Establishing a Global Carbon Market: A discussion on Linking Various Approaches to Create a Global Market

This paper explores the possibilities for linking differing national approaches and identifies a secure and integrated international regulatory framework post-2012 with a deliberate multilateral approach to linking as key to establishing a global carbon market.
In its trilogy of Energy and Climate publications, as well as Powering a Sustainable Future and Doing Business with the World, the WBCSD explores the highly political issues concerning the challenge of meeting energy needs without causing irreversible damage to the Earth’s climate.