CO2 emission rights a hot Christmas gift for green Swedes

0 Comments | AFP, December, 2005

STOCKHOLM (AFP) — The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SNF) has announced it is offering last-minute Christmas shoppers the chance to buy carbon dioxide emission rights in order to block polluting companies from doing so.

"We think that the emission rights (within the EU) are too generous and we just want to use our power as consumers to buy these rights ... in order to reduce emissions," the head of the organisation, Svante Axelsson, told AFP Thursday.

On January 1, the EU launched a system that enables companies which have not used up all their "polluting rights" to sell them to companies which have exceeded their limit.

The sale of emission rights is open to the public, a fact which has not escaped SNF.

The group is giving the public the...

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