Learning Platform - "Markets & Trading"

Course: Carbon markets & emission rights trading

About the online training programme

This course covers the carbon markets that are around globally. It is set out how these markets can be organised and what mechanisms are applied. Attention is given to the purchase and sale of emission rights and the related cost or income to emitters (including owners of physical capacity / consumers of fossil fuels).

Course Contents

This course covers the following video lessons:

1. Voluntary & mandatory initiatives
2. Flexibility mechanisms – Three market-based mechanisms
3. Flexibility mechanisms – Fundamentals
4. Flexibility mechanisms – Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
5. Flexibility mechanisms – CDM – Certified Emission Right (CER)
6. Flexibility mechanisms – Joint Implementation (JI)
7. Flexibility mechanisms – JI – Emission Reduction Unit (ERU)
8. Flexibility mechanisms – International Emissions Trading (IET)
9. Flexibility mechanisms – Summary & overview
10. Emissions trading – Carbon dioxide emission rights
11. Emissions trading – Fraud
12. Emissions trading – Where to transact?
13. Emissions trading – Transaction logs
14. Emissions trading – Cap & trade system – Sulphur dioxide (US)
15. Emissions trading – Cap & trade system – The basic idea
16. Emissions trading – Cap & trade system – Price incentive – Practical example: Transfer of rights
17. Emissions trading – Cap & trade system – Price incentive – Manufactoring company
18. Emissions trading – Cap & trade system – Price incentive – Investing in renewables
19. Emissions trading – Cap & trade system – Price incentive – Carbon leakage
20. Emissions trading – Calculation – Carbon-intensity & cost of plant (Gas)
21. Emissions trading – Calculation – Carbon-intensity & cost of plant (Coal)
22. Emissions trading – Emission rights for greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide