Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-210) and index
Contents:
How do carbon offsets work? Chapter overview / Mike Rosen-Molina ; Carbon trading is a U.S.-proposed market solution for global climate change / Larry Lohmann ; The European Union is a pioneer in carbon trading / Eileen Claussen ; The United States is poised to create its own mandatory carbon trading program / Bob Keefe ; Carbon offsets are now the cornerstone of international efforts to slow global warming / Renfrey Clarke ; Carbon may become the largest commodity market in the world / James Kanter ; Individuals can purchase carbon offsets in a voluntary market / Rebecca Gallagher Are carbon offsets effective in reducing global warming? Carbon offsets are one of many solutions needed for global warming / David Suzuki ; Carbon trading markets are working / Neal Dikeman ; Carbon offsets help to mitigate the environmental harm from air travel / Joelle Novey ; Carbon offsets are better than doing nothing about carbon emissions / The Carbon Consultancy ; A majority of the United Nations' carbon offset projects do nothing to cut global warming / John Vidal ; The only beneficiaries of carbon offsets are polluting corporations / Kevin Smith ; Many carbon offset projects have a negative impact on the environment and global warming / Wouter Buytaert ; Individual carbon offsets simply allow the rich to ease their guilt without changing their lifestyles / Robert Frank Are tree-based carbon offsets beneficial? Chapter overview / Toni Johnson ; Carbon credits can encourage developing nations to protect trees / Rachel Oliver ; Carbon credits could save the rainforests / Rhett A. Butler ; Carbon offsets for preventing deforestation could raise the value of living forests / Science Daily ; A United Nations' carbon offset deforestation project can help prevent deforestation / Jan Fehse ; Carbon trading cannot solve Amazon rainforest deforestation / Emily Boyd ; Carbon trading may put mature tropical forests at risk / Science Daily ; Carbon trading projects for reducing emissions from deforestation could hurt indigenous peoples / Angeli Mehta and Jutta Kill How should the voluntary carbon offset market be regulated? The problem with individual carbon offsets now is that they are not properly regulated / Moises Velasquez-Manoff ; The U.S. government should provide guidelines and oversight of the domestic carbon offset market / Derik Broekhoff ; States are calling for the Federal Trade Commission to study and regulate voluntary U.S. carbon trading / Elliot Burg and David A. Zonana ; The U.S. Congress should pass a carbon offset certification process / Center for American Progress ; The Gold Standard can provide quality assurance for the voluntary carbon offset market / WWF ; Voluntary carbon trading should be globally regulated / Simon Linnett
