Comments on: Because Nature Doesn’t do Bail Outs: US, UK activists target Carbon Trading Markets http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/04/23/because-nature-doesnt-do-bail-outs-us-uk-activists-target-carbon-trading-markets/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sun, 06 May 2012 08:12:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 7 arrested telling world leaders: “Climate is too big to fail” « It’s Getting Hot In Here http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/04/23/because-nature-doesnt-do-bail-outs-us-uk-activists-target-carbon-trading-markets/#comment-77180 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:59:18 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=10568#comment-77180 [...] in North Carolina last week, to the waves of actions trying to save Coal River Mountain, to the mass mobilzations at the UK climate camp. Our movement is growing, our actions are escalating – and together, we will fight for climate [...]

]]> By: Cascadia Brian http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/04/23/because-nature-doesnt-do-bail-outs-us-uk-activists-target-carbon-trading-markets/#comment-76919 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:22:15 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=10568#comment-76919 here’s an interesting article on the topic:

http://www.euractiv.com/en/energy-efficiency/carbon-trading-stifling-eu-energy-savings-potential/article-181502

“The EU’s emissions trading scheme has so far failed to deliver any reductions in CO2 emissions while at the same time strangling energy-efficiency investment in the electricity sector, according to a former European Commission official.

Jørgen Henningsen, a senior adviser at the European Policy Centre, a Brussels think-tank, was addressing a conference organised by the combined heat and power generation sector (CHP) on Tuesday (April 21).

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