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The gift of a less polluted planet - now available from Sandbag!
Carbon trading explained through biscuits.
Check out our map of Britain's biggest carbon emitters.
Sooner or later things have got to change. It just can't carry on being the case that the companies posting record profits from selling a product that we now know is contributing to a potential climatic disaster, have so far escaped any firm policy to make them pay for their pollution.

Last week the Australian government published a white paper on the implementation of a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme ... an emissions trading scheme in all but name.
In true Crocodile Dundee fashion the Rudd government has declared to the EU: "That's not an ineffective emissions trading scheme; this is an ineffective emissions trading scheme!".