Environmental Justice Organizations Across the Country and Internationally Come Together to Support Real Reductions in Fossil Fuel Use to
Address Climate Change
February 19, 2008, Environmental Justice Organizations in California released The California Environmental Justice Movement's Declaration Against Use of
Carbon Trading Schemes to Address Climate Change.
Since the release of the Declaration people and organizations across California, the Country, and the World have
added their voices to ours
—calling for a rejection of trading schemes and offsets in favor of real reductions in fossil fuel
use and greenhouse gas emissions. Listen to us talk about our effort on
Living On Earth.
Emissions Trading is an approach that will not work to address the critically important task of reducing greenhouse gases.
Read the two Los Angeles Times Editorials (
California's cap-and-trade won't work
and
Time to tax carbon
), the Wall Street Journal Editorial (
Cap and Charade
), Michael Bloomberg’s position on trading as reported by the New York Times (
Bloomberg Calls
for Tax on Carbon Emissions
), and Al Gore’s call for a carbon tax in his
Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
See the long and growing list of opposition to trading on our
Resources page.
Even the
Congressional Budget Office
supports a carbon tax over a trading scheme
(we advocate for a carbon fee in California.)
We believe there is a better way to ensure success of California’s greenhouse gas reductions efforts that also supports
community health and long-term environmental sustainability: establishing policies that focus on moving the state away
from fossil fuels because such fuels are the overwhelming contributor to climate change and
have devastating impacts on low-income communities and communities of color. Such policies include:
- Demand reduction (like energy efficiency from both industrial and residential activities);
- Increase use of clean, non-nuclear renewables for energy production (by increasing the renewable portfolio standard that must be met by both
investor-owned and municipal energy providers and by removing barriers to renewable deployment);
- Putting a price on carbon by establishing a carbon fee and investing the proceeds in emissions reductions and speeding the development of
California’s clean energy economy.
Add your voice to the growing effort to abandon
the failed policy of carbon trading and offsets use --
Get Involved!
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