Improving Carbon Markets

• DOI: 10.4324/9781849772600-15
• Publication Date: 2012-05-16
• Authors: Zoë Chafe; H. R. French
• Keywords: Carbon offset; Carbon credit; Carbon finance; Carbon fibers; Carbon market

In financial capitals across the world, brokers are hard at work trading a key commodity of twenty-first century: carbon credits. These allowances or offsets that represent quantity carbon dioxide (CO2) or other greenhouse gas (GHG) measured in tons equivalent.1