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UN go ahead for carbon offsetting may cause climate upsetting

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The UN has decided to join carbon offsetting adopted by many developed countries to decrease in carbon emissions. Under the Kyoto arrangement, a definite goal was set for reduction of carbon emissions. But, not willing to mutilate their economic growth by dissecting industries under stringent norms, the developed countries preferred for carbon offsetting. The UN under whose stewardship Kyoto and Montreal summits were organized is now going to be carbon neutral by adopting this process.

Kyoto Protocol vines for various methods to cut down carbon emission by the nation states. The most controversial clause is the carbon offsetting. It involves two methods- first is carbon credit earning and secondly, going for carbon neutral norm.

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Carbon offsetting under the carbon credit-earning scheme requires the industrialised nations and the private companies there to pay for emission reduceing projects in the developing world to get carbon credits, called CERs, to fullfill their own emissions targets at home. Under the carbon neutral norm, the industrialized nations and the big corporate houses have to follow the recognized and novel practices to balance carbon dioxide released by them into the atmosphere. Such methods include carbon filtering from the atmosphere by the process of sequestering, use of renewable energy and embarking on plantation programme to bring net carbon emissions to zero.

The carbon offsetting scheme envisaged in the Kyoto protocol is already under fire. Many green activists and environmental groups including WWF, a UN sponsored agency and Green Peace, the most famous fighter for saving the earth, are at the forefront of criticism. The proposal is a deterrent to research and development of Clean Development Mechanism like going for technologies that support less carbon emmission to the atmosphere and green energy supply to the poorest nations. Many nations and corporate houss are falsely earning carbon credits by showing emissions reductions. The developing and underdeveloped world in the need of outside finace is an easy prey to developed countries for carbon offsetting.

The carbon offsetting is not a panacea for reducing carbon emissions. There is hardly any reduction in the carbon released to the atmosphere. At the same time it is shunting the economic growth of the developing world. The hydra headed global warming is on the rise and climate change is offing. The UN decision to go for carbon offsetting through the process of carbon neutrality is only encoraging the defaulters of Kyoto protocol. The real issue of global warming is being ignored and gree energy plan for the poor nations remains in pare only.

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Via: Reuters

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