Countries launch carbon trading market (AP) / Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Countries launch carbon trading market (AP)

October 31, 2007

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Norwegian explorer Borge Ousland is shown leaving Berkner Island in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, in this November 15, 1996 handout file photo. Trips over ice to the North Pole may be impossible in summer in just a decade or two because of global warming, Ousland said on Wednesday. (Handout/Reuters)AP - Senior officials from the European Union, three U.S. states, Canada, Norway and New Zealand launched an international effort Monday to fight climate change by building a global carbon trading market.