At a get-together in Los Angeles on July 31st, Tony Blair, Britain's prime minister, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, resolved to investigate the use of market mechanisms to combat global warming. But many of their compatriots are already busily (and sometimes voluntarily) buying and selling emissions of the greenhouse gases that are heating up the planet. This has created a new, fast-growing and controversial industry: emissions offsetting.
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