Earth.CarbonEmissionsTrading History
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"The market in carbon emissions trading is colonialism with a modern face. The biggest polluters have not only evaded responsibility for their emissions, but have created carbon trading, which perpetuates and deepens unequal access to and control of resources. A key element of carbon trading is the carbon sink, which is a strategy designed to appropriate indigenous lands. Other development projects, such as nuclear energy, large dams and other large-scale, hi-tech projects have come to be known as Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanisms in the Kyoto Protocol. These are false solutions which are being dumped on marginalised communities, thus widening the gap between rich and poor. They create the illusion that southern countries are benefiting, while masking the fact that it is rich countries and companies which are profiting from access to emissions permits and control of new southern markets. People are being cheated in the name of sustainable development."
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"The market in carbon emissions trading is colonialism with a modern face. The biggest polluters have not only evaded responsibility for their emissions, but have created carbon trading, which perpetuates and deepens unequal access to and control of resources. A key element of carbon trading is the carbon sink, which is a strategy designed to appropriate indigenous lands. Other development projects, such as nuclear energy, large dams and other large-scale, hi-tech projects have come to be known as Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanisms in the Kyoto Protocol. These are false solutions which are being dumped on marginalised communities, thus widening the gap between rich and poor. They create the illusion that southern countries are benefiting, while masking the fact that it is rich countries and companies which are profiting from access to emissions permits and control of new southern markets. People are being cheated in the name of sustainable development."
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The Kyoto protocol to tackle climate change allows nations and corporations to trade carbon emissions they make which go beyond their set limit with other nations or corporations whose emissions are not so high. This has led to a new form of colonialism.
[[http://www.risingtide.nl/statement/statement_english.html| Rising Tide International]] writes in their political statement:
"The market in carbon emissions trading is colonialism with a modern face. The biggest polluters have not only evaded responsibility for their emissions, but have created carbon trading, which perpetuates and deepens unequal access to and control of resources. A key element of carbon trading is the carbon sink, which is a strategy designed to appropriate indigenous lands. Other development projects, such as nuclear energy, large dams and other large-scale, hi-tech projects have come to be known as Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanisms in the Kyoto Protocol. These are false solutions which are being dumped on marginalised communities, thus widening the gap between rich and poor. They create the illusion that southern countries are benefiting, while masking the fact that it is rich countries and companies which are profiting from access to emissions permits and control of new southern markets. People are being cheated in the name of sustainable development."
[[http://www.risingtide.nl/statement/statement_english.html| Rising Tide International]] writes in their political statement:
"The market in carbon emissions trading is colonialism with a modern face. The biggest polluters have not only evaded responsibility for their emissions, but have created carbon trading, which perpetuates and deepens unequal access to and control of resources. A key element of carbon trading is the carbon sink, which is a strategy designed to appropriate indigenous lands. Other development projects, such as nuclear energy, large dams and other large-scale, hi-tech projects have come to be known as Joint Implementation and Clean Development Mechanisms in the Kyoto Protocol. These are false solutions which are being dumped on marginalised communities, thus widening the gap between rich and poor. They create the illusion that southern countries are benefiting, while masking the fact that it is rich countries and companies which are profiting from access to emissions permits and control of new southern markets. People are being cheated in the name of sustainable development."