BERLIN (Commodity Online): Can prostitutes help combat global warming? At least they can help the delegates of Copenhagen in December how to reduce carbon emissions.

Agencies have reported that a brothel in Prenzlauer Berg in East Berlin is offering discounts to customers who pedal bicycles to the door and show bicycle padlock key as a proof to avail the discount. Unfortunately, the scheme is not available for those who walk in as the receptionist have no mechanism to ascertain they have really walked.

The aim of this discount, however, is not to combat global warming unlike the Copenhagen meet, which intends to change agreement that will replace the Kyoto Protocol after its 2012 expiration.

This discount, according to brother owners is to get back their old clientele which faded with economic crisis. Moreover the area is so congested that there is hardly any parking space available similar to the gas emissions that is parked in the atmosphere. As far as Copenhagen is concerned, rich nations of the world need to commit to an 80–90 percent reduction in emissions by 2050, with an initial goal of 25–40 percent by 2020.

So the brothels – prostitution is legal in this part of the world with same legal rights and social benefits to prostitutes – have found a way of not only tackling parking woes but also environmental protection and also to boost their business.

The customers are pledging they have liked the idea unlike the rich nations which aren’t pledging anywhere near the needed amount, with Norway committed to just 30 percent, and the United States still grappling with a climate bill in the Senate.

With China and India claiming they won’t commit to higher-level reductions because of poverty, the prostitutes of Germany may show a better way for the world to have a hand on the globe’s most serious issue.