The oxygen trade: Leaving Hondurans gasping for air

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:24:38 +0000

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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European Climate Exchange website hacked

takver — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:29:09 +0000

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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