We express strong opposition to purely market-oriented and technology-centred false and dangerous solutions put forward by many corporations, governments, and international financial institutions.

These include nuclear energy, agro-fuels, carbon capture and storage, Clean Development Mechanisms, biochar, genetically “climate-readied” crops, geoengineering, and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) as currently defined by the UNFCCC.

These only produce new environmental threats, without really solving the climate crisis.

Carbon trading and offsetting are also false and unjust instruments, because they treat a common planetary resource – the atmosphere – as a commodity that can be owned and traded. So far, the system has not proven its merits, and by allowing rich countries to offset their reduction obligations, it has maintained this unjust and unsustainable system.