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The Eiffel Tower and the anguish of carbon markets

I’m sitting in the 11th annual “Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading” at the International Energy Agency in Paris. 100 very smart people from all over the world, sitting around a huge oval table in a slightly-too-warm, wood-paneled conference room across the road from the Eiffel Tower (yes, I’m looking at it now, so excitingly close!).