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<strong>Upsetting</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Offset</strong><br />
19 ‘Money grows on trees’, The Economist, 6 June 2009, http://bit.ly/13fEgR. I wrote a summary<br />
of research carried out by two journalists about carbon trading in Papua New Guinea here:<br />
Lang, C. (2009) ‘PNG update: Yasause suspended, dodgy carbon credits and carbon ripoffs’,<br />
REDD-Monitor, 2 July 2009, http://bit.ly/13Rcuh.<br />
20 Gridneff, I. (2009) ‘“Sample” documents blamed for PNG carbon deals’, Australian Associated<br />
Press, 15 June, http://bit.ly/bIMvE.<br />
21 Gridneff I. (2009) ‘PNG climate office director suspended’, 9 News, 1 July,<br />
http://bit.ly/pvCEw.<br />
22 Loder, N. (2009) ‘The carbon rip-off’, Overmatter blog, 11 June.<br />
23 Monbiot, G. (2007) ‘Hurrah! We’re Going Backwards!’, The Guardian, 17 December,<br />
http://bit.ly/tjcXJ.<br />
24 According to an article in Klima magazine, Gore pockets US$300,000 for each of public<br />
speeches. Plus expenses. ‘Wie sich der Klima-Guru mit alten Vorträgen immer aufs Neue die<br />
eigenen Taschen füllt, Klima Magazin, Nr. 01, 11 January 2009, http://bit.ly/fMb6b.<br />
25 Tucker, S. (2004) ‘Blood and Gore launch firm with a difference’, Financial Times, 8 November,<br />
http://bit.ly/1asTpb.<br />
26 ‘Green firm Camco gets Blood and Gore investment’, Reuters, 4 June 2009,<br />
http://bit.ly/YiMsU.<br />
27 ‘Key Developments For Camco International Limited’, Reuters, accessed 20 June 2009,<br />
http://bit.ly/100bSI.<br />
28 Twidale, S. (2009) ‘Ken Newcombe’, Trading Carbon, 3(3): 16.<br />
29 Twidale, S. (2009) ‘Ken Newcombe’, p. 16.<br />
30 ‘Major World Bank Programs: NGO participation’, World Bank Annual Report 1997,<br />
http://bit.ly/OHjVg.<br />
31 Lang, C. (2004) ‘The carbon spin doctors: How <strong>the</strong> World Bank explains emissions trading to<br />
journalists’, World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, 84, July, http://bit.ly/IZoAN.<br />
32 Desai, P. (2006) ‘Carbon Emissions Market Comes of Age’, Reuters, 31 March,<br />
http://bit.ly/jdSKY.<br />
33 Twidale, S. (2009) ‘Ken Newcombe’, p. 16.<br />
34 Twidale, S. (2009) ‘Ken Newcombe’, p. 16.<br />
35 ‘Forest Trends’ History’, Forest Trends website, http://bit.ly/u9QRS.<br />
36 See, for example, ‘Broken Promises: How World Bank Group policies and practice fail to<br />
protect forests and forest peoples rights’, World Rainforest Movement, 2005,<br />
http://bit.ly/NCCsv.<br />
37 ‘Board Members’, Forest Trends website, accessed 20 June 2009, http://bit.ly/ZAlbV.<br />
38 New Forests website, http://bit.ly/2SRmhc.<br />
39 ‘Board Members’, New Forests website, http://bit.ly/11OnR7.<br />
40 Zwick, S. (2009) ‘Environmentalists, Financiers Commemorate Decade of Forest Trends’,<br />
Ecosystem Marketplace, 22 May, http://bit.ly/3SSdnw.<br />
41 Lohmann, L. (2008) ‘Climate Crisis: Social Science Crisis’, a chapter for Der Klimawandel:<br />
Sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven, VS-Verlag, http://bit.ly/Tulpe.<br />
42 ‘Emissions Trading’, Barclays Capital website, http://bit.ly/dV9Nk.<br />
43 ‘AWG-KP 8 Officers’, UNFCCC website, http://bit.ly/NXc1o.<br />
44 Bullard, N. (2008) ‘Who is Harald?’, New Internationalist, 412, June. http://bit.ly/3XQktN. See<br />
also, Lang, C. (2008) ‘Pöyry: The economic hit men of <strong>the</strong> pulp industry’, in Plantations, Poverty<br />
and Power: Europe’s role in <strong>the</strong> expansion of <strong>the</strong> pulp industry in <strong>the</strong> South, World Rainforest<br />
Movement, December 2008, http://bit.ly/kOFPM.<br />
45 Harvey, F. (2009) ‘Carbon trading poised to decline’, Financial Times, 24 February,<br />
http://bit.ly/28gUl. I made this comment in a draft article I wrote for Point Carbon’s<br />
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