The EU Emissions Trading System has failed to reduce emissions, but that hasn’t stopped the Commission from pushing other countries into using carbon markets.
Hundreds of activists followed the public call for a peaceful action against the corporate greenwashing event “Solutions COP21”in Le Grande Palais. Marking the opening of the exposition on the fourth of December, the action denounced the false solutions peddled by industry in Paris during the COP21 climate talks with a creative act of civil disobedience. Watch the action video here and our Pascoe Sabido getting carried away (literally) here.
Leaked document shows EU ditch climate measures if they sideline trade orthodoxy.
Companies that profit from polluting and have a vested interest in the continued exploitation of fossil fuels have no place influencing talks designed to move us away from dirty energy.
There is a diplomatic silence over carbon trading at COP21, but a Paris climate agreement could offer a lifeline to carbon “offsetting” schemes, while new rules could help build a global carbon market.
'Lobby Planet Paris'' maps the big corporations, lobby groups and trade associations that are trying hard to capture the climate talks
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