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Tierramerica on Carbon Markets: What's In It for the Poor?

Jo — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:46:42 +0100

Press release on www.planet2025news.net
Author: Stephen Leahy, Tierramerica

Climate experts meeting in Poznan, Poland, promised to create a new pot of carbon-credit gold for the rural poor as guardians of rural lands and forests. But there are many who warn that the gold will flow only to corporate interests.

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Casinocrash.org

Jo — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:10:53 +0100

Kevin Smith of Carbon Trade Watch/TNI argues, in a Guardian comment piece, that the the government should use its shareholder position in the newly recapitalised banks to end funding for fossil-fuel projects and to invest in a transition to a low-carbon economy.

Kevin Smith: "A green economy could be ours"
November 21st, 2008

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