Some Recommended Readings On Climate Change From The Corner House

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The following readings are referred from the Corner House. Please make visit to the site to browse more issues under wide variety of subjects.

Trouble in the Air
Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere

by Patrick Bond and Rehana Dada (editors)
report | published October 2005 | summary | full document | PDF

This book, from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, outlines some of the practical threats to public well-being and climatic stability that arise from the growing fashion for carbon trading. It focuses on the disturbing record of South African "carbon-saving" projects and their role in shoring up a destructive oil economy.

Making and Marketing Carbon Dumps
Commodification, Calculation and Counterfactuals in Climate Change Mitigation

by Larry Lohmann
article | published October 2005 | summary | full document | PDF

The Kyoto Protocol and kindred carbon trading measures are usually presented as a small but indispensable step forward to mitigate climate change. Are they? Or do they amount to a stumble backwards and a block to the emergence of more constructive approaches?

Memorandum to the Inquiry into the International Challenge of Climate Change: UK Leadership in the G8 and EU

by The Corner House, SinksWatch and Carbon Trade Watch
paper | published December 2004 | summary | full document | PDF

International carbon trading systems are failing. They are both climatically ineffective and politically infeasible.

Thanks to Larry Lohman, Rehana Dada and Patrick Bond for the permission.

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