Critic of carbon trading

An international expert critical of "carbon trading" as a means of reducing greenhouse gases will speak in Rochester on Jan. 31.
Larry Lohmann is editor of the book "Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power." He is a founding member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice in Durban, South Africa.
He is touring the United States now to describe failures of carbon trading in Europe, India, Brazil, Uganda and elsewhere, and to learn more about U.S. carbon-trading plans and climate politics.
Lohmann will speak at 11 a.m. in the board room at the city-county Government Center, 201 Fourth St. S.E., Rochester; and at 7 p.m. in room 110 in Singley Hall, on the University Center-Rochester campus. The appearances are open to the public, and there is no admission charge.
Sponsoring organizations will present information at booths outside Lohmann's 7 p.m. speech. The booths open at 6:30 p.m.
Lohmann criticizes carbon trading, the primary mechanism for reducing greenhouse gases under the Kyoto Protocol, as having failed to significantly reduce those emissions, and failing to meet certain standards of social justice.