一心追求环保的企业和个人已经在“碳信用”项目上花费了大量资金，然而，这些项目带来的环境益处却寥寥无几。
Companies and individuals rushing to go green have been spending millions on “carbon credit” projects that are yielding few if any environmental benefits.
英国《金融时报》进行的一项调查发现，新兴的温室气体市场普遍存在失败。这表明，一些组织正在为并不存在的减排行动埋单。
An FT investigation has uncovered widespread failings in the new markets for greenhouse gases, suggesting some organisations are paying for emissions reductions that do not take place.
与此同时，另一些组织在碳交易中以非常微小的支出赚取了巨大的利润。在某些情况下，它们拿出来交换的，是它们无论如何都要进行的清理工作。
Others are meanwhile making big profits from carbon trading for very small expenditure and in some cases for clean-ups that they would have made anyway.
环境政治的政治色彩日益增强，引发了一场“环保淘金潮”。在这一大潮中，从事碳交易的公司数量急剧增加，它们向企业和个人提供达到“碳中和(carbon neutral)”机会，让这些企业和个人通过购买碳信用来抵消它们的能源使用，抵偿它们对全球变暖造成的影响。
The growing political salience of environmental politics has sparked a “green gold rush” which has seen a dramatic expansion in the number of businesses offering both companies and individuals the chance to go “carbon neutral”, offsetting their own energy use by buying carbon credits that cancel out their contribution to global warming.
受到监管的碳信用市场方兴未艾，预计在2010之前，规模将增长一倍多，达到682亿美元左右。而不受监管的自发市场届时也将增至40亿美元。
The burgeoning regulated market for carbon credits is expected to more than double in size to about $68.2bn (
发表于 2007-4-26 23:14:52