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An ugly picture is painted in local media accounts. At the Iquitos meeting, the Matsés were told that the contract must be in English because “the World Bank and the U.N. only recognize the English language” for carbon contracts, according to witnesses quoted by the Iquitos newspaper La Región. Matsés leaders were told they would reap “billions of dollars” from the deal, according to indigenous testimony in the newspaper. Nilsson denies these claims.

Nilsson sent Indian Country Today Media Network an electronic document which he purports is the same one presented to the Matsés, with each page marked “draft for discussion purposes only.” The document states that the agreement is to be governed by the “laws of England and Wales.” It states that the Matsés will “irrevocably” grant SCRL power of attorney. It states that SCRL is to retain “sole property” rights over “all intellectual property” derived from the project. Carbon rights would remain the property of the Matsés, but SCRL would maintain a “lien over such carbon rights until payment of its share” to the Matsés community—after “project expenses” are met.

The plan, which called for Nilsson to broker the sale of carbon credits to third parties, immediately met with dissension among the Matsés. Although supposedly a joint venture, with profits to be divided 50-50 between the Matsés and SCRL, opponents charged that the agreement granted considerable control over Matsés territory to SCRL for an open-ended period. On April 13, the Matsés General Assembly moved to reject the proposal, finding it detrimental to the rights and interests of their people.

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QUESTION: When is a carbon tax not a carbon tax? ANSWER: When Climate Change Minister Greg Combet insists on calling it a carbon price.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard nine months ago said she was "happy" to call it a tax. But not so Mr Combet, who was not his usual self yesterday.

Mr Combet blew and blustered about an Emissions Trading Scheme that, he finally admitted, for its first three years, would "work like a tax".

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Lord Monckton fuels global warming debate

Members of the campus’ green initiative, including U-Sustain and the Environmental Club, added to the debate with their own event: “Climate change: An Inconvenient, Scientifically Proven, and Exigent Truth,” to provide a protest before Lord Monckton’s speech, inquiries during the Question and Answer portion of the event and a rebuttal period after the speech.

In particular, Monckton called out and disagreed with President of U-Sustain and former President of Environmental Club Erin Delman ’12 during his speech.

Delman states that both the Environmental Club and U-Sustain, “highly respect the College Republicans for bringing a speaker on this issue because it is clearly an issue that we care a lot about. It really gives much more weight to our movement if the campus is exposed to the other side [of the argument]. That being said, there are people [like who, specifically?] who would have been a much, much, much better choice.”

Delman refutes Monckton’s claims that the evidence that suggests imminent global climate change is fraudulent; instead, Delman suggests that it is Lord Monckton who skews the data. “He takes a short span of time, such as 10 years, and uses the span in that decade to show global trends,” she said, but according to her, “the time span to look at is the last 220,000 years.”