Comments on: Carbon Trading Starts in Australia http://worldisgreen.com/2007/07/24/carbon-trading-starts-in-australia/ Exploring the role of entrepreneurship in the social sector Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:34:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Suhit Anantula http://worldisgreen.com/2007/07/24/carbon-trading-starts-in-australia/#comment-3081 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:48:02 +0000 http://worldisgreen.com/2007/07/24/carbon-trading-starts-in-australia/#comment-3081 Sean:

I think like any economic tool, carbon trading will work as designed. If the design is not correct (say excess credits) than the results will be bad.

However, I cannot understand your reasoning of carbon trading being dependent on trees etc.

One of the major credits for carbon comes from emissions that need to be reduced by large industrial and energy companies. And these credits would mean that actual carbon has been reduced.

Also, these plants that you mention are generally large trees with life of 100 yrs or so.

Cheers,
Suhit

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]]> By: Sean O http://worldisgreen.com/2007/07/24/carbon-trading-starts-in-australia/#comment-3032 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:37:58 +0000 http://worldisgreen.com/2007/07/24/carbon-trading-starts-in-australia/#comment-3032 I really doubt that carbon trading can achieve the goals that everyone thinks they can. I talk about this several times on my blog on global warming http://www.globalwarming-factorfiction.com. The fact that most trading programs tend to be tied to growing plants means that when those plants die, they release that carbon back to the environment so their net effect is relatively small and much smaller than the programs account for.

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