There is growing hypothesis that, following the current economic crisis, carbon trading will kick start the stock markets once again and that carbon is a new “commodity” albeit now being traded in a traditional way.
This carries several disadvantages; the most pressing being that “if you can’t measure it then you cannot improve it”, rendering any audit meaningless as a real improvement measure and resulting in the view that carbon trading is merely another form of taxation.
Unless commerce, government and the environmental groups can find consensus, we run the risk of continued inactivity and polar argument that will not benefit either the economy or the ecology.
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