Guide to Emissions Trading [Hardcover]

Cyriel De Jong (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1904339239 | ISBN-13: 978-1904339236 | Publication Date: May 2004

This volume focuses on the business implications of emissions trading programmes and advises upon the challenges and opportunities that await. It discusses solutions to the Kyoto Protocol, the forthcoming EU Emission Trading Scheme, the US Acid Rain Programme and others, as well as presents market experiences from around the world.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A Timely contribution to the international debate on emission trading, a new and forceful instrument for dealing with climate change." -- Joke Waller-Hunter, Executive Secretary, UNFCCC

"Will really help deliver the ambitions of the Kyoto Protocol... it shows practitioners how market trading can achieve environmental targets." -- Rick van der Ploeg, European University Institute, Florence

About the Author

Kasper Walet is founder and president of Maycroft Consultancy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, since 1997. For Maycroft Kasper worked on the initiation of the Amsterdam Power Exchange and advised many of the leading energy companies in European, CEE and Asian countries. Kasper holds a Master degree in Law from the University of Utrecht. Before founding Maycroft Kasper was Board member of the Agricultural Futures Exchange in Amsterdam. While leading the exchange Kasper became an expert in all the aspects of commodity markets, the international sales and marketing of financial services, derivatives and risk management. Cyriel de Jong is currently a research director at Maycroft and assistant professor at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Cyriel graduated cum laude in econometrics at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and worked for De Nationale Investeringsbank NV. He completed a PhD thesis on financial derivatives and has several years of experience as a consultant in energy markets. Recently, Cyriel published on energy risk management issues in Managing Energy Price Risk, Energy Power Risk Management and Commodities Now.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Risk Publications (May 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904339239
• ISBN-13: 978-1904339236
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,217,047 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Carbon Trading Markets, January 3, 2007

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Jack Kennedy Jr. "Jack Kennedy 276.275.4700" (Wise, Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guide to Emissions Trading (Hardcover)

Any red-blooded American capitalist should begin preparing to understand the economic significance of the carbon trading market being developed in the European Union today. As more and more state governments advance laws to reduce Co2 emissions, the more likely that the federal government will adopt large-scale Kyoto-like regime in the post-2010 period. This book gives the reader some significant background through a series of well written essays by various economic experts in regions around the globe. In my building of a small library on climate change politics and the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), this book provided a foundation of understanding the economics of pollution and how it may well drive industrial innovation to curb energy pollution in the 21st Century. The nearly 400-page book is an esay read for those interested in the topic of carbon trade. There will be billions of dollars of trade in carbon coming to America soon. Now is the time to try to understand the market dynamic.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book on carbon trading, November 16, 2008

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Daniel "D.W." (Beijing, China) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guide to Emissions Trading (Hardcover)

Addresses various important aspects of carbon trade, the topics addressed are neatly segregated into chapters and can be read independently from other chapters.
I find it very informative, but requires good patience to read.