[Debate] Reminder of CCS Seminar, in 1/2 hour, on Durban climate politics

[Patrick Bond]

Centre for Civil Society seminar, all welcome (including skypcast)

*The Decommissioning of Durban's Emissions Trade Pilot *
*Speakers:* Khadija Sharife and Patrick Bond
*Date:* Wednesday, 11  July 2012
*Time:* 12:30-14:00
*Venue:* CCS Seminar Room 602, 6th Floor, MTB Tower, Howard College

*Topic:*
Trading emissions to address climate change is one of the most 
controversial strategies of global environmental governance, and the 
pilot project in Durban - the Bisasar Road methane-to-electricity 
conversion project at Africa's largest formal landfill in Clare Estate - 
requires constant vigilance. Environmental racism, incineration 
toxicity, airborne particulates, divide-and-conquer politics and 
wastepicker abuse are some of the local problems. But a recent admission 
by a Durban municipal official that the Bisasar Road 'Clean Development 
Mechanism' (CDM) application made in 2004 was fraudulent (lacking 
'additionality'), merits the project's decommissioning. How might such a 
process unfold in coming months, and what impact might it have on 
international emissions trading, on the CDM Policy Dialogue assessment 
led in the UN by former SA Environment Minister Valli Moosa (who had 
approved the Bisasar application at the time), and on Clare Estate 
communities? The seminar will be followed by a site visit. (Please 
contact pbond at mail.ngo.za if interested in joining the trip.)

*Speakers:*
Khadija Sharife is a former resident of Clare Estate; CCS's coordinator 
of the Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade 
project; and a writer for /Africa Report, Capitalism Nature Socialism/ 
and numerous other periodicals. Patrick Bond is CCS Director and author 
of the recent UKZN Press book, /Politics of Climate Justice/, as well as 
other books that analyse carbon trading.

(For access to the seminar skypecast, please contact pbond at mail.ngo.za)
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