Carbon Hunters

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Carbon Hunters delves into the controversial, little-understood, yet booming industry of carbon credit trading. Sometimes called emissions trading, carbon offset, or cap-and-trade, it's a market-driven solution that puts a fixed price on pollution, allowing those who pollute to pay and those who don't to profit. It may be a potentially workable mechanism towards solving what most people now acknowledge as the greatest crisis facing the planet: global warming. Hear from supporters like influential Canadian Maurice Strong, who feels that carbon trading is currently our most effective solution, and detractors like Kevin Smith of Carbon Trade Watch. From B.C. to India, the Canadian Prairies, London, Chicago, Philippines and Hollywood, get an in-depth look at a market worth $100 billion and climbing.