SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 30 (IPS) – Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries profit. By fostering the fiction that others can be paid to cut greenhouse gases (GHGs) instead, it undermines efforts to do so.
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