What the carbon market has to say about carbon markets

LAST week, I had a conversation with Shidan Gouran, the chairman and one of the co-founders of Canada-based Bluesphere Carbon, a relatively new carbon credit exchange that at first glance may look like any of the other dozens of carbon trading platforms that have materialized around the world in the past two or three years.

As the old cliché goes, however, looks can be deceiving; if other carbon exchanges were as self-aware as this one, the carbon economy would be the legitimate driver of progress it's supposed to be.