This short book shows why carbon trading -- an approach to tackling climate change that redefines the problem to fit the assumptions of neoliberal economics -- must fail. Tackling both the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and the Kyoto Protocol, the book also presents detailed case studies from Brazil, Indonesia, India and Thailand. Arguing that carbon trading must be abandoned, it presents a plethora of alternatives while emphasizing that there are no short cuts around situated local knowledge and p... [Read Post]
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