Carbon trader: Nations may form global CO2 [swindle] market without UN deal

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Rich countries may act on their own to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by developing a carbon market they hope will lure in poor nations even if U.N. climate talks get bogged down, experts said.
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To get past the differences, the rich world, including the European Union and the United States, may form a carbon market outside or parallel to the U.N. talks. Rapidly developing countries like China may be inspired to join the market to sell emissions offsets such as clean energy projects.
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“Getting everyone to agree with everything (in Copenhagen) is going to be very difficult,” said Peter Fusaro, a carbon trade expert at Global Change Associates.

“So I don’t think the possibility of a market developing outside of the process is out of whack at all. I think it’s very possibly an outcome.”

Climate change nonsense

An awful lot of nonsense about climate change is spouted, as we know. I think the thing that bugs me the most though is that people don't seem to be understanding the very reports they rely upon for their logic and calls to action. You know, things like various greenies insisting that we should revert to local and regional economies....when the very IPCC report they rely upon for predictions of climate change states that this would make things worse, not better.

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At the Global Humanitarian Forum youth forum on climate change, we'lll be simulating the Copenhagen talks.. And I'm representing Saudi..

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You’ve heard all the reasons before: We drive too much. We eat too much meat and processed food. We spend too much time with plugged-in devices—computers, TVs, air conditioners.

But what problem are we talking about—climate change, or the worldwide rise in obesity?

Both, according to Globesity: A Planet Out of Control?, a book by four public-health researchers who show how climate change and obesity draw from a shared web of roots. Both problems worsen as car culture spreads, desk jobs replace manual jobs, and carbon-intensive foods (including meat) become available to more and more eaters, according to the book, published first in French and this spring in English.