Solutions

By Ted Glick

In 2004, the Durban Group for Climate Justice convened
in Durban, South Africa to question the central role of
carbon trading and carbon offsets in governments’
responses to the climate crisis. Members of the Durban
Group are traveling in various cities throughout the US
and Canada in January, February, and March 2008 to
share experiences of the failures of carbon trading in
Europe, India, Brazil, Uganda and elsewhere, and to
learn more about U.S. carbon trading plans and climate
politics.

Harnessing That Hot Pavement. By Arthur Max, AP, January 1, 2008. "If you've ever blistered your bare feet on a hot road you know that asphalt absorbs the sun's energy.

Bali Forest Outcomes Trample Indigenous Peoples' & Local Communities' Rights
False "Solutions" to Climate Change Condemned at the UNFCCC
Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia-As the UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change ends, Global Forest Coalition [1] expresses great concern that
market-based mechanisms promoted here do not give enough guarantees
to indigenous peoples and forest dependent peoples to ensure their
rights.
Global Forest Coalition's Managing Coordinator, Simone Lovera stated,
"The outcomes of the forest negotiations here in Bali do not include

Bali, Indonesia-Global Justice Ecology Project, based in Hinesburg,
VT sent three representatives to Bali, Indonesia to participate in
the 13th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change.
The convention, which begins December 3rd, is set to focus on the
issues of reducing emissions from deforestation, advancing carbon
trading, and promotion of biofuels, as ways to address climate change.
Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle, Co-Directors of Global Justice
Ecology Project (GJEP) and Dr. Rachel Smolker, Biofuels Specialist

Global warming is set to reverse decades of
social and economic progress across Asia, home to more than four
billion
people or 60 per cent of the world’s population, according to a new
multi-agency report published today called 'Up in Smoke: Asia and the
Pacific.'
The report--the fourth in a series, compiled by more than 35
development and environmental groups including Oxfam and
Greenpeace--says there isgrowing consensus about the huge challenges
facing Asia. However it notes "reason to hope" that there is now enough

Carbon Trading Critic Larry Lohmann’s Speaking Tour 2007 (Nov 10-19)

COMPLETE LIST OF DATES BELOW!

A major new campaign has been launched this week in New Zealand aiming to get tens of thousands of New Zealanders active in tackling climate change.

Spearheaded by Greenpeace, Oxfam and Forest & Bird, Be The Change will provide advice and encouragement to community groups and individuals from Bluff to Kaitaia, and from the cowshed to the boardroom, on reducing their personal impact on the climate.

This article describes how the car has come to dictate land use planning, and how getting back to our roots - where the street is about community, not speed, we can solve some other social problems too.
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Rediscovering our roots can solve 21st Century traffic woes

Gary Toth, the new Director of Transportation Initiatives at PPS and a veteran of 34
years with the New Jersey Department of Transportation, reflects on how we lost our
way in traffic planning and what we can do to get back on track.

I started at the New Jersey Department of Transportation in 1973 right out of

Let's face it: the Kyoto Protocol has been a dismal failure. Riddled with loopholes like "carbon credits" that let rich countries off the hook from cutting back their domestic emissions, it was nonetheless decried as unfair by big polluters in those same countries, who lobbied against it so well that it took 7 years to be ratified by a quorum of signatory nations. Even then, its emissions targets are a fraction of those needed to meet its stated goal of "preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system".