New Briefing on the G8, Climate Change and Free-Market Environmentalism
Carbon Trade Watch | 27.06.2005 13:18 | Analysis | Ecology | Globalisation
The new briefing from Carbon Trade Watch examines the relationship between free-market economic forces and climate change policy while scrutinising the rhetoric and reality behind promises on climate made by the most powerful politicians in the world - the G8.
"Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: The G8, Climate Change and Free-Market Environmentalism"
Downloadable from www.carbontradewatch.org
“What we call Man's [sic] power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with nature as its instrument.”
- C S Lewis, British author and scholar (1898-1963)
The new briefing from Carbon Trade Watch examines the relationship between free-market economic forces and climate change policy while scrutinising the rhetoric and reality behind promises on climate made by the most powerful politicians in the world - the G8. It also explores the origins of free-market environmentalism and analyses the conflicts and synergies that arise when the worlds of trade and environment collide.
Downloadable from www.carbontradewatch.org
“What we call Man's [sic] power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with nature as its instrument.”
- C S Lewis, British author and scholar (1898-1963)
The new briefing from Carbon Trade Watch examines the relationship between free-market economic forces and climate change policy while scrutinising the rhetoric and reality behind promises on climate made by the most powerful politicians in the world - the G8. It also explores the origins of free-market environmentalism and analyses the conflicts and synergies that arise when the worlds of trade and environment collide.
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