On paper, carbon trading should help finance environmental projects and fight climate change, but years of debate and blurry standards have turned the initiative into a pollution enabler for the richest countries.
Kate Dooley is a Senior Research Fellow of the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, at the University of Melbourne
On paper, carbon trading should help finance environmental projects and fight climate change, but years of debate and blurry standards have turned the initiative into a pollution enabler for the richest countries.