With the debate about the emissions markets raging around the industry, what better way to do your own research than by signing up for Coracle’s online Emissions Trading resource…

The content is broken down into 15 sections:

1. Setting the stage for collision or convergence
2. The birth of the global emissions market
3. Green trading schemes
4. Global environmental trading schemes
5. Market mechanisms for reducing emissions
6. Overview of the carbon exchanges
7. Carbon collides with power – the European experience
8. Legal agreements for emissions trading
9. Green power trading: developments and opportunities
10. What risk? An introduction to risk management
11. Risk-policy guidelines
12. Managing financial risk for the environment
13. Investment opportunities in emissions
14. Broader issues for business – global emissions markets
15. What the future holds: opportunities for global market convergence

Also covered in the detailed appendices:

• EFET Allowances
• IETA Master Agreement
• ISDA Master Agreement Schedule explained

As the world’s energy markets continue to expand in the light of rising global demand, environmental standards such as the Kyoto Accord are creating uncertainty and greater price volatility in energy markets.

This online resource looks at traditional energy trading markets, the impact of emissions trading schemes and the advent of renewable energy trading.

• Global trading schemes
• Kyoto protocol
• The EU ETS
• CER
• CDM
• Market mechanisms for reducing emissions
• Examples of how market schemes reduce costs for industry
• Overview of global carbon exchanges
• Managing carbon trading risk
• Legal agreement for emissions trading industry
• Risk policy guidelines
• Managing financial risk for the environment
• Emission markets glossary of terms