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Top US economist slams Obama cap-and-trade emissions trading scheme (ETS) "gamble"
Source: Copenhagen Climate Conference

Professor Nordhaus (Yale): "To bet the world's climate system and global environment on an untested approach with such clear structural flaws would appear a reckless gamble ... [need] a tax on greenhouse-gas emissions"

Cap-and-trade Emissions Trading Schemes (ETSs) slammed by climate economists
Source: New Statesman Contents

Britain's faith in carbon trading as a way of reducing greenhouse gases could be dangerously misplaced - in short it is based on a carbon price but the recent global market failure says that this price may also collapse.

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