Citation
(2006), "Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 7 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijshe.2006.24907bae.005
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2006, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere
Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere
Keywords:Edited by Patrick Bond and Rehana DadaCentre for Civil Society (South Africa) and Transnational Institute
This book, from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and edited by South African activists, provides more detail on the practical threats to public well-being and climatic stability arising from the growing fashion for carbon trading. It focuses in particular on the disturbing record of South African “carbon-saving” projects and their role in shoring up a destructive oil economy with a record of harm to African people.
The book supplies overviews of the problems with pollution trading and South Africa's energy system and includes background about carbon trading, its US origins and ineffectiveness in contributing to climate change mitigation. In particular, the volume boasts rich empirical studies of the fraudulence, injustice or failure of various carbon-trading projects planned for South Africa under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism. Published by the Centre for Civil Society (South Africa) and Transnational Institute (The Netherlands). The book is downloadable at: www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/document/trouble.pdf