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Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society: Negative Returns on South African Investments

Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society: Negative Returns on South African Investments

March 31, 2008 00:28:08

Guests: Bond, Patrick

Host: Alegi, Peter
Limb, Peter

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Episode 006

Climate Change and Environmental Justice

Patrick Bond (Director of the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal) talks to us about his new book Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society: Negative Returns on South African Investments (co-edited with Rehana Dada and Graham Erion, 2007). Bond discusses carbon trading's effects on global warming, critiques free market approaches to climate change, and charts the rise of African grassroots movements for environmental justice.

00:00:00 - 00:04:25 Introduction
00:04:25 - 00:06:42 Climate Change in Africa
00:06:42 - 00:09:02 Carbon Trading
00:09:02 - 00:11:34 Responses to Durbin's Cancerous Dumps
00:11:34 - 00:15:30 Social Environmental Movements in Africa
00:15:30 - 00:19:42 Failings of Trickle-down Economics
00:19:42 - 00:21:32 Durbin and Climate Change
00:21:32 - 00:26:21 Future of Environmental Activism in Africa and Beyond
00:26:21 - 00:28:08 Outro