carbon trading

The oxygen trade: Leaving Hondurans gasping for air

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 22/06/2013 - 2:24am

June 18, 2013

“We’re not selling this oxygen to anybody,” said Vitalino Álvarez, a participant in the Unified Aguán Farmers´ Movement (MUCA) in the boiling hot northern region of Honduras. Like many places around Honduras and the world, Álvarez’s community is a direct victim of international carbon trading programs—or what residents call “selling oxygen.”

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climate change
protest
human rights
solidarity
Honduras
grassroots
carbon trading
International news and opinion

European Climate Exchange website hacked

Submitted by takver on Sun, 25/07/2010 - 3:29am

In a protest against carbon trading as a method for acting on climate change, on Friday, July 23 at just before midnight, the public website of the European Climate Exchange (ECX), the leading marketplace for trading CO2 emissions in Europe, was targetted by hacktivists of the autonomous tech collective *decocidio* (#?).

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Global/International
Keywords: 
protest
climate
European Union
hack
carbon trading