This document discusses carbon financing and markets. It describes how carbon markets operate on the business and energy sides, but the business side has failed due to lack of green cover, rainfall, carbon biomass production, and water as well as poor farmer lifestyles. The energy side involves energy efficiency, zero carbon energy, and carbon sequestration. Carbon trading allows for limiting greenhouse gases by creating a market for emissions permits and offsets. The largest carbon markets are in the US, UK, Australia, Brazil, Japan, and Canada. International associations aim to increase comparability, reduce emissions leakage, and ensure carbon market sustainability as the Kyoto model is no longer valid.

1. Global Conference on Evolving Trends in Business Models and Markets
Carbon Financing
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2. Carbon : The Elixir of Soil

3. Carbon Markets
• Concept
• Business side
• Energy side

4. Where are they operating?

5. Business side
• A failure
• Reasons:
– No green cover
– Failing Rains
– No yield in Carbon biomass
– Water Deficiency
– Poor lifestyle of Farmers

6. Energy side
• Energy Efficiency
– Coal Generation
– Industry
– Home Applications
– Green buildings
• Zero Carbon Energy
• Carbon Sequestration
• Marginal Solid Waste Management

7. Soil Organic Carbon

8. Carbon Trading
• Carbon trading, sometimes called emissions
trading, is a market-based tool to limit GHG.
The carbon market trades emissions
under cap-and-trade schemes or
with credits that pay for or offset GHG
reductions.

9. International statistics
47.1
33.8
3.8 3.6 3.5 3.1 2.7
0.9 0.4 0.4
USA UK Australia Brazil Japan Canada China Rep.of Korea South Africa India
Market Share

10. Role of International Associations
• Comparability among trading systems
• Emissions and economic leakage
• Sustainability of carbon markets.
• Kyoto model is no more valid!
• Carbon markets are not, however, over – a
mere challenge

11. References
• Ontl, T. A. & Schulte, L. A. (2012) Soil Carbon
Storage. Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):35
• Soil Carbon Storage, By: Todd A.
Ontl (Department of Natural Resource Ecology
and Management, Iowa State University, Ames,
IA) & Lisa A. Schulte (Department of Natural
Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State
University, Ames, IA) © 2012 Nature Education