Climate Markets
Six Soundbites
first published 20 August 2008
Can carbon trading help in the fight against destabilizing climate change? This contribution to a US website debate, Opposing Views, argues that the answer is no. Carbon trading:
- is aimed at the wrong objective
- squanders resources on the wrong things
- requires knowledge and institutions that do not exist
- is antidemocratic
- interferes with positive solutions, and
- is based more on vague ideology than concrete experience.