Hmm .... Carbon Trading [?]

by: Nordin *)

We now state carbon emissions or greenhouse gases in the world is very dangerous for the erosion of the ozone layer is a protective blanket of the earth from ultraviolet light and infra red sun. Danger due to this depletion is a kind of diseases and skin cancer more dangerous is global warming causes the melting of ice at the poles of the earth. This case may lead to continuous sinking islands in the world.

Who was lucky with Carbon Trading?

Global warming and climate change is a global problem because its impact is felt throughout the earth's surface. International negotiations have provided several alternatives to prevent the increase of this effect. One of them is carbon trading with a variety of mechanisms.

Lots of carbon emissions caused by industries that have emerged since the industrial revolution in northern countries (forward), so the biggest contributor to ozone destruction is a developed country with a variety of industries. Therefore, to reduce the level of carbon emissions, developed countries must reduce capacity and require industries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 5 percent below 1990 emissions levels in 2012. For example the U.S. should reduce greenhouse gas intensity (Grk) by 18 percent over 10 years (2002-2012 period), ie from 183 tons per million dollars of GDP in 2002 to 151 tons per million dollars of GDP in 2012.

Another way is to stop illegal forest carbon sinks and rehabilitating the region. But those three things can not (do not even want to) be done by the developed countries such as America, Japan, Russia, Canada, and Australia. It is said that Canadian officials are also in the UNFCCC COP 7 says no need for sanctions for violating the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol. Why? due to lower industry capacity will be tossing their countries economies, unemployment will rise, crisis and economic paralysis. While preparing the forest carbon exploiters, the developed countries no longer have destroyed forests and had ever since the industrial revolution and world wars occurred much less to rehabilitate the region, of course it will cost a very expensive and nearly impossible in regions such as in-kawasn America is a barren area of the former mine.

With this condition, the easiest option and probably cheaper, and most are "urgent" tropical countries to continue to maintain their forests as carbon exploiters by "trade". Unfortunately the urge to provide a vacuum carbon in tropical countries are on average poor, not accompanied by [also] reduce the capacity of developed country industries. This means that the amount of emissions is still circulating in the atmosphere high world. Supposedly these two [the provision of carbon exploiters and the reduction of carbon-producing industry] done in tandem, resulting in a balance of responsibilities between the state north to the southern states.

Carbon Trade and the Environment Destroyer Wash Sins

As has been stated above that one of the main causes of the increasing depletion of the ozone layer is the result of emissions from industrial waste, primarily oil and gas industry. Despite undeniable that the demand for oil and gas are human needs that are still difficult to be replaced by other fuels, but due to industries that mengelurakan carbon into the atmosphere that is the contributor of ozone and air damage.

High Level Convention on Earth 13 years ago in Rio de Jenerio, Brazil recommends to do emissions of carbon reduction, but again and unfortunately developed countries in and with a sly hit the southern states to be responsible for this problem. In this case the northern states more accountable to see that the form of the answer is through environmental funds [such bio carbon fund].

Corporate producing their own carbon, which have been on a lot of natural resources and to dredge to the destruction of the environment and even human rights violations and working with a corrupt government and an oppressive military accountable only to the development fund without doing efforts for a comprehensive environmental improvement.

Sophisticated methods offered by the Corporate Thus, commonly called the greenwash, that is providing funds for environmental improvement works konvensasi they damage the environment. Environmental destruction is an area where funds are generated and then slyly given to institutions fund managers [funding agency] to perform like an improvement in other areas. The process undertaken is an attempt "wash sins' by Coorporate which actually only" pennies "or" chewing gum "only when compared with the value of the resulting damage.

Ironically, with this method many people who use them, especially the opportunists and the "unemployed" in developed countries [although in Indonesia they are usually regarded as the expert] by way of promises and false development and conservation projects in the southern environment . An example is a mining company Shell's oil and gas [Royal Dutch Shell] is based almost throughout the world who do greenwash by secreting several billion dollars of funds for forest protection projects and the rehabilitation of orangutans mammals [one of them in Central Kalimantan]

This project alone has claimed the unilateral governance area and close access to the people of the people with the justification that people can not manage it well or say that people are wrecking the environment. The approach taken covers 2 things, the grandiose promises of social and economic improvement in communities around the project site and perform the pressure through the authorities approach [usually always sell the names of key officials at the central government or regional]. Yet Shell itself is very bad behavior and human environment in place to work, for example in Nigeria, Africa [one of which is the case of murder Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 other Ogoni tribesmen in Nigeria.]

With maps such conditions, it can clearly be seen that the carbon trading mechanisms and the like have not been able to answer the global environmental damage even just provide the opportunity for damaging the environment for capital laundering made sin.

Other issues in carbon trading is the funding mechanism "above the sky", can not be touched directly by the public and can only be done by groups of intelligent [and sly] alone. Community back only to be spectators and recipients and the object of the show called carbon trading. In fact, not only the base communities are very vague and can not access this fund carbon mechanism, the government [areas] and the NGOs themselves are also very difficult and not yet understood this with carbon trading.

Only weakness is happening is that we are still happy to listen to the promises and fanciful to be "lottery" is called carbon trading. But we do not realize that whoever is the most disadvantaged, who reap the benefits and who is looking for a profit. Clearly there is no explanation that can provide enlightenment about access and opportunity to local communities.

*) Activists Save Our Borneo, former Director of WALHI Kalteng 1999-2006