Global Carbon Policy Handbook 2010 - Policies Driving the Growth of Carbon Trading Markets

clClean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint
GlobalData, the leading business intelligenceImplementation (JI) projects. The report provides
provider, has released its latest research studyan overview on various carbon registries, carbon
“Global Carbon Policy Handbook, 2010:exchanges and the major companies participating
Policies Driving the Growth of Carbon Tradingin the carbon trade. The report provides the
Markets”, which is an offering from thelatest information on the value, volume and price
company’s Energy Research Group. Theof the emissions traded in project-based
report provides an in-depth analysis on the carbonmechanisms, such as CDM, JI and Secondary
policy initiatives by the European Union, the US,CDM, and allowance markets such as the
Canada, Australia and other developed andEuropean Union’s (EU) Emission Trading
developing economies. It details the regionalScheme (ETS), New South Wales, Chicago
climate change initiatives, the Kyoto Protocol andClimate, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
its mechanisms. It also provides an analysis onand Assigned Amount Units (AAUs).