"The Carbon Rush travels across four continents and brings us up close to the realities of carbon trading and the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism. Based on the groundbreaking documentary of the same name, The Carbon Rush focuses on the real meaning of the carbon trading system, where countries can buy and sell each other's carbon emissions and carbon credits are traded like stocks. These stocks are then often used to bankroll huge industrial operations, many of which are ravaging both the world's poor and their environments." --from book jacket.