Personal carbon trading

Emissions trading schemes (also known as ‘cap and trade’ schemes) are one of the policy instruments available for reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases. Personal carbon ...

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Carbon emissions trading

Carbon emissions trading involves the trading of permits to emit carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases, calculated in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, tCO2e). It is one of the ways ...

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Green trading

Green trading encompasses all forms of environmental financial trading, including carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide (acid rain), nitrogen oxide (ozone), renewable energy credits, and energy ...

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Carbon trade watch

Carbon Trade Watch are an pressure group set up by the Transnational Institute to campaign against carbon trading. premise While we witness the emergence of a new carbon economy, key questions ...

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Emissions trading

A central authority (usually a government or international body) sets a limit or cap on the amount of a pollutant that can be emitted. Companies or other groups are issued emission permits and ...

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Carbon credit

Carbon credits are a tradable permit scheme. They provide a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by giving them a monetary value. A credit gives the owner the right to emit one tonne of carbon ...

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Carbon offset

Carbon offsetting is the act of mitigating (offsetting) greenhouse gas emissions. A well-known example is the purchasing of offsets to compensate for the greenhouse gas emissions from personal ...

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Carbon tax

A carbon tax is a tax on energy sources which emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It is an example of pollution taxes, which some economists favor because they tax a bad rather than a good (such ...

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Carbon nanotube

Most single-walled nanotubes (SWNT) have a diameter of close to 1 nanometer, with a tube length that can be many thousands of times longer. The structure of a SWNT can be conceptualized ...

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Domestic tradable quotas

Domestic Tradable Quotas (DTQs) is a proposal for a national carbon dioxide emissions trading scheme that includes personal carbon trading as a central element. ...

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