Product Description

This book is the most comprehensive and accessible guide to understanding the opportunities offered by regulated and voluntary carbon markets for tackling climate change. Coverage of this book 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 overview of the economic theory and different constitutive elements of a carbon allowances market; and, an explanation of the Kyoto Protocol's flexibility mechanisms. This book also provides: an explanation of how the EU Emissions Trading Scheme works in practice; up to the minute coverage of regulated carbon markets in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa; ongoing developments in regulated carbon markets in the USA, Canada, and Japan; and, global 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46207 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

Review
'Carbon markets are key to fighting climate change cost-effectively. This guide is timely as more and more countries follow Europe's lead in developing cap and trade systems. Linked together, these will establish a global carbon market over the coming years.' Stavros Dimas, European Commissioner for the Environment 'This book provides valuable insights into carbon markets, an important determinant of measures to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases.' R.K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 'The creation of political will require strong and powerful arguments. That is the responsibility of us all and an important contribution of this book.' From the Foreword by Nicholas Stern 'Get this book, round up an accomplished professor, and spend a full semester together dissecting the contents. You are likely to emerge as a greenhouse gas emissions trading expert. ...[The authors] do not miss a beat.' Crosslands Bulletin

About the Author
Arnaud Brohe is a Managing Partner at CO2logic, a leading carbon advisory and carbon offsetting firm based in Brussels. Nick Eyre is leader of the Lower Carbon Futures team at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University. Nicholas Howarth is a specialist on carbon markets and energy investment, based at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment.

Customer Reviews

Fascinating and very clear insight into this new market
I found this book provided all the answers to my questions on how this market works. The book has also helped me get a better understanding of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in which I am particularly interested as I am developing a project in Africa. The book is written in a way which makes it an enjoyable yet technically interesting read. I like the fact that it was "CO2logic Carbon Neutral" very coherent with the books content.

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This book was shipped with three missing pages - with no indication that this would be so. The publisher knew this was the case as an "errata" was inserted into the book. I am not at all impressed with the publisher or with Amazon for selling it.Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide (Environmental Market Insights)