{"id":453283,"date":"2010-03-20T14:44:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T18:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5397"},"modified":"2010-03-20T14:44:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T18:44:01","slug":"wwf-hopes-to-find-60-billion-growing-on-trees-by-christopher-booker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/453283","title":{"rendered":"WWF hopes to find $60 billion growing on trees by Christopher Booker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article Tags: AmazonGate<\/a>, Carbon Trading<\/a>, Christopher Booker<\/a>, Headline Story<\/a><\/p>\n

The carbon credits scheme would make WWF and its partners much richer, but with no lowering of overall CO2 emissions.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nTumucumaque in northern Brazil has been designated a ‘carbon sink’ <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If the world\u2019s largest, richest environmental campaigning group, the WWF \u2013 formerly the World Wildlife Fund \u2013 announced that it was playing a leading role in a scheme to preserve an area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of Switzerland, many people might applaud, thinking this was just the kind of cause the WWF was set up to promote. Amazonia has long been near the top of the list of the world\u2019s environmental cconcerns, not just because it includes easily the largest and most bio-diverse area of rainforest on the planet, but because its billions of trees contain the world\u2019s largest land-based store of CO2 \u2013 so any serious threat to the forest can be portrayed as a major contributor to global warming. <\/p>\n

If it then emerged, however, that a hidden agenda of the scheme to preserve this chunk of the forest was to allow the WWF and its partners to share the selling of carbon credits worth $60 billion, to enable firms in the industrial world to carry on emitting CO2 just as before, more than a few eyebrows might be raised. The idea is that credits representing the CO2 locked into this particular area of jungle \u2013 so remote that it is not under any threat \u2013 should be sold on the international market, allowing thousands of companies in the developed world to buy their way out of having to restrict their carbon emissions. The net effect would simply be to make the WWF and its partners much richer while making no contribution to lowering overall CO2 emissions.
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\nSource: telegraph.co.uk<\/p>\n

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