The researchers say one way of setting up these incentives would be to make high - albedo farms eligible for carbon credits which could be sold
on the carbon trading markets.
Part B describes the strategic decisions that need to be taken in order to identify and assess the potential of embarking
on a carbon trading project.
In particular, there is the matter of its extreme
reliance on a carbon trading scheme called the Clean Development Mechanism — a mechanism that is currently dead in the water following the lacklustre «Copenhagen Accord».
China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is
betting on carbon trading as a key measure to cut its emissions for each unit of economic output 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.
More
background on the carbon trading project is on the Web site of the Center for Environmental Leadership in Business, an initiative of Conservation International.
Rising Tide has had a lot of fun with entrepreneurs involved in trading credits earned by cutting greenhouse - gas emissions, recently sending «greenwash guerillas» to root out what it called «carbon traitors» at a
conference on carbon trading.]
The Ministry of Environment of Panama (MIAMBIENTE) was supported in the organization of
training on carbon trading platforms and their feasibility in the Panama context.
He said he did not know the details of Dr Pearman's case, but if a scientist were to join a group that argued against government policy as the Australian Climate Group
did on carbon trading he or she would contravene CSIRO's media policy.
Kerry uses the boost to raise the number of allowance auctions, simplify the allocation process, reduce the number of offsets, and implement tighter
restrictions on carbon trading and offsets.
Governments and institutions should focus on developing adaption policies to address and mitigate against the negative impact of global warming, rather than putting the
emphasis on carbon trading and capping greenhouse - gas emissions, argue Johannesburg - based Wits University geoscientist Dr Jasper Knight and Dr Stephan Harrison from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.
The World Bank Group estimates that widespread global
cooperation on carbon trading could bring down the costs of international climate mitigation efforts by up to 32 percent by 2030.
The authors say that «high forest cover with low rates of deforestation» (HFLD) nations «could become the most vulnerable targets for deforestation if the Kyoto Protocol and upcoming
negotiations on carbon trading fail to include intact standing forest.»
Even as European nations deepen their
reliance on carbon trading, governments elsewhere still are struggling to put such systems in place.