Hundreds of hydroelectric dams in Panama. Incinerators burning garbage in India. Biogas extracted from palm oil in Honduras. Eucalyptus forests harvested for charcoal in Brazil. What do these projects have in common? They are all receiving carbon credits for offsetting pollution created somewhere else. What impact are these offsets having? Are they actually reducing emissions? What about the people and communities where these projects have been established?
The Carbon Rush takes us around the world to meet the people most impacted. They are the the least heard in the cacophony surrounding this multi-billion-dollar carbon industry. The film travels across four continents and brings us up close to projects working through the UN and the Kyoto protocol-designed Clean Development mechanism. Narrated by Daryl Hannah, you will find this film an enlightening experience about what should be and is not.