Carbon Offsets Daily

Daily carbon offset news, insight, community.

Factbox: Carbon trading schemes around the world


(Reuters) – Companies and governments around the world are turning to emissions trading as a weapon to fight climate change and join a global carbon market worth $144 billion last year.

Under cap-and-trade schemes, companies or countries face a carbon limit. If they exceed the limit they can buy allowances from others. They can also buy carbon offsets from outside projects which avoid greenhouse gas emissions, often from developing countries.

Continue Reading at

Related posts:

  1. FACTBOX-Carbon trading schemes around the world
  2. FACTBOX-Carbon trading schemes around the world
  3. FACTBOX-Britain’s new corporate carbon trading scheme
  4. FACTBOX-U.N. CO2 credits: what are they and how do they work?
  5. FACTBOX: Investment banks in carbon trading

Tags: , ,

Leave a Reply

© 2009 Carbon Offsets Daily. All Rights Reserved.

This blog is powered by .