Guyana criticizes carbon credit scheme of Kyoto Protocol - (Dude, it's all about the money)

brietbart.com ^ | 7/12/07 | brietbart.com

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday criticized the Kyoto Protocol on climate change for failing to allow countries like his nation with pristine unharvested forests to earn carbon credits.

"The Kyoto Protocol is limited in that sense, and it's short-sighted in that it encourages bad behaviour basically among countries; if you cut down trees and you plant them back you get money, if you preserve them, you don't get anything," Jagdeo told a forum on agro-energy.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

I did a title search and didn't see this posted. If it's a duplicate, I apologize..

[rocksblues]

Amazing a Russian trained leader sees the problem with Global Warming activists plan for control of his country.

RFK Jr. would like to silence this skeptic.

[TexGuy]

... if you preserve them, you don't get anything, ...

Translation: I'm angry about Kyoto because I won't get any money if I just sit on my butt and don't do anything

[ndt]

"Translation: I'm angry about Kyoto because I won't get any money if I just sit on my butt and don't do anything"

Well he's right. Assuming for the sake of argument the whole G.W. thing is real and carbon credits are supposed to offset it. In that scenario, setting them up they way described is nonsensical as ti provided an incentive to cut down you forest just so you can replant them.

It's a bad implementation of a bad idea.