Voluntary Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work
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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; List of Authors and Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword—Al Gore; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction1) The Big Picture: Market Theory; Carbon Markets; Voluntary Carbon Markets 2) Understanding Supply and Demand in the Voluntary Carbon Markets: A Look at the Supply Chain; How Does the Market Work? 3) RECs vs Offsets: The Debate Continues: The US Voluntary REC Market and how it Interacts with the Carbon Market—Lori A. Bird and Walker L. Right; The ABCs of Renewable Energy, RECs and Greenhouse Gas Offsets—Rob Harmon; RECs to Carbon Offsets: What’s the Right Exchange Rate?—Mark C. Trexler4) The Voluntary Carbon Markets: What the Experts Think: An economist's perspective on the voluntary carbon market: Useful but not sufficient—Janet Peace; A conservationist's perspective on the voluntary carbon market: Can it help us overcome inertia?—Ben Vitale; A project developer's perspective on the voluntary carbon market: Carbon sequestration in the Sierra Gorda of Mexico—David Patrick Ross and Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo; An NGO’s Perspective on the Voluntary Carbon Markets: Key to Solving the Problem—Ben Henneke; A retailer's perspective on the voluntary carbon market: A Vital Complement to Regulation—Bill Sneyd and Jonathan Shopley; A Creditor Originator’s Perspective on the Voluntary Carbon Markets: Encouraging Quality in the Markets—Mark C. Trexler; An investor's perspective on the voluntary carbon market: From Marginal to Mainstream—David Brand and Marisa Meizlish; An investor's perspective: The challenges ahead for scaling the voluntary carbon markets—Alexander Rau; A buyer's perspective on the voluntary carbon markets: Lessons Learned in the Early Days of Carbon Neutrality—Erin Meezan; A bank's perspective on the voluntary carbon market: From risk to opportunity—Lorna Slade5) A Glance into the Future of the Voluntary Carbon Markets: A New Outlet; Gourmet Carbon; The Broad Spectrum; Unanswered Questions; Moving Toward Answers Appendices: 1) Offset Project Types; 2) Offset Standards; 3) Offset Registries; 4) Examples of Offset Suppliers; 5) Glossary; Index.
