Jointly issued by Tamil Nadu Environment Council (TNEC) and EQUATIONS, India at the UNFCCC COP held at Bali, Indonesia, December 2007

It is often argued that there are many communities in the world whose livelihoods depend on tourism thereby attempting to provide a justification to increased air travel. Local communities dependent on tourism as the main economic activity should rethink their disproportionate reliance on tourism that leaves them extremely vulnerable and revert to sustainable forms of livelihoods.We seek an end to all market based mechanisms, including those for conservation, and especially to the carbon markets and carbon credit mechanisms.