Russia Picks an Odd Time to Put on Climate Halo
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How do you prevent a jump in your carbon pollution? Don't invade anybody.
Take Russia. At a meeting yesterday of 200 or so national climate negotiators in Bonn, Russia’s Oleg Shamanov said his country wanted to launch a market for trading carbon pollution credits. The sooner the country can gain experience in a domestic cap-and-trade system, he said, the sooner it can link up to carbon markets in other countries or regions.