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Interpol issues guide to prevent carbon trading crime

By Take Two Staff
Published Aug 15, 2013
The smoke stacks at American Electric Power's (AEP) Mountaineer coal power plant in New Haven, West Virginia, October 30, 2009. In cooperation with AEP, the French company Alstom unveiled the world's largest carbon capture facility at a coal plant, so called "clean coal," which will store around 100,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide a year 2,1 kilometers (7,200 feet) underground.
The smoke stacks at American Electric Power's (AEP) Mountaineer coal power plant in New Haven, West Virginia, October 30, 2009.
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Interpol issues guide to prevent carbon trading crime

Internationally, the carbon trading market has become one of the biggest commodities markets in the world. It's estimated to be worth about $175 billion dollars, which makes it a major target for crime.

So much so that Interpol, the international police force, has just issued a guide to carbon trading crime. Here to tell us more is Davyth Stewart, an intelligence officer in the Environmental Crime unit of Interpol.

Interpol's Guide to Carbon Trading Crime