{"id":34771,"key":"Carbon_trading","title":"Carbon trading","latest":{"id":1224497,"timestamp":"2026-01-09T00:57:43Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Carbon taxes and emission trading worldwide.svg|thumb]]\n\n'''Carbon trading''' is a way of putting a price on [[carbon dioxide]] emissions which encourages efficient use of resources in minimizing the emissions, and thus potential gaining maximum impact in reduction of carbon for every dollar spent. It requires the creation of a market for trading carbon permits.\n\nThe '''cap''' in \"cap and trade\" is the maximum amount of carbon that can be traded.\n \n\n== Criticisms ==\n\nCriticisms fall into two main categories:\n\n* Fundamental criticism of a market-based approach. This may be for perceptions of equity, or due to a belief that \"markets do not work.\"\n* Criticism of particular carbon trading proposals. In many proposals, the biggest polluters are \"compensated\" with very large direct and indirect subsidies, which is widely seen as unfair.\n\n \n\n== Notes and references ==\n\n<references />\n\n== See also ==\n\n* [[Carbon offset]]\n* [[Post Carbon Institute]]\n\n== External links ==\n\n* [[Wikipedia:Carbon emission trading]]\n* [http://web.archive.org/web/20110812050548/http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1085 The Cap and Trade Success Story]\n\n{{add links}}\n\n[[Category:]]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| description = Appropedia breaks down carbon trading, explaining benefits, drawbacks, and questions around market-based climate tools.\n}}\n\n[[Category:climate change]]"}