by Zembla (The Netherlands)
presentation | published August 2008 | summary | full document
Exploring both ends of the carbon market through research and interviews in Uganda and The Netherlands, this video (available in Portuguese and English versions) brings new clarity to the debate over climate change solutions.
by Larry Lohmann
talk | published April 2008 | full document
A discussion hosted by the Climate Justice Chicago Coalition at De Paul University examines how carbon trading creates transferable rights to dump carbon, slows social and technological change, promotes socially and ecologically destructive practices and is ineffective and unjust. This TV programme was produced by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
by Larry Lohmann
talk | published March 2008 | summary | PDF
Carbon trading proponents often assert that trading is merely a way of finding the most cost-effective means of reaching an emissions goal and a source of funding that leaves everything else exactly as it is. In fact, carbon trading undermines a number of existing and proposed positive measures for tackling climate change
by Larry Lohmann
article | published December 2005 | summary | PDF
The new export market in biological carbon-cycling capacity is likely to have effects similar to export markets in soya, paper pulp, petroleum, timber, palm oil, maize, bananas, coffee or tourism. What are the best ways of encouraging discussion among affected communities about this new form of globalisation? asks this article for the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin.
by The Corner House, SinksWatch and Carbon Trade Watch
paper | published October 2004 | summary | full document | PDF
International carbon trading systems are failing. They are both climatically ineffective and politically infeasible.
by Viola Sampson and Larry Lohmann
briefing | published December 2000 | summary | full document | PDF
by Larry Lohmann
article | published 2000 | summary | full document
by Larry Lohmann
article | published May 2000 | summary | full document
by Larry Lohmann
presentation | published 7-9 April 2000 | summary | full document
by Larry Lohmann
talk | published February 2000 | summary | full document | PDF
by Larry Lohmann
briefing | published July 1999 | summary | full document
This briefing questions the view that tree plantations are a viable way of mitigating the climatic effects of industrial carbon-dioxide emissions. This “solution” to global warming is based on bad science, enlarges society’s ecological footprint, and reinforces neo-colonialist structures of power.
by Larry Lohmann
article | published 1999 | summary | full document
by Larry Lohmann
briefing | published January 1999 | summary | full document
Some strains of environmentalism treat “cultures” as fixed, closed systems with impermeable boundaries. Racism is neither a theory nor a collection of beliefs, sentiments or intentions, but rather a process of social control which functions to block inquiry and attempts to live with difference. Illustrated with a case study from Northern Thailand.
by Nicholas Hildyard, Pandurang Hegde, Paul Wolverkamp and Somersekhave Reddy
briefing | published February 1998 | summary | full document
by Nicholas Hildyard, The Corner House; Pandurang Hegde, Appiko Movement; Paul Wolvekamp, Both Ends; and Somasekhare Reddy, Indian Institute of Management
paper | published 9-12 December 1997 | summary | full document
Participation, forests and environment all mean different things to different people and different interest groups. This presentation analyses the discourse on participation, as reflected in conflicts over forest resources and more widely. It highlights examples where participation is being used to soften resistance to projects or to engineer consent.
by Larry Lohmann
article | published 1996 | summary | full document
by Larry Lohmann
article | published 1995 | summary | full document
by Larry Lohmann
article | published November 1993 | summary | full document
by Larry Lohmann
article | published July 1993 | summary | full document