About the film

Who has not seen a recent request to offset carbon pollution but who knows what this all means? An up-close look at the insidious tango between government and big polluters and investigates whether or not carbon offsets are distracting us from what is really required to tackle the climate crisis. To date, there has been over three hundred billion dollars of carbon transactions worldwide. Instead of focusing resources to move away from a fossil fuel economy, massive international trading ventures have been established as the solution. The Carbon Rush takes us around the world to meet the people most impacted. They are the least heard in the cacophony surrounding in this emerging “green-gold” multi-billion dollar carbon industry. From indigenous rain forest dwellers having their way of life completely threatened, to dozens of Campesinos assassinated, to the livelihood of waste pickers at landfills taken away, The Carbon Rush travels across four continents and brings us up close to projects working through the United Nations, Kyoto Protocol designed Clean Development Mechanism. This groundbreaking documentary feature asks the fundamental questions: “what happens when we manipulate markets to solve the climate crisis? Who stands to gain and who stands to suffer?”

Wybrane festiwale i nagrody / Selected festivals and awards: 2012 – MFF Montreal / Montreal IFF, 2012 – MFF Vancouver / Vancouver IFF