The Carbon Knowledge Hub is a public web platform that provides companies, policymakers and other players with the information required to understand compliance and voluntary carbon markets.
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Take carbon markets 101 and learn the fundamentals behind carbon-pricing systems.
Carbon pricing can be an effective policy tool to make polluters pay for their greenhouse-gas emissions. Out of the 60 or so programs around the world, the most common are taxes and emission-trading programs. Broadly speaking, the former guarantees the carbon price and the latter delivers a guaranteed reduction in emissions.
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Carbon permits may be traded as part of a mandatory program, with most transactions occurring on an exchange. Carbon offsets may also be traded by participants in some compliance programs as well as companies, governments and individuals with sustainability targets. Most trades are via broker.
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A carbon price aims to ensure that the producers of greenhouse-gas emissions pay for the costs of such pollution. Such schemes have proved effective at reducing emissions, with social, economic and physical benefits. But devising an effective carbon-pricing policy is tricky.
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Compliance carbon markets typically involve governments, companies required to participate, and the finance and trading community. Voluntary carbon markets have a more complex value chain involving project developers, registries, brokers and corporations looking to meet their sustainability targets.
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Governments have implemented over 30 compliance carbon markets around the world but few have prices high enough to drive decarbonization. Companies’ increasingly ambitious climate targets mean demand for carbon offsets has never been higher. But the voluntary carbon markets remain oversupplied.
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Delve into specific carbon-related topics across the voluntary and compliance markets.
21 Oct 2024
intermediateArticle 6.2 allows governments to enter bilateral agreements with each other for the trading of ‘internationally transferred mitigation outcomes’.
21 Oct 2024
intermediateArticle 6.4 established a framework for a centralized global carbon market wehre countries and companies can trade emission credits under the supervision of a UN supervisory body.
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