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Burning Season

September 22, 2008 3:57 PM

In Indonesia, rainforests the size of 300 soccer fields are mowed down and burned every hour. The fires that farmers set to clear their land make Indonesia the world's third largest emitter of carbon dioxide (greenhouse gas) - exceeded only by the U.S. and China. Meanwhile, young "dot-com" millionaire Dorjee Sun believes he's found a solution.

Meanwhile, young "dot-com" millionaire Dorjee Sun believes he's found a solution. In the boardrooms of Starbucks to eBay to Merrill Lynch, Sun canvasses the world, pitching the idea of selling Indonesia's carbon credits to polluters in the West.

Comments

Fel wrote:

October 7, 2008 3:40 AM

I hoped to read the comments made by other viewers of this documentary, as there were many responses to the PBS screening of this film here in the USA (see link below). I can't see the responses anywhere... is there a link available to the discussion, or haven't any responses been posted yet?
Thanks.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/burning-season/introduction/1627/

Victoria Shymlosky wrote:

October 7, 2008 12:02 PM

"Burning Season" doc on carbon trading was a heartening look at finding viable economic solutions to deal with climate change, pollution, waste, destruction of forests world wide and the reduction of C02 emissions. The Carbon Trading Market is a great idea but needs to have the proper legal framework and regulations to prevent the type of financial catastrophe now facing global markets with the sub prime mortgage mess, unregulated financial market system fallout. The fact that entrepeneur Dorjee Sun and unlikely government allies want to bring communities onside is crucial to carbon trading being a success from the ground up. Canada needs to put the carbon trading concept along with real defined levels of conservation in place to protect our forests. The fact at the Bali Convention on the Environment many world leaders recognized forests, and other natural habitats as vital natural reservoirs of carbon sequestration is a big step in the right direction. Protection of the world's forests from degradation is necessary to deal with climate change, mass extinctions of other living organisms, global pollution and waste despite the current USA government's attitude.

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