Dubious science and the destructive impacts of projects upon local peoples and environments as reasons why trading pollution allowances should be avoided. In its place they advocate making reductions at the source of pollution and energy policies that are 9L0 509 justice-based and community-driven.Most of the criticisms have been focused on the carbon market created through investment in Kyoto Mechanisms. Criticism of 'cap and trade' emissions trading has generally been more limited to lack of credibility in the first phase of the EU ETS.
Critics argue that emissions trading does little to solve pollution problems overall, as groups that do not pollute sell their conservation to the highest bidder. Overall reductions would need to come from a sufficient and challenging reduction of 9L0 402 allowances available in the system. It is possible that this would occur over time through central regulation, though some environmental groups acted more immediately by buying credits and refusing to use or sell them
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