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Carbon trading: dirty, sexy money [1]

There's little doubt that free-market capitalism helped to get us into the mess we're in. As Nicholas Stern, former chief economist at the World Bank, puts it: climate change is "the greatest market failure the world has ever seen". The question now is whether capitalism is able to make amends. Can it provide a mechanism that rewards people for reducing their carbon emissions instead of increasing them? Or will it simply give big polluters a way of dodging their responsibilities?

Publication Date: 
18/04/2008
Fred Pearce [2]
New Scientist [3]
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Environment [4], Climate Change [5], Kyoto Protocol [6], Emission Targets [7], Climate Mitigation [8], Emissions Trading [9], Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) [10], United Kingdom (UK) [11], United States Of America (US) [12], Global [13], European Union (EU) [14], Carbon Dioxide [15]
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