Some while ago I posted a summary of the Greenhouse Development Rights (GDR) framework here in my blog and wrote also a GYG-discussion paper here on the GYG-website. The concept comes from several actors including the Heinrich Boell Foundation where I am not working.
We had an expert-talk at the Boell and I noted down some [...]
Posts Tagged ‘GYG’
15 May
Discussing Greenhouse Development Rights – 17 questions
8 Mar
the new Global Young Greens Flyer
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Hello friends,
the Global Young Greens Steering Committee is thinking about producing our own material for distribution. I made some design-tryouts for a Flyer. The text is not yet finished. Name of possible donors just examples! Please give me an opinion and think about taking the poll. If you have further ideas or you know who [...]
6 Mar
Carbon Trading – the debate goes on…
Many of my friends now that I am not a fan of Carbon Trading. Even though I am
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able and willing to understand the “there is no other way possible right now”-argument, hence being not a radical, I hope for more public criticism. Therefore I loved the book
by the great Larry Lohmann that was published by the DHF. A video of him talking about the issue can be seen as well.
More information on the topic can be found:
The Corner House
Sinks Watch
CarbonTradeWatch
World Rainforest Movement
Rising Tide
While I – active and multiplicatory in character – do not see myself able to live up to the demands of Julian Glover who is looking for a new Martin Luther to trike back against the “medieval pardoners handing out unlimited indulgences”, I was writeing a Paper on the topic together with one of the most active young greens from Asia: Sanka from Sri Lanka. It is the first of a series of “GYG-Diskussion Papers”. It can be downloaded once I figure out how this technique is working. Here’s the text:
Is Carbon Trading really
an Economic Savior?
by
Georg P Kössler (Sweden/Germany)
and
Sanka Chandima Abayawardena (Sri Lanka)1
A discussion paper for GYG
Introduction
New optimism came into the international debate on Climate Change through the implementation of a Emission Trading Approach. The biggest contributor USA is likely to join soon after the General Elections this year and the mistakes of having an over-supply in certificates and the missing of auctioning are not likely to be repeated. Through Offsetting-companies is it possible for ordinary people to make “their” contribution. Now we are on the right track.
Are we really? This article is the view of two young green activists of the GLOBAL YOUNG GREENS who do not think so. They believe that a solution within the capitalistic system of supply-and-demand policy will not solve the general problem of worldwide climate justice. The problem arose in the first place due to increasing demand in the global North while the global South had to give supply. Now it is the same with carbon-credits. But only a halt in destroying policies, only a significant change in lifestyles and only an ordering united worldwide framework can safe us and our unborn children from whom we borrowed this precious earth.
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