Balancing the climate change issue with sustainable energy and the threat of carbon shortage is no easy task for South Africa, but carbon trading might just help.

Africa can do better than invest faith and state resources in yet another Ponzi scheme — the ‘privatisation of the air’.

Over 100 civil society organizations from Africa and around the world sent a letter earlier this week to African negotiators attending the UN global climate talks in Durban, calling for them to reject efforts to place agricultural soils within a carbon market.

Governments and corporations will gather in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2007, to plot a way forward on climate change.