Twenty Years after its Founding Declaration, the Durban Group Reaffirms its Opposition to Carbon Markets
Continuing Global Swindle Denounced

In October 2004, activists representing diverse organizations and networks from around the globe came together in Durban, South Africa to strategize about the risks of the then-emerging carbon markets.

Now, after 20 years of violence, fraud, human rights abuses, ever-increasing fossil fuel burning, climate disasters, and violation of the rights of Indigenous Peoples and communities located near polluters, the Durban Group for Climate Justice has been proved right in its early warnings.

Today the Group is reaffirming its commitment to stopping carbon markets, including carbon offsets. Under the auspices of the United Nations and dozens of world governments, carbon trading is continuing to make climate change worse by perpetuating the extraction and burning of the world's remaining fossil fuels.

For recent Corner House work on this topic, see, for example: https://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/offset-frontiers-fossil-capit... and, for a longer record of critique, https://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resources/results/taxonomy%3A14.