What is Carbon Trading? July 25, 2016 Carbon Trading is a market-based system under cap and trade programs that aims to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. In this system, countries with high carbon dioxide emissions can purchase the right to produce more from other nations with lower emissions. In theory, this will help to reduce the overall emissions by adding a price tag to pollution. The use of this system was born out of the Kyoto Protocol. In the early 1990s, all member states of the…
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