Carbon trading: Current schemes and future developments

Course Info

Length: 1 Week

Type: Online

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Fees

  • Dec-09-2024

    1,770

  • Jan-20-2025

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  • Feb-17-2025

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Course Details

Course Outline

5 days course

 Climate Change 
 
  • A Brief Overview of the Science
  • Evolution of temperature and CO2 concentration
  • Distribution and evolution of GHG Emissions
  • Sources of GHG emissions by sector (World)
  • Evolution of GHG Emissions
  • Natural Consequences of Climate Change
  • The Social and Economic Consequences of Climate Change 
Emissions Trading - A New Tool for Environmental Management 
 
  • The externalities of energy production from fossil fuels
  • Market Failure, Policy Choice and Socio-Economic organization
  • The economic benefits of emissions trading
  • A spectrum of policy instruments
  • The relative strengths and weakness of regulatory standards, emissions trading schemes, and taxation
  • Oil prices and the carbon price equivalent
  • Main steps in the innovation chain
  • Cap-and-Trade Schemes
The Kyoto Protocol 
 
  • The Clean Air Act
  • the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
  • The Characteristics of the Emissions Market
  • Afforestation, reforestation, and deforestation
  • Contraction and Convergence
  • Monitoring and Reporting of Emissions
  • The Clean Development Mechanism
  • Emissions Trading Under Kyoto 
The Global Carbon-Trading Markets 
 
  • The EU Emissions Trading Scheme
  • The Characteristics of the EU Emissions Market
  • The US Carbon Markets
  • The US federal legislative process
  • The Emissions Trading in Australia
  • Other Emerging Mandatory Schemes
  • Voluntary Offsetting Market
Carbon trading - Current schemes and future developments 
 
  • Several emissions trading schemes (ETSs) operating across the World
  • The comparison of different trading systems of the World
  • The future of carbon trading
  • Broadening sectoral and GHG coverage

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