
hundreds of species every day and which threatens the existence of entire races
of people.

The CBD was thought to be one of the more approachable UN bodies-where

Date: 5-May-2008
Australian taxpayers will give BHP Billiton an estimated $117 million in diesel fuel subsidies during the four-year
expansion of the company’s Olympic Dam mine, according to figures
released today by the Australian Conservation Foundation.

“The Fuel Tax Credits scheme, which cost taxpayers $4.9 billion in the 2006-07 financial year, will allow BHP
Billiton to claim an average of $29 million a year in diesel rebates
for the four years of construction at Olympic Dam,” said ACF Executive
Director Don Henry.

Did you know, the food system is responsible for 1/3 of global greenhouse emissions?

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