Carbon-trading systems will likely be a boon to lawyers, lobbyists and arbitrage junkies, a panel on emissions trading heardย at the International Economic Forum of the Americas conference underway inย Montreal.
But it is unlikely that the requisite global trading mechanisms will be in place and working quickly enough to rescue the planet from a climate catastrophe, Michael Dorsey, an environmental studies professor at DartmouthCollege in the U.S.,ย said.
Their access to the summit is proof that Big Oil still holds "a dangerous sway" over the climate process, campaigners say.
Delegationโs composition consistent with new KBPO report revealingย this yearโs U.N. climate talks have the largest number of fossil fuel lobbyists to date.
Labour government accused of being โcomplicit in the fossil fuel industryโs conquest of the COP processโ.
Our changing climate will produce winners and losers. Canada should look to the Global South for a winning strategy.
