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Title: Emissions trading - time to get serious

Journal Article · · Platts Insight
OSTI ID:20978403

The Kyoto Protocol's five year compliance period begins in 2008. Industrialized nations around the world have pledged to cut carbon emissions, but the job seems to get harder, not easier, as 2008 approaches. Can market mechanisms make the crucial difference? The article discloses recent initiatives and developments worldwide. It concludes that it is clear that the market is maintaining its central role in fighting climate change and that bringing emissions trading to developing countries and to the US can only reinforce that role.

OSTI ID:
20978403
Journal Information:
Platts Insight, Journal Name: Platts Insight
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English