Sub-prime carbon - government failure?
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This will be a teaching topic I return to in the spring, but Radio 4 today carried an excellent report by Roger Harrabin from the BBC on criticisms of the EU’s carbon trading scheme. The report focuses on new research from Friends of the Earth that is highly critical of the emissions trading scheme. “FoE says most trades are done not by polluting industries, but by speculative traders packaging carbon credits into complex financial products similar to those which triggered the sub-prime mortgage crash.” More here from Friends of the Earth which included a link to their report (in pdf format).
Here is the link to the Radio 4 discussion - CEO of the European Climate Exchange Patrick Birley and the author of the FOTE report, Sarah Jane Clifton, discuss the rise in the carbon trading market.
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