Carbon Trading : Some Insights & Perspectives

CONTENTS: Demystifying Carbon Trading: The Market Based Mechanism; An Insight into Carbon Trading: Understanding the Behavior of Emissions Market with a Financial Perspective; Carbon Credits - An Introduction; The Voluntary Carbon Market: Current & Future Market Status, and Implications for Development Benefits; Getting Carbon Offsets Right: A Business Brief on Engaging Offset Providers; Carbon Trading : Theory and Practice; The Carbon Credits Price Dynamics in Evolving Carbon Markets; The Value of Carbon Credits: Is there a Final Answer?; Carbon Funds: In the Driver''s Seat; Personal Carbon Trading: The Idea, its Development and Design; Emissions Trading Versus CO2 Taxes; Auctioning of CO2 Emission Allowances in the EU ETS; The UK Emissions Trading Scheme; Improving Environmental Quality Through Carbon Trading; The Problem of Maintaining Emission "Caps" in Carbon Trading Programs: Without Federal Government Involvement - A Brief Examination of the Chicago Climate Exchange and the Northeast Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; Carbon Trading in the US: The Hibernating Giant; Carbon Trading in India: An Insider''s View.