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GLOBE Primer on Climate Change and Carbon Trading
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The GLOBE Primer on Climate Change and Carbon
Trading sets out the basic facts on both the science and
the business of climate change: its implications, the players
involved, and the options for moving forward.
From the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to Canada's Clean Air Act, the Primer provides a
background to how leaders within Canada and the international
community are working to tackle climate change. Globe-Net readers
can learn more about existing perspectives on how to best address
this challenge, as well as how market-based mechanisms are
stimulating the development of technologies to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions.
The Primer addresses the concept of trading carbon credits as a
mechanism for meeting emissions reduction targets, and the rise of
the corresponding carbon-trading market. The link between trading
systems and the rise of green technologies is established in the
report, with a discussion on developments in both renewable and
non-renewable energy technologies.
An instructive starting place, the Primer sifts through a very
complex and often confusing array of facts and choices related to
climate change, helping readers come to grips with what clearly is
the most critical challenge facing mankind today.
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