A Recipe for Carbon Farming
by Stephen Leahy. Published in Inter Press Service. DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 2 (IPS) – Civil society has warned of the danger of turning Africa’s food-producing lands into “carbon farms” […]
Carbon markets
Agriculture and the Green Climate Fund: Two U.S. bargaining chips at the climate talks
A blogpost by Steve Suppan from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) A bargaining chip is usually something withheld to get consent for something bigger, not smaller. The […]
Open letter to Environment Ministers: Integrity of carbon markets at COP 17
Dear Ministers, We, more than hundred civil society organisations from 35 countries across all continents, call on Parties to acknowledge the urgency with which climate change needs to be addressed […]
DECLARATION OF MEMBERS OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ BIOCULTURAL CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT (IPCCA) INITIATIVE
The participants of the workshop on REDD and Biocultural Protocols organized by the Indigenous Peoples Biocultural Climate Change Assessment (IPCCA), from Ecuador, Panama, India, Nicaragua, Peru and Samoa met on […]
Environmental and grassroots organizations in Latin America demand their government’s to reject carbon credit projects that finance incinerators and landfills.
In a letter addressed to the respective national authorities designated to define the approval of projects for carbon credits, members of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) of Argentina, […]
Bolivarian alliance calls for extending and strengthening the Kyoto Protocol and climate adaptation aid to poor countries, and opposes the commodification of forests under REDD
Representatives from the Latin American and Caribbean governments that comprise the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA) met in Bolivia on November 17-18 to coordinate their battle […]
Facing the COP17-Durban and Rio+20: NO to the market mechanisms as solutions to climate and environmental crisis
Declaration of Brazilian movements and civil society organizations Despite successive failures related to market based solutions proposed in the last almost 20 years of UNFCCC negotiations, some governments, and Brazil […]
New report calls for a EU ban on CDM carbon credits from waste projects
Barcelona, 21st November 2011. A new report released today by GAIA – Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, reveals serious flaws in CDM-backed Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) projects. Most of these projects […]
Durban COP17, agriculture and soil carbon markets
To: African Agriculture and Environment Ministers We, the undersigned civil society organisations from Africa and around the world, strongly object to a decision in Durban for an agriculture work […]
EUAs could crash to 3 euros next year, says UBS
By Michael Szabo and Jeff Coelho (published in www.pointcarbon.com) EU carbon prices could crash to as low as 3 euros as the 27-nation bloc struggles with a mounting debt crisis […]