This digital toolkit will help you analyze, interrogate & resist market-based carbon pricing initiatives in all its forms.

Welcome to the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) and Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) carbon pricing popular education toolkit!
If you are ready to jump in and organize a training on carbon pricing, see the Tools section for workshop sessions, activities, lesson plans, powerpoints, facilitation ideas and tips to organize a workshop. If you want to do a bit of reading first, see the Info section where you will find chapter readings and a list of terms on carbon pricing, all useful to read before organizing a workshop.

Toolkit Highlights

A Macro Historical Overview

Colonialism, Capitalism, Patriarchy, and DevelopmentTake a look around you. Everything you see, touch and feel came from the Earth. The table was cut down or mined, the lamp was woven and mined, the building you are in was constructed with materials from the Earth,...

Press Conference Role Play

Press Conference Role Play

Time: 30 - 60 minutes Learning Style: Oral, humor, group-buildingObjective: Participants practice discourse and narratives on carbon pricing through a mock press conference. The objective is to create a safe space to practice and to work together to speak truth to...

Water

Water

For Indigenous Peoples, water is life. Water is from the sacred Mother Earth. Water feeds all life on the planet. We are grown in water in our Mother's bodies like a small ocean. Water is what makes Earth special. Life began in water. Water is the life blood of the...

Air: Responses and Resistance

Air: Responses and Resistance

Carbon Pricing and Labor by Irene HongPing Shen from Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED) Carbon pricing has been promoted as an effective climate policy that would significantly reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) throughout the world. Carbon pricing, including cap...

When we go back and teach our communities about carbon pricing, we need to explore and define what resistance is; why resistance is important, and why it can be a celebration because there will come a time soon when we will lead.“

– Aurora Conley
Anishinaabe Environmental Protection Alliance July 6th, 2019, Chicago Pilot Training

Join the Resistance.

Please use the Toolkit and Report

Carbon Pricing, V1

A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance

was published in 2017 by IEN and CJA. The publication provides a global historical critique of carbon trading, offsets, REDD+ and carbon taxes. This publication supports communities and organizations articulate crucial points to resist carbon pricing and climate change.

Carbon Pricing, V2

A Popular Education Toolkit for Community Resistance

began side-by-side with the first publication. The objective of the training initiative is to continually educate ourselves on climate justice and climate policy. The toolkit is part of a wider education initiative that aims to build popular education and resistance to carbon pricing from the ground up!

Contact Info

Email: CO2colonialism
@ienearth.org

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