UVermont students stage ‘die-in’ to ‘highlight deadly effects of climate change, fossil fuel use’ | JunkScience.com

“Climate change contributes to at least 400,000 deaths annually worldwide, approximately one death per minute.”

Why are carbon markets failing? | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional

Carbon markets have lost us more than 15 years in the battle against climate change yet we continue to plough forward with scaling them up. Why?
...carbon markets have been infested by corruption and non-transparency. When studying one project in India, my research team realised that the Mumbai office of a major international consultancy appeared to have copied and pasted large chunks of documentation from one CDM project to another.
...Carbon markets have given the appearance of us doing something about climate change, while actually legitimising the constant rise of emissions. We need to go back to the drawing board and come up with solutions that actually work in practice.