Talk:Emission trading

Is the Kyoto Protocol heading toward (or does it already contain) provisions for emissions trading or a cap and trade program?

Will nations such as India and China which won't be bound by the protocol, nevertheless participate in a trading program? That is, will they get tens of billions of dollars from the industrialized West (US and Europe) simply for doing nothing?

If global warming is caused by sunspots more than carbon dioxide, and the average atmosphure temperatures levels off at 1.0C to 1.5C higher than the 2000 level, won't the whole thing have amounted to nothing more than an international welfare program for countries with anti-free-market economic policies?

I worry about this sort of thing, you know.

Ed Poor, Wednesday, June 12, 2002