ISS Briefing: Climate Change Crisis: Is Carbon Trading Part of the Solution?

Date: 2007-06-15 to Invalid date

ISS Briefing: Climate Change Crisis: Is Carbon Trading Part of the Solution?
Cape Town, 15 June 2007

 

Presented by the ISS Corruption and Governance Programme

 

Detrimental climate change is finally on the global agenda. Ways to address this critical issue are highly contested. As a compromise, the United Nations Framework on Climate Change endorsed a market-based approach -carbon trading - in 2005. This was hailed as an important first step in the right direction. Carbon trading is now widely in use and the much lauded flexible trading-based approach allows both countries and companies to buy and sell pollution ‘credits’ on the open market. They can also offset their carbon emissions by investing in environmentally-friendly sustainable development projects in the developing world. However, the system is not without some serious detractors who say it is only delaying real change and corrupting the climate debate.

 

This panel discussion brings together key perspectives shaping the policy debate.  It is hoped that this will contribute to a climate consciousness that incorporates social justice concerns in Africa.

Date:  Friday 15 June 2007

Time:  14:00 – 16:00
(refreshments served after the discussion)

Venue: 
ISS Cape Town office
67 Roeland Square,
Drury Lane, Gardens,
Cape Town

(Please note the office is 5 minutes walk from Parliament off Roeland Street – Parking is available at the public parking at Fruit & Veg City on Roeland Street)

RSVP: Natashia Emmett, by 13 June 2007

Tel: 021 461 7211
Fax: 021 461 7213
Email: [email protected]

Limited seating available