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Emissions Trading and Carbon Offsets

"Emissions trading is a market-based environmental policy instrument that helps companies meet their emissions reduction requirements more cost-effectively than they would under traditional command-and-control regulatory approaches. Emissions trading involves the transfer of ownership of emissions reduction credits, or emission allowances, from one entity to another."

-- Mike Butters, Emissions Trading Primer

Books Databases Bloomberg Websites

Books

For an up-to-date list of books and e-books at Western Libraries, search the library catalogue for the following SUBJECTs:

Selected books available at Western Libraries:

Bayon, Ricardo et al. Voluntary Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work. (BUS HC79.P55V65 2007)

Brown, Christopher Stephen. The sustainable enterprise : profiting from best practice. (BUS HD60.S887 2005)

Chichilnisky, Graciela and Heal, Geoffrey Eds. Environmental Markets: Equity and Efficiency. (DBW HC79.P55E584 2000)

Dauncey, Guy. Stormy weather: 101 solutions to global climate change. (DBW QC981.8.C5D38 2001)

de Jong, Cyriel and Walet, Kasper Eds. A Guide to Emissions Trading: Risk Management and Business Implications. (BUS HC79.P55G853 2004)

Freeman, Jody and Kolstad, Charles Eds. Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation: Lessons from Twenty Years of Experience. (DBW HC79.E5M684 2007)

Hansjürgens, Bernd Ed. Emissions Trading for Climate Policy: US and European Perspectives. (Online)

Tietenberg, T.H. Emissions Trading: Principles and Practice. (HC110.A4T54 2006)

Databases

ProQuest, Factiva, Business Source Complete, & Lexis Nexis
The leading databases for scholarly and newspaper articles.

Jantzi Sustainalytics
"Sustainalytics is a leading global provider of environmental, social and governance (ESG) research and analysis, with nearly 20 years of experience in the Responsible Investment (RI) and Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) markets. Sustainalytics has insights on key industries and ideas about current trends that have implications on ESG and sustainability."

DataMonitor 360
An excellent source of global information on the subject. Reports like “Corporate Carbon Strategies: Opportunities in the European emissions trade market” and “The UK Green Energy Outlook: Profiting from incentives in a proactive emissions trading market” are available.

Conference Board of Canada
Research publications on economic trends, public policy issues and organizational performance from Canada's leading not-for-profit applied research organization.

GreenFILE
"GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects."

Bloomberg

Bloomberg (In Library Only)

The following commands will retrieve data related to emissions and environmental indicies:

ENVI - Emission Prices and Environmental Indexes
PTOP - Environmental News
EMDA - Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions (provides a table with national figures)
EMIS - Emissions/Green Markets
CCLX - Chicago Climate Exchange
NRGE - Electricity Exchanges
WEAD - Global Weather Data
NRGY - Energy Cantango

Websites

Carbon Offset Sites:

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