Revolt and Protest: Student Politics and Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa

By D. Renton. 2009

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The climate crisis is not only imminent, but in some respects is already here. As the environmental effects of humaninduced climate change become more evident, so too do the political, social and economic ramifications of the strategies adopted to combat them. Larry Lohmann’s central argument in this excellent critique of carbon trading is that the trading mechanisms at the heart of the Kyoto Protocol not only fail to address the climate crisis, but also produce new forms of exploitation and inequality that tend to perpetuate colonial-style relationships between the global North and South.

Subfields: Anthropology

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• Carbon Offsetting: Sustaining Consumption? (2009, background): “As such, the narrative actively embraces a whole range of carbon practices, habits, and behaviours which these Northern consumersöwhether individuals or businessesöare engaged in.”
• Making REDD work for the poor : a poverty environment partnership (PEP) report (2008, background): “…of poverty within the current REDD debate (as above); (2) the poor are likely to have least voice in the design of REDD and according to some (e.g. Lohmann, 2006); (3) market-based carbon offset mechanisms may be particularly risky for the poor; (4) the global scale of REDD dialogue and design…”