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Lessons from Australia? Engaging indigenous peoples in carbon markets : Comments
By Elizabeth Buchan, published 5/12/2012New market mechanisms offer hope for the effective engagement of indigenous peoples in carbon markets but policy makers must tread carefully.
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The sleazy aspect is that big polluters will use the carbon credits to keep on polluting. It's bizarre to picture smoke plumes in both the burning savannah and city power stations somehow cancelling each other out if not in particle pollution but in CO2 terms.
The aim should be to burn less coal in the first place, not find trendy excuses to let that continue. Find something else for indigenous people to do. For example some indigenous people could make money storing nuclear waste on their land which helps genuine causes like cancer treatment.