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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Dale Penn
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by Dale Penn - Oct. 1, 2008

This is good journalism as it takes an important topic and expounds on an aspect that likely has many folks scratching their heads wondering how these credits really work. The article provides a lot of quotes, but those quotes don't seem to fully support the title of the piece and don't represent unique points of view, leading me to downgrade its style and sourcing.. Perhaps with more if more background and analysis had been provided had been provided the story would have been more cohesive.

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