Carbon Trading: "Bad for the South, Bad for the North, Bad for the Climate"

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An exhaustively-documented new book says that theย  โ€œcarbon tradingโ€ approach to climate change is both ineffective and unjust.ย Carbon trading unnecessarily prolongs the world’s dependence on oil, coal and gas.ย Moreover, trading โ€œdispossesses ordinary people in the South of their lands andย  futures without resulting in appreciable progress toward alternative energy systems,โ€ said the book’s editor.

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