A Guide to Emissions Trading: Risk Management and Business Implications


Kasper Walet and Cyriel de Jong

June 2004

This new and timely multi-contributor volume draws upon the very finest international experience and a host of practical examples to offer advice and proven strategies to deal with the growing issue of emissions risk and compliance to emissions trading programmes.

- Advises on all aspects of emissions trading to help you:

  • Design better internal procedures to monitor emissions
  • Assess the legal risks of emission trading and emission reduction projects
  • Forecast for future emissions
  • Incorporate emissions into your accounting and risk management systems
  • Analyse the benefits and risks of joint implementation and clean development projects
  • Make better investment and production decisions taking emission risk into account

- Global approach discusses solutions to the Kyoto Protocol, the forthcoming EU Emission Trading Scheme, the US Acid Rain Program and others.

Presents market experiences from around the world including contributions from industry and academia's foremost market leaders - in one timely, cohesive and practically focused volume.