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Author : Gurmit Singh
Publisher : Aditya Books Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Atmospheric carbon dioxide
ISBN : 9788185353616
Author : Ricardo Bayon,Amanda Hawn,Katherine Hamilton
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849773720
The world carbon market is growing at a staggering rate with trading volumes into the tens of billions of dollars and approaching a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. The growth prospects for business are enormous and the potential positive impacts for greenhouse gas emission reductions, climate policy options, renewable energy investment, development projects and efficiency gains are increasingly apparent.A key part of the market in greenhouse gas emissions is the rapidly growing voluntary carbon market driven by companies, organizations and individuals committed to efficiency, profitability and rapid action on climate change. HSBC, Volvo, Avis, Ricoh and American Express are but a few of the many companies now offsetting their greenhouse gas emissions and becoming 'carbon neutral', fuelling an international voluntary carbon market that is growing exponentially. This groundbreaking business book, written in a fast-paced journalistic style, draws together all the key information on international voluntary carbon markets with commentary from leading practitioners and business people. The voluntary market is complex, fragmented and multi-layered, but it is beginning to consolidate around a few guiding practices and business models from which conclusions can be drawn about market direction and opportunities.The book covers all aspects of voluntary carbon markets around the world: what they are, how they work and, most critically, their business potential to help slow climate change. It is the indispensable guide for anyone seeking to understand voluntary carbon markets and capitalize on the opportunities they present for economic and environmental benefit. If you want to be ahead of the curve for the next big thing, you need this book.
Author : Arnaud Brohé,Nick Eyre,Nicholas Howarth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136570223
Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010 award. This book is a comprehensive and accessible guide to understanding the opportunities offered by regulated and voluntary carbon markets for tackling climate change. Coverage includes: - An overview of the problem of climate change, with a concise review of the most recent scientific evidence in different fields - A highly accessible introduction to the economic theory and different constitutive elements of a carbon allowances market - Explanation of the Kyoto Protocol and its flexibility mechanisms - Explanation of how the EU Emissions Trading Scheme works in practice - Ongoing developments in regulated carbon markets in the US - Up-to-the-minute coverage of regulated carbon markets in Australia - Developments in New Zealand and Japan - Carbon offsetting and voluntary carbon markets. Combining theoretical aspects with practical applications, this book is for business leaders, financiers, carbon traders, lawyers, bankers, researchers, policy makers and anyone interested in market mechanisms to mitigate climate change. The carbon emissions resulting from the production of this book have been calculated, reduced and offset to render the bookcarbon neutral. Published with CO2 Neutral
Author : Gareth Bryant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108421737
Explores what went wrong with global carbon markets and what this means for future climate change policy and capitalism.
Author : Michiel Arnoldus,Roger Bymolt
Publisher : Kit Pub
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Carbon dioxide mitigation
ISBN : 9460221823
Setting up a social and environmentally sustainable business is hard work. Most entrepreneurs struggle to raise investment capital and make a small profit. Carbon credits can be a welcome source of additional revenue for those businesses and projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But where do you start? Practical information that is easy to apply to your specific situation is hard to find. The information you can find is often either too general, or full of complicated terminology. Hiring an expert is risky without an indication of whether you will be able to earn the money back. As a result many entrepreneurs are discouraged and never properly explore the possibilities of carbon credits, or get stuck somewhere in the process. This book is a beginner s guide for entrepreneurs who want to assess whether they can generate additional revenue with carbon credits. It provides a concise overview of the basics of carbon credits with a minimum of jargon, and illustrated with practical examples from real cases. Topics include: What are carbon credits? What are the basic requirements for a business or project to produce carbon credits? Where and how are they sold? What are the current prices and what influences these? Who are the different players in the industry, and what do they do? What are the different steps in the development of a carbon offset project? How do I choose a certification standard? How can I estimate the amount of carbon credits and revenue I can generate? This book addresses these questions in a way that is relevant to a wide variety of project types. Particular attention is given to the challenges of smaller projects in developing countries as well as forestry, agroforestry and biofuel projects."
Author : Danny Cullenward,David G. Victor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509544943
For decades, the world’s governments have struggled to move from talk to action on climate. Many now hope that growing public concern will lead to greater policy ambition, but the most widely promoted strategy to address the climate crisis – the use of market-based programs – hasn’t been working and isn’t ready to scale. Danny Cullenward and David Victor show how the politics of creating and maintaining market-based policies render them ineffective nearly everywhere they have been applied. Reforms can help around the margins, but markets’ problems are structural and won’t disappear with increasing demand for climate solutions. Facing that reality requires relying more heavily on smart regulation and industrial policy – government-led strategies – to catalyze the transformation that markets promise, but rarely deliver.
Author : Pete Newell,Max Boykoff,Emily Boyd
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118315941
The New Carbon Economy provides a critical understanding of the carbon economy. It offers key insights into the constitution, governance and effects of the carbon economy, across a variety of geographical settings. Examines different dimensions of the carbon economy from a range of disciplinary angles in a diversity of settings Provides ways for researchers to subject claims of newness and uniqueness to critical scrutiny Historicizes claims of the 'newness' of the carbon economy Covers a range of geographical settings including Europe, the US and Central America
Author : Radha Purswani
Publisher : SBS Publishers
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Carbon
ISBN : 8131427080
CONTENTS: Demystifying Carbon Trading: The Market Based Mechanism; An Insight into Carbon Trading: Understanding the Behavior of Emissions Market with a Financial Perspective; Carbon Credits - An Introduction; The Voluntary Carbon Market: Current & Future Market Status, and Implications for Development Benefits; Getting Carbon Offsets Right: A Business Brief on Engaging Offset Providers; Carbon Trading : Theory and Practice; The Carbon Credits Price Dynamics in Evolving Carbon Markets; The Value of Carbon Credits: Is there a Final Answer?; Carbon Funds: In the Driver's Seat; Personal Carbon Trading: The Idea, its Development and Design; Emissions Trading Versus CO2 Taxes; Auctioning of CO2 Emission Allowances in the EU ETS; The UK Emissions Trading Scheme; Improving Environmental Quality Through Carbon Trading; The Problem of Maintaining Emission "Caps" in Carbon Trading Programs: Without Federal Government Involvement - A Brief Examination of the Chicago Climate Exchange and the Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; Carbon Trading in the US: The Hibernating Giant; Carbon Trading in India: An Insider's View.
Author : Kathleen Leonard
Publisher : diplom.de
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783836625944
Inhaltsangabe:Introduction: Climate change represents an ongoing threat, not only since it attracted growing media attention in recent years. Therefore, scientists urge to reduce the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in order to prevent most disastrous consequences. One method, chosen by the international community to achieve this reduction and therewith mitigate global warming, is via the establishment of so called carbon markets. Most famous example is probably the European Emissions Trade System (EU ETS), where pollution allowances can be exchanged among actors. The reduction then is achieved by the setting of a ceiling or cap by authorities. Besides, there are also voluntary carbon markets where actors aim at reducing emissions with self-imposed targets. Objective of this paper will be to elucidate this unregulated market for carbon commodities and understand its functioning. Since voluntary carbon trading was largely criticised for a lack of quality and transparency, methods to overcome such weaknesses shall be presented and evaluated as well. Beginning with an overview of different systems of carbon trading, the reader will subsequently learn about existing and emerging carbon markets, their characteristics and performance. Notably compliance and non-mandatory schemes will be distinguished. Juxtaposition will allow for evaluating strengths and weaknesses of both systems. For gaining an understanding of the supply chain in the voluntary carbon market and comprehend underlying motivations, a presentation of market players will follow in the second chapter. Based on market actors motives, a model for high quality carbon commodities will be established in the third part, whereby criticism is also taken into account. An examination of instruments to enhance quality and to overcome shortcomings of non-mandatory markets will be examined in the following. The fourth chapter will provide an evaluation of and an outlook on the beforehand discussed quality mechanisms. Additionally, different scenarios will be developed in order to predict the future of voluntary carbon trading. Inhaltsverzeichnis:Table of Contents: Acknowledgementsii Executive Summaryiii Table of Figuresx Table of Boxesxi Abbreviations and Acronymsxi Introduction1 1.An Overview of Existing Carbon Markets2 1.1Regulated Markets4 1.1.1The Kyoto Protocol4 1.1.2European Emissions Trading Scheme6 1.1.3Other Planned Trading Schemes under the Kyoto [...]
Author : Eric Marland,Grant Domke,Jason Hoyle,Gregg Marland,Laurel Bates,Alex Helms,Benjamin Jones,Tamara Kowalczyk,Tatyana B. Ruseva,Celina Szymanski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319524344
This book is a product of the initial phase of a broader study evaluating the voluntary and regulatory compliance protocols that are used to account for the contributions of forests in U.S.-based greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation programs. The research presented here is particularly concerned with these protocols’ use of the USDA Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data to describe forest conditions, ownership, and management scenarios, and is oriented towards providing regulators and other interested parties with an objective comparison of the options, uncertainties, and opportunities available to offset GHG emissions through forest management. Chapters focus on the protocols for recognizing forest carbon offsets in the California carbon cap-and-trade program, as described in the Compliance Offset Protocol; U.S. Forest Projects (California Air Resources Board, 2011). Readers will discover the protocols used for quantifying the offset of GHG emissions through forest-related project activity. As such, its scope includes a review of the current methods used in voluntary and compliance forest protocols, an evaluation of the metrics used to assign baselines and determine additionality in the forest offset protocols, an examination of key quantitative and qualitative components and assumptions, and a discussion of opportunities for modifying forest offset protocols, in light of the rapidly changing GHG-related policy and regulatory environment. Finally, the report also discusses accounting and policy issues that create potential barriers to participation in the California cap-and-trade program, and overall programmatic additionality in addressing the needs of a mitigation strategy.
Author : Arild Angelsen,Caroline Wang Gierløff,Angelica Mendoza Beltrán,Michel den Elzen
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789289328005
How can REDD credits be included in a future global carbon market, and what are the impacts of inclusion? We analyze ten different scenarios through 2020, varying the global emission caps and the REDD rules. An inclusion of REDD credits without any adjustments in the global cap will lower carbon prices significantly and cause crowding out. The cap must move towards the 2 degrees climate target if REDD inclusion is to maintain high carbon prices and strong incentives for emissions reductions in other sectors. At the same time, reaching the 2 degree target without full REDD inclusion will increase global mitigation costs by more than 50%.
Author : Nadaa Taiyab
Publisher : IIED
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Emissions trading
ISBN : 9781843695820
Explores the potential for financing small-scale high-benefit sustainable development projects through the voluntary and retail sector of the carbon market.
Author : Arnaud Brohé
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351285148
Carbon Accounting is a vital tool in enabling organisations to measure and report on their greenhouse gas emissions. As the need to respond to the causes and impacts of climate change becomes increasingly urgent, emissions calculations and inventories are a vital first step towards mastering climatic risk. The Handbook of Carbon Accounting offers an accessible and comprehensive presentation of the discipline. The book examines the different methods or instruments implemented by countries and companies – such as carbon taxation, carbon markets and voluntary offsetting – while revealing how these stem not simply from the aim of reducing emissions for the lowest cost, but more as a compromise between divergent interests and individual world views. It also explores the historical context of the emergence of carbon accounting, assessing its evolution since the Rio Conference in 1992 and the signing of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, to the latest Conference of Parties in 2015 in Paris.The book concludes with a very practical guide to calculate, reduce, offset and disclose your carbon footprint.Like other management tools, carbon accounting may not be an exact science, but its contribution has never been more important. The Handbook of Carbon Accounting is a vital educational resource that will help readers – including those with no prior knowledge of the field – to understand carbon flows and stocks and to take action. It forms part of a movement that heralds the start of a new economic era in which the search for prosperity can live in harmony with the environment.
Author : T. Tamminen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230116702
Holds critical information that is needed by anyone who wants to understand how to make money from 'green' technology and how to avoid investments that will soon suffer from hidden carbon liabilities. Readers will learn to de-code a crucial component of this new economic driver - carbon credits, the world's first common currency.
Author : Felicia Jackson
Publisher : New Holland Publishers Uk Limited
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Carbon dioxide
ISBN : NWU:35556039112719
As the international community works towards a new climate agreement as a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, it is essential that individuals start to understand and take responsibility for their own carbon footprints. Conquering Carbon provides a clear analysis of the role of carbon in our economy and the direct effects of our actions on it.
