Carbon Market Research North America

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CMR North America

Carbon Market Research North America provides business and financial professionals with the necessary insight and tools for assessing risks and opportunities when making investments in an environment with emerging carbon constraints. Building on Point Carbon’s extensive experience in analyzing global carbon markets, Carbon Market Research North America delivers authoritative coverage of policy and market developments that influence commodities markets and business decisions in the United States and Canada.

Typical topics we cover

Market and business implications of policy developments at the federal, state and provincial levels
Emerging market dynamics and commodity price impacts for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
Status and implications of market design in the Western Climate Action Initiative
Fuel price and corporate impacts of proposed carbon market structures on energy suppliers and users
North American voluntary and pre-compliance offset project markets and their implications for evolving global carbon markets

Carbon Market Analyst North America

02 Aug 08 Preemptive Strike: The Future of Regional Trading Programs in the US This issue of Carbon Market Analyst North America looks at the role of regional carbon markets under a nation-wide cap-and-trade program. Several options exist for keeping the regional markets parallel to or within a national system, and we discuss potential scenarios and their implications for carbon prices and market dynamics. We find that keeping regional programs does not result in environmental benefits, and that reducing emissions from the power sector will cost considerably less in a federal program than in existing regional programs. Buy/Free trial
18 Jul 08 The Power of Carbon This issue of Carbon Market Analyst North America takes a look at the power and transportation sectors under a carbon-constrained US economy. How will a national cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases impact electricity prices and the relative prices of vehicle fuels? We show that price increases in the power sector could vary by region, depending on the fuel mix and the type of electricity market. The degree to which biofuels become competitive over gasoline depends on how policymakers measure their emissions. Buy/Free trial
21 May 08 Carbon market transactions in 2020: Dominated by financials? In this issue of Carbon Market Analyst we ask: How big will the global carbon market be in 2020? We look into existing and planned emissions trading schemes worldwide and assess the underlying assets and turnover rates in these. Buy/Free trial
27 Mar 08 Carbon 2008: Post-2012 is now "Carbon 2008 - Post-2012 is now", our annual report on the state of the carbon market, was launched at Carbon Market Insights 2008. The report draws upon the world’s largest ever carbon market survey in conjunction with Point Carbon's extensive models, databases and analyses of the global carbon markets. The report provides an in-depth analysis of the global carbon markets in 2007, an outlook for 2008 as well as insight into the remaining of the first Kyoto period (2008-12) and beyond. Read more...

02 Aug 08

Preemptive Strike: The Future of Regional Trading Programs in the US

This issue of Carbon Market Analyst North America looks at the role of regional carbon markets under a nation-wide cap-and-trade program. Several options exist for keeping the regional markets parallel to or within a national system, and we discuss potential scenarios and their implications for carbon prices and market dynamics. We find that keeping regional programs does not result in environmental benefits, and that reducing emissions from the power sector will cost considerably less in a federal program than in existing regional programs.

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18 Jul 08

The Power of Carbon

This issue of Carbon Market Analyst North America takes a look at the power and transportation sectors under a carbon-constrained US economy. How will a national cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases impact electricity prices and the relative prices of vehicle fuels? We show that price increases in the power sector could vary by region, depending on the fuel mix and the type of electricity market. The degree to which biofuels become competitive over gasoline depends on how policymakers measure their emissions.

Buy/Free trial You do not have access to this article

21 May 08

Carbon market transactions in 2020: Dominated by financials?

In this issue of Carbon Market Analyst we ask: How big will the global carbon market be in 2020? We look into existing and planned emissions trading schemes worldwide and assess the underlying assets and turnover rates in these.

Buy/Free trial You do not have access to this article

27 Mar 08

Carbon 2008: Post-2012 is now

"Carbon 2008 - Post-2012 is now", our annual report on the state of the carbon market, was launched at Carbon Market Insights 2008. The report draws upon the world’s largest ever carbon market survey in conjunction with Point Carbon's extensive models, databases and analyses of the global carbon markets. The report provides an in-depth analysis of the global carbon markets in 2007, an outlook for 2008 as well as insight into the remaining of the first Kyoto period (2008-12) and beyond.