The morality of biofuels – Escalating energy costs and the growing fear of climate change have encouraged a headlong rush to renewable energy. Biofuel from biomass is emerging as a preferred source of liquid energy for transport – but the huge areas of agricultural land that are being, or will be, diverted from food production pose questions about the morality of industrial-scale biofuels development.

Rising Tide: UK Stern Report Sells Climate Short,Paves Way to Global Warming Catastrophe
Today the international climate justice movement condemned a major new policy advisory from the United Kingdom on the economics of climate change. Named “The Stern Review” after its chief author Sir Nicholas Stern, climate activists warn that this 700-page analysis offers a dangerously inadequate and deceptive plan that will lead to inevitable global warming catastrophe if its recommendations are followed.

Why the Kyoto Protocol is pants – We hear a lot about how great the Kyoto Protocol is- and how desperately important it is that the Protocol is implemented. Here’s the real arguments why it’s important and why it’s pants.

London Rising Tide are not opposed to concerted international action on climate change but Kyoto, unfortunately, is not the answer. In fact it’s nothing more that distraction, a business deal disguised as an environmental treaty. It’s creating a false beacon of hope for concerned citizens as well as being a payday for carbon traders and their like. And there are social movements and indigenous people in the global south who are saying this, not just small but noisy groups based in the west.

SinksWatch – An initiative to track and scrutinize carbon sink projects. SinksWatch advocates addressing the links between forests and climate change in a way that honours forests as a safeguard against the impacts of extreme weather events without justifying the continued, additional and permanent release of carbon from fossil fuel burning.

Carbon Trade Watch – Events which led to the adoption of pollution trading in the Kyoto Protocol show polluters successfully turning the potential threat of climate change into an opportunity for profit in the form of pollution trading. By centring its work on bottom-up community-led projects and campaigns, Carbon Trade Watch aims to provide a durable body of research which ensures that a holistic and justice-based analysis of climate change and climate policy is not forgotten or compromised. Importantly, the project will gather and translate the work of others in this field to facilitate broader co-operation and understanding.

Biofuelwatch highlight the environmental impacts of the global biofuel market, especially the vast releases of greenhouse gases and considerable biodiversity losses they can cause.

The Carbon Neutral Myth – Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins
Carbon offsets are the modern day indulgences, sold to an increasingly carbon conscious public to absolve their climate sins. Scratch the surface, however, and a disturbing picture emerges, where creative accountancy and elaborate shell games cover up the impossibility of verifying genuine climate change benefits, and where communities in the South often have little choice as offset projects are inflicted on them.
This report argues that offsets place disproportionate emphasis on individual lifestyles and carbon footprints, distracting attention from the wider, systemic changes and collective political action that needs to be taken to tackle climate change. Promoting more effective and empowering approaches involves moving away from the marketing gimmicks, celebrity endorsements, technological quick fixes, and the North/South exploitation that the carbon offsets industry embodies.

The case against Carbon Trading – Carbon Trading is contrary to social justice.

Alternative Fuels – In recent years, many technologies have been put forth as being alternatives to our reliance on oil and gas for transportation and heating.
Unfortunately, nearly all of these alternatives have significant environmental, social and economic impacts, making them undesirable to society at large and specifically to the communities that would host the production facilities. Three of the most prominent “alternative fuels” technologies being promoted today are cellulosic ethanol, thermal depolymerization (TDP) and Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) gasification/liquefaction.