Carbon Trading Blasted by Indigenous Groups

The United Nations is facing scathing criticism from the world's indigenous communities for its attempts to promote carbon trading as a tool to address climate change concerns.

"The UN is allowing companies who are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases to continue to pollute," said Tom Goldtooth of the U.S.-based Indigenous Environment Network (IEN).

Last week, at the end of a two-week international gathering, a UN body said the World ... Full Story »

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Fabrice Florin
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by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008

Interesting but one-sided report about the World Bank’s role in facilitating carbon trading programs, allegedly at the expense of indigenous people's rights. While these claims may have merit, the fact that no opposing viewpoints are presented gives this report less weight that it might have had otherwise.

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