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The CO2 Alibi (video)

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.

A Chicago Conversation on Carbon Trading (video)

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).

How Carbon Trading Undermines Positive Approaches to the Climate Crisis

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

Carbon Trading and the World Rainforest Movement How to Respond to a Proposed New Export Market?

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.

Memorandum to the Inquiry into the International Challenge of Climate Change: UK Leadership in the G8 and EU

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.

21. Genetic Dialectic The Biological Politics of Genetically Modified Trees

by Viola Sampson and Larry Lohmann

briefing | published December 2000 | summary | full document | PDF

The Carbon Shop Planting New Problems

by Larry Lohmann

article | published 2000 | summary | full document

Shopping for Carbon A New Plantation Economy

by Larry Lohmann

article | published May 2000 | summary | full document

For Reasons of Nature Ethnic Discrimination and Conservation in Thailand

by Larry Lohmann

presentation | published 7-9 April 2000 | summary | full document

Ethnic Discrimination in “Global” Conservation

by Larry Lohmann

talk | published February 2000 | summary | full document | PDF

15. The Dyson Effect Carbon ‘Offset’ Forestry and The Privatization of the Atmosphere

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.

Forestry, Politics and Violent Conflict

by Larry Lohmann

article | published 1999 | summary | full document

13. Forest Cleansing Racial Oppression in Scientific Nature Conservation

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.

04. Same Platform, Different Train The Politics of Participation

by Nicholas Hildyard, Pandurang Hegde, Paul Wolverkamp and Somersekhave Reddy

briefing | published February 1998 | summary | full document

Same Platform: Different Train Pluralism, Participation and Power

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.

Freedom to Plant Indonesia and Thailand in a Globalizing Pulp and Paper Industry

by Larry Lohmann

article | published 1996 | summary | full document

Pulp, Paper and Power How an Industry Reshapes its Social Environment

by Larry Lohmann

article | published 1995 | summary | full document

Green Orientialism

by Larry Lohmann

article | published November 1993 | summary | full document

Translation Politics Villagers, NGOs and the Thai Forestry Sector Master Plan

by Larry Lohmann

article | published July 1993 | summary | full document


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