Carbon trading : a critical conversation on climate change, privatisation and power

Book

Carbon trading : a critical conversation on climate change, privatisation and power / guest editor and author, Larry Lohmann ; editors, Niclas Hällström, Olle Nordberg, Robert Österbergh.

Hällström, Niclas. (Added Author). Österbergh, Robert. (Added Author). Nordberg, Olle, 1941- (Added Author). Lohmann, Larry. (Added Author). Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. (Added Author).

Record details

Physical Description: 359 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Uppsala, Sweden : Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, [2006]

Content descriptions

General Note:: This issue is the second in a series of What Next project publications.

"This issue ... is the second in a series of What Next project publications. It also forms part of a new phase in the journal's history. Development dialogue has been given a fresh look, a new cover design and a new layout. At the same time we are introducing a new and simpler numbering system, consisting of a running number along with a month and year of publication. This issue is No. 48 inthe series of issues published since 1972"--Page 2 of cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: 1. Introduction: a new fossil fuel crisis -- 2. 'Made in the USA': a short history of carbon trading -- 3. Lessons unlearned: pollution trading's failures -- Property rights and privatisation -- Emissions trading vs. structural change -- The special problems of carbon projects -- Where's the enforcement? -- Narrowing the discussion -- Summing up: market ideology vs. climate action -- 4. Offsets: the fossil economy's new arena of conflict -- The beginnings: a story from Guatemala -- From the Netherlands to the Andes: a tale from Ecuador -- The story continues: carbon forestry in Uganda -- Costa Rica: 'environmental services' pioneer -- India: a taste of the future -- Sri Lanka: a 'clean energy' project that was not so clean -- Thailand: biomass in the service of the coal and gas economy -- South Africa: carbon credits from the cities -- Brazil: handouts for repression as usual -- Photo essay plantar vs. local people: two versions of history -- 5. Ways forward -- Appendix: The Durban Declaration on carbon trading.
Additional Physical Form available Note:: Also available online via the Internet at the DHF web site.