(Obama's State of the Nation speech last week called for 'market-based'
climate legislation like the awful proposals by senator John Kerry in
2009 - see http://www.storyofcapandtrade.org for an 8 minute critique -
and so this work to nail down Europe's emissions-trade coffin is
important to circulate in the US... and everywhere.)
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For immediate release*
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*Brussels, 18 February 2013*
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*'It is time the **EU scraps its carbon Emissions Trading System'*
*A growing group of civil society organisations*[i]*is calling on the EU
to abolish its Emission Trading System (ETS) to open space for truly
effective climate policies. Today they release a joint declaration that
highlights the many structural loopholes the ETS is facing, that the
proposed reform proposals put forward by EU policy makers will not be
able to fix.*
Tomorrow (19 Feb.) the Environmental Committee of the European
Parliament will vote on the Commission's backloading
proposal.[ii]"Although advertised as a way to fix the failing ETS, it is
nothing but a drop in the ocean. The EU's flagship policy to address
climate change has diverted attention from the need to transform the
system's dependency on fossil fuels and growing consumption, resulting
in /increased/emissions. After seven lost years, it's time to make space
for effective and fair climate policies," says Joanna Cabello, from
Carbon Trade Watch.
More than 90 organisations, networks and movements from all over the
world launch today the joint declaration 'It is Time to Scrap the ETS'
<http://scrap-the-euets.makenoise.org/>.[iii] It lists the structural
flaws of the ETS and the risks of trying to fix it.
One of the flaws is the use of offset projects which allows companies or
governments from the North to buy credits from a project in the South
instead of reducing emissions at source. "The offset projects under the
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), the biggest offset scheme, has
actually /increased///emissions while causing land grabs and human
rights violations, community displacements, conflicts and increased
local environmental destruction," says Isaac Rojas, from Friends of the
Earth Latin America and Caribbean (ATALC). "Other new market mechanisms
and related financial products (such as forest carbon offsets and
biodiversity offsets) follow the same logic which allows, and offsets,
deforestation, forest degradation, biodiversity loss and water
pollution," he adds.In spite of the growing evidence of the problems,
offset use in the ETS grew by 85% in 2011.
Furthermore, the EU ETS is costing the public a lot of money without
serving a public purpose. Belen Balanyá, from Corporate Europe
Observatory says: "At a time when EU citizens are shouldering the cost
of the economic crisis, they are also^being forced to bear the cost of
the legislation, regulation and much of the quantification of emissions
that carbon markets require, as well as the costs of measures against
fraud, theft, corruption, and tax evasion. Meanwhile big polluters such
as Arcellor Mittal and Lafarge make millions of windfall profits with
over allocated permits."
The EU ETS created the biggest carbon market in the world and now serves
as a model for other countries. China is setting up a system with EU
support and is planning to link it to the EU ETS. Other countries and
regions such as Brazil, Korea, Australia, California in the US and
Quebec in Canada have similar plans. The failures of the ETS will also
be exported to other areas, as it will be used as a model for trading
other 'ecosystem services' such as forests, biodiversity, water, soils
and landscapes. In the meantime, civil society groups from around the
world are demanding to scrap the ETS so that market mechanisms stop
being used as a model for environmental protection.
The organisations supporting this declaration conclude: "It is time to
stop fixating on 'price'as a driver for change. We need to scrap the ETS
and implement effective and fair climate policies by making the
necessary transition away from fossil fuel dependency."
For more information contact:
- Joanna Cabello (Carbon Trade Watch): + 32 493829459
- Belén Balanyá (Corporate Europe Observatory):+31 6 33090386
- Isaac Rojas (Friends of the Earth Latin America and Caribbean): in
Costa Rica +506 83383204, in Uruguay +59899621591
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[i]
As of February 17^th , 92 groups signed on to the common declaration 'It
is Time to Scrap the ETS' http://scrap-the-euets.makenoise.org/about/.
Signatories are: AITEC -- Association Internationale de Techniciens,
Experts et Chercheurs (France), ANPED -- Northern Alliance for
Sustainability, ATTAC (Austria), ATTAC (France), Banktrack, Beyond
Copenhagen Collective (India), Biofuelwatch (UK), Biofuelwatch (US),
Both ENDS (The Netherlands), BROC -- Bureau for Regional Outreach
Campaigns (Russia), Carbon Trade Watch, Censat Agua Viva / Friends of
the Earth (Colombia), Centre for Civil Society (South Africa), Center
for Environment (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Centre For Environmental
Justice / Friends of the Earth (Sri Lanka), CESTA / Friends of the Earth
(El Salvador), Climate & Capitalism (Canada), Climate Justice Collective
(UK), COECOCEIBA / Friends of the Earth (Costa Rica), Confédération
Paysanne (France), Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Corner House (UK),
Corporate Europe Observatory, Corporate Watch (UK), Counter Balance,
Earth in Brackets (US), EARTH PEOPLES (Germany), ECA Watch (Austria),
Ecologistas en Acción (Spain), EcoNexus (UK), Eco Sitio (Argentina),
ECVC -- European Coordination Via Campesina, EJOLT -- Environmental
Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade,
Entrepueblos/Entrepobles/Entrepobos/Herriarte (Spain), ERA / Friends of
the Earth (Nigeria), FASE (Brazil), FERN, Food & Water Watch (Europe),
Food & Water Watch (US), Fórum Mudanças Climáticas e Justiça Social
(Brazil), France Amérique Latine (France), Friends of the Earth / Amigos
de la Tierra (América Latina y el Caribe), Friends of the Earth
(Africa), Friends of the Earth (Australia), Friends of the Earth
(Flanders and Brussels), Friends of the Earth (Malaysia), Friends of the
Earth (Sierra Leone), Friends of the Earth (Sweden), Friends of the
Earth (US), Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
for Climate Change Against REDD and for Life, Global Forest Coalition,
Global Justice Ecology Project (US), Global Social Justice (Belgium),
GRAIN, Green Cross Society (Ukraine), Groundwork / Friends of the Earth
(South Africa), Indigenous Environmental Network, Indigenous Peoples
Movement for Self Determination and Liberation, International Oil
Working Group, International Rivers (US), JA! Justiça Ambiental /
Friends of the Earth (Mozambique), Jubileu Sul (Brasil), Kolectivo El
Rebelde (Mexico), Les Amis de la Terre / Friends of the Earth (France),
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, Movimento Mulheres pela P@Z!
(Brazil), NESPON (India), Network of Indigenous Peoples of the Solomon
Islands, Nucleo Amigos da Terra / Friends of the Earth (Brazil), ODG --
Observatori del Deute en la Globalització (Catalonia), OILWATCH AMERICA
LATINA, Ongd AFRICANDO (Spain), OSC RECOs -- Redes de Cooperação
Comunitária Sem Fronteiras (Brazil), Otros Mundos AC / Friends of the
Earth (México), Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (Philippines),
Platform (UK), Re:Common (Italy), REDD-Monitor, REDES / Friends of the
Earth (Urugauy), School of Democratic Economics, SOLdePaz.Pachakuti
(Spain), South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers & People, Taller Ecologista
(Argentina), Timberwatch Coalition (South Africa), TNI -- Transnational
Institute (Netherlands), Unidad Ecologica Salvadoreña (El Salvador),
United Kingdom Without Incineration Network (UK), Urgewald (Germany),
VZW CLIMAXI (Belgium), Woodland League (Ireland), WISE -- World
Information Service on Energy (NL), World Rainforest Movement.
The declaration is still open for signatures.
[ii]The Environment Committee of the EU Parliament will vote on an
amendment to the EU ETS Directive. This proposed amendment is to adapt
the auction timetable and enable the backloading of permits (delaying
the auction of a certain amount of EUAs from the first three years of
Phase 3 (2013-2020) to latter years of Phase 3 of the EU ETS (2018-2020)
[iii] http://scrap-the-euets.makenoise.org/
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