Product Description

This new and timely multi-contributor volume draws upon the very best international experience and a host of practical examples to offer advice and proven strategies to deal with the growing issue of emissions risk and compliance to emissions trading programmes.

Advises on all aspects of emissions trading to help you: - design better internal procedures to monitor emissions; - assess the legal risks of emission trading and emission reduction projects; - forecast for future emissions and;

- incorporate emissions into your accounting and risk management systems. Analyse the benefits and risks of joint implementation and clean development projects. Make better investment and production decisions taking emission risk into account. Global approach discusses solutions to the Kyoto Protocol, the forthcoming EU Emission Trading Scheme, the US Acid Rain Program and others. Presents market experiences from around the world including contributions from industry and academia's foremost market leaders - in one timely, cohesive and practically focused volume.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1024409 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover

Review
"A Timely contribution to the international debate on emission trading, a new and forceful instrument for dealing with climate change." -- Joke Waller-Hunter, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC

"Will really help deliver the ambitions of the Kyoto Protocol... it shows practitioners how market trading can achieve environmental targets." -- Rick van der Ploeg, European University Institute, Florence

About the Author
Kasper Walet is founder and president of Maycroft Consultancy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, since 1997. For Maycroft Kasper worked on the initiation of the Amsterdam Power Exchange and advised many of the leading energy companies in European, CEE and Asian countries. Kasper holds a Master degree in Law from the University of Utrecht. Before founding Maycroft Kasper was Board member of the Agricultural Futures Exchange in Amsterdam. While leading the exchange Kasper became an expert in all the aspects of commodity markets, the international sales and marketing of financial services, derivatives and risk management.

Cyriel de Jong is currently a research director at Maycroft and assistant professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Cyriel graduated cum laude in econometrics at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and worked for De Nationale Investeringsbank NV. He completed a PhD thesis on financial derivatives and has several years of experience as a consultant in energy markets. Recently, Cyriel published on energy risk management issues in Managing Energy Price Risk, Energy Power Risk Management and Commodities Now.

Customer Reviews

Carbon Trading Markets
Any red-blooded American capitalist should begin preparing to understand the economic significance of the carbon trading market being developed in the European Union today. As more and more state governments advance laws to reduce Co2 emissions, the more likely that the federal government will adopt large-scale Kyoto-like regime in the post-2010 period. This book gives the reader some significant background through a series of well written essays by various economic experts in regions around the globe. In my building of a small library on climate change politics and the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), this book provided a foundation of understanding the economics of pollution and how it may well drive industrial innovation to curb energy pollution in the 21st Century. The nearly 400-page book is an esay read for those interested in the topic of carbon trade. There will be billions of dollars of trade in carbon coming to America soon. Now is the time to try to understand the market dynamic.

Good book on carbon trading
Addresses various important aspects of carbon trade, the topics addressed are neatly segregated into chapters and can be read independently from other chapters.
I find it very informative, but requires good patience to read.