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Emissions Credits EnvironmentSources.com Topic Index Carbon trading — privatising the world’s forests Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2009 The World Bank sponsored carbon offset program has faced widespread criticism for, in effect, privatising forests and allowing rich nations to evade responsibility for cutting emissions themselves. The great ‘success’ of a carbon trading failure Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2009 The “right to pollute” has never been more affordable. Energy companies and market speculators can buy a tonne of carbon for less than the cost of a cup of coffee. The low cost gives an incentive for companies to pollute more in the short-term and prices renewable energy alternatives out of the market. Polluted Logic Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 1998 The business of allowing polluters to buy their way out of complying with the law is an innovation with vast untapped potential.

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