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Carbon Trading: A false solution to climate change?
A critical approach and ways forward
Monday 12 March, 18.00
ABF-huset, Sveavägen 41, Stockholm
Carbon trading is currently pursued as the major approach to tackling climate change. During this evening, Larry Lohmann will analyse the problems arising from the emerging global carbon market pertaining to the environment, social justice and human rights.
Larry Lohmann is a scholar-activist working with the Corner House, a small research and solidarity organisation in the UK. He has written extensively on issues such as climate change, racism, forest conflicts, development and economics. Larry is the main author and editor of the publication ‘Carbon Trading. A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatization and Power’, which has raised considerable debate and interest worldwide as perhaps the most comprehensive critique of carbon trading as the primary solution to climate change.
 The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation’s What Next initiative seeks to identify and analyse emergent global challenges and explore strategies for social change. Carried out in close collaboration with numerous scholars and activists around the world, What Next builds on the Foundation’s three decades of work on development alternatives – initiated with the 1975 report What Now: Another development. The discussion on carbon trading serves as a case study in which a number of the problems discussed within the What Next project come together. The carbon trading publication is a special issue of the the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation’s journal Development Dialogue, published in cooperation with the Durban Group for Climate Justice and The Corner House. Copies of the book will be available at the meeting, but can also be down-loaded here.
For more information contact kajsa.overgaard@dhf.uu.se.
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