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.