GLOBE Primer on Climate Change and Carbon Trading

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.