What is The Story of Cap & Trade?

The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about cap and trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.

Updates

The Story of Cap & Trade featured and debated on Democracy Now!

Filmed live in Copenhagen on December 15, Democracy Now! featured Larry Lohman (Researcher, Author, and Founding Member, Durban Group for Climate Justice, and Content Advisor for The Story of Cap & Trade) debating Frank Ackerman (an economist at the Stockholm Environment Institute) on the dangers and hopes behind cap and trade.



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From the New York Times and James Hansen: Cap and Fade

"At the heart of [Obama's] plan is cap and trade, a market-based approach that has been widely praised but does little to slow global warming or reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. It merely allows polluters and Wall Street traders to fleece the public out of billions of dollars...."

 

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Daphne Wysham responds to David Roberts on grist.org

"The definition of “renewable energy” under the Waxman-Markey bill was transformed from the solar panels and windmills of our dreams to the biomass and waste incinerators of our nightmares. The EPA’s authority to regulate large coal burners was gutted..."

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From the Blog: A Defining Moment

"We made The Story of Cap & Trade to encourage a real discussion about how to solve the enormous climate challenges we face. If there was ever an issue that merited broad, even heated public debate, this is it. I’d far rather people argue about cap and trade and other policy options than ignore them or silently go along with the crowd, even when our guts tell us the solution on the table is inadequate..."

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