Voluntary Carbon Markets

Written in a fast-paced journalistic style, this updated edition draws together all the key information on international voluntary carbon markets with commentary from leading practitioners and business people. The book covers all aspects of voluntary carbon markets around the world: what they are, how they work and, most critically, their business potential to help slow climate change. The new edition contains: updated data on credit prices, transaction volumes, major industry players, and other quantitative data through 2007 and 2008, as well as revised analysis reflecting these shifts; explanations of additional offset project type categories, providing prospective buyers and project developers with a more detailed understanding of the suite of offset projects available; insights into market trends and policy developments that have occurred since the publication of the last edition; an updated "glance into the future" of the voluntary carbon markets, reflecting the market trends that emerged from late 2006 through early 2008. This book is a project of Ecosystem Marketplace

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes	p. vii
List of Authors and Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Foreword	p. xvii
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xix
Introduction	p. xxi
The Big Picture	p. 1
Market theory	p. 3
Carbon markets	p. 5
Voluntary carbon markets	p. 13
Understanding Supply and Demand in the Voluntary Carbon Markets	p. 19
A look at the supply chain	p. 20
How does the market work?	p. 35
RECs vs Offsets: The Debate Continues	p. 45
The US voluntary REC market and how it interacts with the carbon market	p. 46
The ABCs of renewable energy, RECs and greenhouse gas offsets	p. 54
RECs to carbon offsets: What's the right exchange rate?	p. 60
The Voluntary Carbon Markets: What the Experts Think	p. 67
An economist's perspective on the voluntary carbon markets: Useful but not sufficient	p. 67
A conservationist's perspective on the voluntary carbon markets: Can they help us overcome inertia?	p. 70
A project developer's perspective on the voluntary carbon markets: Carbon sequestration in the Sierra Gorda of Mexico	p. 75
An NGO's perspective on the voluntary carbon markets: Key to solving the problem	p. 78
A retailer's perspective on the voluntary carbon markets: A vital complement to regulation	p. 82
A credit originator's perspective on the voluntary carbon markets: Encouraging quality in the markets	p. 87
An investor's perspective on the voluntary carbon markets: From marginal to mainstream	p. 90
An investor's perspective: The challenges ahead for scaling the voluntary carbon markets	p. 93
A buyer's perspective on the voluntary carbon markets: Lessons learned in the early days of carbon neutrality	p. 96
A bank's perspective on the voluntary carbon markets: From risk to opportunity	p. 101
A Glance into the Future of the Voluntary Carbon Markets	p. 105
A new outlet	p. 105
Gourmet carbon	p. 106
The broad spectrum	p. 107
Unanswered questions	p. 108
Moving towards answers	p. 109
Appendices
Offset Project Types	p. 113
Offset Standards	p. 121
Offset Registries	p. 129
Examples of Offset Suppliers	p. 137
Glossary	p. 145
Index	p. 153
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