$60bn, WWF hopes to find money on the trees
Post date: Mar 23, 2010 2:43:58 PM
Amazon area 2xSwitzerland, make $60bnIf the world’s largest, richest environmental campaigning group, the WWF – formerly the World Wildlife Fund – announced that it was playing a leading role in a scheme to preserve an area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of SwitzerlandIf it then emerged, however, that a hidden agenda of the scheme to preserve this chunk of the forest was to allow the WWF and its partners to share the selling of carbon credits worth $60 billion, to enable firms in the industrial world to carry on emitting CO2 just as beforeWWF, which already earns $600 million yearly, much of it contributed by governments and taxpayers,
source: telegraph.co.uk
C02 profits for WWF but no CO2 down, why ?
C02 profits for WWF but no CO2 down, why ?
The carbon credits scheme would make WWF and its partners much richer, but with no lowering of overall CO2 emissions
The carbon credits scheme would make WWF and its partners much richer, but with no lowering of overall CO2 emissions
