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Protesters against carbon trading target ECX


Climate change protesters are expected to gather today outside the European Climate Exchange, near Liverpool Street station in central London. The protesters are criticising the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, which allows companies to trade permits to emit carbon dioxide.

Peter McDonnell, a spokesperson for the pressure group Climate Camp, which is organising the protest, said there were “a number of issues that make the [EU ETS] system fundamentally unreformable”.

He said the group...

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