Vol. 29 No. 7 dated 5 April 2007
The Political Economy of Carbon Trading http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n07/mack01_.html
Donald MacKenzie
Universities contain rooms and buildings that academics never enter, such as boiler houses. At my university, Edinburgh, some of the meters in these boiler houses now have two roles: as well as determining our gas bills, they measure, indirectly, our emissions of carbon dioxide. The meters have become part of the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme, and thus are part of a microcosm of what may become a worldwide carbon market. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n07/mack01_.html