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Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Market Fundamentals and Trading Opportunities
This study pays particular attention to the benefits of emissions trading and
the innovative techniques that are employed in the execution of GHG
transactions.
This study will help you:
- Understand the fundamentals and nuances of emissions trading
- Reduce your company's potential pollution liabilities
- Properly position your company for more stringent emissions legislation
- Yield a competitive advantage over firms who fail to respond appropriately
- Enhance your corporate image and add value to your brand
Table of Contents
Introduction
- How emissions trading works
- Why emissions trading makes sense
- Conclusions
Customized Transactions
- Introduction
- Difference between an Allowance and an Offset
- Conclusions
Structuring Emissions Transactions
- Introduction
- Why sell emissions credits?
- Trading motivations
- Key attributes of trades
- GHG transacation structures
- Roles of service providers
- Conclusions
Global Emissions Markets
- Introduction
- US Markets
- SO2 trading
- NOx trading
- CO2 trading
- State by State activity
- US Climate Change Plan
- Emissions trading schemes in the EU—a snapshot
- Emissions trading schemes in the Asia Pacific—a snapshot
- Conclusions
BP Case Profile - Corporate Emissions Trading Systems
- Introduction
- BP’s 1990 Emissions Baseline
- Making progress…
- BP internal emissions trading
- Conclusions
Future Developments
- Introduction
- Trading programs under development
- Emissions shift: from voluntary to compliance instruments
- Additional greenhouse gas trading initiatives
- U.S. parallel trading systems and international participation agreements
- Conclusions
