The Trouble with Carbon Trading: A Short Debate

by The Corner House

published by ClimateChangeCorp

FIRST PUBLISHED APRIL 2009 | PDF

In this short exchange from ClimateChangeCorp’s website, The Corner House tackles claims from a Wall Street carbon trader that (1) the climate problem is a problem of quantity of emissions, (2) carbon trading lowers costs, (3) putting a price on carbon in Europe helps Southern countries reduce emissions and (4) carbon markets can work in concert with other policies and measures.

Source: http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/summary.shtml?x=565014