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Mark Schapiro is a Senior Correspondent for the Center for Investigative Reporting with a focus on environmental and international affairs.  He has authored several articles about the international carbon market, and a book titled Exposed (Chelsea Green) that was published in 2007.  He has also published various stories with Frontline/World’s Carbon Watch series, which was recently nominated for a Webby award.  His recent article in Harper’s magazine titled “Conning the Climate” takes the reader “inside the carbon-trading shell game.”Mark Schapiro has also written for The Nation, Mother Jones and The Atlantic Monthly.  He stopped by the Africa Reporting Project to talk carbon trading, what it is, and why we should all be paying attention to it right now.