So public money meant for schoolbooks can soon be handed to scam artists selling bogus carbon offsets?

UK Schools Set to Join Carbon Trading Scheme : TreeHugger

With a long-term goal to ensure that every new school and home from 2016 to be built with a carbon footprint of zero, the British state schools are about to be included under the government’s new domestic carbon emissions trading scheme from April 2010 in a move that will enable teachers, students, and school district personnel to jump right into the mix when it comes to recognizing what impact their carbon emissions have on the Planet.