Zur Kritik des Emissionsrechtehandel
Verfasst von entdinglichung am März 24, 2008
Eine Kritik des Emissionsrechtehandels (Carbon Trading) des belgischen Marxisten Daniel Tanuro, gefunden auf der Homepage des International Viewpoint:
Carbon Trading - an Ecosocialist Critique
Daniel Tanuro
This contribution identifies 5 fundamental reasons why carbon trading is inadequate for the struggle against Climate Change. It focuses in particular on the European Emission Trading System (EU-ETS) but most of the conclusions are generally applicable.
1. Carbon trading is a source of windfall profits for polluting sectors. They invest little or none of that profit in low carbon technologies, and instead try to slow or delay the implementation of climate policy. The over-allocation of quotas in the phase 1 of the EU-ETS provided the steel sector a windfall profit of 480 million Euros at the end of 2005. In the same period, RWE, a German utility, made a huge profit of 1.8 billion Euros. Even the oil businesses made windfall profits: Esso (£10 million), BP (£17.9 million), Shell (£20.7 million).
Little or none of these windfall profits were invested, in low carbon te