A new report out by CarbonWatch highlights the kind of business-led 'solutions' to climate change that are likely to be tabled at the G8.

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"Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: The G8, Climate Change and Free-Market
Environmentalism"

Downloadable from www.carbontradewatch.org

“What we call Man's [sic] power over Nature turns out to be a power
exercised by some men over other men with nature as its instrument.”
- C S Lewis, British author and scholar (1898-1963)

The new briefing from Carbon Trade Watch examines the relationship between free-market economic forces and climate change policy while scrutinising the rhetoric and reality behind promises on climate made by the most powerful politicians in the world – the G8. It also explores the origins of free-market environmentalism and analyses the conflicts and synergies that arise when the worlds of trade and environment collide.