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9781869141417

Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society Negative Returns on South African Investments

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  • ISBN13:

    9781869141417

  • ISBN10:

    1869141415

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-03-19
  • Publisher: University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press
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List Price: $41.55

Summary

Can global warming be mitigated by carbon trading? With climate change posing perhaps the gravest threat to humanity in coming decades, and with free market economics still dominated by a few wealthy nations, it is little wonder so much effort has gone in

Author Biography

Editors Patrick Bond, Rehana Dada and Graham Erion of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the TransNational Institute have assembled this cutting-edge collection to highlight the urgent situation.

Table of Contents

Abbreviationsp. ix
Acknowledgementsp. xiii
Contributorsp. xv
Introductionp. 1
South Africa's Energy Crises
Dirty Politics: South African Energyp. 29
Interrogating Nuclear and Renewable Energyp. 59
South Africa's Carbon Investments
Low-Hanging Fruit Always Rots First: Observations from South Africa's Carbon Market Graham Erion withp. 73
Who Really Benefits From Carbon Trading?
Climate Fraud and Carbon Colonialismp. 99
World Bank Carbon Coloniesp. 115
Prototype Carbon Fund Beneficiariesp. 133
Big Oil and Africans groundWorkp. 137
Oil Companies and African Wealth Depletionp. 145
Civil Society Strategies for Genuine Climate Justice
Oil, Climate Change and Resistance from the Southp. 165
Beyond Balip. 173
Conclusion: Leave the Oil in the Soilp. 179
South Africa's Clean Development Mechanism Policyp. 201
The Durban Declaration on Carbon Tradingp. 205
Climate Justice Now!p. 211
Select Bibliographyp. 213
Indexp. 223
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