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How to Profit From Carbon Investing While Combatting Climate Change

26 min • 28 juli 2021

How the carbon emissions allowances and carbon offset markets are structured and how to invest in them.

Topics covered include:

How much greater are the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and how much have average temperatures increased
Why industries and companies are seeking to cut their greenhouse gas emissions
How cap and trade emissions trading systems work
What are the demand and supply dynamics of tradable emission allowances
What has been the performance of tradeable emission allowances
How ETFs invest in tradable emission allowances
How the voluntary carbon offset market is structured and what are the demand and supply dynamics
Why do companies make voluntary pledges to reduce their carbon footprints
What are the types of carbon offset projects
Why it is more difficult to invest in carbon offset markets and how that is changing

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Show Notes

Vital Signs: Carbon Dioxide—Nasa

Global Energy Perspective 2021—McKinsey & Company

Climate Change: Global Temperature by Rebecca Lindsey and LuAnn Dahlman—NOAA

2030 Climate Target Plan—European Commission

FAQs Carbon Markets & Indices—Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

Carbon trading: the ‘one-way’ bet for hedge funds by David Sheppard—Financial Times

KRBN KraneShares Global Carbon ETF—Krane Shares

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Inc.

Corporate Carbon Reduction Pledges: An Effective Tool to Mitigate Climate Change? by Stephen Comello, Julia Reichelstein, and Stefan Reichelstein