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Carbon's Future King.(Periscope; Fast Chat)(Interview)(Brief article)

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Byline: Jesse Ellison

The Chicago climate Exchange is the world's first voluntary carbon credit market. Members get credits for reducing emissions and buy them if they fall short of pledged goals. NEWSWEEK's Jesse Ellison talked to its founder, Richard Sandor. Excerpts:

ELLISON: Everyone assumes the United States lags the rest of the world in cutting emissions. True?

SANDOR: Europe's not as far ahead as people think and America's not as far behind -- Our baseline is 550 million tons, Europe's is 2 billion, so actually we're 25 percent the size of Europe.

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