Do you have a couple of minutes off ? Learn something about how Cap & Trade works

The figures and numbers about emission reductions, be it in percent or the amount of gigatonnes carbon, are sometimes hard to understand.  The system of Cap & Trade was introduced in the Kyoto Protocoll in 1997 as a so-called "flexible mechanism" to tackle climate change and to put the idea of emission reductions in a formal framework.

There is a nice animation from the producers of "stuff" explaining the functioning of the Cap & Trade. So if you have a couple of minutes off, visit the website http://storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/ and learn how the mechanisms proposed by global policy works to reduce carbon emissions to the atmosphere.