We have attracted quite a few new readers lately, and some may be new to the world and jargon of carbon emissions trading. The FT recently published a brief glossary of terms here.
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The UK Government is considering a major expansion of the cap-and-trade system for managing national carbon emissions, which would make as many as 5000 organizations subject to compulsory quotas, 5 times the current number.
“As many as 5,000 businesses and public-sector bodies would be forced to buy greenhouse gas permits under plans for a [...]

Military people are usually realists and pragmatists. The Australian Defence Force has listed climate change as a national security threat for the first time, in a document presenting the vision of Australia’s security threats and defence requirements to 2030. At least the ADF, unlike the current Australian Federal Government, have their [...]

Lord John Browne, former CEO of BP, and Nick Butler, the Director for Energy Studies at the Cambridge Judge Business School, have proposed an International Carbon Fund, on the model of the International Monetary Fund: to decide on global carbon emissions reductions targets, and then to decide quotas for emissions for each country. [...]