• DocumentCode
    1205586
  • Title

    A blagger´s guide to carbon trading - [Power carbon trading]

  • Author

    Lewis, Dan

  • Volume
    3
  • Issue
    21
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    46
  • Lastpage
    47
  • Abstract
    The man-made emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are believed to be responsible for the small amount of global warming. The fear is that these emissions might accelerate global warming into something much worse. Carbon trading is putting a price on carbon and creating a cost to its emission thus creating an incentive not to do so. If a limit is set on carbon emissions and issue carbon permits to trade, i.e. the right to emit carbon, then it creates commercial flexibility for companies that they can either reduce carbon and fulfil their quota or, if they can´t afford that, buy permits from those firms that have reduced more than their required amount. The greatest problem of carbon dioxide is that it does not consider energy security.
  • Keywords
    air pollution; carbon compounds; environmental economics; global warming; CO2; carbon dioxide emission; carbon trading; energy security; global warming;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Engineering & Technology
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    1750-9637
  • Type

    jour

  • Filename
    4805173