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Carbon-trading market has uncertain future

Nature volume 452, pages 508–509 (2008)Cite this article

Clean development mechanism may be capped.

The budding carbon-offsets market could already be on its last legs, industry representatives say, if the latest European proposals are agreed. European negotiators went into a United Nations climate meeting in Bangkok this week warning developing countries that they need to step up to the challenge of climate change if they are to see additional money flowing into clean-development projects.

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Tollefson, J. Carbon-trading market has uncertain future. Nature 452, 508–509 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/452508b

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