This week we take a look at the creative accounting mechanism which makes this sleight of hand possible - carbon offsetting under the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism – more commonly known at the CDM.
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A Dangerous Distraction (Friends of the Earth)
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/news/dangerous_distraction_20319.html
The Rich World Can Relax: we just need the poor world to cut their emissions by 125% (George Monbiot, The Guardian, 17 July 2009)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/13/climate-change-emissions-uk
Money and Lobbyists Hurt European Efforts to Curb Gases (New York Times, 11 Dec, 2008)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/business/worldbusiness/11carbon.html?_r=3&em=&pagewanted=all
Understanding the European Commissions Climate Communication (Third World Network, March 2009)
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/climate/briefings/TWN_bonn_march_BP2.doc
Towards a comprehensive climate change agreement in Copenhagen (European Commission, December 2008)
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/climat/future_action.htm
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The 300-350 Show is made for ResonanceFM in London and is syndicated free to not-for-profit community radio stations and independent media outlets around the globe. The programme is named after what is now believed to the safe level in parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This finding is based on the work of James Hansen and his team in a paper titled "Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim." http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126