Carbon Trading

The Effect of Carbon Trading on Poor and Developing Countries

Developed nations have an interest in emissions trading schemes, because they need a way to give incentives to companies to decrease CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions. What about the effect on developing countries though? Can poorer nations benefit from trading carbon credits with their richer, generally more-polluting, counterparts? read more

Potential Buyers and Sellers of Carbon Credits

When we talk about the carbon trading market, we’re obviously going to have both buyers and sellers of carbon credits or permits. But who exactly are these buyers and sellers likely to be? read more

How to Cope with Higher Energy Prices by Decreasing Your Carbon Footprint

With cost of living increases expected as a result of Australia’s carbon trading scheme, consumers are going to have an added incentive to cut down on their individual and family energy and fuel costs. Here are a few things you can do right now to start saving money no matter how high prices go: read more

How Carbon Trading Can Lead to Cost of Living Increases

One of the biggest objections to carbon trading is the expectation that the cost of carbon permits will cause a trickle-down effect to consumers, raising the cost of living. This will be seen in price increases for common goods – from fuel to luxury items. read more

Global Challenges and Concerns About Carbon Trading

Carbon trading schemes are designed to do good – to help the environment (and therefore world economies) through decreased greenhouse gas emissions. However, much as global warming is still debated amongst experts, so are these benefits of emissions trading programmes. Here are a few common concerns, from the ethics behind carbon trading to economic changes and rising costs of living, and challenges governments have faced so far in making these programmes successful. read more

Expected Growth of the Carbon Trading Market

The carbon trading market (the buying and selling of carbon credits or permits) is a relatively new commodity market. That doesn’t mean it should be overlooked. The carbon market is actually expected to become the largest commodity market in the world in a relatively short period of time.

To be more precise, the Executive Director of Carbon Planet has predicted carbon to become the largest commodity market by as soon at 2012, being worth over US$100 billion by 2010. read more

Last updated 22 September 2008