Rod Oram on Forestry's complexities on carbon trading

here.
sounds like a pretty good summary to me. build a carbon market and let the money flows figure out the solutions, it's bound to be more efficient that letting politicians and lobby groups horse-trade for special lenience.
oh, and BTW a hydrocarbon free economy is a stupid thing to aim for, carbon neutral is just fine - it encompasses electrical systems, biofuels, nuclear and, blech, hydrogen without dictating the solution.
Repeat after me people "hydrogen is great if we can solve 3 eeny weeny little problems: how to make it, how to distribute it and how to use it while simultaneously dismantling a 100 year old system of hydrocarbon distribution and use"