British Columbia’s carbon tax has been held up as a climate success, but an analysis of the province’s emissions under the tax tells another story.
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The British Columbia Carbon Tax: A Failed Experiment
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COP21
Seven objections to the Paris climate deal
Oscar Reyes: Hailed as a breakthrough and the beginning of a new world, the COP21 Agreement is long on rhetoric and short on action.
Why are critics and media silent on Bolivia’s green gains?
Opponents of the Morales government deliberately misrepresent its strong environmental track record, to advance their own political goals
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CO2 levels for February eclipsed prehistoric highs … How agroecology can feed Africa … State of Power 2015 … Paris climate talks and the failure of states
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Work and ecological justice; Nuclear in Bolivia; Indigenous voices on Peruvian deforestation; Renewables are not enough; Carbon trading or regulation?
Hansen’s ‘fee and dividend’ plan: An exchange
Should the proceeds of a tax on fossil fuels be spent on social programs or distributed? Ian Angus and Michael Friedman discuss climate change exit strategy
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Climate and growth in Vietnam; Tar sands in Quebec; Obama’s emissions plan; Oil-by-rail on trial; Nuclear energy; Climate change and carbon trading
Debate on exit strategy: Hansen’s program is more than a carbon tax
Ian Angus replies to Anders Ekeland: Ecosocialists must understand and build on James Hansen’s entire program, not reduce it to a single policy that isn’t suitable for building mass movements.
Debate on exit strategy: Should ecosocialists support carbon taxes?
Has the left been unduly critical of carbon taxes as a means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Is James Hansen’s “fee and dividend” scheme the kind of practical and concrete plan we should endorse and promote?
Why markets can’t fix the climate crisis
Video from Australia: Socialist Alliance member Gemma Weedall speaking at the Marxism 2014 conference.
The Myths of ‘Green Capitalism’
Brian Tokar: A system based on the accumulation of capital without restraint will require unsustainable growth, however cleverly we measure our ecological footprint.
Debate: Two tactics in the fight against climate change
Should climate activists limit their demands to what’s possible under capitalism? Nick Davenport responds to Robin Hahnel’s support of carbon trading.
Privatizing the air, 100 years ago
Carbon trading is a recent invention, but the idea that capitalists would privatize the air if they could isn’t new at all.
Pricing carbon: A failed strategy that won't save the climate
Simon Butler: “We cannot deal with climate change through crisis-prone markets that subsidise dirty energy firms.”
Carbon trading is an obstacle to effective climate action
A reply to critics of “Time to scrap the ETS.” Getting rid of Europe’s emissions trading scheme will let us move towards climate policy that works
Carbon trading has failed: scrap the ETS now
Europe’s experience shows emissions trading is a disaster: it doesn’t reduce greenhouse gases, subsidizes the worst polluters, and locks in the fossil fuel economy.
Should Chiapas farmers pay for California's emissions?
To peasants in the Lacandon jungle, the pending carbon offset agreement has all the hallmarks of a land grab. REDD continues the colonial assault on indigenous communities and lifestyles
Do carbon offsets reduce emissions?
Some sincere environmentalists believe that markets in carbon offsets will slow climate change. In fact, as Chris Lang of REDD-Monitor explains, carbon offsets are at best a zero sum game.
Carbon trade markets collapsing
Carbon trading was supposed to save the climate, but it’s all hot air
The green economy (not!): Capitalism’s final frontier
The “Green Economy” treats the economy as more important than the ecological system on which the economy depends. Nature is redefined as “natural capital” as a prelude to more intense exploitation.