carbon trading

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An Australian government advisor on climate change calls for a national emissions trading scheme to combat global warming.

A coalition of 99 companies hands a climate action plan to G8 leaders, asking for emission targets and global carbon trading.

If all goes according to plan, the business of buying and selling rights to pollute the atmosphere with carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases - carbon trading, as it is known - will curb global warming and save the world.

That is its only purpose. Along the way, a lot of people will get rich.

The New Green Exchange, part of the New York Mercantile Exchange, launches Monday with an offering of futures contracts tied to the cost of pollution in Europe.

A company can reduce its carbon emissions and then make some cash by selling the right to pollute to another company.

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