Upsetting the Offset - Transnational Institute

II
CASES
Part II of the book comprises a range of case studies
from Thailand to Chile, from Uruguay to India,
presenting rich details of the often negative effects of
CDM and voluntary offset projects on local
communities in the ‘Global South’. Part II begins
with papers by Melissa Checker, Tamra Gilbertson,
Cristián Alarcón and Isaac ‘Asume’ Osuoka, showing
how ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ countries and their
respective governments, corporations and local
communities are interlocked in a complex web of
carbon market relations, which, rather than
promoting sustainable development, help to increase
inequalities between North and South. The next set
of chapters – written by Ricardo Carrere, Raquel
Nuñez, Rafael Kurter Flores and colleagues, and
Steffen Böhm – are aimed at breaking our illusion of
considering industrial tree plantations to be real
forests that would help us fight climate change. The
last set of cases – written by Soumitra Ghosh, Hadida
Yasmin, Siddhartha Dabhi, Nishant Mate and
Soumya Dutta – come from India, which is one of
the largest hosts of CDM and voluntary offset
projects.