Climate Change is Not a Spectator Sport.
Greenwashing has become a corporate faux pas over the last few years as consumers and industry regulators have smartened up to the misleading environmentally friendly claims of big business. Shell, the giant of the oil industry, is only too aware of the embarrassment greenwashing can have on corporate image. They ... keep reading
Written by Katherine Irvine in August 2009, about Consumerism, Design, Industry & Business, Lifestyle & Behavior, Media, Philosophy & Religion, Pollution
Editor's Note: In 2007, the UN decided to allow more efficient coal-fired power stations to gain carbon financing as an offset project through the Clean Development Mechanism. Kevin Smith from Carbon Trade Watch writes about how the carbon market is now being used to support new coal in the ... keep reading
Written by Kevin Smith in October 2008, about Air Quality, Carbon Trading, Coal & Oil, Politics & Government
Editor's note: The carbon-offsets market is gathering pace at a frenzied rate, notably in Asia. While it seems a good solution to the growing climate crisis on the face of it, look beneath and it may all just be hot air, writes Kevin Smith of the Transnational Institute. by ... keep reading
Written by Kevin Smith in August 2008, about Biofuels & Alternative Energy, Carbon Trading, Emissions, Politics & Government (1 comment)
A new government ‘kitemark’ suggests that most carbon offset schemes are flawed, but fails to address the more fundamental problem of paying others to clean up after us, argues Kevin Smith [Editorial note: A 'kitemark' is the stamp of approval issued by the British Standards Institution apparently so-called because it ... keep reading
Written by Kevin Smith in April 2008, about Carbon Trading
by Kevin Smith from Carbon Trade Watch Carbon trading and offsets distract attention from the wider, systemic changes and collective political action that needs to be taken in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Promoting more effective and empowering approaches to climate change involves moving away from the blinkered reductionism ... keep reading
Written by Kevin Smith in February 2008, about Carbon Trading, Industry & Business
There are often reports in the media exposing a particular scandalous aspect of a certain offset project, such as a lack of community consultation, or the fact that the project was going to happen anyway without the money from the offsets company and what was being sold was ‘hot air ... keep reading
Written by Kevin Smith in January 2008, about Carbon Trading
Editor's Note: The Bali summit has, yet again, put the world into somewhat of a 'but wait' mode. Life continues for most, with many hoping/trusting that politicians will 'work it out' and bring solutions to the table in, say, two years or so. But, while we wait, I ... keep reading
Written by Kevin Smith in January 2008, about Carbon Trading, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, Weather
