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Carbon Pricing

Plantations as sinks: CDM fraud at its worst

Creating tree plantations is no way to cut emissions Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share...

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Energy

The False Promise of Energy Efficiency

The popular concept of energy efficiency, as an uncoordinated amalgam of individualistic life style choices, will only worsen the crises of energy exhaustion and global warming. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit...

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UN Meetings

Countdown to Copenhagen

UN leader: “If we continue at this rate we’re not going to make it” Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new...

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Carbon Pricing

Carbon Offsets: A Dangerous Distraction

Friends of the Earth explain why offsetting is a dangerous distraction from the urgent business of decarbonizing the world’s economies. CDM and related offset plans can’t be reformed: they must be scrapped. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share...

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Protests & Revolts

Peterloo: Ye are many – they are few

Today is the 190th anniversary of the day when English cavalry attacked a peaceful crowd of 60,000 in Manchester, gathered to call for democratic rights. The event is remembered as the Peterloo, a word that combines the location of the attack, St. Peters Field,  with an ironic reference to the...

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Australia

Australian Emissions Trading Plan Rejected

Some environmentalists view the rejection of the Australian Labor government’s emissions trading plan as a defeat for green politics. Socialists disagree. Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X...

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Europe Greens, NGOs

The Rise and Fall of the Irish Greens

Another case of the inevitable fate that follows when Green parties adopt the creed of “neither Left nor Right, but Green” Share: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to...

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