Carbon credit

This article is about carbon credits for international tection Authority of Victoria denes a carbon credit as a
trading. For carbon credits for individuals, see personal generic term to assign a value to a reduction or oset of
carbon trading. For voluntary schemes, see carbon oset. greenhouse gas emissions.. usually equivalent to one tonne
of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e).[2]
A carbon credit is a generic term for any tradable cer- The Investopedia Inc investment dictionary denes a car-
ticate or permit representing the right to emit one tonne bon credit as a permit that allows the holder to emit one
of carbon dioxide or the mass of another greenhouse gas ton of carbon dioxide..which can be traded in the inter-
with a carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2 e) equivalent to national market at their current market price.[3]
one tonne of carbon dioxide.[1][2][3]
Carbon credits and carbon markets are a component of
national and international attempts to mitigate the growth 2 Types
in concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs). One car-
bon credit is equal to one tonne of carbon dioxide, or There are two main markets for carbon credits; Compli-
in some markets, carbon dioxide equivalent gases. Car- ance Market credits Secondary / Veried Market credits
bon trading is an application of an emissions trading ap- (VERs) [5]
proach. Greenhouse gas emissions are capped and then
markets are used to allocate the emissions among the
group of regulated sources. 3 Background
The goal is to allow market mechanisms to drive indus-
trial and commercial processes in the direction of low The burning of fossil fuels is a major source of
emissions or less carbon intensive approaches than those greenhouse gas emissions,[6][7] especially for power, ce-
used when there is no cost to emitting carbon dioxide and ment, steel, textile, fertilizer and many other industries
other GHGs into the atmosphere. Since GHG mitigation which rely on fossil fuels (coal, electricity derived from
projects generate credits, this approach can be used to coal, natural gas and oil). The major greenhouse gases
nance carbon reduction schemes between trading part- emitted by these industries are carbon dioxide, methane,
ners and around the world. nitrous oxide, hydrouorocarbons (HFCs), etc., all of
There are also many companies that sell carbon credits to which increase the atmospheres ability to trap infrared
commercial and individual customers who are interested energy and thus aect the climate.
in lowering their carbon footprint on a voluntary basis. The concept of carbon credits came into existence as a
These carbon osetters purchase the credits from an in- result of increasing awareness of the need for controlling
vestment fund or a carbon development company that has emissions. The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Cli-
aggregated the credits from individual projects. Buyers mate Change) has observed[8] that:
and sellers can also use an exchange platform to trade,
which is like a stock exchange for carbon credits. The Policies that provide a real or implicit price
quality of the credits is based in part on the validation of carbon could create incentives for produc-
process and sophistication of the fund or development ers and consumers to signicantly invest in
company that acted as the sponsor to the carbon project. low-GHG products, technologies and processes.
This is reected in their price; voluntary units typically Such policies could include economic instru-
have less value than the units sold through the rigorously ments, government funding and regulation,
validated Clean Development Mechanism.[4]
while noting that a tradable permit system is one of the
policy instruments that has been shown to be environmen-
1 Denitions tally eective in the industrial sector, as long as there are
reasonable levels of predictability over the initial alloca-
The Collins English Dictionary denes a carbon credit tion mechanism and long-term price.
as a certicate showing that a government or company The mechanism was formalized in the Kyoto Protocol,
has paid to have a certain amount of carbon dioxide re- an international agreement between more than 170 coun-
moved from the environment.[1] The Environment Pro- tries, and the market mechanisms were agreed through

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2 3 BACKGROUND

the subsequent Marrakesh Accords. The mechanism Kyoto Protocol, and has a national agreement in place to
adopted was similar to the successful US Acid Rain Pro- validate its carbon project through one of the UNFCCC's
gram to reduce some industrial pollutants. approved mechanisms. Once approved, these units are
termed Certied Emission Reductions, or CERs. The
Protocol allows these projects to be constructed and cred-
3.1 Emission allowances ited in advance of the Kyoto trading period.
The Kyoto Protocol provides for three mechanisms that
Under the Kyoto Protocol, the 'caps or quotas for enable countries or operators in developed countries to
Greenhouse gases for the developed Annex 1 countries acquire greenhouse gas reduction credits[13]
are known as Assigned Amounts and are listed in An-
nex B.[9] The quantity of the initial assigned amount is
Under Joint Implementation (JI) a developed coun-
denominated in individual units, called Assigned amount
try with relatively high costs of domestic greenhouse
units (AAUs), each of which represents an allowance to
reduction would set up a project in another devel-
emit one metric tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent, and
[10] oped country.
these are entered into the countrys national registry.
In turn, these countries set quotas on the emissions of Under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
installations run by local business and other organiza- a developed country can 'sponsor' a greenhouse gas
tions, generically termed 'operators. Countries manage reduction project in a developing country where the
this through their national registries, which are required cost of greenhouse gas reduction project activities
to be validated and monitored for compliance by the is usually much lower, but the atmospheric eect is
UNFCCC.[11] Each operator has an allowance of cred- globally equivalent. The developed country would
its, where each unit gives the owner the right to emit be given credits for meeting its emission reduction
one metric tonne of carbon dioxide or other equivalent targets, while the developing country would receive
greenhouse gas. Operators that have not used up their the capital investment and clean technology or ben-
quotas can sell their unused allowances as carbon cred- ecial change in land use.
its, while businesses that are about to exceed their quotas
Under International Emissions Trading (IET) coun-
can buy the extra allowances as credits, privately or on the
tries can trade in the international carbon credit mar-
open market. As demand for energy grows over time, the
ket to cover their shortfall in Assigned amount units.
total emissions must still stay within the cap, but it allows
Countries with surplus units can sell them to coun-
industry some exibility and predictability in its planning
tries that are exceeding their emission targets under
to accommodate this.
Annex B of the Kyoto Protocol.
By permitting allowances to be bought and sold, an oper-
ator can seek out the most cost-eective way of reducing These carbon projects can be created by a national gov-
its emissions, either by investing in 'cleaner' machinery ernment or by an operator within the country. In reality,
and practices or by purchasing emissions from another most of the transactions are not performed by national
operator who already has excess 'capacity'. governments directly, but by operators who have been set
Since 2005, the Kyoto mechanism has been adopted quotas by their country.
for CO2 trading by all the countries within the
European Union under its European Trading Scheme (EU
ETS) with the European Commission as its validating 3.3 Emission markets
authority.[12] From 2008, EU participants must link with
the other developed countries who ratied Annex I of the For trading purposes, one allowance or CER is considered
protocol, and trade the six most signicant anthropogenic equivalent to one metric ton of CO2 emissions. These al-
greenhouse gases. In the United States, which has not rat- lowances can be sold privately or in the international mar-
ied Kyoto, and Australia, whose ratication came into ket at the prevailing market price. These trade and settle
force in March 2008, similar schemes are being consid- internationally and hence allow allowances to be trans-
ered. ferred between countries. Each international transfer is
validated by the UNFCCC. Each transfer of ownership
within the European Union is additionally validated by
3.2 Kyotos 'Flexible mechanisms the European Commission.
Climate exchanges have been established to provide a
A tradable credit can be an emissions allowance or an spot market in allowances, as well as futures and options
assigned amount unit which was originally allocated or market to help discover a market price and maintain
auctioned by the national administrators of a Kyoto- liquidity. Carbon prices are normally quoted in Euros per
compliant cap-and-trade scheme, or it can be an oset of tonne of carbon dioxide or its equivalent (CO2 e). Other
emissions. Such osetting and mitigating activities can greenhouse gasses can also be traded, but are quoted
occur in any developing country which has ratied the as standard multiples of carbon dioxide with respect to
3.4 Setting a market price for carbon
their global warming potential. These features reduce the
quotas nancial impact on business, while ensuring that
the quotas are met at a national and international level.
Currently there are ve exchanges trading in carbon al-
lowances: the European Climate Exchange, NASDAQ
OMX Commodities Europe, PowerNext, Commodity
Exchange Bratislava and the European Energy Exchange.
NASDAQ OMX Commodities Europe listed a contract
to trade osets generated by a CDM carbon project called
Certied Emission Reductions (CERs). Many companies
now engage in emissions abatement, osetting, and se-
questration programs to generate credits that can be sold
on one of the exchanges. At least one private electronic
market has been established in 2008: CantorCO2e.[14]
Carbon credits at Commodity Exchange Bratislava are
traded at special platform - Carbon place.[15]
Managing emissions is one of the fastest-growing seg-
ments in nancial services in the City of London with
a market estimated to be worth about 30 billion in
2007. Louis Redshaw, head of environmental markets
at Barclays Capital predicts that Carbon will be the
worlds biggest commodity market, and it could become
the worlds biggest market overall.[16]
3.4 Setting a market price for carbon
Unchecked, energy use and hence emission levels are pre-
dicted to keep rising over time. Thus the number of
companies needing to buy credits will increase, and the
rules of supply and demand will push up the market price,
encouraging more groups to undertake environmentally
friendly activities that create carbon credits to sell.
An individual allowance, such as an Assigned amount unit
(AAU) or its near-equivalent European Union Allowance Nordhaus has suggested, based on the social cost of car-
(EUA), may have a dierent market value to an oset bon emissions, that an optimal price of carbon is around
such as a CER. This is due to the lack of a developed $30(US) per ton and will need to increase with ination.
secondary market for CERs, a lack of homogeneity be-
tween projects which causes diculty in pricing, as well
as questions due to the principle of supplementarity and
its lifetime. Additionally, osets generated by a carbon
project under the Clean Development Mechanism are po-
tentially limited in value because operators in the EU ETS
are restricted as to what percentage of their allowance can
be met through these exible mechanisms.
Yale University economics professor William Nordhaus
argues that the price of carbon needs to be high enough
to motivate the changes in behavior and changes in eco-
nomic production systems necessary to eectively limit
emissions of greenhouse gases.
Raising the price of carbon will achieve
four goals. First, it will provide signals to con-
sumers about what goods and services are high-
carbon ones and should therefore be used more
sparingly. Second, it will provide signals to
producers about which inputs use more car-
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bon (such as coal and oil) and which use less
or none (such as natural gas or nuclear power),
thereby inducing rms to substitute low-carbon
inputs. Third, it will give market incentives for
inventors and innovators to develop and intro-
duce low-carbon products and processes that
can replace the current generation of technolo-
gies. Fourth, and most important, a high car-
bon price will economize on the information
that is required to do all three of these tasks.
Through the market mechanism, a high carbon
price will raise the price of products accord-
ing to their carbon content. Ethical consumers
today, hoping to minimize their carbon foot-
print, have little chance of making an accurate
calculation of the relative carbon use in, say,
driving 250 miles as compared with ying 250
miles. A harmonized carbon tax would raise
the price of a good proportionately to exactly
the amount of CO2 that is emitted in all the
stages of production that are involved in pro-
ducing that good. If 0.01 of a ton of carbon
emissions results from the wheat growing and
the milling and the trucking and the baking of
a loaf of bread, then a tax of $30 per ton car-
bon will raise the price of bread by $0.30. The
carbon footprint is automatically calculated
by the price system. Consumers would still not
know how much of the price is due to carbon
emissions, but they could make their decisions
condent that they are paying for the social cost
of their carbon footprint.
The social cost of carbon is the additional
damage caused by an additional ton of carbon
emissions. ... The optimal carbon price, or op-
timal carbon tax, is the market price (or carbon
tax) on carbon emissions that balances the in-
cremental costs of reducing carbon emissions
with the incremental benets of reducing cli-
mate damages. ... [I]f a country wished to im-
pose a carbon tax of $30 per ton of carbon, this
would involve a tax on gasoline of about 9 cents
per gallon. Similarly, the tax on coal-generated
electricity would be about 1 cent per kWh, or
10 percent of the current retail price. At cur-
rent levels of carbon emissions in the United
States, a tax of $30 per ton of carbon would
generate $50 billion of revenue per year.[17]
4 4 HOW BUYING CARBON CREDITS CAN REDUCE EMISSIONS
4 How buying carbon credits can
reduce emissions
See also: Economics of global warming
Carbon credits create a market for reducing greenhouse
emissions by giving a monetary value to the cost of pollut-
ing the air. Emissions become an internal cost of doing
business and are visible on the balance sheet alongside
raw materials and other liabilities or assets.
For example, consider a business that owns a factory
putting out 100,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions
in a year. Its government is an Annex I country that enacts
a law to limit the emissions that the business can produce.
So the factory is given a quota of say 80,000 tonnes per
year. The factory either reduces its emissions to 80,000
tonnes or is required to purchase carbon credits to o-
set the excess. After costing up alternatives the business
may decide that it is uneconomical or infeasible to invest
in new machinery for that year. Instead it may choose to
buy carbon credits on the open market from organizations
that have been approved as being able to sell legitimate
carbon credits.
We should consider the impact of manufacturing alterna-
tive energy sources. For example, the energy consumed
and the Carbon emitted in the manufacture and trans-
portation of a large wind turbine would prohibit a credit
being issued for a predetermined period of time.
One seller might be a company that will oer to The advantages of a carbon tax are argued to be:
oset emissions through a project in the develop-
ing world, such as recovering methane from a swine
farm to feed a power station that previously would
use fossil fuel. So although the factory continues to
emit gases, it would pay another group to reduce the
equivalent of 20,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emis-
sions from the atmosphere for that year.
Another seller may have already invested in new
low-emission machinery and have a surplus of al-
lowances as a result. The factory could make up for
its emissions by buying 20,000 tonnes of allowances
from them. The cost of the sellers new machinery
would be subsidized by the sale of allowances. Both
the buyer and the seller would submit accounts for
their emissions to prove that their allowances were
met correctly.
4.1 Credits versus taxes
Carbon credits and carbon taxes each have their advan-
tages and disadvantages. Credits were chosen by the sig-
natories to the Kyoto Protocol as an alternative to Carbon
taxes. A criticism of tax-raising schemes is that they are
frequently not hypothecated, and so some or all of the
taxation raised by a government would be applied based
on what the particular nations government deems most
tting. However, some would argue that carbon trading
is based around creating a lucrative articial market, and,
handled by free market enterprises as it is, carbon trading
is not necessarily a focused or easily regulated solution.
By treating emissions as a market commodity some pro-
ponents insist it becomes easier for businesses to under-
stand and manage their activities, while economists and
traders can attempt to predict future pricing using market
theories. Thus the main advantages of a tradeable carbon
credit over a carbon tax are argued to be:
the price may be more likely to be perceived as fair
by those paying it. Investors in credits may have
more control over their own costs.
the exible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol help
to ensure that all investment goes into genuine sus-
tainable carbon reduction schemes through an inter-
nationally agreed validation process.
some proponents state that if correctly implemented
a target level of emission reductions may somehow
be achieved with more certainty, while under a tax
the actual emissions might vary over time.
it may provide a framework for rewarding people or
companies who plant trees or otherwise meet stan-
dards exclusively recognized as green.
possibly less complex, expensive, and time-
consuming to implement. This advantage is
especially great when applied to markets like
gasoline or home heating oil.
perhaps some reduced risk of certain types of cheat-
ing, though under both credits and taxes, emissions
must be veried.
reduced incentives for companies to delay eciency
improvements prior to the establishment of the base-
line if credits are distributed in proportion to past
emissions.
when credits are grandfathered, this puts new or
growing companies at a disadvantage relative to
more established companies.
allows for more centralized handling of acquired
gains
worth of carbon is stabilized by government regula-
tion rather than market uctuations. Poor market
conditions and weak investor interest have a less-
ened impact on taxation as opposed to carbon trad-
ing.
5.2 Criticisms
5 Creating carbon credits
The principle of Supplementarity within the Kyoto Pro-
tocol means that internal abatement of emissions should
take precedence before a country buys in carbon cred-
its. However it also established the Clean Development
Mechanism as a Flexible Mechanism by which capped
entities could develop measurable and permanent emis-
sions reductions voluntarily in sectors outside the cap.
Many criticisms of carbon credits stem from the fact that
establishing that an emission of CO2 -equivalent green-
house gas has truly been reduced involves a complex pro-
cess. This process has evolved as the concept of a carbon
project has been rened over the past 10 years.
The rst step in determining whether or not a carbon
project has legitimately led to the reduction of mea-
surable and permanent emissions is understanding the
CDM methodology process. This is the process by which
project sponsors submit, through a Designated Opera-
tional Entity (DOE), their concepts for emissions reduc-
tion creation. The CDM Executive Board, with the CDM
Methodology Panel and their expert advisors, review each
project and decide how and if they do indeed result in re-
ductions that are additional[18]
5.1 Additionality and its importance
It is also important for any carbon credit (oset) to
prove a concept called additionality. The concept
of additionality addresses the question of whether the
project would have happened in the absence of an inter-
vention in the form of the price signal of carbon credits.
Only projects with emissions below their baseline level,
dened as emissions under a scenario without this price
signal (holding all other factors constant), represent a net
environmental benet. Carbon projects that yield strong
nancial returns even in the absence of revenue from car-
bon credits; or that are compelled by regulations; or that
represent common practice in an industry; are usually not
considered additional. A full determination of addition-
ality requires a careful investigation of proposed carbon
oset projects.
It is generally agreed that voluntary carbon oset projects
must demonstrate additionality to ensure the legitimacy
of the environmental stewardship claims resulting from
the retirement of carbon credits (osets).
5.2 Criticisms
The Kyoto mechanism is the only internationally agreed
mechanism for regulating carbon credit activities, and,
crucially, includes checks for additionality and overall ef-
fectiveness. Its supporting organisation, the UNFCCC, is
the only organisation with a global mandate on the overall
eectiveness of emission control systems, although en-
forcement of decisions relies on national co-operation.
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The Kyoto trading period only applies for ve years be-
tween 2008 and 2012. The rst phase of the EU ETS
system started before then, and is expected to continue in
a third phase afterwards, and may co-ordinate with what-
ever is internationally agreed at but there is general uncer-
tainty as to what will be agreed in PostKyoto Protocol
negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions. As business
investment often operates over decades, this adds risk and
uncertainty to their plans. As several countries respon-
sible for a large proportion of global emissions (notably
USA, India, China) have avoided mandatory caps, this
also means that businesses in capped countries may per-
ceive themselves to be working at a competitive disadvan-
tage against those in uncapped countries as they are now
paying for their carbon costs directly.
A key concept behind the cap and trade system is that
national quotas should be chosen to represent genuine
and meaningful reductions in national output of emis-
sions. Not only does this ensure that overall emissions
are reduced but also that the costs of emissions trading
are carried fairly across all parties to the trading system.
However, governments of capped countries may seek to
unilaterally weaken their commitments, as evidenced by
the 2006 and 2007 National Allocation Plans for several
countries in the EU ETS, which were submitted late and
then were initially rejected by the European Commission
for being too lax.[19]
A question has been raised over the grandfathering of al-
lowances. Countries within the EU ETS have granted
their incumbent businesses most or all of their allowances
for free. This can sometimes be perceived as a protec-
tionist obstacle to new entrants into their markets. There
have also been accusations of power generators getting a
'windfall' prot by passing on these emissions 'charges to
their customers.[20] As the EU ETS moves into its sec-
ond phase and joins up with Kyoto, it seems likely that
these problems will be reduced as more allowances will
be auctioned.
Some sources [21] shows that UK nancial service wins a
lot from Carbon credit trade. The prot is evident if one
check the statistics: London has secured dominance on
the global carbon trading market, with net value $64bn
in 2007, according to the report by International Finan-
cial Services London. London controlled about 90% of
the exchange market (Carbon credit vs money) in 2007.
London-based companies made about 59% of the pur-
chases of Carbon credits issued by the UN. And some
of the Carbon credits system creators are from UK, for
example, the economist, former Senior Vice-President of
the World Bank and government economic advisor in the
United Kingdom Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brent-
ford who has founded a consultancy-trading agency The
Carbon Rating Agency (CRA)" [22] on the Isle-of-Man
(controlled by rm IDEAglobal Group [23] there Stern
was a Vice Chairman at that time [24] ) for Carbon credit
evaluation and rms rating and making money on that.
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