Carbon trading is a crock at the end of a sepia rainbow

A SURVEY OF 340 people at UK organisations with over 1,000 employees shows nearly half of them think so called "carbon trading" is a confusing initiative.

And 24 per cent think "carbon bargaining" is a poorly conceived idea which hangs like a smoke screen over the root causes of changes in climate.

The survey, conducted by Loudhouse Research on behalf of paper firm M-Real and Kyocera, revealed 27 per cent hadn't a clue what carbon trading was at all.

When you look at the pecking order, company directors show more cynicism about "carbon trading" than junior people in their firms.

Kyocera marketing director, Tracey Rawling Church, said that any idea that organisations can "buy the right to pollute or assuage corporate guilt by planting some trees" was a smoke screen. She said the goal should be reducing emissions. µ

* ANY CHANCE the government could ban cars? Trying to have a quiet fag outside a pub in Smoke Free Britain these days is ruined by diesel and petrol fumes creating the repetitive sound of coughing all round.

** WE'VE BEEN to Kyocera's printer ink facility in Japan. This is a tall building which is essentially a chimney producing soot which is then processed into ink for cartridges. But to look on the bright side, we also visited Kyocera's solar panel factory.