Below you will find a series of reports given by SinksWatch and likeminded organisations on the subjects of carbon sinks, offsets and trading:

EU Forest Watch Bali Special. Special issue of FERN's monthly newsletter EU Forest Watch on the outcome of the December 2007 climate talks at Bali, Indonesia on forests.

Carbon Trading. Critical Conversations on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power. Comprehensive Durban Group critique of carbon trading published by the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation and edited by Larry Lohmann, Corner House. Hard copies available on request.

World Development Movement, Carbon Trade Watch and the CornerHouse submissions to the UK Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee enquiry into the voluntary carbon market are available at www.carbontradewatch.org FERN and SinksWatch's submission is attached below.

Carbon 'offset' - no magic solution to 'neutralise' fossil fuel emissions FERN Briefing Note June 2005

Plantar sinks the World Bank's rhetoric Joint CDM Watch and SinksWatch Briefing exposing how the World Bank's carbon funds are designed to subsidise unsustainable industrial monoculture tree plantations with their negative environmental and social impacts and unverifiable benefits for the climate.

Forest Fraud. SinksWatch and FERN are calling for EU governments to exclude carbon sinks projects from their climate project portfolios. The report assesses the potential impacts on forests and forest peoples of granting carbon credits to forest-related projects under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism. December 2003

Sinks in the Kyoto Protocol: A dirty deal for forests, forest peoples and the climate. The report assesses the potential impacts on forests and forest peoples of granting carbon credits to forest-related projects under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism. July 2001 

Tree Trouble. A compilation of testimonies on the negative impact of large-scale tree plantations prepared for the sixth Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention on Climate Change by Friends of the Earth International in co-operation with the World Rainforest Movement and FERN. September 2000. 

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FERN comments on Defra code on voluntary offsets.pdf	251.57 KB
FERN submission EAC inquiry voluntary offset market.pdf	248.35 KB