Everyone blithely signed on to the EU's flagship emissions-trading scheme. But France and Germany then gave their industries so many permits to pollute that they undermined the entire scheme.

每个国家都在排污权交易这一欧盟的旗舰性计划上欣然签字，但法国和德国却给予其企业太多的污染排放许可，使得整个计划徒有虚名。