The Carbon Neutral Myth. Indulgences for your Climate Sins. Carbon Trade Watch report on the flaws of carbon offsetting.

Democracy or Carbocrazy? Intellectual corruption and the future of the climate debate. Comprehensive assessment of the scientific, structural and philosophical flaws of a markets-based approach to halting climate change. Special emphasis is given to the issue of carbon sinks. Cornerhouse Briefing. October 2001 http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk Sinks that Stink. Compilation of articles previously published in the WRM Bulletin. http://www.wrm.org.uy/actors/CCC/sinks.html

Trouble in the Air. Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere. A Civil Society Energy Reader.
Edited by Patrick Bond and Rehana Dada. Compilation of articles and anlysis of the global carbon market from a climate justice perspective. Focus on South Africa with additional articles and analysis of general aspects of climate justice and the carbon market. October 2005.

The Carbon Shop: Planting new problems.WRM Briefing paper outlining the key concerns with carbon sinks in the context of the Kyoto Protocol. December 2000. Available from http://www.wrm.org.uy/plantations/material/carbon.html

CDM: Clean development or development jeopardy? A joint briefing of CDM Watch and the Third World Network. http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/cop8a.doc

CDM Large Hydro Status Note. Joint CDM Watch and IRN Briefing update released on opening day of Carbon Expo trade fair in Cologne, Germany 9 June 2004.

Market Failure. Why the Clean Development Mechanism won't promote clean development.
November 2004 CDM Watch report shows that the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism is failing in its mandate to promote sustainable development. The report concludes that 'the problem is fundamental and stems from the CDM’s structure as a project-based market mechanism in which the search for least-cost carbon credits is the paramount consideration.'

The Clean Development Mechanism as an option for Swiss Climate Policy? Report December 2004.

The World Bank and Carbon Trading: Rhetoric about poverty alleciation and reality of fossil fuel subsidies that perpetuate the climate crisis. CDM Watch report April 2005.

Broken Promises. How World Bank Group policies fail to protect forests and forest peoples' rights. Includes a chapter on how the World Bank's activities in the carbon market make the rich richer and the poor poorer as fossil fuel subsidies keep flowing. April 2005.

The CDM: Issues for Adivasi Peoples in India. Forest Peoples Programmes report on the impact of carbon sinks projects on indigenous peoples in India. April 2005

The Sky is not the limit. Carbon Trade Watch Briefing No.1 The Sky is Not the Limit" sets the stage for the emerging emissions markets and poses the question as to whether people are being cheated in the name of sustainable development.
English http://www.tni.org/reports/ctw/sky.pdf
Castellano http://www.tni.org/reports/ctw/sky-s.pdf

Hoodwinked in the Hothouse. Carbon Trade Watch report documents the gap between G8 country's action and words on climate change. July 2005. 

Taking Credit. Good overview of the science and policy of carbon sinks in this report published by the David Suzuki Foundation. http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Publications/Climate_Change_Reports/default.asp#Taking

The Carbon Bomb: Climate change and the fate of the northern Boreal forests. Kevin Jardin. Greenpeace International, Amsterdam. September 1994. Printed version available from http://www.greenpeace.org.

Evaluation report of V&M Florestal Ltda. and Plantar S.A. Reflorestamentos. The report presents a critical assessment of the FSC certified tree plantations operated by both companies. Both companies are also in the process of registring projects involving tree plantations for carbon creidts under the CDM. In the case of Plantar, a substantial part of the project involves credits for carbon sequestration (carbon sinks), and both projects claim credits for using charcoal produced from the tree plantations instead of coal for iron smeltering (fuel substitution). Report commissioned by the World Rainforest Movement. Brazil, November 2002. http://www.wrm.org.uy/countries/Brazil/fsc.html

Where the Trees are a Desert. Eucalyptus plantations have been used for decades for paper pulp or charcoal production, devastating the environment and lives of the local population of Brazil. The Kyoto Protcol's Clean Development Mechanism threatens to provide a new subsidy for this unsustainable plantations industry. This report by Carbon Trade Watch and FASE-ES gives voice to Brazilians' struggles against the ever-expanding eucalyptus plantations.
English http://www.tni.org/reports/ctw/trees.pdf
Portuguese http://www.tni.org/reports/ctw/trees-p.pdf

CDM Watch Briefing on Plantar, the first carbon sink project seeking CDM registration. http://www.cdmwatch.org/plantar.html

Carbon Sinks Plantations in the Ecuadorian Andes. World Rainforest Movement report documents the ugly face of carbon sinks plantations by Dutch company FACE Foundation in Ecuador. May 2005. Available in Spanish at www.wrm.org.uy

We must reduce fossil fuel use, not trade carbon. Letter published in the Financial Times 21 October 2004

The Carbon Shop Files. Regular section of the monthly WRM bulletin containing various articles about projects and the politics of carbon sinks. http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/previous03.html

HotSpot Issue 30, November 2003
The Sinking Bottom Line. Plantations will turn the CDM into a mechanism for continued devastation says Jutta Kill of SinksWatch.

Taiga News 42 Winter 2003: Active versus fossil carbon. Jutta Kill, SinksWatch. http://www.taigarescue.org/TaigaNews

Taiga News 33 Autumn 2000: That sinking feeling. Jutta Kill, FERN http://www.taigarescue.org/TaigaNews

Taiga News 32 Summer 2000: C-Commerce. The shady world of Carbon Laundering. Larry Lohmann. http://www.taigarescue.org/TaigaNews

HotSpot: Carbon sinks, time to see the forest among the trees. By Jutta Kill, FERN. July 2000.

WRM Bulletin Sinks that stink. Editorial by Ricardo Carrere. August 2000.