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Presentations February 2008 Why carbon trading is not the answer February 2008 Montreal Carbon offset distractions 2 February 2008 Montreal - Carbon Offset distractions 1 January 2008 Ney York City - Carbon Offset distractions incl. audio of the talk January 2008 UoVT, Burlington - Reality of carbon accounting for tree planting offsets January 2008 Burlington, VT - Critical Coversation about Carbon Trading January 2008 FERN's take-home message from Bali climate talks on forests December
2007 Agrofuels - Danger or Opportunity? Lezioni ETS. Italian translation of Briefing on Lessons from teh EU's flagship ETS Carbon Trading - the false solution to the climate crisis. International Forum on Globalisation Teach-In September 2007 Power Point Presentation Um
jeden Preis? Probleme der Nachhaltigkeit von CDM Projekten
Power Point Presentation Carbon offsets - what they do and don't deliver. Power Point Presentation Collection of slides and quotes from offset project locations
and on carbon trading at the CornerHouse
website The Carbon Market: “Nature on Sale” All Over Again. Presentation by Larry Lohmann, The Corner House for Friends of the Earth International conference on “Nature for Sale”, September 2004 The Plantar project. Power Point Presentation given at the Forest Movement Europe Gathering April 2004, Helsinki.
REPORTS: Carbon Trading. Critical Cnnversations 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. Large file for download! FERN Submission to DEFRA on the voluntary carbon offset market FERN Submission to the UK Parliamnet's Environment Audit Committee enquiry into the voluntary carbon offset market. Submissions from World Development Movement, Carbon Trade Watch and the CornerHouse are available at www.carbontradewatch.org Carbon 'offset' - no magic solution to 'neutralise' fossil fuel emissions FERN Briefing Note June 2005 Memorandum to the UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee. 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 http://www.fern.org/pubs/briefs/sinks2.pdf 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. http://www.fern.org/pubs/reports/treetr.pdf
Other Recommended Reading: 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. 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. 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. Hoodwinked in the Hothouse. Carbon Trade Watch report documents the gap between G8 country's action and words on climate change. July 2005. Available at www.carbontradewatch.org 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. 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
FERN statement on CDM at ASTM Press conference 08 October 2007 FERN letter to the CDM Executive Board regarding the Vallourec & Mannesmann CDM project in Brasil. July 2007 FERN comment to the CDM Executive Board regarding changes to CDM rules for afforestation projects. June 2007 V&M methodology rejected AGAIN! FERN press release on the second-time rejection of the V&M do Brasil proposed CDM project involving large scale tree plantations for charcoal. Kyoto - What's to celebrate? While many are celebrating the Kyoto Protocol’s entering into force this week, others are finding cause for grave concern. A coalition of NGOs, social and environmental activists, communities, scientists and economists from around the world concerned about the climate crisis, the Durban Group, charged that the 1997 climate treaty not only fails to cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert climate catastrophe, but also steals from the poor to give to the rich. Letter to Kofi Annan Durban
Declaration on carbon trading. Representatives from people’s
movements and organizations worldwide gathered in South Africa from
October 4-7, 2004, to help forge a global people’s movement for
action on climate change and to condemn the rapidly emerging market
in carbon as a false solution to the problem. Read also the
Call
for Peoples' Action Against Climate Change Erklarung von Durban zum Handel mit Emissionsrechten und Klimagerechtigkeit La Dichiarazione di Durban sul commercio del carbonio - Giustizia Climatica Ora! L
etter by Brazilian organisations, trade unions and individuals
calling on CDM Executive Board to exclude 'avoided fuel switch' plantation
projects from Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism. English
version Environmentalists Cry Foul Environmental and social justice groups including SinksWatch launch protests against Future Forests and Climate Care over the UK-based firms' claims to make their clients' products and services harmless to the climate. Complaint to the British Advertising Standards Authority over UK-based Climate Care's claims to render its clients' products and services harmless to the climate.. Letter urging Members of the European Parliament's Environment Committee to exclude sinks project from EU Linking Directive. February 2004 Fake 'credit card' leaflet: Ten reasons to say no to carbon sinks credits. December 2003 Nothing Prevents FSC Certification? WRM reply to the renewal of Plantar's Forest Stewardship Council Certificate. December 2003 Mount Tamalpais Declaration. NGO statement of concern regarding role of tree plantations in the CDM. May 2000. http://www.fern.org/pubs/ngostats/tamalpai.htm Declaration of the First International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change in Lyon, France September 2000. OPEN First Brazilian NGO letter
to the World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund and PCF Investors regarding
Plantar tree plantation project. March 2003. http://www.fern.org/pubs/ngostats/Plantport.htm
(Portugese version, original); http://www.fern.org/pubs/ngostats/Planteng.htm
(English version). Fourth Brazilian NGO letter. Brazilian groups call for direct dialogue between the World Bank and signatories of letters demanding that PCF investors reject Plantar carbon credits. December 2003 Joint NGO letter to European Governments on voluntary technology exclusion for CDM credits http://www.cdmwatch.org/quality-restrictions.php Joint FERN, WWF, RSBP comments on the draft ECCP WG report on forest-related carbon sinks under articles 3.3,3.4 and 6 of the Kyoto Protocol (use of carbon sinks credits within industrialised countries). December 2002 http://www.fern.org/pubs/ngostats/eccp.htm
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 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 Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung Rundbrief III/2002: Erstes Projekt im Clean Development Mechanismus des Kyoto-Protokolls eine Eukalyptusplantage? - Jutta Kill, FERN http://www.forumue.de/forumaktuell/rundbriefe/200203.html (in German only) EU Forest Watch Special Report on Climate Change and Forests http://www.fern.org/pubs/fw/sroct01.pdf EU Forest Watch, issues No. 73, 66, 65, 56, 55, 42 http://www.fern.org/pubs/fw/fwpage.html HotSpot: Carbon sinks, time to see the forest among the trees. By Jutta Kill, FERN. July 2000 http://www.fern.org/pubs/articles/hotspot.htm WRM Bulletin Sinks that stink. Editorial by Ricardo Carrere. August 2000 http://www.fern.org/pubs/articles/stink.htm
OTHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON FORESTS, CLIMATE CHANGE AND CARBON SINKS Fact Sheets: Scientific reports: The role of land carbon sinks in mitigating global climate change. The Royal Society. Policy Document 10/01. July 2001. http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/files/statfiles/document-150.pdf 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. Carbon Trade Watch Photo Essay Where the Trees
are a Desert. The photo essay is a collection of 32 black and
white pictures of people living and resisting the expanse of eucalyptus
monoculture. Interviews took place in Indigenous communities, MST camps,
small farming communities, Afro-Brazilian communities, and inside the
plantations in March and April 2003. SinksWatch submission to the Forest Stewardship Council regarding the Plantar certificate. Preliminary report by Silva Ecostsyem Consultants complements the SinksWatch submission to FSC. February 2004 Nothing Prevents FSC Certification? WRM reply to the renewal of Plantar's Forest Stewardship Council Certificate. December 2003 Global Forest Coalition: Plantar's directors
threaten massive lay-offs in Brazil if critics are not muzzled. Press
Release 11 December 2003 First Brazilian NGO letter
to the World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund and PCF Investors regarding
Plantar tree plantation project. March 2003. http://www.fern.org/pubs/ngostats/Plantport.htm
(Portugese version, original); http://www.fern.org/pubs/ngostats/Planteng.htm
(English version). Fourth Brazilian NGO letter. Brazilian groups call for direct dialogue between the World Bank and signatories of letters demanding that PCF investors reject Plantar carbon credits. December 2003 WRM 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 CDM Watch Briefing on Plantar, the first carbon sink project seeking CDM registration. http://www.cdmwatch.org/plantar.html World Bank Note on the Plantar Project. Juli 2003 World Bank Notice on the Plantar Project. August 2003 Plantar letter responding to the criticism voiced in the first Brazilian NGO letter. April 2003 Local Newspaper article on the Plantar controversy. April 2003
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