碳交易的故事TheStoryofCapandTrade资料来源Annotated.DOCVIP

碳交易的故事(The Story of Cap and Trade) 資料來源：Annotated Script of Story of Cap Trade：/capandtrade/_images/pdfs/annie_leonard_footnoted_script.pdf 主講人：Annie Leonard 字幕翻譯：蠻野心足協會 註解翻譯：看守台灣協會 I am so glad that the world is finally1 getting together to try to stop climate change. When I first heard that our leaders were meeting to talk about solutions, I breathed a huge sigh of relief. Didn’t you? Then I said, wait a minute. What exactly are they planning to do about this problem? So I looked into it. And I gotta tell you, not all the solutions they’re working on are what I’d call solutions. In fact, the leading solution, known as cap and trade - or emissions trading - is actually a huge problem.2 Now I know this is the last thing you want to hear, but the future of our planet is at stake, so we gotta take the time to understand what’s going on here. Okay, meet the guys at the heart of this so-called solution. They include the guys from Enron3 who designed energy trading, and the Wall Street financiers like Goldman Sachs4 who gave us the subprime mortgage crisis. Their job is to develop brand new markets. They stake their claims and then when everyone and their grandmother wants in, they make off with huge amounts of money as the market becomes a giant bubble and then bursts. Well their latest bubble just burst and now they’ve got a new idea for a market – trading carbon pollution. They’re about to develop a new $3 trillion bubble5, but when this one bursts, it won’t just take down our stock portfolios, it could take down everything! So how does cap and trade work? Well, pretty much all serious scientists agree that we need to reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere to 350 ppm if we want to avoid climate disaster6. In the U.S., that means reducing our emission by 80% – maybe even more – by 2050. 80%!7 Now the problem is that most of our global economy runs on burning fossil fuels, which releases carbon: the factories that make all our stuff, the ships and trucks that ca