Carbon gold rush and carbon cowboys: a new chapter in green mythology?

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Carbon gold rush and carbon cowboys: a new chapter in green mythology?

Individual and collective efforts to mitigate climate change in the form of carbon offsetting and emissions trading schemes have recently become the focus of much media attention. In this paper we explore a subset of the UK national press coverage centered on such schemes. The articles, selected fro...

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Main Authors:	Nerlich, Brigitte, Koteyko, Nelya
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2010
Subjects:	carbon offsetting emissions trading gold rush cowboys metaphors frames
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1243/

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