No CER demand from WCI in the Kyoto period
The Western Climate Initiative (WCI) in the US allows employing carbon credits to cover at maximum 49 percent of the emission reductions needed from 2012-20 in the ETS now set up in Western States. Despite this high limit, we do not expect that the trading scheme will demand any CERs for compliance purposes, at least not before 2015.
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