JUTTA KILL
FERN (Forests and the European Union Resource Network) / SinksWatch Initiative
Carbon Trading
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Saturday Afternoon, September 15. 2007

FERN is a non-governmental organization that works to achieve greater environmental and social justice, focussing on forests and forest peoples' rights in the policies and practices of the European Union. Jutta Kill, whose formal education is in forest ecology, has worked as climate campaigner for FERN since 2000 and is co-founder of the Durban Group for Climate Justice. FERN’s climate campaign has contributed significantly to the Durban Group critique of carbon trading as an unsuitable instrument to tackle climate change in a just and effective manner and has become a leading voice in exposing the failings of carbon ‘offset’ schemes and proposing just and effective alternatives to offset trading. Since 2005, FERN’s climate campaign has begun to document and analyze the impacts on local livelihoods of EU biofuel targets and why such an approach is likely to exacerbate the forest crisis and delay meaningful action towards a climate-proof transport and energy policy in the EU.