The Lucrative Business of Polluting: Will Trading System Encourage Emissions?
7:35pm GMT, Thursday, 30 December 2010
The Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism allows companies to continue polluting at home by assisting in emissions reductions abroad. If its critics are right, however, the system is being massively abused and actually discourages reductions that might otherwise be made.
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