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New global carbon trading market could be held hostage by speculators

Credit: Pixabay on Pexels The future of our planet is in jeopardy as greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels continue unabated. Treating these emissions as something that can be owned and exchanged on the market has been touted as a solution since the early 1990s, when United Nations negotiations to agree to limits on global warming began. In the…